Ephemeral development environments with a Cloud Development Environment (CDE)

Ephemeral development environments are becoming increasingly popular as companies seek to solve the challenge of rapidly provisioning and testing changes in a cost-efficient manner. Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) like VS Code and JetBrains enable automated development environments, making it easier for any company to implement ephemeral environments. Key components of an ephemeral environment solution include environment definition, self-service interface for spinning up environments, debugging capabilities, and efficient cleanup for cost control. CDEs are well-suited for supporting ephemeral environments as they provide a developer-friendly way to define environments in code, launch those environments using flexible interfaces, and handle the necessary orchestration foundation for spinning up and tearing down environments.