About Eclipse Che® Workspace Data Sync

This tooling provides the ability to increase I/O performance for a developer workspaces.

Workspace lifecycle:

Workspaces Startup phase:

• Pods (workspace and data sync) are started in parallel.

Startup data sync phase:

• Data flow goes from the persistent volume (rsync server) to the ephemeral volume (rsync client).

Normal workspace usage phase:

• Containers in the Workspace Pod have full R/W access to the ephemeral volume with restored project sources.
• Container (rsync client) in the Workspace Pod have full R/W access to the persistent volume.
• Data flow goes from rsync client to rsync server periodically by cron job.

Workspace Shutdown phase

• Containers in the Workspace Pod stopped and data flushed to the persistent volume.

Requirements

• Golang 1.12
• Docker

Build

./build.sh -help

Release

1. Set released version in VERSION file
2. Push changes to the release branch

License

Eclipse Che® is open sourced under the Eclipse Public License 2.0.

Trademark

"Che" is a trademark of the Eclipse Foundation.