[Container-tools] CDK Server Adapter - First Demo

[Pete Muir]

On 30 October 2015 at 02:40, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 1) I assume we'll have a GUI that asks them for redhat.com
>>> username/password (in the installer?), and that this will be
>>> automatically wired through to vagrant (not an eclipse thing, just a
>>> vagrant/env variable thing :-) to avoid that prompt
>>
>>
>> Yeah, we need to decide where to keep these credentials. Still
>> investigating. Probably somewhere in foundation.
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> 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.)

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>>> 3) The installer will set up a CDK by default, so you don't need to
>>> locate the Vagrantfile etc.
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>> It's good to have it here for now, so we can see where problem points
>> might be before we get to integrating the various pieces together.
>> Everything is fluid for now... all PoC.  Nothing will remain the same ;)
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> I don't think this part will need to change much if at all. You must have a
> way to change or specify the location anyway - Pete is just referring to
> that the value of this should be auto configured when we have run our
> installer.
>
> And that is what you are working on with adding a way to detect installed
> CDK by scanning a directory that the installer will pass on to devstudio
> (just like we do for EAP and other runtimes).
>
> So in short - yes, we will automatically wire this up when installed by the
> installer; and if you do this manually or you accidentally delete/move the
> vagrant file the user can still manually edit this if need be.
>
> /max
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