Chapter 1. About Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces provides web-based development environments on Red Hat OpenShift with an enterprise-level setup:
- Cloud Development Environments (CDE) server
- IDEs such as Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source and JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Community (Technology Preview)
- Containerized environments with popular programming languages, frameworks, and Red Hat technologies
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces is well-suited for container-based development.
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.13 is based on Eclipse Che 7.84.
1.1. Supported platforms
OpenShift Dev Spaces runs on OpenShift 4.12–4.15 on the following CPU architectures:
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AMD64 and Intel 64 (
x86_64) -
IBM Power (
ppc64le) and IBM Z (s390x)
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1.2. Support policy
For Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.13, Red Hat will provide support for deployment, configuration, and use of the product.
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1.3. Differences between Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces and Eclipse Che
There are some differences between Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces and the upstream project on which it is based, Eclipse Che:
- OpenShift Dev Spaces is supported only on Red Hat OpenShift.
- OpenShift Dev Spaces is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is regularly updated to include the latest security fixes.
- OpenShift Dev Spaces provides devfiles for working with languages and technologies such as Quarkus, Lombok, NodeJS, Python, DotNet, Golang, C/C++, and PHP. You can find the latest sample projects in the devspaces-devfileregistry container image sources.
- OpenShift Dev Spaces uses OpenShift OAuth for user login and management.
Red Hat provides licensing and packaging to ensure enterprise-level support for OpenShift Dev Spaces.
