Devoxx Greece 2024 - Codespaces, Gitpod, Devpod ... what cloud and container-based IDEs can do for u

Speaker : Matthias Haeussler Over the last 2 years cloud-based integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Gitpod or GitHub Codespaces have gained a lot of popularity. Devpod is the most recent Open Source technology in this field and there will very likely be more additions in the near future. With this talk I compare this approach to traditional IDEs and highlight the role of containers - in particular the devcontainer specification. The main focus is on JVM-based languages and the IDEs VisualStudio Code and IntelliJ. Furthermore, I will explore the advances made in this field and discuss the limitations that still exist. The intended take-away for the audience is to see the ease and efficiency for developing polyglot, container-based distributed applications. The live demo will show how a developer can start coding away in seconds without the need to set up any build environment for a magnitude of predefined programming languages and frameworks. This includes immediate showcasing of the development results, testing ability and deployment to external environments like Kubernetes. Moreover, I will discuss how cloud IDEs have helped me in teaching distributed systems at university, by ensuring that all my students have a consistent development setup. This will also showcase how these environments can be used to standardize development environments in team projects, making the development process more efficient and streamlined.