devspace-terminal

A lightweight cloud-based development environment using DevSpace and Visual Studio Code

Overview

Terminal is a light-weight development environment that compliments DevSpace for software development. By running inside the cluster you're developing against, operations are lightning fast and uploads are quick. Terminal also manages a web-based VSCode installation too, so you can edit your files directly.

How It Works

First, you deploy terminal from your computer into the cluster. Then you enter the terminal and clone your repositories. Then you connect to the web-based VSCode IDE and edit your tests and code. When you are ready to start your app, then you run $ devspace dev from within terminal. The port forwarding rules are setup to forward traffic from your app pod, to the terminal pod, and then to your computer.

Requirements

Have a kubernetes cluster setup and Loft installed
Have devspace CLI and the Loft plugin installed

Quickstart

Ensure you have a space selected (or create a new one)
Locally, $ cd ~/workspace/devspace-terminal
Start terminal by $ devspace dev
- leave this running in the background
In another terminal window, enter the terminal shell by $ devspace enter -c terminal
Clone your git repositories by:
1. Terminal $ cd ~/workspace
2. Terminal $ git clone git@github.com:noizwaves/fitness.git
3. Terminal $ cd fitness
4. Terminal $ git checkout using-terminal
Start the app by Terminal $ devspace dev
Launch Visual Studio Code by:
1. Starting Visual Studio Code locally
2. Following the setup instructions for remote development
3. Attaching to the fitness-web pod
Open the app locally at http://localhost:3000

Features

Automatic pass-through of SSH key for GitHub and Loft configuration
Synchronization of key development configurations via the ./home directory:
1. ~/.gitconfig for Git configuration
2. ~/.aliases for custom aliases, functions, and prompts

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