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Understanding cloud powered development environments

on YouTube 49m
Talkat Microsoft Build 2024 · 2024-05-21..05-23· [developer-experience, devops-and-delivery]

speakers

name:Jason Cook
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name:Taysser Gherfal
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name:Jake Kirsch
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name:Craig Peters
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name:Anna Soracco
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name:Ally Tice
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/y5d5S49kWtw
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summary

Live demos compare Microsoft Dev Box — full Windows VMs managed via Dev Center and Intune, example VM with 32 vCPU and 128 GB RAM imaged and snapped for teams — against GitHub Codespaces — containerized dev environments using the devcontainer spec, prebuilds and per-repo configs, session persistence and port proxying. Codespaces offers 60 free hours per user and org policy controls, and teams report developers running 10–20 concurrent codespaces. Both demos run successfully; choice depends on needing a full desktop vs fast, task‑specific containers.

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chapters (8)

  1. 0:00Introduction and goals
  2. 1:05The case for cloud environments
  3. 6:46Concept and core features
  4. 13:33Microsoft dev box overview
  5. 21:12GitHub codespaces overview
  6. 31:43Choosing the right tool
  7. 37:37Getting started strategies
  8. 42:23Q&A and final thoughts

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