Blog/Videos - Remote Development awareness in GitLab 16, FY24
<!-- Epic Title Guide: Dates should be using ISO dates, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#writing-style-guidelines Content: Title - Author - Publish Month, Publish Year --> ## Activity Summary <!-- Please consider addressing these key questions in your summary: 1. Who is our audience? 1. What is the best content type (blog post, video, how-to) to deliver this message? 1. How does this content help our audience? 1. How does this content help us achieve our goals? --> 1. Audience: Developers who want to use remote development environments. Platform engineers who want to provide CDEs / remote development environments to their users (developers). 2. Content type: Tutorial videos (similar to [handbook editing](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/practical-handbook-edits/#using-the-new-web-ide-to-edit-the-handbook )), blog posts, howtos for specific use cases (i.e. start learning a programming language) 3. Help our audience: Awareness, ready-to-use howtos, videos to follow the steps for visual learners 4. Achieve our goals: Quality content on the blog/YouTube channel. Cross-functional collaboration with product, stable counterpart results. ## Team or Individual DRIs <!-- Please add team label to epic --> @dnsmichi @iganbaruch ## Relevant Issues, Epics or resources ### Group for setup and demos https://gitlab.com/gitlab-de/use-cases/remote-development ### Organisation - Product marketing planning epic: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/brand-product-marketing/product-marketing/-/issues/6932#note_1367536124 - Developer Evangelism & Technical Marketing demo use cases support: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/community-relations/dev-evangelism/meta/-/issues/279 Old - Developer Evangelism support issue (Web IDE Beta): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/community-relations/dev-evangelism/meta/-/issues/185 ### Product resources - Blog announcement: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/12/15/get-ready-for-new-gitlab-web-ide/ - Direction: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/create/editor/remote_development/#whats-next--why - Beta feedback issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/385787 - Implementation epic for the Web IDE: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/7683 - Project for the Web IDE, using a VS Code fork: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-web-ide-vscode-fork/ #### Known issues - Agent for Kubernetes connection problems https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/414399 - Leader election (technical cause) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cluster-integration/gitlab-agent/-/issues/398#note_1419865558 - Workaround https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/414399#note_1426652421 ### Existing content - Handbook editing with the new Web IDE: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/practical-handbook-edits/#using-the-new-web-ide-to-edit-the-handbook ## Results Content - https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/06/26/quick-start-guide-for-gitlab-workspaces/ - https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/07/13/set-up-infrastructure-for-cloud-development-environments/ Added to the documentation - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/workspace/configuration.html#related-topics ### Social #### 2023-05-24 @dnsmichi Shared the blog post on social: 1. Twitter: https://twitter.com/dnsmichi/status/1661402398672257024 2. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dnsmichi_a-first-look-at-workspaces-on-demand-cloud-based-activity-7067167950104866816-TQxB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop 3. Mastodon: https://crashloop.social/@dnsmichi/110424496975486547 <!-- these labels should be included on all templates --> <!-- Example: Note: These are samples for guidance, please add relevant labels for activity region, type, quarter or any other labels relevant to your team/program. Please include additional relevant labels here. --> <!--Link to parent epic where necessary --> <!-- Content epic (remove events epic action below) --> <!-- Link to Child epic where necessary --> /cc @gitlab-de <!-- Mention team members that should be aware of the epic --> /cc
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