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Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces
This is a story about a cake. Following a long standing tradition in technology we decided to send an edible Gitpod workspace to GitHub's San Franciso office.
New Gitpod Button has landed on GitLab Merge Request Pages
GitLab now has a Gitpod button on MR pages
DevX Digest 02 - The rise of ephemeral developer environments ✨
For our second edition of DevX Digest, we talk about moving software development to the cloud.
Workshops as code
Running workshops is easier and more productive with Gitpod. That’s a bold statement and by the end this tale I hope you’ll be nodding your head but until then mash this button to launch the Nix Operating System in your browser.
Cloud-based development for everyone
By 2023 working with ephemeral cloud-based dev environments will be the standard, just like CI/CD is today.
DevX Digest 01 - The evolution of DevX 🌱
For our first DevX Digest, we explore the evolution of developer experience in the IDE world.
Previous posts
I said goodbye to local development and so can you
Stop maintaining your local development environment. Instead, automate the setup once and use a new environment for each task you work on - available in seconds and always ready-to-code.
Gitpod Local Companion - localhost is going remote
While Gitpod can seamlessly integrate into your workflow in the vast majority of cases, there are times where you may want to access a workspace from localhost
DevX Conf wrap & distributing $10k of open-source funding
As part of Gitpod’s Open-Source Sustainability Fund initiative attendees of DevX Conf were able to decide where $10,000 USD of funds (the profits from DevX Conf plus an additional donation by Gitpod) were to be distributed. Here's the breakdown how the fund was split and our retrospective on running our first-ever conference.
Journey to Site Reliability Engineering at Gitpod
The SRE team at Gitpod is making the first moves to implement Site Reliability Engineering best practices. We document our approach to implement our very first Service Level Objective.
From Gatsby to Svelte in 3 weeks
A very tight deadline, a small team and a complete redesign - insights into why we use Svelte.
Gitpod Open-Source Sustainability Fund
The truth is free software isn't free. Hours have rates. Rates require payment. What if the high achievers that our digital society is built upon were empowered to become independent artists?
A day with Gitpod
On the 27th of April there will be a one-day virtual conference where members from the Gitpod team will be spending dedicated time with you, our community.
Next Chapter for Gitpod
Our focus has always been to remove friction from the developer experience. Today we announce a new funding round, our new brand, several product milestones, and DevX Conf.
Moving software development to the cloud ☁️
Fully automated development environments will be the standard for professional developers in 5-10 years.
Root, Docker and VS Code
The team has been focussing on shipping some major new features, which mark important milestones on our goal to eliminate all friction.
Native GitLab Integration
Today, we are super excited to share that we’ve partnered with GitLab and built a native Gitpod integration in GitLab’s UI.
Gitpod is now Open Source 🎉
As of today Gitpod is open source under the AGPL license at github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod. This allows the community to participate in the
Gitpod for Bitbucket 🚀
We’re excited to bring you instant development environments for all Bitbucket projects.
Search & Install Extensions in Your Gitpod Workspace
Until now, you installed VS Code extensions in Gitpod by drag-and-dropping `.vsix` files into your workspace. Today, we're excited to introduce a
GitHub Codespaces, Welcome to the Party!
Today, GitHub announced the private beta of GitHub Codespaces, which provide container-based dev environments for GitHub projects.
Gitpod Self-Hosted 0.4.0
We are excited to announce the new release of Gitpod Self-Hosted in version 0.4.0. Gitpod Self-Hosted allows everyone to set-up and run a
Open VSX
VS Code is used by more than 50% of all developers worldwide. Its extension protocol enabled the broader developer community to create over
Gitpod ❤️ Homebrew
Are you tired of apt-get? Can’t use sudo right now? ... You can now ’brew install anything’ in Gitpod! 🎉
Christmas Release 🎄
Ho ho ho! Christmas came early! We’ve just released a bunch of exciting new features and I'm not talking about Gitpod Enterprise which was
Self-Host Your Gitpod
Eighteen months ago we launched the public beta of Gitpod. That date marked the beginning of an amazing journey with plenty of feedback
GitLab Support for Gitpod is Here 🎉
We are happy to announce that you can finally enjoy Gitpod's frictionless ready-to-code dev environments on GitLab as well.
Using local services in Gitpod
Some things just aren't exposed to the internet. Either because we do not want them out in the open, think some on-prem database, or because
Visual Studio Online vs Gitpod
With Visual Studio Online (VSO) Microsoft is entering the space of cloud-based development environments. So, what are the differences? Glad
Announcing contribute.dev — Open Source in One Click
To celebrate Open Source and Hacktoberfest, we're stoked 🧙✨🥰 to announce contribute.dev, a list of welcoming open-source projects.
Continuous Dev Environments
Continuous dev environments reduce friction in onboarding and task switching and improves reproducibility across the project.
Your Favorite VS Code Extension in an Online IDE
Today, we are excited to announce the start of our public beta phase for VS Code extensions in Gitpod, the next generation cloud IDE. So far
Build a Webhook for Google Assistant Action
Build your webhook for your Google Assistant action and host it temporarily on Gitpod and test your code.
Gitpodifying — The Ultimate Guide
I recently stumbled upon a new project on GitHub that peaked my interest. It proposed a new type of database that I was dying to try out. So
Introducing Gitpod — Frictionless Coding on GitHub
Every day developers waste millions of hours switching contexts between projects and branches, setting up development environments, or
Waiting for code to build is like watching paint dry
Once your development environment is freed from manual setup procedures it can do work even while you are not. We call this continuous
When code reviews LGTM
Learn how to streamline your code review experience. Code reviews are one of the best things you can do to keep your codebase clean. They
Sustainable Node.js development with only a browser
Nowadays, there are many collaborative platforms for showcasing JS code snippets and frameworks. Most of them run in your browser, some even
Creating reproducibles for any programming language
Whenever you want to share a reproducible example on StackOverflow or an issue report, providing real code that can be quickly tried
Dev environments as code
Imagine that only a decade ago system administrators deployed, configured, and maintained software systems manually.
Debugging Node.js applications in Theia
Gitpod is based on the open-source Theia IDE Framework, which is highly inspired by VS Code, reuses its major components like the Monaco
Developing native UI applications in Gitpod
Gitpod is a web-based IDE. As such one would think it only works for web-based projects or anything else that does not require a native UI
Gitpod — October 2018 Release
It has been a month already since we went public with Gitpod.io. We want to take a moment and send out a big thank you for all the great
Developing a Nuxt.js app entirely in your browser
A walkthrough to create a fully working Nuxt.js web application with only a browser, using Gitpod.io the online IDE for GitHub.
Bring your own (Docker) image to Gitpod
Since we released Gitpod into Public Beta it has been incredibly exciting to see people from all over the world use our service.
Gitpod — Online IDE For GitHub
After over one year of intensive work, we are proud to announce the public Beta of Gitpod. Gitpod is an online IDE which can be launched
A Better GitHub Flow
As software developers, we already spend a lot of our time in browsers.