Chapter 2. New features and enhancements

With this update, the included version of Traefik is updated from 2.8.1 to 2.9.6

With this update of the CheCluster Custom Resource, a gatewayContainer and projectCloneContainer sections are added under .spec.devEnvironments. This enhancement allows the administrators to specify the details of the container that will host the workspace reverse proxy (gateway) and the container that clones the remote Git repositories:

spec:
  devEnvironments:
    gatewayContainer:
        <container_settings>
    projectCloneContainer:
        <container_settings>

spec:
  devEnvironments:
    gatewayContainer:
        <container_settings>
    projectCloneContainer:
        <container_settings>

spec:
  devEnvironments:
    gatewayContainer:
      resources:
        limits:
          cpu: "0"

spec:
  devEnvironments:
    gatewayContainer:
      resources:
        limits:
          cpu: "0"

This enhancement introduces an Ansible sample in the OpenShift Dev Spaces dashboard for Ansible developers.

To use this sample in restricted environments, follow these steps:

This sample is currently supported for workspaces that run with the Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source IDE. Support for workspaces that run with the JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition IDE, which is a Technology Preview, will be added with a future release.

This sample is currently supported on AMD64 and Intel 64 (x86_64). Support for the IBM Power (ppc64le) and IBM Z (s390x) CPU architectures will be added with a future release.

Before this update, workspace URLs contained strings of random characters. With this update, the URLs contain the following parameters:

For example, if user john creates a quarkus-todo workspace that exposes a backend endpoint using my-dev-spaces-instance.com, the resulting URLs are as follows:

With this update, developers can use the .code-workspace file to configure the workspaces in Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source. Specify the .code-workspaces file for your project in the devfile with the environment variable VSCODE_DEFAULT_WORKSPACE:

schemaVersion: 2.2.0
(...)
components:
- name: dev-tools
  container:
    (...)
    env:
    - name: VSCODE_DEFAULT_WORKSPACE
      value: "/projects/che-demo-app/che-demo.code-workspace"

schemaVersion: 2.2.0
(...)
components:
- name: dev-tools
  container:
    (...)
    env:
    - name: VSCODE_DEFAULT_WORKSPACE
      value: "/projects/che-demo-app/che-demo.code-workspace"

With this update, the trusted enterprise Certificate Authorities (CAs) specified for workspaces, are used by Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source to trust any TLS certificate signed by the specified CAs. Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source can access Open VSX registry instances that use them.

With this update, Microsoft Visual Studio - Open Source honors the NO_PROXY environment variable. You can use the environment variable to specify hosts that should be connected directly and not through a corporate proxy.

This enhancement introduces an Ansible sample in the OpenShift Dev Spaces dashboard for Ansible developers.

To use this sample in restricted environments, follow these steps:

This sample is currently supported for workspaces that run with the Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source IDE. Support for workspaces that run with the JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition IDE, which is a Technology Preview, will be added with a future release.

This sample is currently supported on AMD64 and Intel 64 (x86_64). Support for the IBM Power (ppc64le) and IBM Z (s390x) CPU architectures will be added with a future release.