Hide editors from the dashboard

Hide selected OpenShift Dev Spaces editors from the Dashboard UI, for example IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, and have only Visual Studio Code - Open Source visible.

Before you begin

You have an active oc session with administrative permissions to the OpenShift cluster. See This page is not included, but the link has been rewritten to point to the nearest parent document.Getting started with the CLI.
You have jq installed. See Content from stedolan.github.io is not included.Downloading jq.

Procedure

Determine the IDs of the available editors. An editor ID has the following format: publisher/name/version.

oc exec deploy/devspaces-dashboard -n openshift-devspaces  \
    -- curl -s http://localhost:8080/dashboard/api/editors | jq -r '[.[] | "\(.metadata.attributes.publisher)/\(.metadata.name)/\(.metadata.attributes.version)"]'

Edit the CheCluster Custom Resource on the cluster:

$ oc edit checluster/devspaces -n openshift-devspaces

spec:
  components:
    dashboard:
      deployment:
        containers:
        - env:
          - name: CHE_HIDE_EDITORS_BY_ID
            value: 'che-incubator/che-webstorm-server/latest, che-incubator/che-webstorm-server/next'

where:

value: A string containing comma-separated IDs of editors to hide.

Results

In the OpenShift Dev Spaces Dashboard, go to Create Workspace and verify that the concealed editors are no longer visible.