Platform engineering is the process of designing, developing, and using tools and infrastructure in a way that empowers developers to maximize their development efforts. In short, platform engineers enable developer self-service and, by doing so, reduce the time to bring about new features and product improvements.

Today, we’re announcing the release of DevPod 0.2. While the release has several changes (you can view the list here), we’re especially excited about the ability to use community and custom providers.

Recently Loft Labs CEO Lukas Gentele and I appeared on the AWS Containers from the Couch stream to talk about DevPod. If you haven’t heard about it yet, DevPod is a new open source project that lets you run dev containers on any infrastructure that you have available.

There’s been a lot of interest in dev containers since GitHub launched Codespaces in 2020. While Codespaces can be an excellent solution for some projects, it is a managed service, which can have some downsides.

Chapter 1: Virtual Clusters for Dev & CI/CD Workflows. Kostis presents on Virtual Clusters for development & CI/CD workflows, discussing 3 personas & 4 demos.

Colima is a an open source project for running Docker containers on macOS and Linux, which has become popular for two big reasons. First, Hyperkit, one of the previous methods for running Docker containers on Macs, does not work on the Apple Silicon based Macs (Macs with the M1 and M2 chips).

Introducing DevPod - Codespaces but Open Source Giving the power to the user. Any Infra, any IDE, and Unopinionated. Download > Add a Provider > Create a Workspace > Start Coding in your IDE

Since the release of Docker almost a decade ago, the use of containers has been becoming increasingly popular, especially with the growth of hardened container security and container orchestration.

Key Takeaways At Ada, we have been able to create a dedicated remote testing environment for our development teams to use. DevSpace and Loft provides the necessary abstraction to solve most of the development needs.

We are excited to announce that Loft v3 comes with our biggest UI update yet, geared towards making your experience managing Loft as streamlined as possible.

Engineers use Kubernetes namespaces to organize, allocate, manage, and secure Kubernetes cluster resources. A cluster can have multiple namespaces with separate logic and the ability to communicate with each other.

About five years after Jez Humble and David Harley released their book on Continuous Delivery, Kubernetes entered the public stage and with it, a new way to think about server management hit the mainstream.