Securing The New Frontier in Developer Environments: Cloud IDEs
There is a good chance that your next “local development environment” won’t be local, it will be cloud-based, and all you will need locally will be a browser and an internet connection. You might already be using a Cloud IDE for certain projects. This exciting evolution of the local dev environment has a lot of advantages but also brings some new risks. This article will help you stay safe as you embrace the cloud for your coding needs.
Simply put, a cloud IDE is an integrated development platform, IDE based in the cloud.
An IDE is a collection of tools that developers use to edit, compile, debug and build their code. While IDEs offer a terminal, allowing developers to access CLI-based tools, most also offer a graphical user interface, or GUI, to better manage complex tasks and preview output. Traditionally IDEs are run on a developer’s local desktop.