Chapter 4. When to use OpenShift Dev Spaces
OpenShift Dev Spaces is designed for teams that need consistent, secure, and centrally managed development environments on OpenShift. Not every team requires a cloud development platform, so evaluate your development workflow against the use cases below.
4.1. Teams that benefit from OpenShift Dev Spaces
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OpenShift Dev Spaces is a strong fit when your team faces one or more of these situations:
- New developers join regularly and need to be productive on day one.
- Builds fail because of differences between developer machines.
- Your organization requires credentials to stay on cluster infrastructure, not on individual machines.
- Development must happen within a controlled network boundary, including air-gapped environments.
- Projects have complex dependency chains that are difficult to reproduce consistently across developer machines.
4.2. What OpenShift Dev Spaces provides for the enterprise
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- On-premises control
- OpenShift Dev Spaces runs within your OpenShift cluster. When deployed on-premises, your source code and credentials stay within your own infrastructure.
- Air-gapped deployment
- OpenShift Dev Spaces operates in disconnected environments with mirrored container images and internal extension registries.
- Native OpenShift integration
- OpenShift Dev Spaces uses OpenShift RBAC, OAuth, networking, and storage directly. No additional identity or access management layer is required.
- Open devfile standard
- Workspace definitions use the devfile format, an open standard maintained by the devfile.io community.
4.3. What developers need to work with OpenShift Dev Spaces
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Developers need a supported web browser and network access to the OpenShift Dev Spaces dashboard URL. No local tools, CLI installations, or cluster credentials are required.
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