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  1. Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (formerly CodeReady Workspaces)
  2. CRW-2729

[CRW][z&p] 3.0 :: switch from openj9 to openjdk udi sidecar; update EAP XP 3 in devfile reg

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      = OpenJDK replaces JVM on IBM Power and IBM Z

      Before this update, Eclipse OpenJ9 was the Java SE implementation for containers targeting IBM Power (ppc64le) and IBM Z (s390x) OpenShift clusters. With this update, the OpenJ9 JVM in the OpenShift containers for IBM Power (ppc64le) and IBM Z (s390x) is replaced by the Red Hat build of OpenJDK.

      Installed {prod-prev-short} instances, on update to {prod} {prod-ver}, switch over to use the new Universal Developer Image sidecar container that provides OpenJDK rather than OpenJ9 for Java 8 and 11.

      Customers whose devfiles still reference the OpenJ9-based containers must edit their devfiles and replace `plugin-java8-openj9-rhel8` and `plugin-java11-openj9-rhel8` with `udi-rhel8`.

      New samples in {prod} {prod-ver} already use the new `udi-rhel8` sidecar.
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      = OpenJDK replaces JVM on IBM Power and IBM Z Before this update, Eclipse OpenJ9 was the Java SE implementation for containers targeting IBM Power (ppc64le) and IBM Z (s390x) OpenShift clusters. With this update, the OpenJ9 JVM in the OpenShift containers for IBM Power (ppc64le) and IBM Z (s390x) is replaced by the Red Hat build of OpenJDK. Installed {prod-prev-short} instances, on update to {prod} {prod-ver}, switch over to use the new Universal Developer Image sidecar container that provides OpenJDK rather than OpenJ9 for Java 8 and 11. Customers whose devfiles still reference the OpenJ9-based containers must edit their devfiles and replace `plugin-java8-openj9-rhel8` and `plugin-java11-openj9-rhel8` with `udi-rhel8`. New samples in {prod} {prod-ver} already use the new `udi-rhel8` sidecar.
    • Documented as Feature Request

      Due to licensing issues, Red Hat can no longer ship openj9 binaries.  z & p architectures had used openj9 due to performance considerations, but will now switch to openjdk (inline with x).

      Changes to be done for 3.0:

      • openj9 images will be deprecated and point back to the jdk images in Comet - RCMAUTO-5388 DONE
      • x64 images will be switched to multiarch x/z/p - PR 186 DONE
      • images that could install something that doesn't exist for z/p (eg. dotnet rpms) will need to do an arch check before installing and skip that step if arch != x64 DONE
        • images that do tests for binaries that might not exist (see `tests/basic_test.yaml` in affected folders in codeready-workspaces-images repo) need to also be arch-aware and not try to test dotnet on an arch for which it can't be installed -> PR 186 DONE
      • operator, devfile and plugin registries will need to be updated to NOT switch to plugin-*-openj9 images in place of plugin-* images - c85f4b DONE
      • jobs need to be updated to not build udi-openj9:
      • Doc updates to crw-images repo - mark udi-openj9 folder deprecated; remove mention of udi-openj9 from the udi folder: 2ce13d DONE
      • operator, devfile and plugin registries will need to continue to switch to sso / eap images until such time as THOSE projects rebuild their images to be multiarch x/z/p with openjdk; then we need to rebuild the registries/operator AGAIN to switch over to the new 3-arch openjdk images: DONE
      • deprecate old images in Comet; update java image descriptions (both jdk and j9) to mention Knowledge Base article (see RHMWRT-666): DONE

      See also CRW-2750 for updates to CRW 2.15.1, and possible followup work in CRW-2760 for 3.x.

            nickboldt Nick Boldt
            kcrane@redhat.com Kirk Crane
            Max Leonov Max Leonov
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