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Installing Docker

Installing Docker

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Installing Docker

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- [Instructor] From the EC2 Dashboard, click on Launch Instance. Click the Select button next Ubuntu Server 18.04. Since I need two cores and eight gigs of RAM, I'm going to select a t3a.large instance. The t3a instances use AMD chips and are slightly cheaper than the regular t3 instances. The t2 and the t3 instances are for burstable workloads, and our CPU usage on this instance will go up and down since the development team will usually use this during the day during the work week, and the CPU credits will build back up over the night when the server isn't under load. If you're going to have heavy usage continuously around the clock on your GitLab server, I would recommend picking a c type instance instead. Click Next, and click Next again. For the root EBS volume, I want to give my instance 120 gigabytes, that way I have some room to grow. If you have a lot of repositories and want GitLab to keep several days worth of backups, and you will be storing a lot of Docker images on here,…

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