All right.
So in this video we're going to go over the specifics of setting up cloud nine.
Now just to recap Cloud 9 is the cloud based developer environment.
So what that means is that it contains everything you need to create applications and have databases
basically a terminal alongside of a text editor all in one inside of your browser so that you can instantly
get.
And I know I sound a bit like a marketing shell for Cloud 9.
A promise I'm not we don't have any sort of zeal.
I wish we did.
But what it lets you do is get something going really quickly and very very painlessly.
So the first step is to sign up for an account.
So if you visit the euro C9 IO or you click on the link in the description but it's a pretty short u
r l c.
I know you should see this page if it's your first time visiting if you don't already have an account.
If you already have an account from another course you can wait until the next step or recreate our
new workspace.
So if you don't have an account all you have to do is enter your e-mail.
Sign up.
You'll have to fill in some information.
Pick a username
choose the kind of developer that you are.
Choose how you'll use cloud 9.
Click next.
Make sure your details are correct.
Now this is where some people may panic but don't panic.
It asks you for credit card information.
Now if you notice here it does say that you will not be charged.
So there is a perfectly functional free tier of cloud nine but you do have to have a credit card to
sign up this way.
Now as I said don't panic because if you don't have a credit card which I know a sizable number of my
students actually don't have credit cards they you may come from a country where credit cards aren't
as prevalent.
You may be too young to have a credit card or you just may not have one for some other reason and that's
totally fine.
It's not a barrier to using Cloud 9.
It's a little bit of a tiny hurdle.
So there is a workaround.
So cloud 9 offers educational accounts for teachers and instructors.
And what that allows me to do are allows you to do is to sign up without having to use a credit card.
Now the only problem is that I have to manually add you in as a student under my educational workspace.
So again it does take a bit more time because either me or one of the teaches will have to manually
add you in but we're committed to doing that.
We want to make sure that everyone can follow along even if you don't have a credit card.
Now if you have a credit card I do recommend that you just fill this out because you will not be charged
and it's just going to be faster.
You won't have to wait for me to wake up in the morning and check the discussion boards on to me.
You'll just be able to get started right now.
So once you filled all that information in and completed the sign up process you should see a screen
like this although you won't have any of these workspaces here.
So on cloud nine when you create a new workspace what you're actually doing is creating a new developer
environment separate partitioned off environment that you can work in.
So actually you can see here I have a couple of different environments going.
Some of these I use all the time like the one for my Web Dev Bootcamp course.
Some of them are just you know here's a test that I made to see how a ruby environment works in cognized
Or here's one where I installed my as well which is what we'll be doing in just a moment.
So Step two is to actually go ahead and create a workspace.
So we click Create a new workspace and you're welcome to call your workspace whatever you want.
I'm going to call it My sequel underscore of course and then I'll go ahead and set it to be public.
It's up to you if you want your work to be private or public but you don't really need to worry about
anybody seeing what you're doing anyways.
But if you do want to make it private.
That is how cloud 9 makes some of their money.
I'm going to make mine public.
Then we have these templates down here that we can choose from.
So there are these presets that allow us to create a new developer environment really quickly and that
doesn't really matter for us in this case.
So you can pick any of them but I recommend you just pick him all five.
It's a simple one.
Basically it's going to be an empty workspace for us.
So then we click Create workspace.
We wait a little bit and wait a little more.
And finally once it's done you should see something like this.
So that's it for this video in the next video.
We're going to talk about what this interface means and how we navigated.