We have an opportunity to our installation process easier and quicker to get started. We should consider both new users looking to simply try out GitLab for the first time on a small machine, as well as the effort involved in setting up a production highly available GitLab instance.

We have identified a important opportunities across both of these use cases:

• Single click deploys to popular cloud platforms
  • GCP: #2437
  • AWS: #2176
• Improved installation page walking users through available choices: #2428
• Instant SSL with Let's Encrypt: #2617