GitLab GDK and Gitpod walkthroughs, 15 Apr 2021

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From YouTube: Reviewing MRs with GitPod

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This is a quick walkthrough on how to review an MR using the GitPod Chrome extension.

A

All right, so I'm going to just do a quick walkthrough on how to review an mr using the git pod.

A

So I'm already, assuming that you kind of have it installed and you have you're using the chrome extension here and then I could go into uh how to set it up, and I added some links in our in our docs here and how to set it up. Here's some setup instructions and there's also um uh the slack channel for this all right. So anyways I'll go back. So I have this, mr that I'm supposed to review uh and then the easiest thing to do. You know once you have the extension here.

A

Is you just click on it and what that will do is it'll open, a new tab and it will download the image and with that already open to that branch and just have an instance ready for you, and it already tells you so you need to log in with the admin account here or you could create a new account if you don't want to be admin.

A

So just do that log in here probably prompt me again to uh put a new password. So I'll just do.

A

Something up here fast.

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A

All right so now I'm in and so now I just need to look at what did I need to review, so this is uh some text, that's on the for the fl uh flow dock integration. So now that I'm logged in there I could just go to like any one of these projects.

A

I mean it obviously helps to know where, uh where this thing is, that you're reviewing to inside the app so I'm going to go, there look for flow dock.

A

And then so this should be already on that, mr and you could see, you could always double check to make sure that uh you are in that. uh Let's see uh you're out, you are on that branch by just doing like a git status here.

A

Yeah, so you could just double check here that I am on the same same branch that I'm supposed to be it's here.

A

Yeah right here so those should match, I mean, and that's pretty that's pretty much it. So it's pretty fast, it does take a little bit. Long does take a little bit of time to kind of load up the image you know once you've. You know once you load it up, but it's pretty worth it and then you could um you know. Let's say you want to review another.

A

Mr you know, instead of doing that, you know again you you could you could just load up spit up another image, but let's say I had another, mr review. I could just go to that mr and copy that branch and then just go back here and then just manually check out that branch on this instance and just kind of keep working since it's already booted up. So it's kind of like your gdk in the in the cloud uh yeah any questions.

A

I think that's pretty much it it's not that uh that much to show- maybe maybe the setup process is a little bit more, but since I had it set up already, uh I kind of don't remember what that process was like, but it's I thought it was pretty easy as well.

B

Yeah, I think that makes sense. Okay, um I think after I do the setup myself I can play around with it a little bit and get comfortable, but I think it's similar enough to gdk that I feel like I'll be able to navigate through it. So.

A

Yeah, you have all your gdk or like your terminal stuff here. If you need it, so that's always helpful and- uh and you could also just open up this in a whole new window. You know if you need more space.

A

Oh, let's see is there anything else? Yeah I mean I just found this very helpful to get pot overall. What.

B

Do you generally do when it's not working or it's kind of like broken or not, loading for you.

A

uh Get potted specifically yeah, uh then, at that point I'll, be like okay, I'm going to try the the gdk.

B

Okay, I wasn't sure if there's something you do or if you just straight, go to gdk after that.

A

uh Well, what I will do is, like you know, I'll make I'll first, maybe check in the slack or that pot of gdk channel to see if it's like a known issue, if there's something, if there's a quick fix for it, actually I'll do that first and then, if not, if no one else is experiencing it, it's something that just is on my machine that I need to fix or something I'll I'll, maybe try to fiddle around with it a little bit and then I'll just try to do the gdk just to not waste time sounds good yeah, all right, let me and then, and then I showed you like, you could always also go to the get get pod spaces and that's where you'll see all your uh your different instances that are running.

A

Let's see, if there's any settings here.

B

And this might be a bit off topic, but I saw there was security issues with get pod this week and slack. um What was that and how does it affect kind of like? What's going on.

A

Yeah, so they did have some kind of uh uh security breach, but apparently they patched it already, but it's still it's a good idea. If you had it set up. If you go to your profile, sorry, under under accounts, like the I think the setup was a little bit different initially when, when setting it up, you had to uh you had to set up your like api tokens. I think fort lauderdale is under here. Actually sorry, one sec and so yeah I'll show you I'll show you what that looked like.

A

A

Yes, so it basically added it here under your applications and you were giving it like api access, so they had so what we did was in order to kind of rotate. The tokens you just all you had to do is like revoke it and then just reset it up.

A

Yeah, I think that was here as well. Maybe, let's see.

B

A

No only other applications, maybe.

B

I was just curious because I saw that come up and I knew we were going to go over it today. So.

A

You know I'm glad you brought that up yeah. It should be good now since you're setting it up from scratch, but you could always double check here and just make sure you didn't have it. If you had it set up already, I would recommend you just revoke it and then just set it up again.

A

Yeah, that's pretty much it I could. Actually, if you want to go through the install process, maybe I could try to unlink it and do it again.

A

You think that would be helpful or.

B

I think so I was also thinking. Maybe you could just try and tell me what to do online because I don't have it linked yet so would it make more sense, yeah yeah,.

A

Let's do that, though, try and have you.

B

Do it, um let me just open up another.

A

You think it's worth still recording that.

B

um I'm not sure, maybe.

A

Okay, I'll uh I'll I'll leave it running then I'll. Let you share uh your screen that you could walk through it.

B

You just get. I have like so many tabs open that I want to have some sort of organization. uh Okay, there we.

A

Go yeah, my new. uh My new uh thing is trying to at the end of every week, just completely close, chrome out and then just always start with a fresh uh new window on monday, just so cause I've had weeks where I had like the same couple. Windows opened up with like 20 tabs and each maybe more in each window. So.

B

Yeah, no, that's like I have one underneath that has a bunch more, but we're just gonna hide that.

B

So it looks like um you start by opening slink.

A

Yep and then you would yep just sign in as lab yes, so this one so once you authorize it here, that's when it adds that uh it will add that token to your uh applications, there.

B

Okay, that makes sense.

A

So yeah, even the setup, is pretty easy. It didn't used to be. I think this easy uh when I first started using it so.

B

It's kind of like a one button yeah this.

A

Might take a while.

A

Yeah and then I just recommend, I don't know where it was, but I would recommend installing that extension.

B

I need to create a gitpod account and connect. The getpod account to your gitlab account. Is that what I just did, I think you just did that yeah yeah. This is community member um okay. That actually seems quite straightforward.

A

Nice yeah. I just realized too that when you're in that code, editor like in the vs code editor, you know.

B

A

I was telling you to check the branch, uh the branch name- it's actually also in the bottom of that little toolbar. So you can see it. You don't have to do a git status. It's like actually visible there. I just realized.

B

That's that's good to know. Yeah.

A

That little blue bar down there uh yeah it says like a master right, so you can.

B

All right actually.

A

Switch it from there. You know gooey kind of way. That's.

B

Good and then this is just kind of like the stuff you were going over, of how to use it and everything. So this will be good for me to read up on after I feel like it might just take a while to create yeah.

A

Maybe I keep running, maybe just do a quick search. I don't know if the documentation has uh does it say anything about that chrome extension or the extension at all that I didn't see that anywhere. Maybe that's something that you should add at some point.

B

Don't think so, let's go to the extension.

A

Yeah there might be a yeah something for it.

B

uh What are they called.

A

Yeah I forgot where, where I got mine again.

B

I swear it's just in the.

A

It might be just in the store yeah. Oh.

B

A

There you go yeah, maybe that's something we should recommend or add into the documentation. Then.

B

Let's get it yeah, that's actually a good idea um when I'm reading, when I'm reading through all of it, I can kind of figure out where it would best fit in the whole setup process, but awesome.

A

Perfect yeah yeah, I don't know what happens at this point, but I think it's just spinning up a new image and it might be just done at that point. I think it might be set up if you want to just verify that you're set up, go back to your get, get lab account uh and then just go to your yeah under your profile. There uh yeah, maybe correct references, profilia and then under account or um yeah, try access tokens to see if they actually put it there.

A

I don't think it did, but no just stop stop um under applications. Then.

B

Skip pod there, it needs to be good.

A

Nice, so it did the right thing and yeah awesome, there's another security breach or anything. This is where you know that you could just uh revoke it and try again.

B

Awesome well that was much simpler than I expected, so I don't think uh I don't think I need much else I'll do some reading about it, but this is like a great overview of how to use it and stuff.

A

Yeah, it's definitely like, I know, you're, probably comfortable in the workflow with the gdk, but if your gdk does break you know locally. This is another option, so.

B

Yeah, it's good to have like two, because when it does break and doesn't work, then I'm like what am I supposed to do. Do I just wait? Yeah.

A

Definitely yeah before they get pod, yet I'd spend a lot of time on trying to get the gdk fixed. I was like. Oh it's a lot of work, so it's wasted a lot of time. Yeah.

B

It took me I remember the first time I tried to set up gdtk. I think that took me like almost a full day of one of my onboarding days, so.

A

Yeah same here, yeah.

B

So it's good to get it working, but I get it's kind of like complicated, sometimes.

A

B

A

Cool all right, I'll, stop the recording. Then, let's see, I think, we're.