Eclipse Che plugin registry

Build Eclipse Che plugin registry container image

Most of the time you won't need to rebuild the image because we build quay.io/eclipse/che-plugin-registry:nightly after every commit in master. In case you needed to change the content of the registry (e.g. add or modify some plugins meta.yaml) you can build your own image executing:

docker build --no-cache -t quay.io/eclipse/che-plugin-registry:nightly --target registry .

Where --no-cache is needed to prevent usage of cached layers with plugin registry files. Useful when you change plugin metadata files and rebuild the image.

Note that the Dockerfiles feature multi-stage build, so it requires Docker version 17.05 or higher.

Offline and airgapped registry images

It's possible to build an image for the plugin registry that includes all referenced extension artifacts (i.e. all .theia and .vsix archives). This is done using the same Dockerfile, but performs additional steps to download artifacts and rewrite the plugin meta.yamls to use files cached in v3/resources/.

docker build --no-cache -t quay.io/eclipse/che-plugin-registry:offline --target offline-registry .

Note that support for relative extensions was added in v0.20 of the plugin broker.

Run Eclipse Che plugin registry on OpenShift

You can deploy Che plugin registry on Openshift with command.

  oc new-app -f openshift/che-plugin-registry.yml \
             -p IMAGE="quay.io/eclipse/che-plugin-registry" \
             -p IMAGE_TAG="nightly" \
             -p PULL_POLICY="IfNotPresent"

Run Eclipse Che plugin registry on Kubernetes

You can deploy Che plugin registry on Kubernetes using helm. For example if you want to deploy it in the namespace kube-che and you are using minikube you can use the following command.

NAMESPACE="kube-che"
DOMAIN="$(minikube ip).nip.io"
helm upgrade --install che-plugin-registry \
    --debug \
    --namespace ${NAMESPACE} \
    --set global.ingressDomain=${DOMAIN} \
    ./kubernetes/che-plugin-registry/

You can use the following command to uninstall it.

helm delete --purge che-plugin-registry

Run Eclipse Che plugin registry using Docker

docker run -it  --rm  -p 8080:8080 quay.io/eclipse/che-plugin-registry:nightly

Plugin meta YAML structure

Here is an overview of all fields that can be present in plugin meta YAML files. This document represents the current v3 version.

apiVersion:            # plugin meta.yaml API version -- v2; v1 supported for backwards compatability
publisher:             # publisher name; must match [-a-z0-9]+
name:                  # plugin name; must match [-a-z0-9]+
version:               # plugin version; must match [-.a-z0-9]+
type:                  # plugin type; e.g. "Theia plugin", "Che Editor"
displayName:           # name shown in user dashboard
title:                 # plugin title
description:           # short description of plugin's purpose
icon:                  # link to SVG icon
repository:            # URL for plugin (e.g. Github repo)
category:              # see [1]
firstPublicationDate:  # optional; see [2]
latestUpdateDate:      # optional; see [3]
deprecate:             # optional; section for deprecating plugins in favor of others
  autoMigrate:         # boolean
  migrateTo:           # new plugin id
spec:                  # spec (used to be che-plugin.yaml)
  endpoints:           # optional; plugin endpoints -- see https://www.eclipse.org/che/docs/che-6/servers.html for more details
    - name:
      public:            # if true, endpoint is exposed publicly
      targetPort:
      attributes:
        protocol:        # protocol used for communicating over endpoint, e.g. 'ws' or 'http'
        secure:          # use secure version of protocol above; convert 'ws' -> 'wss', 'http' -> 'https'
        discoverable:    # if false, no k8s service is created for this endpoint
        cookiesAuthEnabled: # if true, endpoint is exposed through JWTProxy
        type:
        path:
  containers:          # optional; sidecar containers for plugin
    - image:
      name:              # name used for sidecar container
      memorylimit:       # Kubernetes/OpenShift-spec memory limit string (e.g. "512Mi")
      env:               # list of env vars to set in sidecar
        - name:
          value:
      command:           # optional; definition of root process command inside container
        - /bin/sh
      args:              # optional; list arguments for root process command inside container
        - -c
        - ./entrypoint.sh
      volumes:           # volumes required by plugin
        - mountPath:
          name:
          ephemeral: # boolean; if true volume will be ephemeral, otherwise volume will be persisted
      ports:             # ports exposed by plugin (on the container)
        - exposedPort:
      commands:          # development commands available to plugin container
        - name:
          workingDir:
          command:       # list of commands + arguments, e.g.:
            - rm
            - -rf
            - /cache/.m2/repository
      mountSources:      # boolean
  initContainers:      # optional; init containers for sidecar plugin
    - image:
      name:              # name used for sidecar container
      memorylimit:       # Kubernetes/OpenShift-spec memory limit string (e.g. "512Mi")
      env:               # list of env vars to set in sidecar
        - name:
          value:
      command:           # optional; definition of root process command inside container
        - /bin/sh
      args:              # optional; list arguments for root process command inside container
        - -c
        - ./entrypoint.sh
      volumes:           # volumes required by plugin
        - mountPath:
          name:
          ephemeral: # boolean; if true volume will be ephemeral, otherwise volume will be persisted
      ports:             # ports exposed by plugin (on the container)
        - exposedPort:
      commands:          # development commands available to plugin container
        - name:
          workingDir:
          command:       # list of commands + arguments, e.g.:
            - rm
            - -rf
            - /cache/.m2/repository
      mountSources:      # boolean
  workspaceEnv:        # optional; env vars for the workspace
    - name:
      value:
  extensions:            # optional; required for VS Code/Theia plugins; list of urls to plugin artifacts (.vsix/.theia files) -- examples follow
    - https://github.com/Azure/vscode-kubernetes-tools/releases/download/0.1.17/vscode-kubernetes-tools-0.1.17.vsix # example
    - vscode:extension/redhat.vscode-xml # example
    - https://github.com/redhat-developer/omnisharp-theia-plugin/releases/download/v0.0.1/omnisharp_theia_plugin.theia # example
    - relative:extension/resources/java-0.46.0-1549.vsix # example; see [4]

1 - Category must be equal to one of the following: "Editor", "Debugger", "Formatter", "Language", "Linter", "Snippet", "Theme", "Other"

2 - firstPublicationDate is not required to be present in YAML, as if not present, it will be generated during Plugin Registry dockerimage build

3 - latestUpdateDate is not required to be present in YAML, as it will be generated during Plugin Registry dockerimage build

4 - extensions starting with relative:extension are resolved relative to the path of index.json -- e.g. v3. This is primarily to support an offline or airgapped instance of the plugin registry. See Offline and airgapped registry images for details.

Note that the spec section above comes from the older che-plugin.yaml spec. The endpoints, containers, and workspaceEnv are passed back to Che server and are used to define the sidecar that is added to the workspace.

At the moment, some of these fields (that are related to plugin viewer) are validated during the Plugin Registry dockerimage build.

Get index list of all plugins

Example:

curl  "http://localhost:8080/v3/plugins/index.json"

curl  "http://localhost:8080/v3/plugins/"

Response:

[
  {
    "id": "eclipse/che-theia/latest",
    "displayName": "theia-ide",
    "version": "latest",
    "type": "Che Editor",
    "name": "che-theia",
    "description": "Eclipse Theia",
    "publisher": "eclipse",
    "links": {
      "self": "/v3/plugins/eclipse/che-theia/latest"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "eclipse/che-theia/next",
    "displayName": "theia-ide",
    "version": "next",
    "type": "Che Editor",
    "name": "che-theia",
    "description": "Eclipse Theia, get the latest release each day.",
    "publisher": "eclipse",
    "links": {
      "self": "/v3/plugins/eclipse/che-theia/next"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "eclipse/x-lang-ls/2019.08.20",
    "displayName": "x lang support",
    "version": "2019.08.20",
    "type": "VS Code extension",
    "name": "x-lang-ls",
    "description": "Provides support for language x",
    "publisher": "eclipse",
    "deprecate": {
      "automigrate": true,
      "migrateTo": "eclipse/x-lang-ls/2019.11.05"
    },
     "links": {
      "self": "/v3/plugins/eclipse/x-lang-ls/2019.08.20"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "eclipse/x-lang-ls/2019.11.05",
    "displayName": "x lang support",
    "version": "2019.11.05",
    "type": "VS Code extension",
    "name": "x-lang-ls",
    "description": "Provides support for language x",
    "publisher": "eclipse",
    "links": {
      "self": "/v3/plugins/eclipse/x-lang-ls/2019.11.05"
    }
  }
]

Get meta.yaml of a plugin