Re: [che-dev] inquiry about getting a UI for eclipse che containers

[Ilya Buziuk <ibuziuk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, Adrian

Thank you for your interest in the project. Great to hear that you are planning to use a hosted instance in the department \o/

Part of the course work involves using UI automatic testing and the need
to have access to the GUI of the container.

Could you please elaborate a bit more on the use case?

Could you please point us to some resources and or documentation to help
us setting up a way to get access to the UI of the workspaces 

if you just want to get access to the workspace it could be easily done via kubectl [1] since all workspaces are k8s resources e.g. `kubectl get devworkspaces` which should provide the URL to the running workspace

[1] https://eclipse.dev/che/docs/stable/end-user-guide/managing-workspaces-with-apis/ 

 

On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:00 PM George Adrian Stoica via che-dev <che-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

We are planning to use a self hosted installation of eclipse che in a
software dev project course at our department.

Part of the course work involves using UI automatic testing and the need
to have access to the GUI of the container.

We have managed so far to set up the system using an openstack
infrastructure.

Could you please point us to some resources and or documentation to help
us setting up a way to get access to the UI of the workspaces ?

The typical project URLs look like
      https://domain/dashboard/#/ide/user-namespace/project/

is there any chance to get something like
      https://domain/dashboard/#/ui/user-namespace/project/

where that would open the container UI  (supposing that there is some vnc server on it)
and have that integrated  so the students/devs  can be authenticated withe same credentials to view 
that and do not need to create any special docker images or manage passwords and credentials to see the UI ?

In short, this is basically attempting to get the same functionality you get in gitpod out of the box.

PS: I initially contacted Eclipse Foundation general inquiries and was guided to email you here.

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Best regards,
    Adrian Stoica, PhD

    Associate Professor, Head of ISSE group
    Department of Computer Science
    Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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