[meta] AWS QuickStart Guide
We have AWS on board to publish a Quick Start guide for GitLab on AWS. The QuickStart guide is a production-ready deployment of a product, so this is an excellent vehicle for our customers to start using GitLab.
More details about the QuickStart can be found here. Here's BitBucket's Quick Start as a reference (pdf).
Here's the process to get the Quick Start guide live:
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Have an AWS AMI Ready with GitLab or an AMI already hosted on the AWS Marketplace -
Create CloudFormation template (AWS docs) omnibus-gitlab#2176 (closed) -
Writing the Quick Start template -
Update the AWS page gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com#1246 (closed) -
Send it back to AWS (Antoine) for validation - @eliran.mesika -
Sending the attached Apache 2.0 statement to quickstart@amazon.com (copy Antoine):
“I agree that I am licensing Amazon to modify and use all content provided as part of the [insert project/service name/technology] Quick Start project. Code (including CloudFormation and associated scripts and files) is provided to Amazon under the Apache License 2.0. Documentation is understood to be a joint work between Amazon and my employer, and will be published by Amazon under copyright with attribution of my employer."
- As soon as the page is live, AWS will organize launch activities including:
- What’s new page on the AWS website (example)
- Social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)
- AWS internal announcement
- Announcement on the Quick Start forum
- Optional blog post (e.g., APN blog or Jeff Barr’s blog)
- A Solutions Architect from our supporting team can join us for an on-stage speaking engagement or at an event we choose, support our booth to cover our quick start guide