How to create a serverless Cloud Workstation

Do you want to create a web-based IDE, hosted by Cloud Workstation? In this episode of Serverless Expeditions, Martin Omander and Brain Dorsey show how to create a serverless Cloud Workstation and where to configure a template. Watch to learn why developers are using Cloud Workstations!

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - What are Cloud Workstations?
1:34 - Cloud Workstations templates
2:10 - What are Cloud Workstations used for?
3:03 - Permissions in the cloud
3:55 - What kind of developer can use Cloud Workstations?
4:33 - Getting started with Cloud Workstations
5:00 - Wrap up

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[googlecloudtech]

What ways are you using Cloud Workstation?

[ymartino]

This looks promising, however to me this looks similar with the existing cloud shell editor functionality, except this one allows us to have more compute power, which obviously comes with extra charges. Not sure whether this is better and cost-effective than what our settings currently have (running one dedicated vm with on/off scheduler shared by team, vs code with remote ssh plugins, scheduled snapshot). In terms of security, works fine so far and managing a single vm for that purpose seemingly less hassle than doing extra works with managing a cluster IMO too. I'm open for any thoughts on this 🤠

[mc]

Two questions:
1. Do you need to deploy your own GKE cluster
2. Could a web browser be integrated into the container to run “in the web browser”
Thx

[Babbili]

nice, instead of installing Docker desktop on every developer's machine, so i can move their dev environment to the cloud

[RajdeepKarmakar]

Hi, in terms of cost, what is the key selling point of this offering when an established CI/CD process is already implemented in an enterprise?

[kdurgiya]

Wow, so taking serverless to a new definition - coding serverlessly, eh ? 😁
Sounds exciting, though could it be an overkill (is one of the main usecase just to get around that initial developer onboarding simplified - so as to save around initial few hours/days of onboarding of a new developer to a team) ?

[flarierza]

I assume we can connect to github from these serverless workstations.

[hubstrangers]

7 years backwards, should be available being available with the inception of google be cost effective too, all these cloud scenario are very expensive for no valid reason...

[Mrslykid]

The question is can this run for usecase? What is the cost per session? Also if we need low latency for real time input, like trading or portfolio management. How does this perform?