Running Training Scripts in WSL issues

While setting up a new development/training environment I am having issues with the version of the scrips on the **main** branch.
Creating this issue as a place to hold the discussion.
Initially the items I am running into:
- [ ] When checking to see if the repository exists or not the `git ls-remote` call in `repo_is_reachable` doesn't include the User or PAT. Since I don't have my credential manager setup for WSL the call fails. I can put the $TOKEN_OWNER and $TEACHER_PAT into the call it is succeeds.
- [ ] The version of `http` that is installed in my WSL doesn't have the `--quite` flag available and the call fails unless the flag is removed from the line.

My long term goal is to get the base training environment running in a `container` so that replicating the training material across my teams is easier, and makes setting up new machines easier.

I would love to collaborate with someone on this, or learn where I have made some mistakes in the setup.

The setup has changed a bit from the version we have been using, and I haven't actually trained in over a year and a half.