Development Environments that Feel Local

We use Fly.io Machines to create fast, ephemeral development environments that feel local.

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1. Remote Dev Searching for the perfect dev setup (that feels local)
2. @ f ideloper Continuous Integration Exclusively for Laravel. Deploy Applications Close to Your Users
3. 2011 Macbook Air
4. f ly.io • Still don’t want any cruft! • Dependency Hell • Brew • Docker New job, new laptop
5. Fly.io: Heroku-ish Docker, except not Docker 🎩 🧐
6. f ly.io Global Easy Fast Great free tier
7. Fly Machines 🤔
8. Fly Machines There’s an API
9. Fly Machines They can stop when your app exits
10. Fly Machines They can start, within a few ms, upon network access
11. 💡 🎩 🧐
12. What I Want Use my own editor No funky setup/con f iguration Local tooling (git), remote compute (PHP, etc)
13. What else do I need? File Syncing Network Forwarding
14. ✅ File Syncing ✅ Network Forwarding
15. Fly.io Global Easy Fast API Stoppable Quick Starts Machines File Syncing Network Forwarding Mutagen Wake on Network Access Free-ish
16. Vessel
17. vessel. f ly.dev
18. curl -L https://fly.io/install.sh | sh
19. curl https://vessel.fly.dev/install.sh | sh
20. vessel auth
23. ~40ms
25. Customize
26. Use Any Docker Image
27. I like this! • ✅ It’s fast • ✅ Not running 24/7 • ✅ Wake on network access • ✅ SSH available • ✅ Customizable • ✅ Extendable
28. Annoying Stuff (aka Coming Soon™) • Requires ` f lyctl` be installed • No data persistence (yet) • You may want a DB, Cache • (I use SQLite!)
29. vessel. f ly.dev issues + feedback @ f ideloper