Use the Eclipse Codewind sidecar plug-in for Eclipse Che to enable Theia to communicate with the Codewind server container.

The Codewind sidecar container includes the following responsibilities:

• The sidecar deploys the Codewind server container.
  • The sidecar renders the deployment and service templates and applies them with the kubectl apply command.
  • When the workspace is shut down or deleted, the sidecar tears down Codewind and any deployed applications.
• The sidecar sets up a reverse proxy for the Theia extension.
  • Nginx is used for the proxy because it can handle both HTTP requests and socket.io.
  • The Theia plug-in communicates with the reverse proxy, which then forwards requests to Codewind. This chain of communication avoids the addition of code in the Theia plug-in to discover and manage the connection to Codewind.
• The sidecar runs the filewatcherd daemon to track user code changes.
  • The filewatcherd daemon watches for changes in each user's project and communicates with Codewind, letting it know to start a build if required.
  • For more information on filewatcherd, see eclipse/codewind-filewatchers.

• Install Docker 17.05 or later.

To build the sidecar image, run ./build.sh.

For deployment instructions, see the README.md file at eclipse/codewind-che-plugin.

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