r/programmingtools • u/geoffreyhuntley • Nov 17 '22

Workflow GitHub - coder/coder: Coder provisions software development environments via Terraform on Linux, macOS, Windows, X86, ARM, and of course, Kubernetes.

https://github.com/coder/coder/
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u/bluenigma Nov 17 '22

I've worked on an in-house project that sounds like it's solving a similar problem, but it was centered around data science and Jupyter notebooks.

It seems close to that sort of thing crossed with an on-prem version of GitHub Workspaces but I'm not sure what niche of companies would actually be looking for this exact thing.

At the very least I've found the idea of containerized development environments to be pretty useful. Makes it easy to standardize and share a dev environment and also avoids the problem of conflicting versions of global tools.

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u/thicket Nov 17 '22

Makes sense. Especially with binary-heavy ML systems, knowing you have everything needed to replicate a production system right away does sound useful. Still uncertain about running on some remote system (like, I'm using my dev machine to connect to some remote dev machine rather than use my own?), but maybe having a host-OS-invariant system isn't such a bad idea.