GITPOD
Online reproducible dev environments
Stuart Burns is your guide to Gitpod, a new ‘work from anywhere’ development platform that could revolutionise test environments.
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Stuart Burns is a Linux enthusiast and code wrangler. He specialises in virtualisation at scale and cloud infrastructure, management.
Gitpod is a web-based development platform for developers that’s stored in the cloud in Git. It enables transparent local development and uses the cloud as the backend. Think of it as a disposable build and test environment that’s preconfigured to your liking. Gitpod stands apart from other products on the market that make it a useful solution for some. For starters, it enables an on-demand reproducible web-based development and test environment every time.
Configure Gitpod once and away you go. It’s more than that, though. You can create new projects/ branches and have them in a new, isolated workspace every time with different configurations for when you want to utilise different setups. Most languages and development are supported. You can even run Visual Studio Code in a browser environment, so there’s no need to have a laptop or such, nor the power to build locally. There’s also a multitude of other browsers that can be consumed within the environment. In summary, it makes it possible to develop, build and test code in a private cloud space that’s always available and is ephemeral in nature.