Chapter 1  Configuring the CodeReady Workspaces installation Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces 2.3 Red Hat Customer Portal

It’s NOT RECOMMENDED to configured true without OAuth configured. By default, when users access to a workspace with its URL the workspace automatically starts if it is stopped. This is the directory in the machine where your projects are placed. The Developer Sandbox comes pre-configured with Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces, Red Hat’s productized version of Eclipse Che. You can quickly spin up a development environment with everything you need, all hosted on OpenShift. The devfile provides easy to configure, reproducible definitions of portable developer environments.

This parameter is also applicable for chePlugin type components. This is useful for temporary content or without access to editing the referenced content. The specified environment variables are provisioned into each init container and containers inside all Pods and Deployments. This section describes how to mount Git credentials store as secret from the user’s project into the file in single-workspace or multiple-workspace containers of CodeReady Workspaces. This section describes how to mount a secret from the user’s project as a file in single-workspace or multiple-workspace containers of CodeReady Workspaces.

These extensions are possible to package as CodeReady Workspaces plug-ins by combining them with their dependencies. By default, CodeReady Workspaces includes a plug-in registry containing common plug-ins. This chapter provides basic information about installing, enabling, and using CodeReady Workspaces plug-ins in workspaces.

You only need a machine capable of running a web browser to code, build, test, and run on OpenShift. Administrators and developers can customize their Dev Spaces instance and other web-based IDEs. The experience is as fast and familiar as an integrated development environment (IDE) on your laptop. Asynchronous storage is a combination of persistent and ephemeral modes.

With Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces, you can use any machine (even a mobile device) and immediately begin contributing to projects, using a pre-secured environment for development. A persistent volume (PV) acts as a virtual storage instance that adds a volume to a cluster. When the common strategy is used and a workspace PVC access mode is ReadWriteOnce (RWO), only one node can simultaneously use the PVC. An HTTP proxy is used to sign outgoing requests from a workspace service to the CodeReady Workspaces server and to authenticate incoming requests from the IDE client running on a browser. For more information about plug-in registry customization, see Section 3.1, “Building and running a custom registry image”.

6. Configuring Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces server hostname

CodeReady Workspaces plug-ins are special services that extend the workspace capabilities. The containers that the plug-ins are packaged into run as sidecars of the workspace editor and augment its capabilities. When developing a plug-in that depends on or interacts with components of workspaces (containers, preferences, factories), use the CodeReady Workspaces APIs embedded in Che-Theia. This drives the appropriate changes in the JAVA_OPTS and https(s)_proxy variables in the CodeReady Workspaces server and workspaces containers. Overrides the container image used in the Plugin registry deployment.

• The customCheProperties field, part of the CheCluster Custom Resource server settings, contains a map of additional environment variables to apply to the CodeReady Workspaces server component.
• The extension-hosting sidecar container and the use of the extension in a devfile are optional.
• The maximum number of workspaces that a organization is allowed to own.
• Starting with Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces 2.0, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions can be installed to extend the functionality of a workspace.
• Enables pull-request workflow where a server handles the local and remote branching, forking, and pull-request issuance.

When starting a new server within a component, CodeReady Workspaces automatically detects this, and the UI offers to expose this port as a public port automatically. It is impossible to do this for servers, such as a database server, which automatically starts at the container start. For the cheEditor and chePlugin component types, CPU requests can be described in the plug-in descriptor file, typically named meta.yaml.

4. Creating a workspace using crwctl and a local devfile

A devfile can only contain one component of the cheEditor type. This section describes how to create a minimal devfile for your project and how to include more than one projects in a devfile. GitHub authentication can be based on using personal access tokens.

2.2. Accessing a Git repository using HTTPS

When CodeReady Workspaces is installed on a OpenShift cluster, the workspace controller is the only component that is deployed. A CodeReady Workspaces workspace is created immediately after a user requests it. A container running JBoss EAP is also included as part of our developer environment. A workspace includes the source code of your project, the IDE, and a replica of the production environment. This makes sure what we’re building will run the same everywhere. Existing developer tooling does not adequately address the evolving needs of containerized development, a challenge that we’re pleased to answer with Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces.

Blue/green deployment strategy with OpenShift Pipelines

List of available codeready workspaces plugins and more information about registry can be found in the CodeReady Workspaces plug-in registry GitHub repository. You can add a project to a non-running workspace, but you must start the workspace to delete it. This section describes how to create a new workspace to edit an existing codebase. The stack’s underlying devfile’s name and generateName are overriden by it. For an introduction to devfiles and instructions for their use, see below.

1.1. Using existing SSH keys

VS Code extensions can run in the Che-Theia editor container, or they can be packaged in their own isolated and pre-configured containers with their prerequisites. The most important part of the object is the url, which defines the location of plug-in configuration. Typically, it is a tar archive with the plug-in meta.yaml file. OAuth for Github allows users to clone projects using SSH addresses (git@) and push to repositories.

14.3. Getting preview URLs

It is not recommended to reconfigure PVC strategies on an existing CodeReady Workspaces cluster with existing workspaces. Using the common PVC strategy, user-defined PVCs are replaced with subpaths on the common PVC. When the user references a volume as my-volume, it is mounted in the common-pvc with the /workspace-id/my-volume subpath. Use the devfile format to specify the tools and runtime applications of a CodeReady Workspaces workspace. RH-SSO is a prerequisite to configure CodeReady Workspaces in multi-user mode.

It is not possible to mix the id and reference fields in a single component definition; they are mutually exclusive. Both name and generateName are optional parameters, but at least one of them must be defined. CodeReady Workspaces 2.0 plug-ins replace CodeReady Workspaces 1.2 installers. The following table lists the CodeReady Workspaces 2.0 plug-ins that have replaced CodeReady Workspaces 1.2 installers. To change the default value, see the CodeReady Workspaces 2.0 Installation Guide.