Everything that launched with Gitpod Flex

Talia Moyal / Head of Outbound Product at Gitpod / Oct 8, 2024

On October 1, 2024 we launched Gitpod Flex as the building block for automating your software development lifecycle.

Here’s a recap of what went live:

1. Automations: programmable tasks and services triggered on events unique to development environments. They enable self-service actions like:

   • Setup: Seeding a database, provisioning infra or authenticating with a cloud account

   • Operations: Turning your runbooks into one-click self-service actions

   • Editor interfaces: Starting up a server such as Jupyter notebook

   • Policies: Running security or scanning tools

   • AI workflows: Configuring AI agents or code assistants

2. Gitpod Desktop:  Developers have tasted the convenience of cloud development environments: the simplicity of clicking a button and having a development environment pre-conconfigured with everything you need to be ready-to-code. Now, with powerful local machines, we can bring that same consistency and automation home. Gitpod Desktop is the fastest and easiest way to run and recreate cloud development environments locally.
3. Dev Container support: Dev Containers as the foundation for describing base images, tools, and extensions for your development environment. The adoption of Development Containers was the next logical step. We don’t simply read the format, we’ve deeply integrated it with our architecture to ensure a great developer experience.
4. Self-hosted runners: self-hosting Gitpod in your cloud account takes 3 minutes and you don’t need to be an AWS expert. Gitpod runners orchestrate your team’s development environments. Runners provide a dedicated, isolated machine in your region of choice, with the resources required for each development environment.
5. Zero-trust environments: Gitpod Flex adheres to principles of zero-trust. Development environments are continuously verified, use enterprise-grade encryption, provide granular access controls, and more.

And if you missed here, here’s the launch video:

Finally, here’s our favorite meme from the community’s reaction to Gitpod Flex: