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gmawdo edited this page Dec 16, 2021 · 7 revisions

Welcome to the theia-cloud wiki!

What's the Theia Cloud?

It's about fast workspaces for IDEs based on Theia. Theia is fast per se, fast here means fast workspace launch times with massive scalability.

Take a single instance Theia environment that works on an individuals server. How can that be served to a mass market with super quick start up?

Eclipse solves a superset of the problem but suffers from start up that is too slow. Gitpod is a close source service that serves workspaces and it does this in a performant way. Both Che and Gitpod leverage Kubernetes for scale.

Theia Cloud is a light weight workspace management capability the marries: Theia, an OAUTH2 based authentication and authorisation capability, and Kubernetes.

The result is highly scalable Theia based IDEs each IDE type underpinned by a Kubernetes service wth readied pods.

Quick-win strawman

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