Cloud computing has been primarily used for production environments by companies for quite some time now. However, a small group of users have found ways to move their development environment to the cloud. This allows them to have access to all their shared libraries, build tools, and software development kits (SDKs) on the cloud. As a result, they can build and ship their applications natively on the cloud.

Gartner currently reports that 60% of cloud workloads will be developed and deployed using Container Development Environments (CDEs). In this talk, you will primarily focus on how you can simplify the structure of your projects by utilizing modern standards like devcontainer.json and open source CDEs such as DevPod ( devpod.sh ) to reduce the cognitive load for contributors and eliminate unnecessary obstacles.


Many developers are excited about dev containers, but until now, people needed to use a managed service like Codespaces or Gitpod to feel that dev container magic.

A provider model like Terraform's, and there are currently providers for local Docker daemons, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, and several other cloud providers is what devcontainer.json features.

The benefits are:

Enabling more users to focus on devcontainers to standardize their workloads and how they go about their dev lifecycle.

This will help onboard team members faster as they don't need to worry about whether it works; they can just go to it, and it will work.

OSS Communities can benefit from DevContainer as it helps them make local development easier. For example, in this example: https://twitter.com/castrojo/status/1768460805224222796, Jorge predicts, "If we made local development that much easier, I think it'd help bring in that next generation of talent to our OSS projects!"