Continuous Dev Environments

Continuous dev environments are a crucial part of an optimized DevOps toolchain that allow instantaneous spinning up of ready-to-code developer environments from any Git state. Automating dev environments using code can reduce friction in onboarding and task switching, improve reproducibility across the project, and save developers' time and energy. Disposable dev environments make it easy to reproduce bugs and free developers from cleaning up after use. Prebuilt dev environments eliminate waiting for builds, while browser-based dev environments provide powerful tools within a browser tab. Sharing user-specific settings can improve team productivity. Automated ready-to-code dev environments are expected to become mainstream in the future as they significantly improve developer productivity.