Dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution (2022)

[indigodaddy]

https://www.mikenikles.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-cloud-are-a-half-baked-solution

[verdverm]

While I agree with the problems, some were not covered, the proposed solution is not for most. Nix and sqlite are not a must...

We use packer+Ansible to bake a dev image, then let devs setup a VM as needed with a script and very minimal instructions. The same Ansible is run via cron to update