Eclipse Che Overview

Introduction

Eclipse Che is cloud based IDE. Eclipse Che offers software development teams an Eclipse IDE in a container-based cloud environment.

For example, Eclipse Che on Kubernetes allows teams to develop cloud native applications on Kubernetes. Eclipse Che makes k8s development easier and faster. It provides one-click developer workspaces and eliminating local installation on Docker/K8s containers.

Cloud Native

A cloud native application is application designed for cloud computing architecture. They are independent small and loosely coupled applications.

Kubernetes

K8s is open source container orchestration platform for orchestrated container applications to run on a cluster of hosts. The K8s
system automates the deployment and management of cloud native applications. The name Kubernetes in Greek means pilot.
Kubernetes is sometimes abbreviated as K8s replacing the number of 8 alphabets in between the K and s alphabets.

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