Concepts

Everything in WaaS revolves around four CRDs in the waas.xorhub.io/v1alpha1 API group:

• A WorkspaceTemplate describes a desktop: image, sizing, protocols (VNC/RDP/SSH/KasmVNC), workload kind, uptime schedule, and which fields users may override.
• A Workspace instantiates a template for one owner. It carries little more than the template reference, the owner, and the user's allowed overrides.
• A WorkspaceImage is a catalog entry: an admin-approved image (or whole registry) with its supported protocols, architectures, and sizing bounds.
• A WorkspacePolicy is the self-service envelope for a user or group: image subset, quotas, lifecycle (idle suspend, max lifetime), clipboard rules, override rights.

The pages in this section cover each mechanism in depth:

Page	What it explains
Workspace lifecycle	Phases, conditions, pause/resume, scheduled uptime/downtime
Templates and protocols	Workload kinds, VNC/RDP/SSH/KasmVNC, credentials, user overrides
Governance	Catalog + policies: who may create what, enforcement, audit
Placement	Which namespace workloads land in, naming, quotas per namespace
Volumes	Home volume retention, reuse and quotas
Workspace deletion	What gets destroyed, what survives, how to unblock a stuck teardown