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Integrate Defang into Codespaces, Dev Containers or GitPod so you can deploy containerized apps to your cloud with a single command.
Defang is aiming to reduce the barriers to entry to cloud application development. With our tooling, we make it really easy to deploy multi-service containerized applications to your own cloud with a single command.
We want it to be easy for you to try Defang with as little friction as possible, though, so we have done the work so you can easily get started in a GitHub Codespaces environment, a GitPod Workspace, or even a local Dev Container.
Codespaces
If you want to get started with Codespaces, you can just fork this repo. It comes with the Defang CLI pre-installed so you can start playing with it immediately. It's set up using the Defang CLI Dev Container Feature.
Dev Containers
Dev Containers are a cool way to provision and configure development environments and share that configuration with other people you are working with. It's a spec that is supported by VS Code, Visual Studio, the JetBrains IDEs like IntelliJ and PyCharm, DevPod and others.
Gitpod
Gitpod is another Cloud IDE, a bit like GitHub Codespaces. If prefer Gitpod, you can try Defang in a Gitpod environment by using this repo.
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