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Fully Remote Development with VS Code & Cloud9
I work from about 7 different machines, including 3 laptops, ipad, chromebook and a PC desktop. Usually this means keeping credentials, config, build dependencies and IDEs in sync across all 3–and the iPad & Chromebook just can’t run my dev environment
I considered a few options to enable seamless work across devices
option pros cons Keep a “dev” docker image that contains everything. fully-local dev only works on Desktop OSs. Inconsistency if you forget to push the image Sync script fully-local dev Inconsistency across devices. Script mayhem Code remotely via a VM Secure, consistent Traditionally, text-only Solution
- Launch Cloud9 Environment on AWS
- Install VS Code + SSH Remote Extension
- Install tmux
With this setup, you get the highest-fidelity experience when you can (with VS code), plus an adequate experience on iPad & Chromebook (cloud9 web ide). With tmux you get seamless handoff across all devices.
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GCP: Managing IAM Access Control Across Projects -- The Simpler Version
GCP resources are organized into projects – all resource IDs and IAM principles are grouped under a project ID. This means that by default roles assigned to a principle (e.g. a user or service account) are scoped only to project resources. This can be tricky if say your images are in one project’s storage bucket and your app is running in another
If you want to provide a service principle in one project access to resources in another , the approach is not obvious, nor is it well documented.
Tony Metzidis
Software Developer