Installation of Posit Team
Installation
The Posit Team Native Application consists of a landing page along with management, setup guide, and launching of each product. We have to install the Native Application before activating specific products. These steps take you through to the Product Landing page.
Currently the Posit Team Native Application is in Private Preview meaning that the application will be shared directly with your account and not found on the Snowflake Marketplace.
Get the Application
Within your SnowSight UI click Data Products -> Apps which should take you to the application page. At the top of the page you should see a heading for “Recently Shared with You” and you can click on the Posit Team Private Preview listing.
Next choose a name for the Application. This name does not matter but keep in mind that much of our docs will make the assumption that your application is named POSIT_TEAM_PRIVATE_PREVIEW. Click GET once you have an acceptable application name.
Configure Application
The model may not direct you to the configuration directly. If this happens stay on the current page Data Products -> Apps and click the application that matches the name Posit Team Private Preview
Our application requests permissions from your account for various things that we will explain below.
| Grant | Description |
|---|---|
| BIND SERVICE ENDPOINT | Mandatory SPCS Grant to enable publicizing the product and landing page endpoints |
| CREATE COMPUTE POOL | Application creates a separate compute pool for each Product to easily manage compute instance sizes |
| CREATE WAREHOUSE | Application creates its own separate Warehouse so that customers can easily monitor warehouse usage of Products |
Each product requires certain external access. In the future Snowflake will enable Native Applications to manage these explicitely and provide further customization of these endpoints. While this is in PrPr we currently have relaxed network egress rules. Before Public Preview these endpoints will be reduced.
Once you have accepted the grants and external access click Activate
You will see a waiting page for the landing page to initially start. This should take less than 5 minutes.
Some customers have reported seeing a failed application details page. Once they refresh the page and wait 1-2 minutes it comes back as ready.
The landing page in the Native Application is designed to always be available regardless of if any product is actually configured.
Visit Landing Page
After fully waiting for the compute pool for the landing page to start and Snowflake to provision an endpoint you should see the application details page.
Click “Launch App” and you will be taking to the “Landing Page” where you can access, setup, and manage Posit Products. Management is designed for day 2 operations such as resizing compute pools for Products, backup and restore, etc.
At this point you can follow the setup guide for Connect or setup guide for Workbench.