Difficulties using devpod on closed-network

[itamadev]

Is your feature request related to a problem?
As of now when trying to use devpod on-prem or more specifically on some closed-network situations it's not compatible (for IDEs like vscodebrowser or jetbrains) the main reason is that the providers use a const from where to download the ide base.

Are there any plans to give the options to configure it like the default DEVPOD_AGENT_URL

Which solution do you suggest?
The solution I see as of now is creating a forked repo enabling this capability, if this change can be added to the stable release of devpod I'd be more than happy to try and tackle it.

[pascalbreuninger]

Hi @itamadev , sounds like a useful addition to me. Let us know if you need help getting your PR ready

[itamadev]

Hey @pascalbreuninger I saw something weird while implementing this, The code seems to have some functionality to override the download URLs of the IDEs but not using environment variables, I think it would be good to add an env var implementation still - mainly to keep it simple and have a similar solution to DEVPOD_AGENT_URL. However, we can add it in the UI too as the devpod agents have an implementation for that too.

Wanted to get your thoughts on this before I move forward with my PR 😄

[pascalbreuninger]

@itamadev, the current dynamic url fetching is to pick the correct jetbrains IDE binary for the target architecture. An environment variable makes sense though, I agree. If you're curious about the UI, feel free to add it. If not, I can also do that once your PR is merged

[alexandradragodan]

Hey, @itamadev Thanks for opening this issue!

Are you still planning to open a PR for this contribution? 😄

[itamadev]

Hey @alexandradragodan Sorry for my late reply, yes I'd very much like to submit a PR fixing this issue as I stated before, got busy with some work but I should be able to get to this in the following days if that sounds good to you guys 😀

[benjie91]

I am currently facing the same issue. The workaround I have is to up the container without specifying the IDE and then use jetbrain gateway to ssh into the container which will install the necessary binary

[vrabbi]

This would be extremely beneficial for us as well

[pascalbreuninger]

@vrabbi you can manually specify the Download URL per IDE: devpod ide set-options intellij -o DOWNLOAD_URLAMD64=$YOUR_URL, just make sure you're pinning your version devpod ide set-options -o VERSION=$VERSION as well :)