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From YouTube: An express AWS installation from EC2 console or AWS marketplace

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In this brief video, SA Frances Potter shows how an AWS user could run a GitLab instance from the EC2 console or by doing the GitLab Ultimate 5-user pack on AWS marketplace.

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Well, hello, people watching the recording, okay I'm in the AWS management console and I'm gonna go to ooh. Look at that. You don't even need look at that launch a virtual machine with ec2 right there, okay, we're showing the easy way to get get lab installed on AWS. It's not here. You can't type it here, but you can. Click on community am eyes and then you search for get lab see if it still works. Yeah.

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You got every version here, which is a total pain in the neck. So what you got to do is you got to say: I want the latest version and you got to know what the latest version is.

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Twelve point, eight there's twelve point, eight point: one that looks good select boom choose your type I believe it has to be like T to medium or bigger. We don't want to ask someone what type they should try to have review and launch not eligible for free usage, the size of launch key pair okay she's, an existing key pair. Yes, u s-- went key pair, yes, okay, good good, good, good, launch instances right boom boom boom boom boom.

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It's launching now when that is up I should be able to go to it in my browser and have get lab running. So it's really just a few steps which anyone who uses AWS regularly this it takes a while to come up, but anyone who uses AWS regularly if this is their first time and they're just exploring gitlab, do not send them to this documentation. It's way too complicated. This will take you all day. Yeah.

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Cost a lot you do that you have good lob up and running, and what's really awesome is even if you start using that for like production code, you can migrate up to the high availability instance when you're ready, so for just like doing a proof-of-concept checking it out or whatever. This is the thing oh I gave it the wrong security group. It's not going to come up in the browser you see if I can fix it. Security group.

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No change security groups, security.

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huh There's no domain name on it, but ipv4 public IP. Now, what's the temp, this is actually going to work first time through oops. ah It is actually good lab there. You go oh well.

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Still spinning up it's still booting or whatever, but it's good lab and once it gets all spun up and booted and running and everything you can actually log in there's a default admin password that you can use, and you can you have your instance right then, in there Wow, okay, this is now there's.

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Hang on hang on hang on, but wait there's more if you go to AWS marketplace. So that's the Community Edition. But let's say you go here and you say get lab: you should be able to get yeah the get lab ultimate: five user pack, twelve, eight one. Now this is going to cost you money because you're actually going to get a license with this, and this is a fully fledged get lab. Enterprise latest version ready to go with five users of ultimate automatically included in the marketplace Wow.

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So that's an even better option because you get all the power of get lab. Enterprise Wow.

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And and when someone does that, though, do they have the option of like? Is it you pay this and, and you have this or is there a way for them to cancel? After doing this, those.

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Are all really good questions for Brandon, okay, Pete Goldberg, Pete Goldberg, who owns the AWS relationship on Brandon's team? Okay,.

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Perfect I will.

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I've never done it and I don't know anybody's. Like honestly, if someone wants all good level to it, we probably having a sales conversation with them. They're, probably not mm-hmm. Just uh you know like I really doubt anyone really uses that, but it's great to talk about because it shows how easy and available gitlab is. That's really important. Okay,.

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That's wonderful because yeah when I was going through the installation process, I was really just kind of overwhelmed at like okay, so there's the banner at the top. That says this is out of date, which is not a good look and, and then it's like I'm reading through it and I'm like I, don't understand this and I was just thinking. Maybe there's someone else who like has some sort of tips but I, think I. Think your app.

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Maybe you you go and take the AWS solution: architects, certification, which I'm guessing you haven't no.

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You don't have a console log in and then you might understand the words that are written there. I mean I, even I struggle with it I'm supposed to be an expert. So it's it's just really complicated cuz every setting up the networking and everything before you even set up the instance. You have the database over here. You have the Redis over here. You have all the different parts there and that's not. We don't want that to be someone's first experience with get lab. We.

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That we want their first experience to be up and running fast and then start using it and loving it, and then they can go. Oh now, I need high availability database, that's kind of later. Okay.

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Perfect, that's actually I know. You said you might not be helpful, but this was actually monumentally helpful awesome, thank you and- and this is something that I don't think we have documented anywhere like not anywhere.

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That I would do it's poorly documented. Yes,.

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Thing your white paper does is to clarify how easy it is to spin up an ami. It will be gold, it will be magic like.

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That's great Christy I saw in the issue and I have to jump it to that. Your copy is due March 6, your launch date is April 1. Is there something driving the timing on this? You said: there's a campaign of some kind yeah.

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We're doing a campaign for q1, so we are launching this campaign after an AWS event, I think it's the one in Paris on March 17th, something like that. So this.

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Be one of the first pieces of and we're doing a webinar on get lab and cyrillus, so we have Brendan O'leary working on a webcast with I, can't remember who the person is at AWS, but that's launching before and then we're having this white paper and then we're planning some other content, we're writing content about eks and some other AWS topics. So, okay,.

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So my calendar right now is very full through the end of next week, I mean I could put in another half hour. Call like this. If you want to go over something great, but I can't like work on anything we after that same thing really full, but the week of March 16th, my calendar empties up and I'm about 90% certain I'm not going to contribute so I may have plenty of free time the week of the 23rd. So.

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Become later that you might need help with you know, I'm I'm really glad to help I. Don't want you to see my the fact that my calendar is full as a lack of willingness to help so.

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And I completely I completely understand what happens a lot and is totally normal and fine is that even if I just get some ideas or even if I just get some direction, I can write. It I mean that's kind of my job, so um so now that I have an idea of where I need to go. I can start writing this and I can reference this video and I can maybe even reference some screenshots.

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If anything, this is going to be going to the marketing program team for the campaign so that we can go ahead and get this live on our site. I might have you take a last look at it. So when we have the PDF, take a last look at it and if there's something that's very wrong, I might need you to have some new screenshots or just say hey. This is wrong change it to this, but that's the extent of what I'm expecting from you great.

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Also, don't be afraid to drop into the customers success channel on slack, yes,.

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And just say: hey: is there anyone who's AWS certified? Who might want to look this over or might want to answer some questions or whatever there are tons of us? You.

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Be it would be glad to help out and so I'm like, don't be afraid to ask for other help, because you'd get I mean you might have too many opinions, but is that a corgi? It.

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Is according this, is god what a cutie hi.

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His name's potato.

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Potato, that's like the best name for a dog ever yeah.

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He's kind of famous he just kind of hangs out right over there on every call. I do I like.

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Right, Chrissy, I gotta run yeah.

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Better, thank you so much Cheers.

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