DocksideWhat is Dockside?
It is a tool for provisioning lightweight access-controlled IDEs, staging environments, and sandboxes - aka devtainers - on local machines, self-hosted on-premises on bare metal or VM, or in the cloud. By provisioning a devtainer for every fork and branch, Dockside allows collaborative software and product development teams to take lean and iterative development and testing to a highly parallelised extreme.
Dockside is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Instantly launch and clone an almost infinite multiplicity of disposable devtainers - one for each task, bug, feature or design iterationPowerful VS Code-compatible IDEHTTPS automatically provisioned for every devtainerUser authentication and access control to running devtainers and their web servicesFine-grained user and role-based access control to devtainer functionality and underlying system resourcesLaunch devtainers from stock Docker images, or from your ownRoot access within devtainers, so developers can upgrade their devtainers and install operating system packages when and how they need
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Dockside Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Dockside?
AWS Cloud9
Cloud9 provides a development environment in the cloud. Cloud9 enables developers to get started with coding immediately with pre-setup environments called workspaces, collaborate with their peers with collaborative coding features, and build web apps with features like live preview and browser compatibility testing. It supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, and Go.
Red Hat Codeready Workspaces
Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces provides developer workspaces, which include all the tools and the dependencies that are needed to code, build, test, run, and debug applications.
vscode.dev
It is a lightweight version of VS code that runs entirely in the browser and does not require any installation. It lets developers view and edit local files, take notes in markdown, and build client-side HTML, JavaScript, and CSS applications in conjunction with browser tools for debugging.
