Hide editors from the dashboard

Hide selected Che editors from the Dashboard UI, for example IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, and have only Visual Studio Code - Open Source visible.

Prerequisites

An active kubectl session with administrative permissions to the Kubernetes cluster. See Overview of kubectl.
jq. See Downloading jq.

Procedure

Determine the IDs of the available editors. An editor ID has the following format: publisher/name/version.

kubectl exec deploy/che-dashboard -n eclipse-che  \
    -- curl -s http://localhost:8080/dashboard/api/editors | jq -r '[.[] | "\(.metadata.attributes.publisher)/\(.metadata.name)/\(.metadata.attributes.version)"]'

Edit the CheCluster Custom Resource on the cluster:

kubectl edit checluster/eclipse-che -n eclipse-che

spec:
  components:
    dashboard:
      deployment:
        containers:
        - env:
          - name: CHE_HIDE_EDITORS_BY_ID
            value: 'che-incubator/che-webstorm-server/latest, che-incubator/che-webstorm-server/next' (1)

1	A string containing comma-separated IDs of editors to hide.

Verification

In the Che Dashboard, go to Create Workspace and verify that the concealed editors are no longer visible.

Additional resources