GitLab GDK and Gitpod walkthroughs, 11 Dec 2019

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From YouTube: GDK setup December'2019

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Quick tutorial on setting up the GitLab Development Kit (GDK) on your system.

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All right, I'm happy to be what Tiger Watson today he's one of the senior back-end engineers at get lab, and this is sort of an intro video on on setting up a GDK on on your local machine to help with your development work and Tiger is also one of the maintainer --zz for for get lab development kit. So we have a perfect person to sort of lead a session tie girl. Let me turn things over to you. You're already sharing your screen. Oh.

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Sure sounds good alright. So what we're going to do today is we're going to look through the instructions for preparing a computer for gek install and installing the GDK itself and hopefully getting it running. So what we have here is the documentation for repairing your machine. There's lots of different architectures that we actually support. I'm gonna be running on a Mac, so I'm going to run through the Mac instructions. There's plenty of other options here for different architectures that you can have a look at the first thing form a course.

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You'll need is Ruby and Ruby is a set up here. There are plenty of different ruby version. Managers that you can use are currently using. Ibm's I already have a VM install, but it has an install above via brew. If you don't have homebrew installed it, it's listed yes somewhere I think I, guess hybrid is listed here. So we can. You can do that. It's a very simple math store, I, see I've you'll, see a bit more a bit more output here, but I already have IBM installed. So it's okay.

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And now I can say what I want to do is install the Ruby version. They get that users, which is currently two point six point three again. This is tell me that I've already got it installed. Usually this will take a while and you're jamming it still moving.

B

Now we can install a bunch of these dependencies that look at their development kit requires I again have all of these that you could basically paste this entire block in and I will install a bunch of things that we need and.

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There is actually.

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All you need to do for Mac OS, using homebrew to set up the develop I'm so going to move over here to the next piece, documentation which is actually getting the GDK running, and so we have a gym to install the development kit and cool to get that development. Kit, Vicki and I have it installed, but we can paste it in anyway.

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Cool and now we can start and we can initialize a new GDK directory. I already have one called the default directory, so I'm gonna name I'm going to use this. Usually you could just run GDK in that, but since I have one already I'm going to do this, one was going to use the default name here.

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Cool- and it has cloned into this repository, the Givet development kit, so I can now go into here. Is it this come out and now I can simply run Dudek a store.

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And this is going to download a whole bunch of things that basically will do it'll be able do an intense it up off to get that development kit. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes I. Think so. I won't wait for it. I've got what I've prepared earlier, but this will give you output. That looks something like this: here's the installed command- and this is a different directory of did earlier, which is a whole bunch of installing- will create your database, exceed your database and write down the front at the bottom.

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Eventually, it will tell you this: it's been first, it will give you a few commands to get gb case, that I've been running and all that sort of stuff, and it will give you a default admin, username and password. So assuming this is all run correctly for you. We can now go GE case that, and this is telling us it's telling up all the different subcomponents of the GDK. So we can see these are the various services that GD k we use. You can start.

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If you look at some of these commands here, you can start and stop these independently. If you only run it if, for example, you would only need we have some post quiz, but once this has started up and it takes a while to actually get started, we can go to the default local host default, URL or just localhost. 3000 you'll see this error message. While it's starting up, it usually takes a while.

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If you want to be informed of what's going on, you can use the GDK tail kalam, which is actually going to tell the logs for all of these different services. I can see everything is car. Starting up when we see travel to web saying it's really earth. It means we can probably refresh this and will actually load go, and now we can go to use. We can use the default username and password which, what's here with the root username and this password.

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We should be able to sign.

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Cool and here we've got a bunch of default dummy protocol, seeded projects and everything should work as expected. We can view these and start creating new projects and using the GDK.

A

You know so what first do the install as as long as you see the like a set of finished message without any errors in the logs I guess you can feel pretty confident that you're good to go right. Yes,.

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Get down to this point here we see that it's finished and it's told you the commands, and you can also start these services here and say: ok run for all these services, then you should be good to go cool.

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And and once you started using the GDK for a while, then if you want to reinstall it for whatever reason like, if things started breaking I, guess you just sort of start this process again to reinstall JDK or do you need to do it like an uninstall first and then start a Creek start a clean, install you.

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Shouldn't need to uninstall anything. We have a couple of other commands there with the GDK update command, which is basically going to do a pull of all of the different projects that make up the JDK, and it will do things like running migrations for you and that's next thing so digit judicata update is all you should need to refresh your install.

B

Because I've only just installed it all.

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And I assumed this will be similar across like a different like platforms, but like what's the memory requirement for having a GDK like on your Mac I.

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Don't know if top my head report it would be, it would probably be fairly intensive. There's quite a few things that are running. Add I, don't know, put a number on it, but I wonder I, don't know if we have any recommendations for how we have.

B

I'm not sure it's feelings in intensive right.

A

I assume, if you only have like a four gig, for example, you might be struggling a bit, but the GDK. It's my.

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Bridge I haven't I, haven't tried, it I, don't think I, don't think. I'd recommend something quite that low right and we back here are updates finished and we can. We can restart to pick up all those updates.

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You know we certainly make once you have this up and on your local system. It will make development and testing a lot faster for sure.

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All right and then you know, people have any issues like using gbk I mean I, recommend, like opening new issues and in the gitlab development project, or search for issues that that may have been open already, but I. Think a lot of the GK team members are they've, been great about picking up issues and commenting on them. So yep that's passed. If people have any issues.

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Yeah, it's quite active at the moment we have quite a few issues of which we try and respond to them quite quickly, so feel free to raise an issue or comment on what, if I'll comment on one of the existing ones, if it's also facing you right.

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Yeah, the other thing I would recommend is that if you like running to error any error messages like one recommendation, I have on issues it's like. If you put a copy of the logs in the issue, that's often very very helpful in terms of debugging cool thanks tiger anything else or I. Think.

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That's all all.

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Right cool all right thanks: this will be posted on the GD case channel very shortly. Thanks thank.

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