CRW is intermittently not able to create workspace. This issue may be caused by poor CRW ability to handle unstable networks.

Error:

Failed to run the workspace: "Waiting for pod 'workspace9fbid1gnx7273d47.maven-545f8c9cf4-hw79f' was interrupted"

Steps to reproduce

• Increase pulling timeouts

  oc edit CheCluster codeready-workspaces
  

  ...
  spec:
    server:
      ...
      customCheProperties:
        CHE_INFRA_KUBERNETES_WORKSPACE__START__TIMEOUT__MIN: "300"
  ...
  

• Import devFile with the definition of image (eg. docker-registry.upshift.redhat.com/kwills/eap-xp3-openjdk11-openshift-rhel8:xp3)
• CRW shows logs with details how CRW is puling images, eg:

  Successfully assigned xpaasqe-codeready/workspacezgx9wwu74c62bhqf.che-plugin-broker to play-qu7i-x8jvs-worker-0-ps5c6
  
  Add eth0 [10.129.2.58/23]
  
  Pulling image "registry.redhat.io/codeready-workspaces/pluginbroker-metadata-rhel8@sha256:0143a80b869620af08a0d60165dc9d13357a79e7243502832326cf053c17ee38"
  
  Successfully pulled image "registry.redhat.io/codeready-workspaces/pluginbroker-metadata-rhel8@sha256:0143a80b869620af08a0d60165dc9d13357a79e7243502832326cf053c17ee38" in 1.642605721s
  
  Created container pluginbroker-metadata-rhel8-0143a80b86
  
  Started container pluginbroker-metadata-rhel8-0143a80b86
  
  Starting plugin metadata broker
  
  List of plugins and editors to install
  
  - redhat/java11/latest - Support for Maven, Gradle. Java Linting, Intellisense, formatting, refactoring, debugging, and language server.
  
  - redhat/dependency-analytics/latest - Insights about your application dependencies, Security, License compatibility and AI based guidance to choose appropriate dependencies for your application.
  
  - eclipse/che-theia/latest - Eclipse Theia
  
  All plugin metadata has been successfully processed
  
  Add eth0 [10.129.2.60/23]
  
  Pulling image "registry.redhat.io/codeready-workspaces/theia-endpoint-rhel8@sha256:60c84fca55a997a6aab4ca07b8ff7d859948c1f525adeba2ae624c84fe059a56"
  
  Successfully pulled image "registry.redhat.io/codeready-workspaces/theia-endpoint-rhel8@sha256:60c84fca55a997a6aab4ca07b8ff7d859948c1f525adeba2ae624c84fe059a56" in 1.631168732s
  
  Created container remote-runtime-injectorzsd
  
  Started container remote-runtime-injectorzsd
  
  Pulling image "registry.redhat.io/codeready-workspaces/pluginbroker-artifacts-rhel8@sha256:cda306cb7e5c42faa6ab43218d39984d4955134b3ca9654968c28b05e0796c3a"
  
  Successfully pulled image "registry.redhat.io/codeready-workspaces/pluginbroker-artifacts-rhel8@sha256:cda306cb7e5c42faa6ab43218d39984d4955134b3ca9654968c28b05e0796c3a" in 1.614544366s
  
  Created container pluginbroker-artifacts-rhel8-cda306cb7e
  
  Started container pluginbroker-artifacts-rhel8-cda306cb7e
  
  Starting plugin artifacts broker
  
  Cleaning /plugins dir
  
  Processing plugin redhat/java11/latest
  
  Installing plugin extension 1/2
  
  Downloading plugin from http://plugin-registry.openshift-workspaces.svc:8080/v3/resources/download.jboss.org/jbosstools/vscode/3rdparty/vscode-java-debug/vscode-java-debug-0.26.0.vsix
  
  Installing plugin extension 2/2
  
  Downloading plugin from http://plugin-registry.openshift-workspaces.svc:8080/v3/resources/download.jboss.org/jbosstools/static/jdt.ls/stable/java-0.69.0-2547.vsix
  
  Processing plugin redhat/dependency-analytics/latest
  
  Installing plugin extension 1/1
  
  Downloading plugin from http://plugin-registry.openshift-workspaces.svc:8080/v3/resources/github.com/fabric8-analytics/fabric8-analytics-vscode-extension/releases/download/0.1.0/fabric8-analytics-0.1.0.vsix
  
  Saving log of installed plugins
  
  All plugin artifacts have been successfully downloaded
  
  Pulling image "registry.redhat.io/codeready-workspaces/jwtproxy-rhel8@sha256:3f40bb8a2022545ac06a0b41cdb0239fdacfc34b37faffb21348a2041e96d0f2"
  
  Successfully pulled image "registry.redhat.io/codeready-workspaces/jwtproxy-rhel8@sha256:3f40bb8a2022545ac06a0b41cdb0239fdacfc34b37faffb21348a2041e96d0f2" in 1.606616821s
  
  Created container che-jwtproxywokz76t2
  
  Started container che-jwtproxywokz76t2
  
  Pulling image "docker-registry.upshift.redhat.com/kwills/eap-xp3-openjdk11-openshift-rhel8:xp3"
  

• After ~30 minutes, CRW switch view to progress tab, where some wheel is spinning
• Go back to log tab
• There are no logs
• After another ~30 minutes, this new log occurs:

  Failed to run the workspace: "Waiting for pod 'workspace9fbid1gnx7273d47.maven-545f8c9cf4-hw79f' was interrupted"