Welcome to the Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift

Learn and experiment with Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. Now. In your browser. For free.

Access Red Hat’s products and technologies without setup or configuration, and start developing quicker than ever before with our new, no-cost sandbox environments for Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (formerly Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces).

Try your hand at the technologies with our library of activities as well.

CodeReady Workspaces is currently running in the Developer Sandbox. OpenShift Dev Spaces will be available in the Developer Sandbox in a future update.

Start developing directly on OpenShift with Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (formerly Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces)

The Developer Sandbox comes pre-configured with Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces, Red Hat's productised version of Eclipse Che. You can quickly spin up a development environment with everything you need, all hosted on OpenShift.

Launch a workspace for an application directly from the OpenShift topology viewer to quickly view and make changes to the code!

About the technology

What is the difference between Eclipse Che and OpenShift Dev Spaces?

OpenShift Dev Spaces is built upon Eclipse Che and is optimized for Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Linux. It is built on RHEL 8. OpenShift Dev Spaces bundles a curated set of devfiles and plug-ins supported by Red Hat, whereas Eclipse Che has a broader set, including ones that are not supported in the product.
Learn more about Eclipse Che.

What are the limitations of using OpenShift Dev Spaces on the Developer Sandbox?

There are no particular limitations but a specific configuration. OpenShift Dev Spaces namespace and storage strategy, CPU and memory quotas and other properties of the workspace server are pre-configured and cannot be changed. The devfile and plugin registry as well are pre-configured and cannot be customized.

Featured resources

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Getting started with CodeReady Workspaces and Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes launcher

Streamline your JBoss EAP dev environment with Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces: Part 1

How to edit and test application code in CodeReady Workspaces

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