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DevOps Code
DevOps Code (Code) is a cloud-based IDE that is part of HCL DevOps Loop, allowing developers to write, compile, build, and debug code directly in the browser without requiring local setup.
DevOps Code overview
DevOps Code (Code) is a cloud-based integrated development environment on HCL DevOps Loop, with which you can write, compile, build, and debug software applications in a so-called dev container, accessible directly from a web browser. The editor provides a completely configured development environment with preinstalled extensions, tools, and libraries. You can start coding without the need to set up the environment on your local machine.

Release Notes
This document includes product description, information about installation instructions along with the contact information of HCL Customer Support. You can also find the known issues identified in this version of HCL DevOps Loop.
System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL DevOps Loop.
Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of HCL DevOps Loop. You can find the task flows to get you started with DevOps Loop. This guide is intended for new users.
Installation of DevOps Loop
To get started working with HCL DevOps Loop, you must first install DevOps Loop.
License management and user administration
After you install HCL DevOps Loop, you must consider how the platform manages licenses, users, and authentication.
Integrations - Tech Preview
You can integrate AI providers such as OpenAI and Ollama with DevOps Loop. AI integration with the platform unlocks advanced data analysis capabilities, providing deeper insights into project details. After the integration is complete, you can query the system to assess project resources, track progress, and gain an understanding of the project status for better decision-making and optimizied workflows.
Teamspace management
A teamspace in HCL DevOps Loop is a secure, dedicated environment designed for multiple teams to work independently within a single shared DevOps Loop installation.
Loop management
The loop consists of several interconnected phases that ensure continuous software development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
DevOps Code
DevOps Code (Code) is a cloud-based IDE that is part of HCL DevOps Loop, allowing developers to write, compile, build, and debug code directly in the browser without requiring local setup.
- DevOps Code overview
  DevOps Code (Code) is a cloud-based integrated development environment on HCL DevOps Loop, with which you can write, compile, build, and debug software applications in a so-called dev container, accessible directly from a web browser. The editor provides a completely configured development environment with preinstalled extensions, tools, and libraries. You can start coding without the need to set up the environment on your local machine.
- Getting started
  You can find the basic steps for setting up a workspace in the DevOps Code (Code) Browser IDE. You can find instructions for accessing and using the dev container environment. A video walkthrough is also available to visually guide you through the same process.
- Using dev containers
  DevOps Code (Code) enables you to work with a Starter dev container and preconfigured dev containers.
- Administering dev containers
  As a teamspace admin, you can configure which dev containers are available to team members. These configurations follow the Dev Containers specification and are versioned by pushing them to a Control Git repository. This process provides a consistent, ready-to-use, preconfigured development environment across the team.
- User interface
  The DevOps Code (Code) user interface offers key features that are designed to facilitate navigation, file management, source control, debugging, and extension management within the browser IDE.
- Extensions
  DevOps Code (Code) supports extensions that enhance your development experience, including tools for coding, debugging, version control, and more, within the same IDE.
- Automatic port forwarding
  DevOps Code (Code) automatically forwards ports from the dev container, so that you can access to applications that use TCP ports, from your local machine. For example, if you run a web application in Code, the port on which the web server listens will be forwarded so that you can access the web application from your web browser.
- File management features
  DevOps Code (Code) offers file management features such as drag-and-drop, browsing and downloading files, thereby simplifying your development workflow.
Troubleshooting
All Guides (PDF)
You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of HCL DevOps Loop as a PDF file.
Security Considerations
This document describes the actions that you can take to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls in HCL DevOps Loop.
Notices
This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.

DevOps Code overview

DevOps Code (Code) is a cloud-based integrated development environment on HCL DevOps Loop, with which you can write, compile, build, and debug software applications in a so-called dev container, accessible directly from a web browser. The editor provides a completely configured development environment with preinstalled extensions, tools, and libraries. You can start coding without the need to set up the environment on your local machine.

Architecture of the dev container

The general architecture of the Code platform is shown in the following diagram.

Architecture of dev container

Code provides personal dev containers that are configured for individual users. By using each dev container, you can write, build and debug your code in an integrated environment without affecting the work of other users in the team. Each container is isolated for a specific user to prevent conflicts with different project setups. Additionally, you can also customize the individual dev container to meet your specific needs, by ensuring that all the necessary extensions and libraries are available for use.

The dev container integrates essential tools and processes, with the web browser serving as an interface for accessing the browser IDE, supporting coding, debugging, version control, and more.

Visual Studio Code-based environment

The browser development environment is based on Visual Studio Code, which means that almost all features the latter provides are also available in Code. For more information, refer to Visual Studio Code documentation.

The development environment includes preinstalled extensions. However, you can also add custom extensions to suit project needs. It includes a file system for file management, a terminal for command-line operations, and tools for application execution, debugging, testing, and maintaining documentation.

Source control integration

Code integrates with remote source control repositories, ensuring secure, accessible version control and project continuity across sessions. Code offers built-in support for Git repositories (for example hosted in https://help.hcl-software.com/devops/plan/3.0.3/oxy_ex-1/control/content/index.en-us.html). Other types of source control repositories are supported by means of extensions that you can install into the dev container.