3 years ago

Category: Database, Kubernetes, github, gitlab, automation

Gitpod announced today that its open source tool for automating the setup of development environments is now integrated to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. The Gitpod platform treats a version control system as the canonical source of truth from which it then automates everything a developer needs to start coding, including the integrated development environment (IDE), plugins, compilers, build tools, code generators, databases and application servers.

With the next release of GitLab, developers will also be able to connect their self-managed installation of GitLab to gitpod.io, which is a capability through which multiple git repositories can be registered. In addition, it’s possible to self-host Gitpod on a Kubernetes cluster in a way that integrates with GitLab or install the GitLab VS Code Extension in Gitpod to interact with GitLab. Efftinge said Gitpod provides DevOps teams with a tool to automate the setting up of development environments across any Git repository that is equivalent to the Codespaces tool that GitHub recently made available.