A Quick Tour of the Upsun Console

1. All Projects Page

Greg, the director of global enablement at Upsun and Platform SH, provides a detailed walkthrough of the Upsun console, highlighting its features and capabilities. Starting with the projects page, he describes how users can navigate through the console, switch between organizations they’re part of, manage profile settings, create new projects, and utilize filters for organizational ease. Greg emphasizes the console’s user-friendly design, including a search function, the ability to sync with GitHub, and how projects are visually represented, making it easier for users to find and manage their work.

Key moments:

• 00:00 - Welcome to Upsun: A Quick Console Tour
• 00:13 - Navigating the Upsun Console: Projects and Profiles
• 00:27 - Organization and Project Management Features
• 01:32 - Advanced Console Features: Search, Create, and Filter

2. The Project Page

This video provides a thorough walkthrough of the Upsun project page, detailing all its features and functionalities. From navigating between organizations and understanding the breadcrumb trail for navigation back to the projects page. The video covers how to switch between projects across organizations, delve into specific environments, and adjust settings for the whole project or individual aspects. It explores the dashboard sidebar, which displays project details like hosting information, environmental sustainability, total count of environments, resource usage, and a quick view of team members with access. Additionally, the script touches on configuring resources, managing apps and services, accessing the command line interface for Upsun, understanding the branch-based structure of the project’s Git repository, making use of the activity log to track project changes, and enhancing performance with Blackfire integration. Finally, it explains the visualization of apps and services within the project, emphasizing resource configuration for the production environment.

Key moments:

• 00:00 - Introduction to the Project Page
• 00:02 - Navigating the Project Interface
• 00:15 - Understanding Project Settings and Resources
• 02:47 - Exploring Code Integration and Deployment
• 03:17 - Managing Environments and Workflows
• 04:35 - Activity Log Insights
• 05:37 - Final Overview and Additional Features

3. Environment Pages

This walkthrough offers an overview of managing and working with environments in a development platform, focusing on advanced features such as branching, merging, syncing, and going live. It delves into creating new branches with infrastructure, customizing environment resources, and utilizing command-line instructions for direct control. The script also highlights the functionality of reviewing services, backups, resources, HTTP traffic, and continuous profiling to enhance code performance. Further, it covers navigating through different tabs for detailed insights on infrastructure metrics, deployment history, and traffic analytics. Additionally, it introduces unique preview URLs for each environment, enabling visual comparisons between production and development stages, and discusses the simplicity of creating backups for different environment types.

Key moments:

• 00:00 - Introduction to Environment Management
• 00:20 - Exploring Branch Management and Deployment Features
• 00:55 - Understanding Environment Configuration Options
• 02:24 - Navigating Through Environment Tabs and Metrics
• 03:27 - Deep Dive into HTTP Traffic and Profiling
• 04:17 - Overview and Final Thoughts

4. Settings, Access, and Integrations

This video provides a comprehensive overview of the Upsun console, focusing on project and environment settings. It covers how to manage general settings like naming and hosting regions, team and individual access controls, integrating with services like GitHub, GitLab, and Slack, managing TLS certificates and domains, and setting up deployment keys. Additionally, it explains how to utilize variables for both project and environment levels, customize settings for different environments, and adjust personal profile settings including theme preferences. The guide concludes with an encouragement to use Upsun’s Discord server or documentation for further assistance.

Key moments:

• 00:00 - Introduction to Upsun Console Settings
• 00:09 - Project Settings Overview
• 00:47 - Access Control and Team Management
• 01:31 - Security and Domain Configuration
• 01:52 - Integrations and Customizations
• 02:38 - Environment-Specific Settings
• 03:22 - Personal Profile Settings and Support