Chefile Phase 2

[benoitf]

Epic issue about improvements that should be made on Chefile

• ECLIPSE CHE(dir) ECLIPSE CHE(action): format
• table output for action list-workspaces / no log prefix on output
• che dir ssh: if no ssh-agent display "The SSH agent has been disabled for this workspace"
• Respect the environment variable values passed along from Che CLI
• SSH improvements for Che
• Provide Chefile for Che repository
  • --> requires properties allowing several 'volumes mount' for current folder and docker socket (for now che.properties is only allowing one user custom volume) Allow mounting of multiple volumes to mount properties #2264
  • --> requires properties allowing several 'volumes mount' for current folder and docker socket (for now che.properties is only allowing one user custom volume) in new model of environment backport PR2264 into CHE-1818 branch #2288
  • Allow to define custom recipe
  • Allow to set project type other than blank
  • Allow to use macros in commands -- see new macro types
    • => requires server-side macro handling
• che dir destroy for removing workspace
• che dir ssh to connect through ssh to remote machine
• Add other projects than the current dir workspace (use of Project importers) : work in progress
• Syntax coloring for Chefile editors? PR submitted Adds Chefile mapping so we can have syntax highlighting #2657
• Chefile Adapter
  • requires DTO generation in Typescript (type checking for converting)
    • Add string template version che-dependencies#17
    • Provide Maven plugin for generating TypeScript DTO objects based on Java DTO #2490
    • Improvements on DTO Typescript generator #2637
  • Transform Chefile into factory.json
  • Transform factory.json into Chefile
• remote Che
  • che dir <tobedefined ?> to connect with local workspace with Docker API (for example ssh is not defined) or as fallback to ssh
  • Define set of files to be opened for clients like IDE for a given workspace
  • => requires IDE enhancement
• "che action". In the docs, it says it should list all available actions. But it just gives an error - asking you to provide an action.

New syntax

# Runtime to use for this workspace
workspace.runtime.docker.image="codenvy/alpine_jdk8"

workspace.runtime.docker.dockerfile= `
FROM ...
RUN ...
ENV ...
`

workspace.runtime.docker.composefile= `
version: 2
`

workspace.runtime.docker.location= "http://gist...../my-dockerfile"

# Configure project properties
workspace.projects[0].type = "maven"

[TylerJewell]

@benoitf - will you provide a template of all the new chefile syntax that will be introduced for these changes into the epic? Thanks.

[benoitf]

@TylerJewell OK i will

[TylerJewell]

See the pull request for the new Chefile - #2289

[benoitf]

Issue related to #2059