[gabereiser]

Thanks for the detailed explanation. You're right, "consistent" SDLC is what I meant. For compatibility, docker itself is kind of a sort of standard. I say sort of because of OCI. The idea is that if you run your own registry, create your own base images (and include your security team's input) and enforce a policy where you can only pull from your registry than development is forced to use your standard images, your standard environment. We've even gone so far as to then incorporate terraform to standardize the deployments. Having an M1 Mac with 8 cores and 8 gpu feels like overkill if I'm just going to login to a website and code. How do you handle desktop codebases? Electron apps? OpenGL w32 apps? There's still room for an IDE on my mac. I guess my biggest concern with platforms like yours is the fact that big brother can always slip a timeclock in there.

[liushh]

I think you are right :) with a great dev infra and policy setup and proper enforcement, docker can be a great solution of environment consistency/standardization.

One use case I forgot to mention and I want to share. In some scenarios, engineers need to work on more than one project and they have completely different set up, which would be difficult for them to maintain multiple environments on their laptops. Back to our docker example, if project A requires docker desktop 4.1.0 and project B requires 4.7.0 it would difficult for the engineers to manage that. I know this is an extreme example but good enough to make the point. This scenarios happen a lot in consultant business where one engineer need to work for multiple clients at the same time.

In terms of desktop codebases, do you mean native desktop application development? I think that is a tricky one as well for similar reasons as mobile development because you need to run the apps on a specific OS for testing. But if one finds a workaround for testing, then writing code on Nimbus environments should be as good as on your local environments.

About the concern the big brother can always slip a timeclock in there: haha~ as an engineer I feel you. That is never the goal of Nimbus and I would not want my boss to stalk my every single keystroke.