Re: [che-dev] Single User Eclipse Che - does the community need it?

[Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.

Let me respond with a few bits, in the context of my post just a few
minutes ago "Single-User Eclipse Che in a Vagrant VM for local/offline
development env." [0].

That post makes a case for a possible need for a single user mode. Of
course, in the same kind of VM, I could also quite well run PostgreSQL,
keycloak, etc. but this is a bit overbloat (I have such a setup in
another branch of the same repo [1]).

I'm a newcomer to the community, so I don't know how much that can count
for the whole community.


Regarding the -m option, I think it would probably make sense to keep
multi-user the default for chectl, and have a --singleuser option
instead.

The way I managed to make it work with singleuser without having to
provide a che-operator-cr-patch-yaml was to use helm, otherwise, with
operator, the default was multiuser at all times.

Whatever the decision, there's currently some inconsistency from my POV,
where I would expect operator or helm to have the same defaults... but I
may be overlooking some aspects, being relatively new to k8s and having
taught it to myself ;-)


My 2 cents,

Regards,

[1] https://gitlab.com/olberger/vagrant-minikube-eclipse-che/-/tree/master

Dmytro Nochevnov <dnochevn@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to open the discussion about if it's necessary to simplify
> installation of *Single User Eclipse Che,* which could be more
> convenient for someone for development in comparison to *Multi User Eclipse
> Che.*
>
> Earlier *Single User Eclipse Che* assembly was a default one, and there is "
> *--multiuser*" *chectl* property to install *Multi User Eclipse Che* based
> on *Keycloak*
> <https://github.com/che-incubator/chectl/blob/master/README.md>.
>
> As for now *chectl* is installing *Multi User Eclipse Che* by default, and
> it's needed to patch custom resource yaml with dedicated property "
> *CHE_MULTIUSER*" to install *Single User Eclipse Che*
> <https://github.com/eclipse/che-docs/blob/48abeb5eb9534f2f38737423b11aeb73877ae899/src/main/pages/che-7/administration-guide/proc_configuring-prod-short-to-work-without-identity-provider.adoc>,
> which, IMHO, neither obvious nor convenient:
>
>> spec:
>>   server:
>>     customCheProperties:
>>       CHE_MULTIUSER: "false"
>
>
> -- 
> With best regards,
> Dmytro Nochevnov
> Senior Quality Engineer
> CodeReady Workspaces QE team

[0] https://www.eclipse.org/lists/che-dev/msg03789.html
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Olivier BERGER
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Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)