Restart a workspace through the coder api
Is there a way to directly restart the coder workspce through the coder api , or i need to first stop the workspace then keep checking for the status of the workspace once its stopped in need to hit the start endpoint ??
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Yes you can do that by making two API calls.
https://coder.com/docs/reference/api/builds#create-workspace-build
one with
"transition": "stop" then when it completes do another with "transition": "start"...5 Replies
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Yes you can do that by making two API calls.
https://coder.com/docs/reference/api/builds#create-workspace-build
one with
"transition": "stop" then when it completes do another with "transition": "start"one help or suggestion required for my use case of the coder
i have a project in the gitlab which has the application code and a coder workspace is created for that project in gitlab .
So whenever the a latest code is pushed to the gitlab project , my coder workspace , should restart , so that the scripts of the workspace would pull the latest code from the project
So for this use case can you suggest a good approach ?
You need to pull latest code from gitlab in your workspace whenever the upstream chnages?
You can probably add a
coder_script with that runs on cron or a coder_app that runs a command to pull your chnages whenever you click the button in UI.my coder workspace , should restartWhy would you do anything different than in a normal/ local development environment scenario? Does a dev restart her laptop to get the lastest version of a repository? I don't think so. I know you are trying to automate the update of the repo, but really, that makes little to no sense. If the dev is worried about having an outdated version, she should just git pull the origin repo (again). Also, imagine the dev is trying to do some work and the workspace restarts on her willy nilly. Not good!!!!