Using Gel Cloud via the web GUI
If you'd prefer, you can also manage your account via the Gel Cloud web-based GUI.
The first time you access the web UI, you will be prompted to log in. Once you log in with your account, you'll be on the "Instances" tab of the front page which shows your instance list. The other two tabs allow you to manage your organization settings and billing.
Instances
If this is your first time accessing Gel Cloud, this list will be empty. To create an instance, click "Create new instance." This will pop up a modal allowing you to name your instance and specify the version of Gel and the region for the instance.
Once the instance has been created, you'll see the instance dashboard which allows you to monitor your instance, navigate to the management page for its branches, and create secret keys.
You'll also see instructions in the bottom-right for linking your Gel CLI to
your Gel Cloud account. You do this by running the CLI command
gel cloud login. This will make all of your Gel Cloud instances accessible via
the CLI. You can manage them just as you would other remote Gel instances.
If you want to manage a branch of your database, click through on the instance's name from the top right of the instance dashboard. If you just created a database, the branch management view will be mostly empty except for a button offering to create a sample branch. Once you have a schema created and some data in a database, this view will offer you similar tools to those in our local UI.
You'll be able to access a REPL, edit complex queries or build them graphically, inspect your schema, and browse your data.
Org Settings
This tab allows you to add GitHub organizations for which you are an admin. If you don't see your organization's name here, you may need to update your org settings in GitHub to allow Gel Cloud to read your list of organizations, and then refresh the org list.