DevPod is a client-only tool to create reproducible developer environments based on a devcontainer.json on any backend. Each developer environment runs in a container and is specified through a devcontainer.json. Through DevPod providers, these environments can be created on any backend, such as the local computer, a Kubernetes cluster, any reachable remote machine, or in a VM in the cloud. You can think of DevPod as the glue that connects your local IDE to a machine that you want to develop. So depending on the requirements of your project, you can either create a workspace locally on the computer, on a beefy cloud machine with many GPUs, or a spare remote computer. Within DevPod, every workspace is managed the same way, which also makes it easy to switch between workspaces that might be hosted somewhere else.
Features
- DevPod reuses the open DevContainer standard (used by GitHub Codespaces and VSCode DevContainers) to create a consistent developer experience no matter what backend you want to use
- DevPod is usually around 5-10 times cheaper than existing services with comparable feature sets because it uses bare virtual machines in any cloud and shuts down unused virtual machines automatically
- Choose whatever cloud provider suits you best, be it the cheapest one or the most powerful, DevPod supports all cloud providers. If you are tired of using a provider, change it with a single command
- You get the same developer experience also locally, so you don't need to rely on a cloud provider at all
- VSCode and the full JetBrains suite is supported, all others can be connected through simple ssh
- No need to install a server backend, DevPod runs only on your computer
Project Samples
