jlandgraf

With your infrastructure you mean actual hardware? Bc we can run Gitpod Dedicated in your cloud account or ours, in the region of your choice.

CEO from Gitpod here. Some background on why we moved to a managed enterprise cloud product: there are parts of Gitpod itself that are closer to a Kubelet then a Kubernetes application. We use much of the Kubernetes surface, interact with containerd, and use bleeding edge Linux features. The only way you make Cloud and Self Hosted co-exist is to have one codebase. What we deployed in SaaS we wanted to deploy in Self-Hosted. But not all Kubernetes are created equal (think GKE node label, EKS custom AMI to get Linux kernels but not other places). Today there are features in SaaS that are not available in Self-Hosted. It is just not possible given the limitations of the managed Kubernetes services. In SaaS, we can vertically integrate the stack down to the exact version of the Linux kernel. In Self-Hosted we’re limited to the common denominator across the various services. Cloud development environments are going to change the way developers work. In order to do that they have to be fast, opening a new terminal sort of fast. We can only deliver that if we have full control over the infrastructure.

CEO of Gitpod here - we just announced a $25m Series A last month (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/future-of-software-cdes), so not looking to get acquired anytime soon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the market landscape: the whole market around CDEs (https://www.gitpod.io/cde) is in its infancy. Our largest competition is local development. We believe that unlike for other creative workflows the convenience threshold for development in the cloud has not (yet) been crossed. We are moving away from self hosted to execute faster on what we always wanted: from history-dependent cobbled local development environments to consistently reproducible, instant, ephemeral Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). You can think of CDEs (https://www.gitpod.io/cde) as our product north star.

Other links:

- How Redmonk looks at the market https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/12/01/the-year-of-the-clo... - Kent Beck https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/cloud-development-environm... (full disclosure: Kent invested in the meantime into the company)