Which protocol is used for the communication with the client?

[miboettc]

Which protocol is used to communicate between the Jetbrains Gateway App and Devspaces? Is it ssh, https, Websockets or something else? Could not find any information the the official documentation....

[azatsarynnyy]

Hi @miboettc
There are two communication channels used.

From the Gateway application, the plugin uses Java client library for kubernetes over HTTP to manage the CDEs.

For communication between the Thin Client and the headless IDE server running in the container, oc port-forward is used.
oc port-forward uses spdy for transport. It creates a tunnel between the Thin Client running on the local machine and a user container in a cluster. So, the Thin Client accesses the remote IDE server as if both were running locally.