Automated local developer setup using VMs (self.devops)

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Is your organization doing anything to ensure new devs are productive from day one? How do you guys handle local environments for the code you are working on? I am trying to get my company to enable teams to create their own workstation image that contains all the dev tools and local application-related infrastructure needed for that team to be productive. Has anyone done something similar?

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[-] nickel@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you looked into devcontainers? Could be a good option.

We use tilt right now for running the apps themselves. Haven’t delved into virtualized dev environments yet. We’re a Mac shop so we just have a list of brew commands to run. And for some critical tools they are invoked through docker so no cli install needed.

We have a file that houses the version and everything is done through a Makefile. So on the next main pull people will always invoke the correct version of a build tool.

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