This section describes how to create a workspace from the User Dashboard.

Prerequisites

  • A running instance of Eclipse Che. To install an instance of Eclipse Che, see Che quick-starts

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Che Dashboard. See Navigating Che using the Dashboard.

  2. In the left navigation panel, navigate to Workspaces.

  3. Click on the Add Workspace button.

  4. Define a Name for the workspace. A generated name is proposed. It can be modified.

  5. In the Stack section, select the workspace runtime environment that will be used to build and run projects from the list.

    Select a stack from the list
    Viewing the compute resource limits

    The memory needed by the stack is pre-calculated and displayed on the stack description line. Changing the memory requirements is only possible from the devfile.

  6. Start the workspace: click on the Create & Open button at the top or bottom of the form:

    Create and Open
Configuring the workspace before start

Instead of configuring the workspace once it has started, it is possible to configure the workspace before start.

  1. From the top of the page, click the down arrow next to the Create & Open button.

  2. Select the menu item below to edit the workspace configuration.

Create and Edit