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title: "Video tutorial: Idea to Production on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)"
categories: engineering
author: Sean Packham
author_gitlab: SeanPackham
image_title: '/images/blogimages/idea-to-production-gke.jpg'
description:
cta_button_text: Watch the <strong>8.16 release webcast</strong> live!
cta_button_link: https://page.gitlab.com/20170126_autodeploy_autodeploywebterminal.html
---

With GitLab 8.16 you can deploy GitLab straight to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and go from Idea to Production in about 20 minutes, with auto-scaling CI, auto deploy, Mattermost, and a private Docker registry all on your own Kubernetes cluster. Watch the complete video tutorial to find out how you can take your team's productivity to the next level.

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<figure class="video_container">
  <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3A8mdJl_icM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"> </iframe>
</figure>

For further instructions, please take a look at the [project](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/kubernetes-gitlab-demo).

<p class="alert alert-orange" style="background-color: rgba(252,163,38,.3); border-color: rgba(252,163,38,.3); color: rgb(226,67,41) !important; text-align: center;">For more about our latest release, catch our upcoming webcast about &nbsp;&nbsp;<i class="fab fa-gitlab" style="color:rgb(107,79,187); font-size:.85em" aria-hidden="true"></i> &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>GitLab 8.16</strong> &nbsp;&nbsp;<i class="fab fa-gitlab" style="color:rgb(107,79,187); font-size:.85em" aria-hidden="true"></i>
&nbsp;&nbsp;on January 26. <a style="color: rgb(107,79,187);" href="https://page.gitlab.com/20170126_autodeploy_autodeploywebterminal.html">Register here</a>!</p>

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<p> For information on how to replicate this demo yourself please see our <a href="/handbook/sales/demo/">demo page</a>.</p>