loft-sh/devpod
Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.
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[](https://slack.loft.sh/) [](https://devpod.sh/open#https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod) We are hiring! Come build the future of remote development environments with us. DevPod is a client-only tool to create reproducible developer environments based on a devcontainer.json on any backend. Each developer environment runs in a container and is specified through a devcontainer.json. Through DevPod providers, these environments can be created on any backend, such as the local computer, a Kubernetes cluster, any reachable remote machine, or in a VM in the cloud. You can think of DevPod as the glue that connects your local IDE to a machine where you want to develop. So depending on the requirements of your project, you can either create a workspace locally on the computer, on a beefy cloud machine with many GPUs, or a spare remote…
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What this repository does
Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.
Repository facts
- Owner
- loft-sh
- Primary language
- Go
- Stars
- 15,305
- Forks
- 588
- Open issues + pull requests
- 41
- License
- MPL-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2023-01-24T12:59:48.000Z
- Last push
- 2025-11-14T06:33:38.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: cloud, devcontainer, devcontainers, developer-tools, development, docker, ide, kubernetes, remote-development, remote-development-environment, vscode
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