Develop in the cloud with Microsoft Dev Box
summary
Microsoft Dev Box delivers cloud, project-specific developer VMs that provision in about 25 minutes (or minutes with prepared images), integrate with AAD/Intune, include Visual Studio/VS Code/Docker, and use Git Credential Manager and Windows Hello for SSO. Teams manage pools, network connections and sizing; devbox.yaml stores customizations in repo so environments evolve; hibernation preserves session state; Microsoft reports >9,000 weekly users with ~66% using Dev Box as primary workstation, and pre-caching cuts VS startup 490s→110s for large solutions.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Challenges in onboarding
- 4:50Introduction to Dev Box
- 6:13Developer workflow demo
- 21:22Microsoft internal usage
- 25:38General Motors case study
- 28:24Infrastructure and management
- 38:53Security and next steps
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