Official generic gitpod support

[rfay]

@shaal has done wonders with DrupalPod and ddev-gitpod... but we need a generic DDEV environment for GitPod and GitHub Codespaces, and it shouldn't be that hard to do. This will help loads of people.

[shaal]

I'd love to hear more!

(and help with anything I can of course)

[Decipher]

A CloudeIDE step for the ddev wizard that gives you choice based on existing configuration would be great.

[Decipher]

It'd also be nice to have the ability to do some configuration during setup, such as the port numbers, etc.

[rfay]

Can you be more specific about what you're talking about @Decipher ?

[Decipher]

When you first run the ddev config command you are provided with 3 questions which determined the configuration for your codebase.

At the least, I would like to see a CloudIDE option added to these steps which allowed you to choose: None, Gitpod, GitHub workspaces. Ideally it could determine the default answer based of available environment variables.

DDev would maintain some template configuration to enable the CloudIDE specific changes, such as the docker-compose.host-docker-internal.yaml file that DrupalPod creates: https://github.com/shaal/DrupalPod/blob/main/.gitpod/ddev-in-gitpod-setup.sh#L38-L47

It would also be nice to have an advanced configuration option that allows you to choose the ports for specific services and other types of config, such as being able to set bind_all_interfaces to TRUE.

[rfay]

Thanks -

• I would expect it to always bind_all_interfaces and turn off ddev-router in the case of GitPod.
• host.docker.internal is not in our control and so it's found dynamically by DrupalPod/ddev-gitpod. There may be a way to work around this now that docker 20.10 is available.

[shaal]

I think the above comment is already resolved with ddev + gitpod recent changes, is that correct?

[rfay]

We can give it a shot! Not sure about the host.docker.internal issue, which is different from the need to bind_all_interfaces

[shaal]

When trying to run ddev launch inside Gitpod workspace, the following error is displayed:

/workspace/DrupalPod/.ddev/commands/host/launch: line 61: xdg-open: command not found
Failed to run launch ; error=exit status 127

I think we should add that to this feature (+ #3371 ), so when running ddev launch inside a Gitpod workspace, it should not try open the browser directly. Instead, ddev can utilize Gitpod's own command - gp preview 8080

[shaal]

@rfay wouldn't it be better to split this into 2 separate PRs?

1. Launch a gitpod instance for any project (on github or gitlab) with a special URL
2. Add ddev flag for gitpod configuration (without adding any external config files like we currently have to create)

To me, the ddev Gitpod flag feature is the most urgent.
Please let me know how I can help.

[rfay]

Well, far more than 2 PRs :) #3371 is exploring this territory, but what we'll actually need for your first item is a separate repository that's used for launching (drud/ddev isn't the right one) and a website that will help generate the special URL.

Please open an issue for your second item, explain what you're looking for and how you want to use it, thanks!

[rfay]

Official gitpod support begins with today's v1.18.2 release, along with https://github.com/drud/ddev-gitpod-launcher and the ddev chrome extension.

[weitzman]

Sounds great ... Whats the ddev chrome extension?

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[rfay]

Look for ddev in chrome web store, install it. It has a ways to go, but it just creates a button like the gitpod chrome extension, which will open a repo using ddev-gitpod-launcher.

[rfay]

Docs in #3434 @weitzman - would love to have your review.