Experimenting with using GitPod for Golang CLI apps with Cobra

GitPod Golang CLI

Leveraging GitPod for prototyping out a golang cli that interfaces with AWS.

Notes

• The .gitpod.yml file must exist in the root directory
• Dockerfile(s) for the environment can be specified in its own directory (.gitpod)
• Commands can be run on start-up, ensuring that the build is working as expected
• GitHub Permissions required to make changes to GitHub Actions workflows
• GitHub Permissions required for a series of commit/pull request based actions
• Workspaces can be provisioned/stopped/cleaned up on-demand
• Docker works on the provisioned nodes
• Extensions & Other components are defined by the .gitpod.yml file

In comparison, the code-server approach is to bake all the dependencies into the same image that is running code-server itself. This means that extensions/settings/etc can be baked onto the image that are common across projects. If working in Docker, it requires a bit more process to work with other docker processes (running on same docker network, matching file system paths, etc).

GitPod lacks the Progress Web App (PWA) experience that code-server has, which is unfortunate as its very helpful to treat it as if it were its own application.