Support for Gitpod

[keelanfh]

For the last few months, I've been using Gitpod as an online dev environment for LocalGov Drupal

This is a useful tool because:

• You can set up a working version of LocalGov Drupal in a few clicks with no local dependencies
• You can explore the content editing experience, as well as the public-facing site
• It works even if you have no local admin rights or similar (which is the case for many of us in councils).

At the moment I'm using ECC's Github to store this, but having the required files in this repository would mean that we don't have to update it in two places, and it would be more visible to other councils.

[finnlewis]

Very cool @keelanfh - I agree it would be great to bring this into the project to allow people to spin up a dev / test environment in the cloud at the click of a link.

Mind blowing really....

I see you created a branch, so lets test it and look at bringing it in.

I was also exploring a default DDEV configuration for local dev, so if the two are the same, then this could be a win win ! https://github.com/localgovdrupal/localgov_project/issues/92 as you

[keelanfh]

Ooh and let's do some docs for this too!

[finnlewis]

SSH push and pull

Drupalpod is set up to help with testing and contributing to Drupal.org issues.

To push code changes, we will need ssh keys in the container / dev environment.

For Drupal.org , they have some helper scripts and documentation: https://github.com/shaal/DrupalPod#pushing-code

We will need something similar for Github if we want people to be able to test pull requests or issues and contribute changes back up to Github.

Initially it seems we just need to create new ssh keys within the Gitpod environment and add them to the our Github account.

It would be good if we could make these ssh keys persistent between builds for a given user.

[keelanfh]

When I've been using Gitpod, I've had no problem pushing to GitHub for repos that I own or that are in essexcountycouncil. I didn't add any SSH keys, Gitpod just handles this. I did get an error when I tried to push to a localgovdrupal repo though...

[keelanfh]

Looks like an owner of the localgovdrupal org would need to grant access: https://www.gitpod.io/docs/configure/authentication/github#errors-with-private-repositories-on-github-orgs

[keelanfh]

(To be clear, allowing Gitpod for the organisation still requires individuals to authorise Gitpod against their own individual account and will only allow them to do things that they can already do).

Handling permissions using Gitpod's integration with the Github API seems more robust and easier to implement than using SSH keys.

[andybroomfield]

Is working for me!

So I guess next steps is to include a link in the readme / documentation to allow people to try.

[keelanfh]

I've created a draft PR in the docs, just copying over the information that we had from Essex as a starting point. https://github.com/localgovdrupal/docs/pull/165