Workshop Environment
Attend 2640 Lab - Tuesday, Oct 7th | 04:15 pm - 05:45 pm EDT
Note: 2641 lab students should skip this step!!!
Open a new Chrome browser on your Windows desktop. The homepage will take you to the IBM TechZone website. From there, log in with your email credential.
Go to My Events, select Tuesday, and enter Lab 2640 in the search box to open the lab.
Select Open this lab. You should now be in the lab information page.
Tip
You can also access the lab information page directly from the Lab 2640 website.
Copy the access code and select Attend to open the lab.
Paste the access code and select Validate access code.
Once you validate the access code, select Access lab.
Note that it might take a few minutes to fetch your lab environment.
You should see that your lab workspace with your student number (e.g., Student 1) is now running.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and check the status (e.g., Running) of the lab. Select Console to access your workspace (virtual machine).
A new window will open in which you can access the workspace.
Attend 2641 Lab - Wednesday, Oct 8th | 02:00 pm - 03:30 pm EDT
Note: 2640 lab students should skip this step!!!
Open a new Chrome browser on your Windows desktop. The homepage will take you to the IBM TechZone website. From there, log in with your email credential.
Go to My Events, select Wednesday, and enter Lab 2641 in the search box to open the lab.
Select Open this lab. You should now be in the lab information page.
Tip
You can also access the lab information page directly from the Lab 2641 website.
Copy the access code and select Attend to open the lab.
Paste the access code and select Validate access code.
Once you validate the access code, select Access lab.
Note that it might take a few minutes to fetch your lab environment.
You should see that your lab workspace with your student number (e.g., Student 1) is now running.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and check the status (e.g., Running) of the lab. Select Console to access your workspace (virtual machine).
A new window will open in which you can access the workspace.
Exploring the workspace
Login to the workspace using the admin credentials provided by your instructor.
The password is IBMDem0s. Copy it!
Copy & Paste Text from Local to Workspace
To copy text from your local machine to the workspace:
1) Select Send Text icon on the top of the workspace.
2) Paste the password the text panel (e.g., Ctrl + V).
3) Focus the password textbox and select Fast Send Text. The password will be pasted automatically to the textbox.
4) Enter!
You should see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) GUI console.
Close the System Not Registered warning.
Clone the workshop repository
Open the terminal in the RHEL console via Activities > Terminal.
Using the Send Text, run the following Git command to clone the repository.
Enter!
You should see the repository cloned in the quarkus-workshop-langchain4j directory.
Open the project in your IDE (Visual Studio Code)
Run the following command in the RHEL terminal to open the project in your IDE.
You should see the project opened in your IDE. You can navigate to the section-1 or section-2 directory.
Export the Open AI API key
Run the following command in the VS Code terminal (Terminal > Open New Terminal) to export the Open AI API key.
Note that you should replace <your-open-ai-api-key> with your actual Open AI API key that the instructor provided.
Be sure to use this terminal later, when running Quarkus in dev mode (./mvnw quarkus:dev).
Open the lab instructions
Open a new Firefox application on the RHEL console via Activities > Firefox.
Type bit.ly/quarkus-ai-labs in the address bar.
Unfold the lab instructions menu.
Select the Section 1 - Generative AI Apps or Section 2 - Agentic AI Workflows lab instructions.
Lets start the lab!