Red Hat SummitChapter 1. Adopting OpenShift Dev Spaces
To get started with adopting OpenShift Dev Spaces for your organization, you can read the following:
1.1. Developer workspaces
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces provides developer workspaces with everything you need to code, build, test, run, and debug applications:
- Project source code
- Web-based integrated development environment (IDE)
- Tool dependencies needed by developers to work on a project
- Application runtime: a replica of the environment where the application runs in production
Pods manage each component of a OpenShift Dev Spaces workspace. Therefore, everything running in a OpenShift Dev Spaces workspace is running inside containers. This makes a OpenShift Dev Spaces workspace highly portable.
The embedded browser-based IDE is the point of access for everything running in a OpenShift Dev Spaces workspace. This makes a OpenShift Dev Spaces workspace easy to share.
1.2. Using a badge with a link to enable a first-time contributor to start a workspace
To enable a first-time contributor to start a workspace with a project, add a badge with a link to your OpenShift Dev Spaces instance.
Figure 1.1. Factory badge
Procedure
Substitute your OpenShift Dev Spaces URL (
https://devspaces-<openshift_deployment_name>.<domain_name>) and repository URL (<your-repository-url>), and add the link to your repository in the projectREADME.mdfile.[](https://devspaces-<openshift_deployment_name>.<domain_name>/#https://<your-repository-url>)
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The
README.mdfile in your Git provider web interface displays the factory badge. Click the badge to open a workspace with your project in your OpenShift Dev Spaces instance.
1.3. Benefits of reviewing pull and merge requests in Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces workspace contains all tools you need to review pull and merge requests from start to finish. By clicking a OpenShift Dev Spaces link, you get access to Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces-supported web IDE with a ready-to-use workspace where you can run a linter, unit tests, the build and more.
Prerequisites
- You have access to the repository hosted by your Git provider.
- You use a Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces-supported browser: Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
- You have access to a OpenShift Dev Spaces instance.
Procedure
- Open the feature branch to review in OpenShift Dev Spaces. A clone of the branch opens in a workspace with tools for debugging and testing.
- Check the pull or merge request changes.
Run your desired debugging and testing tools:
- Run a linter.
- Run unit tests.
- Run the build.
- Run the application to check for problems.
- Navigate to UI of your Git provider to leave comment and pull or merge your assigned request.
Verification
- (optional) Open a second workspace using the main branch of the repository to reproduce a problem.
1.4. Supported languages
| Language | Builders, runtimes, and databases | Maturity |
|---|---|---|
| Apache Camel K |
| GA |
| Java |
| GA |
| Node.js |
| GA |
| Python |
| GA |
| C/C++ |
| Technology preview |
| C# |
| Technology preview |
| Go |
| Technology preview |
| PHP |
| Technology preview |
