This presentation aims to demonstrate how to be prepared for deploying a software release on a SlapOS Theia. The process can be used for any software available on the SlapOS repository. Note, that the SlapOS Theia is an extensible platform to develop multi-language Cloud & Desktop IDEs with state-of-the-art web technologies. Instantiating a SlapOS thus means, creating a smaller encapsulated system for then deploying another software inside. This is a useful approach for developing or hosting simple software releases.

We’ll show how to prepare for deploying a "helloworld" software release on a SlapOS Theia in this presentation. 

We will clarify the prerequisite in order to start the presentation. Then, we progress to show the steps to be prepared for the deployment on SlapOS Theia.

To start deploying a software release, a SlapOS Theia is required.

You can follow the preview tutorial: How to request a SlapOS Theia service from SlapOS to have your SlapOS Theia IDE. Once you have it with a validated URL, a login and a password, you shall start this tutorial without problems.

This section will show how to access a SlapOS Theia and be prepared for the deployment of the helloworld software release in 10 minutes. It will also offer some helpful tips.

Locate the connection parameter on your Theia service. You can access the Theia using the url and logging in with username and password.
After logging in, you will see the platform of Theia, which is very similar to VS Code, if you want to become a power user, a large part of https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/ applies (for example that section on editing with multi cursor)

This cloned repository will be in Theia’s workspace and it’s visible in Explorer.

In this case, for example, you can open a Terminal by clicking New Terminal in Terminal and type the git clone command.

Then you will get a same workplace.