Hi, I am struggling with new developers that we hire to give them the best and fastest environemnt to work on. I’m talking about their desktop pc. So I thought, why not build a Docker image that contains everything they need to develop. I’m talking about installed VSCode, git, nodejs, npm, python, .…

[image] javitolin: with a GUI interface exposed with VNC Since you asked “What do you think?”: I would look for another job if I were expected to use VNC to access my development environment. And when hiring developers, I feel even juniors just need to wade into maintaining the toolset they n…

I really am interested in your opinion. Thanks!

Still to this day, I prepare vagrant boxes for each project. The naked base image is a minimal xubuntu core 20.04 with ansible created by packer and run on Virtualbox (since version 6.1.20 the UI experience returned to be statisfying). Per project I tailor the ansible roles that need to be included…

@meyay am I right to assume that such images/boxes only contain things related to the software that is being created, so not including git, some IDE, and all?

Nope, they include the whole toolset. Once a developer is onboarded regarding the project specifics, setting up such a vagrant box takes roughly 10-30 minutes (depending on network speed at that moment). As a result the devs get a customized environment that is ready to be used (as in AWS Access Key…

[image] avbentem: I would look for another job if I were expected to use VNC to access my development environment. Even more: I’d do the same if being expected to use a specific IDE, keyboard mapping, color scheme, … :slight_smile:

So far all my devs like/liked it and some even adopted it to for later projects. A vagrant template project to fork and the ansible roles are shared amongst the project and accessible within the company, while project specific vagrant configurations are only accessible for the members of a project. …

Thank you all for your comments! I think we’ll drop out from this and just make an ansible role or something like that to ease the access of new developers. Great discussion!

Aside, in case you need more ideas, I just saw Laradock being mentioned on the forum here: [image] [feature request] docker-compose: grouping services […] Laradock , a nice project which helps to setup a development environment, familiar to people working with php applications (eg. Laravel).

The whole disucssion made look at wls2 again. Actualy It is possible to use packer with the lxd and lxc provisionier to create a customized lxd/lxc image that can be easily modified to work with wls2 - if wanted even with systemd enabled. Once WSLg (with gui support) is GA, this might be a viable op…

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avbentem (Arjan) July 25, 2021, 8:35am 10

Aside, in case you need more ideas, I just saw Laradock being mentioned on the forum here:

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