October 15, 2021

Introducing Teams and Projects

Up until today, you must have felt at times that your Gitpod dashboard is a pretty empty place 😔. All you had, besides settings and stuff, was a list of your active workspaces (not even old ones without changing the filter - yep yep, we fixed that too 😉).

We are so stoked to announce Teams & Projects (& Prebuilds) available in beta 🎉

To get started right away, gitpod.io/new.

Teams

You can now create teams (as many as you want) and invite your co-workers, friends & family to collaborate on your projects.

Projects

Remember .gitpod.yml, checked in to your project’s root directory? It’s still the first place we look for Gitpod configuration, but when you create a project in the Gitpod dashboard, we now do our best to be smart and suggest a sensible default configuration for your project (insert something something machine learning - jk, there’s no magic).

Bonus - Prebuilds 🤩

Nobody asked me, but if they had I would have said the announcement should have been Teams, Projects & Prebuilds 😅. How come?

For the first time ever, we now show you each and every prebuild we run for your project! Check the status, view the logs or trigger new prebuilds from within the dashboard.

When you use the new onboarding workflow at gitpod.io/new, we help you kick off your first prebuild. With prebuilds, Gitpod builds your dev environment for each change you push to your repository. This means, when you’re ready to open a new workspace, it’ll already have all init start tasks executed.

You can learn more in the docs.

Expect more updates to all this over time. For now we’d love to hear about your experience. Please let us know in the feedback issue, contact us via Twitter @gitpod or chat with us at https://www.gitpod.io/chat.

Fixes and improvements

• #6171 - Enable setting of DB username with DB_USERNAME envvar
• #6185 - Add ‘New Workspace’ context menu option to all Projects cards
• #6187 - [projects] Fix Project card bottom row layout
• #6074 - Truncate commit message on branches and prebuilds
• #5802 - Update Kubernetes dependencies to v0.22.2Update controller-runtime to v0.10.1
• #6158 - Fix: Ensures that string-based env values defined in .gitpod.yml are not set with enclosing quotation marks.
• #6090 - [image-builder-mk3] Fix image build error “did not produce a workspace image”
• #6218 - [ws-manager] Introduce stoppedByRequest annotation marking workspaces explicitly stopped using a StopWorkspace call
• #6164 - Add admission constraints to support fine-grained cluster selection
• #6107 - Fix re-running a Prebuild with a different out-of-repo configuration
• #6166 - [gitpod-protocol] Adjust typescript GRPC options
• #6163 - Refactor GRPC TLS connection defaults
• #6069 - Allow importing of Helm dependencies
• #6095 - VS Code: Add a Get Started with Gitpod walk-through