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Cloud Development Environments
On-demand, pre-configured, secure remote development environments (Gitspaces™) that reduce toil in the development inner loop and make developers happy.
Why Cloud Development Environments?
Cloud Development Environments enable instant coding from any location, improve collaboration, accelerate onboarding, and enhance security with centralized control and consistent setups for seamless productivity.
Optimize developer experience
Improve collaboration and productivity
Accelerate developer onboarding
Enhance security and governance
Streamline the
Development Inner Loop
Developers can start coding immediately with environments tailored to their projects, accessible from anywhere while maintaining familiarity with their preferred tools.
Run preferred IDEs locally or in the cloud
Developers can use their local IDE, which is seamlessly connected to their cloud environments (Gitspaces™), or they can use a cloud-provided IDE.
On-demand development environments
Properly configured development environments are instantly spun up whenever a developer is ready to code.
Integrate with existing workflows
Integrates smoothly with current development processes and tools, keeping developers in their flow state.
Eliminate
Environment Configuration Issues
Free developers from the burden of maintaining local environments and ensure consistency between development and production setups.
Environment template updates
Platform teams update environment templates as needed so developers always start with the latest versions of libraries, tools, and dependencies.
Mirror production environments
Develop in environments that mirror production, eliminating "it worked on my laptop" bugs and ensuring smoother deployments and development flow.
Consistent development experience
Ensures all team members work in identical environments, regardless of their location or device, promoting collaboration and reducing setup-related delays.
Provide Flexibility for Developers
Improve developer experience with easy project switching, efficient collaboration, and powerful cloud resources that aren't limited by local hardware.
Easy context switching for multiple projects/branches
Create multiple Gitspaces to easily switch between different projects or branches without local environment conflicts.
Share environments for efficient troubleshooting
Instantly share development environments with colleagues to collaboratively solve issues, eliminating the need to push incomplete code to a central repository.
Scalable compute power for complex projects
Access powerful cloud resources to handle resource-intensive tasks without local hardware constraints.
Robust Security and Compliance
Protecting all code by keeping it securely in the cloud.
Keep source code off local machines
Enhance security by keeping all code securely in the cloud, reducing the risk of data breaches and IP loss.
Secure third-party developers
Give third-party and contract developers access to the same development environments as your employees without the risks of their third-party devices.
SSO and role-based access control
Harness platform provides secure access with enterprise-grade authentication and authorization features.
AI-Powered Development
Leverage cutting-edge AI technologies to boost developer productivity, improve code quality, and accelerate problem-solving within your development environments.
Integrated AI code assistant
Boost productivity with intelligent coding suggestions and automated problem-solving.
Intelligent code suggestions
Accelerate development with context-aware code recommendations and auto-completions.
Automated code quality checks
Maintain high coding standards with AI-driven quality assessments and improvement suggestions.
Start coding.
No setup required.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Cloud Development Environments?
Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are on-demand, cloud-hosted workspaces that come pre-configured with all the tools, libraries, and dependencies needed for developers to code, test, and deploy applications. Unlike traditional local setups, CDEs provide consistent, browser-accessible environments that eliminate configuration issues and enable remote collaboration with dynamically scalable resources.
What are the benefits and limitations of using CDEs?
CDEs eliminate lengthy setup time with pre-configured environments, enable instant team collaboration and real-time sharing, provide scalable access to high-performance resources, and offer centralized security controls with isolated environments. Organizations also see 1.8x-2.5x improvement in build times according to Uber's benchmarks
How do you ensure the security of code and data?
Harness encrypts all data in transit using TLS 1.2+ and data at rest with AES-256 encryption. Security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle with mandatory peer reviews, automated vulnerability scanning, and continuous integration testing before deployment. The platform includes built-in secrets management, role-based access control (RBAC), and logical separation of customer accounts using unique Account IDs.
How do CDEs differ from local/traditional development environments?
CDEs are hosted remotely and accessed through a browser or lightweight client, while local environments require developers to install all software, libraries, and dependencies directly on their own machines. CDEs provide consistent, centrally-managed environments across the entire team, eliminating "works on my machine" issues and configuration drift that plague local setups. With cloud IDEs, heavy computational tasks like compilation and building happen on remote servers rather than local machines, freeing up developer hardware.
What are the limitations of CDEs?
CDEs require stable internet connectivity (any interruption disrupts productivity), involve complex initial setup that may be daunting for smaller teams, and incur recurring subscription costs that increase with advanced features and scaling. Small teams (2-3 engineers) may not see financial benefits, and CDEs aren't ideal for mobile development or applications requiring cutting-edge GPUs