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Harness CDE is now available in public beta. To enable it on your account, contact your sales representative or reach out to the team at cde-interest@harness.io

What are Gitspaces?​

Harness CDE (also known as Gitspaces) are on-demand remote development environments that can be instantly spun up with just a click. These environments come pre-configured with everything you need to start coding, including your dependencies, tools, libraries, and even your favorite IDE, enabling you with an instant ready-to-use development setup.

Why Cloud Development Environments (CDE)?​

There are a lot of challenges with local development such as:

  • Toil of installing/managing a complex set of libraries, tools, dependencies on each developer's machine
  • Environment drift, leading to "works on my machine" bugs
  • Security risk of having intellectual property on every developer's machine

CDEs eliminate these challenges with characteristics like:

  • On-demand nature: Gitspaces can be launched anytime you want with a single click. If you’re working on multiple projects or need a fresh environment for any reason, you can get it instantly.

  • Pre-configured: Each Gitspace is pre-configured with everything you need to start coding, so you do not have to install or maintain anything on your local machine. No more toil!

  • Standardized, with zero drift: Gitspace configuration lives with your source code in a file named devcontainer.json, which is an industry-standard spec that defines metadata and settings required to configure a containerized development environment. Every developer gets the exact same environment, which can be kept consistent with central environments such as CI/CD and production.

  • Flexible: Each Gitspace can be spun up with a custom hardware configuration, so you can get bigger machines for resource-intensive applications and smaller machines for trivial ones.

Use Cases of CDE​

  • Faster Onboarding: Developers can start coding on day 1 with a single click! This is not just for new developers joining an organization, but also for those switching teams or projects internally.

  • Higher developer productivity & satisfaction: CDEs eliminate toil! Developers no longer spend time on frustrating and thankless tasks such as trying to reproduce environment specific issues or reconfiguring their local machines.

  • Enhanced security for intellectual property: All source code and other sensitive information stays in the cloud and not on developer machines.