[Nextgrid]

One angle is to simplify the setup of what you described. You can do this manually with Docker already, but the DevContainers config means your editor will do it for you.

Another angle is rent-seeking and locking you into a proprietary, expensive ecosystem. Big Tech has successfully convinced most companies to overpay by orders of magnitude for compute and bandwidth, but so far local development machines were excluded. This aims to tackle that shortcoming and make sure you enjoy all the "benefits" of the cloud even during development.