How workspaces connect to OpenShift

OpenShift Dev Spaces workspaces connect to OpenShift through automatic token injection, the OpenShift CLI, and console navigation.

Key integration features include:

• Managing workspaces using Kubernetes APIs
• Automatic token injection for cluster access
• Navigating to OpenShift Dev Spaces from the OpenShift Developer Perspective
• Navigating to the OpenShift Web Console from OpenShift Dev Spaces

On your organization’s OpenShift cluster, each OpenShift Dev Spaces workspace is represented as a DevWorkspace custom resource of the same name. For example, a workspace named my-workspace in the OpenShift Dev Spaces dashboard has a corresponding DevWorkspace custom resource in the user’s project. You can manage OpenShift Dev Spaces workspaces by using OpenShift APIs with clients such as the command-line oc.

Each DevWorkspace custom resource contains details derived from the devfile of the Git repository cloned for the workspace, such as devfile commands and workspace container configurations.