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Landing page for the RStudio Quickstart
https://colorado.rstudio.com/rsc/quickstart-site/
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Disclaimer for lack of Launcher feature #12

Open nwstephens opened 5 years ago

nwstephens commented 5 years ago

nathan [5:33 PM] I wish we had a disclaimer for the lack of Launcher. It's totally reasonable that we are not packaging K8s at this time, but I suspect many customers will be disappointed to find out that they can’t run it locally.

cole [5:34 PM] Yeah, that to me is way out of scope haha. There are easier ways to package that type of thing.

nathan [5:34 PM] yeah, like never going to happen? it would make for a huge VM, no? as if we were going to package Hadoop as well.

cole [5:35 PM] Yeah. Large and fickle. I think the better pattern is probably one Kris and Daniel would have thoughts on. I.e. point at a Kubernetes cluster and auto-deploy team. You could point at a local Mac-Kubernetes, windows-Kubernetes, micro-K8s, legit K8s, etc Lots more engineering needed for that to be reliable though :smile:

nathan [5:36 PM] yeah, then we just need to add a blurb at some point saying that this quickstart does not have launcher, and if you want to demo launcher you should use a different solution.

cole [5:36 PM] Yeah, that makes sense

Suggested text:

RStudio Team QuickStart is primarily intended as a demo environment and is not supported for use in any production capacity. Note that Launcher is not supported due to size and complexity limitations. If you would like to try our products with orchestration system such as Kubernetes, or for more information about using RStudio Professional products on your own enterprise infrastructure, please contact our sales team.

koverholt commented 5 years ago

The suggested text is a good idea.

Note that the same philosophy applies to other configurations or integrations that we don't ship on the QuickStart, such as CI/CD (Jenkins), Git servers, external data sources, external auth providers, etc.

Said differently, the QuickStart includes all of the steps from the RStudio Team installation procedures (https://solutions.rstudio.com/production/installation/), but not external components one would use for the configuration (https://solutions.rstudio.com/production/configuration/) or integration (https://solutions.rstudio.com/production/integrations/) procedures.

nwstephens commented 5 years ago

Good point. The Launcher is in there, it's just not configured.

colearendt commented 5 years ago

Note that this is going to get weird when Launcher is in there... and configured, it's just using local mode 😛