need documentation which will describe how to install eclipse-che on virtual machines available in a LAN network

[Divine1]

Summary

i have couple of virtual machines in my local area network (LAN). i have configured a kubernetes cluster in my LAN by linking couple of machines. i have decided to install eclipse-che in this environment.

In the documentation i'm not able to find the installation instructions of eclipse-che on LAN or an environment equivalent of LAN (like installing eclipse-che on a k8s cluster configured by connected multiple AWS EC2 instances).
Please help me understand what steps can i follow to accomplish this.

https://www.eclipse.org/che/docs/che-7/installation-guide/installing-che/

Thank you

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[themr0c]

This is a good idea for a blog post on https://che.eclipseprojects.io/.

The screenshot displays the obsolete Installing Che page. The latest stable version for this page is at https://www.eclipse.org/che/docs/stable/administration-guide/installing-che/. As you can see, we have removed from the documentation most installation procedures designed for specific infrastructures such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubespray, Docker desktop, Minishift, Kind. We don't have sufficient resources to maintain these procedures. We chose to deprecate the content rather than keeping misleading procedures.

The blog https://che.eclipseprojects.io/ is a better place for these procedures, and a blog post documenting this user story, as well as updated procedures for installing on various platforms, will be very welcome.

[amisevsk]

In general, many steps in the install are shared, and platform-specific documentation comes down to friction with specific cluster configurations. @Divine1 if you're willing to try stuff out, a starting point would be to use the chectl utility to attempt to install Che in the cluster:

# from a machine connected to the cluster
chectl server:deploy --platform=kubernetes

One friction point from running on a LAN is that it may be required to set up a LAN hostname for the cluster. I've not done this for Kubernetes, so I can't be of much help, but it is possible to e.g. run crc on a separate machine in your LAN: https://crc.dev/crc/#setting-up-remote-server_gsg by setting up local DNS for the cluster via /etc/hosts on client machines or at the network level.

[themr0c]

@l0rd Should we have a "Installing Che on Kubernetes using CLI" procedure based on https://www.eclipse.org/che/docs/stable/administration-guide/installing-che-on-openshift-using-cli/, but with --platform=kubernetes. But how would we test it and list the prerequisites?

[Divine1]

@themr0c please do it

[l0rd]

@themr0c we can document that but users will need to setup an OIDC provider anyway as a prerequisite (except on minikube where we automatically configure Dex and on openshift where it's pre-installed).

[Divine1]

@themr0c we can document that but users will need to setup an OIDC provider anyway as a prerequisite (except on minikube where we automatically configure Dex and on openshift where it's pre-installed).

if there is a documentation with details containing how to setup an OIDC provider (for example dex ) , it will be very helpful for me

[l0rd]

@Divine1 the issue I have linked has a lot of references. The Kubernetes documentation is here.

[Divine1]

@l0rd i faced an issue while integrating dex and eclipse-che. i have detailed my issue in this link #21452

please help me to fix this issue

[Divine1]

@l0rd i have installed eclipce-che with dex as OIDC in my LAN on k8s cluster created using kubeadm. the setup is working fine (as of today). Thank you for the help