VSCode kyma tooling for Application Developers

Description

Introduce an extension to VSCode IDE for kyma application developers, so that they can

• terraform kyma instances on SAP BTP platform using https://github.com/kyma-project/terraform-btp-kyma-environment (? to be verified)
• scaffold application using recommended and maintained helm charts
• connect to kyma cluster to deploy applications
• seamlessly use dev-container with relevant tooling (https://github.com/kyma-project/dev-toolbox)
• install cds cli to enable CAP model development

Ideas (to refine)

• extension should pre-install required dev containers extension and prepare dev container setup so that it uses latest dev-toolbox image
• extension should register new commands to the command palette:
  • scaffold terraform configuration from https://github.com/kyma-project/terraform-btp-kyma-environment samples
  • scaffold helm chart from kyma recommended app charts
• use a cloude ai for vscode to enable chating against a MCP server (reach out to @friedrichwilken )
  for example
  - generic kubernetes server that knows kyma https://github.com/containers/kubernetes-mcp-server
  - the poc for an extensible k8s-mcp-server https://github.com/friedrichwilken/extendable-kubernetes-mcp-server/tree/main
  - https://pages.github.tools.sap/Security-Hub/s4c-mcp-server/

Reasons

A VS Code extension like this would offers faster onboarding into Kyma ecosystem and help developers to provide consistent projects according to best practices within minutes. By providing sample codes, charts, it would become a great learning tool for getting familiar with Kyma and Kubernetes conventions.

Attachments

• coding cap solution with build, ai, btp, https://pages.github.tools.sap/D061192/hackathonnotebooks/CAP_AI_Demo/