gitpod-io / gitpod-io/gitpod

Allow for Prebuilds on external build systems

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feature: prebuilds meta: never-stale team: webapp
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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

This requires a lot more research - this issue is aimed at capturing this idea.

Currently, Gitpod acts as a build system for our customers when creating prebuilds on certain events (e.g. when a new PR is merged). This further increases the complexity of understanding, installing and operating Gitpod for customers - especially if they already have a build system in place like Github actions or CircleCI.

Describe the behaviour you'd like

As an additional option, we could allow customers to execute prebuilds in Github Actions or Circle Orbs.

Additional context

  • This came up in a meeting here.

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or implementation entry points. Start by researching how Gitpod currently creates prebuilds and how external systems such as GitHub Actions or CircleCI could trigger and execute them; done would mean customers can run prebuilds through an external build system.

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Assessment

Tech stack
github-actions
Domain
ci-cd
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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