With the Che 7 just around the corner, and the realisation that I miss writing, I've decided to resurrect this blog from the dead and start a series of Che 7 tips. 

First up, the handful of steps required to get Che 7 running on Minishift 1.34 (OKD 3.11).

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Deploying Che 7 to Minishift with chectl

Prerequisites

You need the latest Minishift and chectl releases.

Fetch them like this (or similar):

cd ~/bin
curl -sSL https://github.com/che-incubator/chectl/releases/download/20190724230954/chectl-linux -o chectl
chmod +x chectl

cd /tmp
curl -sSL https://github.com/minishift/minishift/releases/download/v1.34.1/minishift-1.34.1-linux-amd64.tgz -o minishift.tgz
tar xvzf minishift.tgz
mv minishift*/minishift ~/bin/
chmod +x ~/bin/minishift

Procedure

1. Start up minishift. (See Start up Minishift for some suggested default settings.)

   minishift start

2. Log in once startup is complete. NOTE: you need cluster admin priviledges.

   oc login 192.168.MY.IP:8433 -u system -p admin

3. To watch the events and see which images are pulled, see this document.
4. Deploy Che to minishift using the operator:

   chectl server:start -a operator -p minishift -n che

5. If using Fix the plugin registry URL to use the latest version:

   oc set env dc/che CHE_WORKSPACE_PLUGIN__REGISTRY__URL=https://che-plugin-registry.openshift.io/v3

   You can also use the -a minishift-addon approach to deploy che, which uses a deployment configuration instead of an operator. However, this approach is deprecated as it does not support using a custom resource (eg., for air gap deployments). Also, if using Minishift 1.34.0 or earlier with the minishift-addon, you must fix the plugin registry URL to use the latest version: oc set env dc/che CHE_WORKSPACE_PLUGIN__REGISTRY__URL=https://che-plugin-registry.openshift.io/v3 You can open the console for the che minishift-addondeployment to verify your change has been applied: https://192.168.YOUR.IP:8443/console/project/che/edit/dc/che You should see: CHE_WORKSPACE_PLUGIN__REGISTRY__URL = https://che-plugin-registry.openshift.io/v3

6. Wait for redeployment to complete.
7. Once running, you can see your Che instance here:
   • http://che-che.192.168.YOUR.IP.nip.io/
8. If you then add a new workspace, you can see even more images pulled in the openshift event log.