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.
Get the Application
The Posit Team Native Application is available on the Snowflake Marketplace. Alternatively, instead of clicking the link, you can search for “Posit Team”.
Once you find the listing click the Get button.
Installation requires the ACCOUNTADMIN role
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. Click GET once you have an acceptable application name. It should take about one minute to install. Click Configure to begin Native Application installation.
Configure Application
The modal 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
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 explicitly and provide further customization of these endpoints. While this is in PuPr, we currently have relaxed network egress rules.
| Endpoint | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
<organization>-<account>.snowflakecomputing.com:443 |
Yes | For Snowflake OAuth and ODBC queries |
ocsp.snowflakecomputing.com:80 |
Optional | For Snowflake certificate validation |
ocsp.digicert.com:80 |
Optional | For Snowflake certificate validation |
open-vsx.org:443, openvsxorg.blob.core.windows.net:443 |
Optional | To download VS Code and Positron extensions |
p3m.dev:443, rspm-sync.rstudio.com:443 |
Optional | For downloading PyPi, R, and Bioconductor packages from Posit-managed mirror |
0.0.0.0:443, 0.0.0.0:80 |
Optional | Allows open egress; required for Snowflake VS Code Extension functionality |
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 10 minutes. If it takes more than 10 minutes you should contact support.
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 taken 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 Workbench or setup guide for Connect.