PizzaFactory/Camino updates February,2021

We PizzaFactory Project made some improvement to our service “Camino”.

What’s improved?

Stable and quick booting workspaces

By refine our DNS services, your workspace will be booted 2 to 10 times faster. And this improvement extremely reduces booting failures with Server 'theia' in container 'theia-idead0' not available..

In addition, more containers are cached in our private repository. The download speed of the private repository is much faster than public repositories like DockerHub and Quay. This will affect to faster boot-up.

Our team is keeping to try faster boot-up. Please let us know if you have any troubles in booting your workspaces.

New dashboard

We applied new dashboard provided by upstream Eclipse/Che project.

New dashboard

Workspace resource monitor

We applied new ‘workspace resource monitor’ provided by upstream. This will help resolving issues caused by resource expiration.

Resource monitor

Please try and ask us!

We provide free-beer version of PizzaFactory/Camino banco edition for you.

Please try it and let us know how we can help your software development.

PizzaFactory Loves Bitcoin Monacoin Core Developers

Hello cool crypto-currency developers,

We PizzaFactory Project started to provide Devfile to PizzaFactory/Camino users. New devfiles are shown in “Get Started” page like this.

The screenshot of “Get Started” page

The required tools have been installed. So everyone can start their node development rapidly.

Currently, the envrionment have some restrictions.

  • It have no debugging GUI support with GNU debugger. Only support CLI.
  • The version of Barkley DB is 5.x. Not 4.8.

We will improve to resolve these restrictions.

Devfile “Monacoin core” and “Bitcoin core” can be run on PizzaFactory/Camino banco ‘free beer’ version.

Please sign up and try via https://che-banco.camino.pizzafactory.jp/ . And please ask us anyting on our Gitter channel.

Happy Hacking,

New Storage Driver on Banco Edition

Banco is a “free beer” edition of PizzaFactory/Camino. All developers can use it after simple registration. We PizzaFactory team have provided it for a long time.

Issue

And we were always worried about the cost of storage. The subscription-provided Tavola Edition offers instance-attached storage for a monthly fee. On the other hand, The Banco edition has been around for a long time with low cost but slow CIFS storage.

For readers who have never used the Banco edition, here’s the actual time it took to remove the clones and local clones from http://github.com/mruby/mruby.git.

command 1st try 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
git clone https://github.com/mruby/mruby.git 2m32.449s 2m35.325s 2m34.396s 2m38.519s 2m22.648s
rm -fr mruby 0m34.040s 0m27.753s 0m32.928s 0m45.429s 0m25.719s

This is 1000% or more slower than expected.

And to a new storage driver

We, the PizzaFactory team have decided to change the storage driver for the Banco edition.

This storage driver is acting as a loopback device for disk images on CIFS. However, users of PizzaFactory/Camino need not be aware of it. It appears to users as a block device formatted with the ext4 file system. Yes, ext4. CIFS, which was used in previous Banco editions, was prone to problems with file locking and symlinks. We suppose this change will resolve some of the file system-related problems.

Here’s a new storage driver with the same benchmarks as before. You can understand that it has become overwhelmingly faster.

command 1st try 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
git clone https://github.com/mruby/mruby.git 0m6.312s 0m6.172s 0m4.696s 0m6.987s 0m4.344s
rm -fr mruby 0m0.042s 0m0.030s 0m0.025s 0m0.025s 0m0.025s

Performance notes

However, this number is best effort. Banco edition storage offers less throughput and stability than the direct-instance storage provided by Tavola edition. If you need storage throughput, we continue to recommend the Tavola edition.

How to Use

Newly created workspaces in Banco Edition will always have the new storage driver selected. (Conversely, older CIFS-based storage drivers are no longer available for selection.)

It does not provide a way to migrate workspaces already created in the Banco edition to new storage. Make a backup of your existing workspace somehow and then delete it to create a new one.

Any questions?

We provide a free grade support on Gitter. Please cantact us there.

Started to Publish the Content of Plugin Registry

Hello, developers.

The PizzaFactory/Camino team provides a Che-Plugin-Registry instance. The list of plugins are displayed when the user is signed in to the PizzaFactory/Camino service. But he/she could not confirm the plug-in offered before signing up.

Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the new page.

All Che-Plugin-Registry plugins are listed at https: //www.pizzafactory.jp/che-plugin-registry/. It will be updated daily.

New pages are generated by the same mechanism as https://eclipse.github.io/che-plugin-registry/.

We suppose the new page will also help you see how different the plugins provided by PizzaFactory/Camino and the original Eclipse/Che are.

Please visit the new page and consider to use PizzaFactory/Camino . You can use “Banco” edition with no payment after registration.

https://che-banco.camino.pizzafactory.jp/

Happy Hacking!

Recent Updates

We are pleased to inform you this. We updated our services.

These updates are applied not only to subscriber’s Tabola edition but also free Banco edition.

Updates Workspace Manager

Workspace manager was updated to the latest Eclipse/Che (7.11-SNAPSHOT). You users can start your workspace with brand-new “Get Started” panel and new plugins.

Improvements our private image repository

PizzaFactory/Camino team is trying to improve our private image repository by mirroring public repository and building our original images. This will provide quick workspace booting (10-50% faster) to users. And we are keep scanning our images to detect valunerabilities in images.

Login Page Renewal

The entrance of PizzaFactory is now renewed.

Previous

The previous login page

Current

The new login page

Please keep enjoying coding with PizzaFactory!

Pizzafactory Contorno was Lunched

Pizzafactory Project started PizzaFactory/Camino as its sub project. PizzaFactory/Contorno is spinned off from PizzaFactory/Camino. The new project maintains containers and plug-ins that can be share OSS versions of Eclipse/Che. Some proprietary components will be still on PizzaFactory/Camino. All source code by Contorno are licensed under Eclipse Public License 2.0. By this action, all Eclipse/Che users will get some merits even if they don’t use PizzaFactory/Camino cloud IDE PaaS.

Please visit our landing page for Contorno for more details.