Chapter 2. Installing OpenShift Dev Spaces

Procedure

1. Navigate to https://developers.redhat.com/products/openshift-dev-spaces/download, and download the OpenShift Dev Spaces CLI management tool archive for version 3.0.
2. Extract the archive to a folder, such as $HOME/dsc.

3. Run the dsc executable from the extracted folder. For example:

   $ $HOME/dsc/bin/dsc

4. Optionally, to enable running dsc without the full path specification, add the extracted bin folder to your $PATH. For example:

   PATH=$PATH:$HOME/dsc/bin

Verification steps

1. Verify the OpenShift Dev Spaces instance status:

   $ dsc server:status

2. Navigate to the OpenShift Dev Spaces cluster instance:

   $ dsc dashboard:open

Procedure

1. Install the Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces Operator. See Installing from OperatorHub using the web console.
2. Create a OpenShift Dev Spaces instance from the Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces Operator. See Creating applications from installed Operators.

Verification

1. To verify that the OpenShift Dev Spaces instance has installed correctly, navigate to the Dev Spaces Cluster tab of the Operator details page. The Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces instance Specification page displays the list of Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces instances and their status.
2. Click devspaces CheCluster and navigate to the Details tab.

3. See the content of the following fields:

   • The Message field contains error messages. The expected content is None.
   • The Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces URL field contains the URL of the Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces instance. The URL appears when the deployment finishes successfully.
4. Navigate to the Resources tab. View the list of resources assigned to the OpenShift Dev Spaces deployment and their status.

Procedure

1. Download and execute the mirroring script to install a custom Operator catalog and mirror the related images: prepare-restricted-environment.sh.

   $ bash prepare-restricted-environment.sh \
     --ocp_ver "4.10" \
     --devworkspace_operator_index "registry.redhat.io/redhat/redhat-operator-index:v4.10" \
     --devworkspace_operator_version "v0.15.2" \
     --prod_operator_index "registry.redhat.io/redhat/redhat-operator-index:v4.10" \
     --prod_operator_bundle_name "devspacesoperator" \
     --prod_operator_package_name "devspaces-operator" \
     --prod_operator_version "v3.0.1" \
     --my_registry "<my_registry>"

2. Install OpenShift Dev Spaces with the configuration set in the che-operator-cr-patch.yaml during the previous step:

   $ dsc server:deploy --platform=openshift \
     --che-operator-cr-patch-yaml=che-operator-cr-patch.yaml