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by jiggawatts 645 days ago
Sure… for like one IDE or one language. Now try that for half a dozen languages, tools, environments, and repos. Make sure to make it all work for build pipelines, and not just the default ones either! You need a bunch of on-prem agents to work around the firewall constraints.

This alone can keep multiple FTEs busy permanently.

“Easy” is relative.

Maybe you work in a place with a thousand devs and infinite VC money protecting a trillion dollars of intellectual property then sure, it’s easy.

If you work in a normal enterprise it’s not easy at all.