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A guide to organizations, the recent changes and how they affect the user's experience.

Provision limited, disposable access to AWS development environments with Gitpod and Doppler

See how 1Password can be used to sign your commits on Gitpod with SSH keys and biometric confirmation

Making the management and rotation of developer secrets an easy, reproducible process with the SecretOps platform Doppler

Last week, we hosted our very first in-person community meet-up in Paris, France. Learn how to host a community meet-up with Gitpod.

Today I have some tough news to share. I decided to reduce the size of the Gitpod team by 28%, saying goodbye to 21 Gitpodders. This is the most difficult decision I’ve made to-date and it impacts the lives and families of colleagues and friends we care about. It hurts, and I apologize for hiring too aggressively for the macroeconomic environment we are in today.

CDEs like Gitpod enable efficient container development on Apple M1. If you use an ARM-based device like an M1 or M2 Mac, you can move the workload of your applications to run in an x86-based Linux container in the cloud.

Announcing limited availability for Gitpod Dedicated - a secure installation of Gitpod managed by us for you

Workspace classes give you access to workspaces with more computational power. You can choose between standard and large workspaces, unlocking more powerful CDEs and new use cases. Workspace classes are made possible by a new flexible pricing model.

Gitpod, integrated into the Qovery console, will work on the developer experience, helping to have a complete cloud development environment for the developers anywhere in no time. In this blog we will learn how can we develop and run applications using Qovery and Gitpod.

Announcing our $25m Series A led by Tom Preston-Werner (Founder of GitHub) with existing investors increasing ownership and pebblebed, MongoDB Ventures, GTMfund, Tobi Lutke, Kent Beck and Oliver Pomel joining the round

After serving Gitpod as its CEO for the last three years, Sven is going back to building the product. 🤓

We are delighted to announce that Gitpod is officially SOC 2 Type II compliant effective today! 🚀

As of today you can now use WebStorm and RubyMine to edit code in Gitpod! Get started by updating your user preferences to WebStorm or RubyMine and starting a new Gitpod workspace!

Developing and running cloud applications is simplified with Gitpod and LocalStack ✨ Gitpod’s fully automated, ephemeral workspaces provide a great developer experience. LocalStack accelerates your dev and test feedback loop.

Learn about our ongoing journey of building and scaling our community at Gitpod!

DevX community is a curated community for DevX leaders to share their knowledge and learnings.

Understand how VS Code establishes SSH connections, the different approaches, and understand common gotchas setting up VS Code Desktop and Gitpod via SSH.

With Gitpod, switching to remote development becomes frictionless 🚀 You Can personalize your Gitpod workspaces as you configure your IDE Settings & Custom dotfiles.

For more secure and easier to use workspace access, you can now upload a public SSH key to Gitpod to access Gitpod workspaces using your own dedicated SSH key.

This story is about how Gitpod enabled an 18-year-old student from Dhaka with a broken laptop to continue developing software on an Android phone seamlessly

Gitpod takes a central position in the software development lifecycle. As such, the security of our product is paramount; not only at runtime, but also as we build and deliver Gitpod.

The talks from DevX Conf are now available for viewing and USD $22,600 is being distributed to Open-source projects that conference attendees voted for.

Core values define who we are. They are an authentic representation of where we are coming from and a guiding compass on where we are going.

Gitpod experienced a series of incidents between April 11th and 22nd, which led to workspace performance degradation in all regions, and in some cases, users were unable to start workspaces and experienced data loss.

Gitpod and JetBrains announce partnership and deep product integration to bring remote development to developers around the world

Easily access your Gitpod workspace by copy/pasting a single SSH command from the gitpod dashboard.

We at Gitpod believe in making developer experiences better, and we are super excited to introduce Gitpod Installer 🎉, which makes Gitpod installations a breeze!

For our tenth edition of DevX Digest, we look back at our conversation with Chris Weichel

For our ninth edition of DevX Digest, we look back at our conversation with Brittney Postma.

At Gitpod, we have operated unofficially with two CEOs for the past 1.5 years. We believe this is superior to having a single CEO if done right.

For our eigth edition of DevX Digest, we look back at our conversation with Shawn Wang (swyx) about the radiating circle of DevX.

We're launching our open source program to help you build great things without friction, for free.

For our seventh edition of DevX Digest, we look back at our conversation with Kurt Kemple from Forthright about the link between developer experience and developer relations.

On January 25th Gitpod experienced a global outage. What happened? Why was there data loss? So what exactly happened during the outage? How are we improving Gitpod?

For our sixth edition of DevX Digest, we’d be breaking down the key highlights of our DevXPod conversation with Shanea from CodeSee.

For our fifth edition of DevX Digest, we’d be breaking down the key highlights of our DevXPod conversation with Jamon from Infinite Red.

Gitpod workspaces are Kubernetes pods. Each Kubernetes pod maintains its own network namespace - similar to how a regular container would. We use a combination of user and network namespaces to enable features you wouldn't find in a normal Kubernetes pod.

For our fourth edition of DevX Digest, we’d like to introduce our new podcast with a first episode all about building a developer experience team!

For our third edition of DevX Digest, we talk about the psychology behind developer experience.

Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server

We're launching our startup program to help you build great things without friction, for free.

Tailscale and Gitpod partner to enable secure and professional software development from anywhere.

Background story about the last four years improving the editing experience of Cloud IDEs.

Teams, projects, prebuilds—it's now all at your fingertips.

Tabnine integrates with Gitpod in browser-based VS Code.

Run the latest VS Code on a remote machine accessed through a modern web browser - from any device, from anywhere.

This is a story about a cake. Following a long-standing tradition in technology, we decided to send an edible Gitpod workspace to GitHub's San Francisco office.

GitLab now has a Gitpod button on MR pages

For our second edition of DevX Digest, we talk about moving software development to the cloud.

Running workshops is easier and more productive with Gitpod. That’s a bold statement and by the end this tale I hope you’ll be nodding your head but until then mash this button to launch the Nix Operating System in your browser.

By 2023 working with ephemeral cloud-based dev environments will be the standard, just like CI/CD is today.

For our first DevX Digest, we explore the evolution of developer experience in the IDE world.

Stop maintaining your local developer environment. Instead, automate the setup once and use a new environment for each task you work on - available in seconds and always ready-to-code.

While Gitpod can seamlessly integrate into your workflow in the vast majority of cases, there are times where you may want to access a workspace from localhost

As part of Gitpod’s Open-Source Sustainability Fund initiative attendees of DevX Conf were able to decide where USD 10,000 of funds (the profits from DevX Conf plus an additional donation by Gitpod) were to be distributed. Here's the breakdown how the fund was split and our retrospective on running our first-ever conference.

The SRE team at Gitpod is making the first moves to implement Site Reliability Engineering best practices. We document our approach to implement our very first Service Level Objective.

A very tight deadline, a small team and a complete redesign - insights into why we use Svelte.

The truth is free software isn't free. Hours have rates. Rates require payment. What if the high achievers that our digital society is built upon were empowered to become independent artists?

On the 27th of April there will be a one-day virtual conference where members from the Gitpod team will be spending dedicated time with you, our community.

Our focus has always been to remove friction from the developer experience. Today we announce a new funding round, our new brand, several product milestones, and DevX Conf.

Fully automated developer environments will be the standard for professional developers in 5-10 years.

The team has been focussing on shipping some major new features, which mark important milestones on our goal to eliminate all friction.

Today, we are super excited to share that we’ve partnered with GitLab and built a native Gitpod integration in GitLab’s UI.

As of today Gitpod is open source under the AGPL license at github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod. This allows the community to participate in the

We’re excited to bring you instant developer environments for all Bitbucket projects.

Until now, you installed VS Code extensions in Gitpod by drag-and-dropping `.vsix` files into your workspace. Today, we're excited to introduce a

Today, GitHub announced the private beta of GitHub Codespaces, which provide container-based dev environments for GitHub projects.

We are excited to announce the new release of Gitpod Self-Hosted in version 0.4.0. Gitpod Self-Hosted allows everyone to set-up and run a

VS Code is used by more than 50% of all developers worldwide. Its extension protocol enabled the broader developer community to create over

Are you tired of apt-get? Can’t use sudo right now? ... You can now ’brew install anything’ in Gitpod! 🎉

Ho ho ho! Christmas came early! We’ve just released a bunch of exciting new features and I'm not talking about Gitpod Enterprise which was

Eighteen months ago we launched the public beta of Gitpod. That date marked the beginning of an amazing journey with plenty of feedback

We are happy to announce that you can finally enjoy Gitpod's frictionless ready-to-code dev environments on GitLab as well.

Some things just aren't exposed to the internet. Either because we do not want them out in the open, think some on-prem database, or because

With Visual Studio Online (VSO) Microsoft is entering the space of cloud-based developer environments. So, what are the differences? Glad

To celebrate Open Source and Hacktoberfest, we're stoked 🧙✨🥰 to announce contribute.dev, a list of welcoming open-source projects.

Continuous dev environments reduce friction in onboarding and task switching and improves reproducibility across the project.

Today, we are excited to announce the start of our public beta phase for VS Code extensions in Gitpod, the next generation cloud IDE. So far

Build your webhook for your Google Assistant action and host it temporarily on Gitpod and test your code.

Every day developers waste millions of hours switching contexts between projects and branches, setting up developer environments, or

Once your developer environment is freed from manual setup procedures it can do work even while you are not. We call this continuous

Learn how to streamline your code review experience. Code reviews are one of the best things you can do to keep your codebase clean. They

Nowadays, there are many collaborative platforms for showcasing JS code snippets and frameworks. Most of them run in your browser, some even

Whenever you want to share a reproducible example on StackOverflow or an issue report, providing real code that can be quickly tried

Imagine that only a decade ago system administrators deployed, configured, and maintained software systems manually.

Gitpod is based on the open-source Theia IDE Framework, which is highly inspired by VS Code, reuses its major components like the Monaco

Gitpod is a web-based IDE. As such one would think it only works for web-based projects or anything else that does not require a native UI

It has been a month already since we went public with Gitpod.io. We want to take a moment and send out a big thank you for all the great

A walk-through to create a fully working Nuxt.js web application with only a browser, using Gitpod.io the online IDE for GitHub.

Since we released Gitpod into Public Beta it has been incredibly exciting to see people from all over the world use our service.

After over one year of intensive work, we are proud to announce the public Beta of Gitpod. Gitpod is a Remote Developer Environment which can be launched

As software developers, we already spend a lot of our time in browsers.