Ephemeral Container-based Dev Environments

As developers we do everything in containers, except set up our development environment. Most of us have not yet replaced lengthy README&with essentially a Dockerfile. In this talk I will show how we use containers to spin up ephemeral development environments, automating the toil that surrounds setting up and maintaining a development environment. For more than two years now we&been developing an open-source project called Gitpod which orchestrates such development environments based on Kubernetes. This talk is very much a real-world experience report from a core developer working in the trenches of a cloud native SaaS product, obviously including live demos. Our dev setup * Centers around a VS-code online (read, in-the-browser) IDE with Docker-backed terminals, * Integrates a Git-ops approach with prebuilt workspaces (`go get/vet/build` running before you open your IDE), * A ready-to-go `kubectl` setup for each member of the team As a boon, workspaces are isolated and thus no longer mess up our local setups or interfere with each other. We aim to show how modern, cloud-native dev environments can immensely benefit us as developers. Packed with real-world examples this talk will leave the audience with loads of new ideas of how they can improve their own dev environment. Christian Weichel (Gitpod) Jan Köhnlein (Gitpod)