Managing Your Open edX Backend With Terraform
Scaling an Open edX platform can become unwieldy. Let’s take a look at how Terraform can help you maintain control of everything inside your AWS account
Running Open edX At Scale With Kubernetes
The rapid adoption of Tutor as a build and deployment solution for Open edX has also opened the door to using Kubernetes. But what is Kubernetes and what problem does it solve for an Open edX platform? Well, plenty! Read on to see what, why, and how you can begin
Continuous Integration (CI) With Tutor Open edX – Part I
Tutor, Github Actions and AWS Elastic Container Registry are a powerful trio of tools for creating an automated CI process to build and register your custom Open edX Docker image, and automating the entire process is easy.
Continuous Integration (CI) With Tutor Open edX – Part II
Tutor provides a powerful and easy to use set of tools for advanced configuration of your Open edX installation. Lets take a closer look at how you can automate your entire Open edX deployment process using Github Actions workflows.
Developer’s Guide to Opaque Keys
Open edX courseware leverages two powerful technologies for locating and interacting with course content, both of which were developed internally. Opaque Keys describe the location of course content both in terms of browser access via url as well as internally in the application source code. XBlocks generically describe individual units
Getting Started With Open edX Plugin Architecture
Since at least August-2020 it’s become possible to implement custom code for the Open edX platform without forking the edx-platform repository. Not only is it possible but it’s considered best practice to organize both your custom code as well as any platform modifications into separate pip-installable projects. This article, which
Getting Started With Open edX API’s
The Open edX platform code base includes a comprehensive set of REST API’s that cover everything from viewing the course catalogue, to managing users, to administering your e-commerce system, and more. This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to enable and interact with this powerful set of API’s that you
How To Customize the Login Behavior of Open edX
Learn how to add custom code to the login sequence of your Open edX installation by leveraging Django Dispatch Signals.
Scaling Memcached and Redis for Open edX
Learn how to scale your Open edX platform by migrating the Memcached service to its own remote Ubuntu server running on AWS EC2.
Setting Up AWS S3 for Open edX
There are many benefits to moving your user data from the Ubuntu file system to AWS S3 cloud storage. It’s also pretty easy to do since Django handles the technical details, and the guys at edX have parameterized everything so that you only need to make some adjustments to the