Blog/Videos - Remote Development awareness in GitLab 16, FY24
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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.
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@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
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- 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
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