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Dev tools · November 28, 2021

Dockside (Open-Source)

Provision dev containers and staging environments with IDEs

Dockside (Open-Source) launched on November 28, 2021 with 105 votes, #387 of 2,925 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

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What it does

Dockside is an open-source tool for provisioning lightweight access-controlled IDEs, staging environments and sandboxes - aka ‘devtainers’ - on local machines, on-premises (raw metal or VM) or in the cloud.

Create dev containers that mirror your prod environment and sandbox your Claude/Codex CLIs. Develop with VS Code/Jet Brains, via SSH with e.g. Vim or VS Code in your browser. Unlimited staging for co-workers and clients. Dockside is an open source 'Codespaces' that runs on local machine, on prem, or in cloud - newsnowlabs/dockside

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