Automated local developer setup using VMs
Automated local developer setup using VMs
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?
Yes, with Docker. If I had to do it for a new project, I'd try nix style using devenv.sh
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.
A docker compose file which contains all the images needed. Sadly automatic setup (as in connecting the services) does not work yet but there is a step by step guide.
We have a custom nix package each for the org, teams, down to the project level that a dev can use to bootstrap what they need from day one with a no-knowledge-about-nix installer.