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The new Cloud9 development environment

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Re: The new Cloud9 development environment

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On the new Cloud9 version you have full root access. We are now providing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as a Docker container. Feel free to install whatever you want.

Last time I read about Docker and root it was not a good combination. Afaik Docker is not secure (yet). I hope you take extra precautions to secure Docker containers from each other.

For those interested, Daniel Walsh gave a good overview of the biggest issues at dockercon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWGFqMuEHdw

Re: The new Cloud9 development environment

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And the Open Source distribution of Cloud9 has always been a complete nightmare to install (in my experience). It's always felt like the OSS part was for show ("hey, use our cloud service - it's also (sort of) OSS").

That's exactly why we're spending the extra time to polish our open source release to make it really easy to install, fully documented, etc.

Will you also include support for Docker containers?

Would love to use Cloud9, but as previous poster - the company won't allow it.

Also, will you keep it updated this time?

Re: The new Cloud9 development environment

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Some time in the not so distant future we'll think that it was silly that in 2014 the majority of development was done locally.

I love that we've gotten to the point where a lot of things in web development have become genuinely convenient and easy, but there is still so much in store for us.

Re: The new Cloud9 development environment

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Big fan of Zef's work though I haven't tried Zed yet. Another really cool tool is TEdit by Tim Caswell. But before I toot their horns too loud, they are sort of competitors of mine as the creator of Plunker. Anyway, the more the merrier as long as well all get along and move the experience forward!

Funny thing that both Zef and Tim are former Cloud9 employees. They largely build upon the same stack with VFS[0] and Ace. [0] https://github.com/c9/vfs

Neither of us use VFS, but indeed we do use Ace -- it's awesome.
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