[codethief]

You seem to assume you would have to rebuild the entire VM whenever any code in git changes in any way. I don't think you do: You could simply mount application code (and test data) inside the VM. In my book, the VM would merely serve to pin the most basic dependencies for running your integration / e2e tests and I don't think those would change often, so triggering a VM rebuild should produce a cache hit in 99% of the cases.

[bhuga]

> I don't think those would change often

I think this is where our contexts may differ, and so we end up with different tradeoffs and choices :) The services running on our dev servers are updated dozens of times per day, and they roughly correspond to the non-code parts of a VM.

[codethief]

Or maybe we just used terminology differently. :) Why wouldn't those services be part of the code? After all, I thought we were talking about a monorepo here.