Install OpenShift Dev Spaces

1. Log into the OpenShift console from your browser.

2. Navigate to the Operator Hub

   

3. Type dev spaces into the search, and select Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces:

   

4. Click Install:

   

5. Click Install:

   

   The Operator should begin installing:

   

6. Observe the installed Operators, by clicking on Installed Operators underneath Operator Hub in the left nav menu bar:

   

Create the OpenShift Dev Spaces CheCluster Instance

1. Open a terminal and login to your OpenShift cluster with the CLI.

2. Create an instance of Dev Spaces in your cluster:

   cat << EOF | oc apply -f -
   apiVersion: v1
   kind: Namespace
   metadata:
     name: openshift-devspaces
   ---
   apiVersion: org.eclipse.che/v2
   kind: CheCluster
   metadata:
     name: devspaces
     namespace: openshift-devspaces
   spec:
     components:
       cheServer:
         debug: false
         logLevel: INFO
       metrics:
         enable: true
       pluginRegistry:
         openVSXURL: https://open-vsx.org
     containerRegistry: {}
     devEnvironments:
       startTimeoutSeconds: 300
       secondsOfRunBeforeIdling: -1
       maxNumberOfWorkspacesPerUser: -1
       maxNumberOfRunningWorkspacesPerUser: 5
       containerBuildConfiguration:
         openShiftSecurityContextConstraint: container-build
       disableContainerBuildCapabilities: false
       defaultEditor: che-incubator/che-code/latest
       defaultNamespace:
         autoProvision: true
         template: <username>-devspaces
       secondsOfInactivityBeforeIdling: 1800
       storage:
         pvcStrategy: per-workspace
     gitServices: {}
     networking: {}
   EOF
   

3. Wait for the Dev Spaces cluster to complete its rollout:

   In the console, select from the left hand nav menu Workloads -> Pods, Then select the Project: openshift-devspaces from the drop down in the top left.

   When the rollout is complete, the list of running pods should look somethings like:

   

You can now proceed with creating a Dev Spaces Workspace.