[Container-tools] CDK Server Adapter - First Demo

[Pete Muir]

On 1 November 2015 at 17:06, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 30 Oct 2015, at 12:50, Pete Muir wrote:
>
>>> Where/how this is handled with our foundation module I think is
>>> irrelevant.
>>>
>>> The cdk server would need some UI to let users specify it and pass on to
>>> the
>>> launch.
>>
>>
>> That could work for now,
>> but long term we need to allow the user to
>> log in to their redhat.com account for the whole IDE to get access to
>> protected content (such as zero dollar dev sub downloads, customer
>> portal content etc.)
>
>
> Yes, but these two are not exclusive.
>
> Remember the IDE is basically a multi-tenant system and each plugin has
> different install requirements/workflows - for plugins we 100% control we
> can (almost) add what we want but i.e. for docker tooling that is at
> eclipse.org we can't really wire in an understanding of Red Hat subscription
> model.
>
> Thus what we'll (most likely) end up having is a Developers @ Red Hat
> preference page/wizard which will setup the red hat credentials and from
> there actively "push"/configure settings of whatever relevant plugins which
> won't necessarily know/care about red hat accounts.
>
> Just like this CDK server adapter will need to automatically configure the
> openshift and docker connection - without the openshift and docker tooling
> knowing about the CDK.

That sounds like a good implementation :-)

>
> /max
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