[rcarmo]

Nice, but with a Proxmox setup I can clone an existing VM/container (and there are already dozens of templates), point VSCode at it, and I’m done.

What does this add, really? It’s not automation (I can automate a couple of clicks in Proxmox), it’s not resource management (Proxmox handles storage, etc.). Is it developer identity? Because that’s the only thing I’d need a (relatively simple) script to deploy SSH keys to an environment.

[lyang2821]

A few things Lapdev can probably do better:

Devcontainer spec is probably more developer centric than Proxmox templates

I would guess with your Proxmox setup in a team setup, you'd need to assign a hostname/ip for different developers, where with Lapdev you have a single point of access.

Lapdev can proxy http traffic to the workspace containers with authentication, which makes it easy to preview things with security.

[rcarmo]

Thanks, that is the kind of useful answer I was looking for. But I can share VM hosts and IPs among developers, that's trivial. The auth piece, not so much.

[shantnutiwari]

Do you work for Promox? Because it looks like a very corporaty over engineered solution.

Lap dev looks like a much simpler tool

[rcarmo]

It looks like a much simpler, incomplete tool.

But you could have gotten your answer by just checking my profile. But no. I just use Proxmox to manage all of my infra: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/12/17/2000

Don’t assume people have business motives for stating technical facts - and don’t downvote because they ask pointed questions. There are good reasons for pointed questions.