Re:GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
by fiddlerwoaroof on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:05PM
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Microsoft probably does internal billing here, right?
Re:GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
by geofft on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:13PM
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I mean, probably for the actual Azure usage, but that's not different from billing yourself for development VMs or Mac laptops or whatever (i.e., they'd be doing that independent of this approach). I assume the Codespaces team is getting plenty of value out of GitHub dogfooding the product and doesn't need to bill themselves for its use.
1. Development environments are running on Kubernetes, and VS Code is remoting into them. You don't have to pay a monthly subscription for that. VS Code remoting is free-as-in-beer and Kubernetes is free-as-in-speech.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/azure/kubernetes
2. The actual Kubernetes hosting is the product "GitHub Codespaces" running on Azure. GitHub certainly isn't paying a monthly fee to themselves for this; they are, technically, self-hosting it. I agree that you probably do want to have the option to run it yourself, but I think you do, given 1.