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There's two things happening in this post: 1. Development environments are running on Kubernetes, and VS Code is remoting into them. You don't have to pay a mo
by geofft 5y ago
There's two things happening in this post:
1. Development environments are running on Kubernetes, and VS Code is remoting into them. You don't have to pay a monthly subscription for that. VS Code remoting is free-as-in-beer and Kubernetes is free-as-in-speech.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/azure/kubernetes https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/azure/kubernetes
2. The actual Kubernetes hosting is the product "GitHub Codespaces" running on Azure. GitHub certainly isn't paying a monthly fee to themselves for this; they are, technically, self-hosting it. I agree that you probably do want to have the option to run it yourself, but I think you do, given 1.
- fiddlerwoaroof 5y agoMicrosoft probably does internal billing here, right?
- geofft 5y agoI mean, probably for the actual Azure usage, but that's not different from billing yourself for development VMs or Mac laptops or whatever (i.e., they'd be doing that independent of this approach). I assume the Codespaces team is getting plenty of value out of GitHub dogfooding the product and doesn't need to bill themselves for its use.