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+/*********************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made
+ * available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
+ * which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+ **********************************************************************/
+
+import { Command, flags } from '@oclif/command'
+import { string } from '@oclif/parser/lib/flags'
+import { cli } from 'cli-ux'
+import * as Listr from 'listr'
+import * as notifier from 'node-notifier'
+
+import { DEFAULT_K8S_POD_ERROR_RECHECK_TIMEOUT, DEFAULT_K8S_POD_TIMEOUT } from '../../api/kube'
+import { cheDeployment, cheNamespace, listrRenderer, skipKubeHealthzCheck as skipK8sHealthCheck } from '../../common-flags'
+import { CheTasks } from '../../tasks/che'
+import { getPrintHighlightedMessagesTask } from '../../tasks/installers/common-tasks'
+import { ApiTasks } from '../../tasks/platforms/api'
+import { getCommandFailMessage, getCommandSuccessMessage, initializeContext } from '../../util'
+
+export default class Start extends Command {
+  static description = 'start Eclipse Che server'
+
+  static flags: flags.Input<any> = {
+    help: flags.help({ char: 'h' }),
+    chenamespace: cheNamespace,
+    'listr-renderer': listrRenderer,
+    'deployment-name': cheDeployment,
+    k8spodwaittimeout: string({
+      description: 'Waiting time for Pod scheduled condition (in milliseconds)',
+      default: `${DEFAULT_K8S_POD_TIMEOUT}`
+    }),
+    k8spoddownloadimagetimeout: string({
+      description: 'Waiting time for Pod downloading image (in milliseconds)',
+      default: `${DEFAULT_K8S_POD_TIMEOUT}`
+    }),
+    k8spodreadytimeout: string({
+      description: 'Waiting time for Pod Ready condition (in milliseconds)',
+      default: `${DEFAULT_K8S_POD_TIMEOUT}`
+    }),
+    k8spoderrorrechecktimeout: string({
+      description: 'Waiting time for Pod rechecking error (in milliseconds)',
+      default: `${DEFAULT_K8S_POD_ERROR_RECHECK_TIMEOUT}`
+    }),
+    directory: string({
+      char: 'd',
+      description: 'Directory to store logs into',
+      env: 'CHE_LOGS'
+    }),
+    'skip-kubernetes-health-check': skipK8sHealthCheck,
+  }
+
+  async run() {
+    const { flags } = this.parse(Start)
+    const ctx = await initializeContext(flags)
+
+    const cheTasks = new CheTasks(flags)
+    const apiTasks = new ApiTasks()
+
+    // Checks if Eclipse Che is already deployed
+    const preInstallTasks = new Listr([
+      apiTasks.testApiTasks(flags, this),
+      {
+        title: '👀  Looking for an already existing Eclipse Che instance',
+        task: () => new Listr(cheTasks.checkIfCheIsInstalledTasks(flags, this))
+      }], ctx.listrOptions)
+
+    const logsTasks = new Listr([{
+      title: 'Start following Eclipse Che logs',
+      task: () => new Listr(cheTasks.serverLogsTasks(flags, true))
+    }], ctx.listrOptions)
+
+    const startDeployedCheTasks = new Listr([{
+      title: 'Starting already deployed Eclipse Che',
+      task: () => new Listr(cheTasks.scaleCheUpTasks())
+    }], ctx.listrOptions)
+
+    try {
+      await preInstallTasks.run(ctx)
+
+      if (!ctx.isCheDeployed) {
+        cli.warn('Eclipse Che has not been deployed yet. Use server:deploy command to deploy a new Eclipse Che instance.')
+      } else if (ctx.isCheReady) {
+        cli.info('Eclipse Che has been already started.')
+      } else {
+        await logsTasks.run(ctx)
+        await startDeployedCheTasks.run(ctx)
+        this.log(getCommandSuccessMessage(this, ctx))
+      }
+    } catch (err) {
+      this.error(`${err}\n${getCommandFailMessage(this, ctx)}`)
+    }
+
+    notifier.notify({
+      title: 'chectl',
+      message: getCommandSuccessMessage(this, ctx)
+    })
+
+    this.exit(0)
+  }
+
+}