Consider removing code server from ISLE #2361
Description
In order to build the code-server docker image in isle-buildkit we maintain a custom nodejs apk package that allows alpine based docker images to install the version of nodejs needed by code-server: https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/isle-nodejs
While attempting to simplify the build process in isle-buildkit (Islandora-Devops/isle-buildkit#425), we noticed nodejs was still taking several hours to build, so a message was posted in Slack asking about code server usage.
Initial responses in that Slack thread indicated code server is not used. So we should consider dropping it from buildkit. If we decide to drop it, we'll likely need to
- communicate to the community about the changes
- e.g. message we sent when we dropped matomo
- possibly point to the code-server provided docker image: https://github.com/coder/code-server/pkgs/container/code-server. It won't have php and the same VSCode extensions, so not a drop in replacement, but it could be used as a base to build off of and add those extensions
- remove code server references from our repos
- a major version release in isle-buildkit, removing
code-server - probably archiving https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/isle-nodejs
- Close all code server issues
- Code Server remains broken (new error messages) Islandora-Devops/isle-dc#372
- code server deployment erroring out Islandora-Devops/isle-dc#333
- Code server not working Islandora-Devops/isle-dc#311
- Builds fail with code-server activated. Islandora-Devops/isle-dc#189
- Instructions for Developers using IDE Islandora-Devops/isle-site-template#13
- Close all code server PRs