Chapter 2. New features and enhancements

With this update, you can configure the Git remotes of a new workspace created by using the factory URL. The remotes query parameter can be set to a comma-separated list of Git remotes, with an optional name for each.

With this update, administrators can set a limit on the total number of workspaces, and running workspaces per user by using the following parameters in the CheCluster Custom Resource:

For example:

spec:
  devEnvironments:
    maxNumberOfWorkspacesPerUser: 5
    maxNumberOfRunningWorkspacesPerUser: 2

spec:
  devEnvironments:
    maxNumberOfWorkspacesPerUser: 5
    maxNumberOfRunningWorkspacesPerUser: 2

With this update, a Git Services tab is added to the User Preferences page in the dashboard. This tab lists the Git providers that you as a user have granted access to. Supported Git providers are GitHub (github.com and Enterprise), GitLab (SaaS and Server), Bitbucket (Cloud and Server), and Microsoft Azure Repos.

With this update, administrators can run dsc server:deploy --olm-channel=…​ to install unreleased and unsupported versions of OpenShift Dev Spaces from the release candidate (latest) channel or the CI build (next) channel.

This enhancement improves the GUI of the OpenShift Dev Spaces build of Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source for stopped workspaces. A new dialog notifies the user that the workspace has stopped and displays the cause. The dialog offers the user two buttons: return to the dashboard or restart the workspace.

With this update, users can start workspaces from public and private Git repositories hosted on Microsoft Azure Repos. Git repository maintainers can include devfiles in Git repositories that are hosted on Microsoft Azure Repos. Administrators can configure OAuth 2.0 for Microsoft Azure DevOps Services. Where OAuth configuration by an administrator is not permitted, users can use Microsoft Azure DevOps Services tokens as a workaround. This update adds Microsoft Azure Repos to the range of Git providers that OpenShift Dev Spaces already supports, including GitHub (github.com and Enterprise), GitLab (SaaS and Server), and Bitbucket (Cloud and Server).

With this update, administrators can set devEnvironments.storage.pvcStrategy: ephemeral in the CheCluster Custom Resource as the default storage strategy for new workspaces of all users. This setting does not affect users' existing workspaces.

With this update, Dev Workspace Operator accepts the volume size specified in the devfile volume when the persistent volume (PV) is created per-workspace. The PV size is determined by summing the size of all devfile volumes. When the PV is created per-user, the volume size is ignored.

With this update, administrators can specify the workspace startup timeout in the CheCluster Custom Resource by entering a value for spec.devEnvironments.startTimeoutSeconds.

With this update, administrators can replace the default OpenShift scheduler of a workspace pod with an alternative scheduler by configuring the spec.devEnvironments.podSchedulerName value in the CheCluster Custom Resource. The alternative scheduler is applied to all newly started workspaces.