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Do Repeat Yourself: Global Packages Considered Harmful

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Do Repeat Yourself: Global Packages Considered Harmful

We took the convenience of virtual environments, the UX of npm, and the immutability of NixOS to create this magical local-like experience with Devbox.

Announcing Launchpad

Announcing Launchpad

Today, we're announcing the open-source release of Launchpad, a new CLI tool for deploying applications and scheduled tasks on Kubernetes. Launchpad provides a Heroku-like deployment experience on any cluster. Users can build, publish, and deploy cloud applications in one step without writing pages of Kubernetes config. We're also announcing the

Devbox: Turn a 1000+ Container Script into <10 Lines

Devbox: Turn a 1000+ Container Script into <10 Lines

TLDR; At Jetpack.io, our development container initialization script used to be like this: image: ubuntu:22.04 ... # Install Go. wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://golang.org/dl/go1.19.linux-amd64.tar.gz -O go.tar.gz sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go.tar.gz echo "export PATH=

Devbox: build your Docker image from `scratch`

Devbox: build your Docker image from `scratch`

How we created Devbox to solve our Docker dev environment woes at Jetpack.io

Devbox 0.0.5: Node + PHP Support, Init Hooks, and more

Devbox 0.0.5: Node + PHP Support, Init Hooks, and more

We're pleased to announce the latest release of Devbox! In addition to various bug fixes and workflow improvements requested by the community, this release focused on adding support for 2 of our most requested languages: NodeJS and PHP. If you already have the Devbox CLI, it should automatically update to

Devbox 0.0.4 is released!

Devbox 0.0.4 is released!

We’re excited to showcase the next release of Devbox with important fixes and new features. We’re overwhelmed by the community support and interest in this project, so this release also includes important fixes contributed by you. If you'd like to add new features to Devbox, we welcome Pull

Devbox 📦 : Instant, easy, and predictable shells and containers

Devbox 📦 : Instant, easy, and predictable shells and containers

What is it? Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells and containers. You start by defining the list of packages required by your development environment, and devbox uses that definition to create an isolated environment just for your application. In practice, Devbox works similar to

Deploy a C# & .NET Core Website to Kubernetes in 5 Minutes with Jetpack.io

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Deploy a C# & .NET Core Website to Kubernetes in 5 Minutes with Jetpack.io

Deploying to Kubernetes is Hard Maybe you can relate: We've finished coding a website, and we're ready to deploy. We know we want to deploy to Kubernetes, to take advantage of it's industrial-scale hosting, automatic load-balancing, fault tolerance, scaling, and more. But deploying to Kubernetes is hard. Now we have

Horizontally Scaling Your Service with Kubernetes Pods

Horizontally Scaling Your Service with Kubernetes Pods

Your app is starting to pick up and get traffic! When you first launch, traffic is usually slow and it’s totally fine to have everything on one machine at the beginning. As you grow and more people hear about your application, traffic starts to get spikier and you have

Using Python and Kubernetes for Cron Jobs

Using Python and Kubernetes for Cron Jobs

Another day, another manual database cleanup. It’s not that it’s hard to do, it’s worse, it’s boring and tedious. Why not take the software developer’s way out and spend some time to find a way to automate the solution? Using Python, Kubernetes, and Cron Jobs

Python Coroutines and the Cloud

Python Coroutines and the Cloud

If you commonly use Python, you’ve probably noticed one of the biggest disadvantages of the language, it has no true parallelism. Python’s Global Interpreter Lock [https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock] (GIL) prevents true parallelism. However, we can achieve a level of concurrency and virtual parallel computing using

You Don't Need Kubernetes, You Need an Application Framework

You Don't Need Kubernetes, You Need an Application Framework

A Platform for Platforms Since becoming the industry standard, Kubernetes continues to draw controversy on whether it's the right solution for rapidly growing startups. Some developers argue that it only makes sense for Google-scale companies, while others happily use it for personal, small scale projects. Both sides are right. Kubernetes