What 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 Cloud IDE category of a tech stack.
Dockside is an open source tool with 245 GitHub stars and 15 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Dockside's open source repository on GitHub
Dockside Integrations
Dockside's Features
- Instantly launch and clone an almost infinite multiplicity of disposable devtainers - one for each task, bug, feature or design iteration
- Powerful VS Code-compatible IDE
- HTTPS automatically provisioned for every devtainer
- User authentication and access control to running devtainers and their web services
- Fine-grained user and role-based access control to devtainer functionality and underlying system resources
- Launch devtainers from stock Docker images, or from your own
- Root access within devtainers, so developers can upgrade their devtainers and install operating system packages when and how they need
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