@girish @murgero I had a dream last night where I visited the Cloudron app store and found a new Gitpod App!
Dreams do come true, or nearly so, anway
btw, when using Gitpod, I think user id only matters for tracking code changes (which can be handled in a gitconfig file for each new workspace). I believe the Gitpod technology is mostly targeting teams who want to provide exactly the same compute environment to every user, maybe with differential code/data repo access permissions (scientific reproducibility starts with hardware specs and software versions, etc.).
I'm not sure if that helps, but thought I'd mention it ...
Brent