Gitpod Reviews & Product Details

Gitpod provides very fast VMs for using our codespaces on very end machines. It has allmost all of our Git platforms to connect and start coding with them. It has many code editors to launch their high end codespaces on them for our development. It also supports browser version of code editors to directly code through any browser and from anywhere we want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its charges a bit high for limited time of VMs usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Onboarding people is a matter of granting them access to gitlab repos, as soon as they have that, they can start coding. No need to deal with Windows laptops where you need admin for everything :D

* One unexpected benefit was that the environments are not only reproducible, they're also isolated: you can work on 2 branches at the same time by spinning up 2 gitpod workspaces.

* Prebuilds ease the pain of waiting for workspace boot.

* We could shut down our previous notebook solution thanks to gitpod using a vscode notebook plugin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The web IDE is close, but not quite the same as regular desktop experience, for example copy pasting shortcuts don't seem to work and of course there's some workspace boot time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gitpod allows engineers to focus as much of their time as possible on delivering business value. With Gitpod, engineers don't have to worry about installing tools and can start coding right away. Gitpod workspaces boot up in seconds, run in the cloud (right next to your data) and thus also give you the power of cloud machines. Big enterprises typically don't gave very good engineering laptops, which is also solved by using a Cloud IDE such as Gitpod.

As an internal developer platform team, it allows us to onboard new engineers much faster than before. Where in the past people had to go through 20 documentation pages with all the tools that needed to be installed, this can now be provided by the platform team as a script in the .gitpod.yml configuration file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In general you see that the market is still quite young for cloud IDEs and that you can't use all the features of Jetbrain products yet. Next to that, plugins on the marketplace sometimes don't work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gitpod transforms our development workflow, making onboarding a breeze, enabling secure data access for BYOD setups without the need for a VPN, and enforcing best practices. Most importantly, it turbocharges engineer efficiency. Our engineers can be productive and deploy to production from day one and don't lose time with inconsistent environments. As a result, I (platform engineer) don't have to offer as much support, this having more focus time myself.

The initial dedicated SAAS setup, was up and running in no time. And the support we receive troughout the process has been tremendous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am an intelij user and setting up the integration wasn't as easy as it was for VS code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much at this point. Devcontainers in general are great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we started using gitpod, we were pretty happy. Throughout 2023 though, we've come to loathe our decision to choose gitpod over larger players like github codespaces or jetbrains space. Just this year, they have:

- Doubled prices (more than doubled for most use cases, in fact)

- Support has gone down the drain. We sent in our most recent tech question 9 days ago, still have not gotten an answer (and I can provide screenshots if needed)

- Dropped their open source. We use their SaaS product, but this leaves a horrible taste in our mouths. For years and years, they got lots of help/support/feedback from the community, precisely because they maintained an open source product that could be used by nonprofits, academics, etc. who might not have the funds to pay for SaaS. In one fell swoop, they dropped all of those folks. Now they're purely profiting off the backs of all that help the got from the community

We wish we had gone with a different company, and as soon as we can get the time to migrate, we will. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gitpod is the simplest way to ensure that all development environments are at parity and have no differences.

Gitpod is almost beautifully fast. It's instantaneous to startup and cheap to build out on your own. The custom Dockerfile ensures that endlessly complex development setups can be built into the Gitpod systems.

The configurations system ensures that plugins which are notorious for having compatibility issues can be transferred across setups with relatively little pain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The config system is somewhat confusing. There's no reason to have a text file-based config system and the config system should automatically build itself from development enviroment.

Also Gitpod task execution system does weird things while runnig commands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It takes a few seconds to spin up a clean, customized dev server/environment that I can access from anywhere in my browser. Uses VScode for the browser-based IDE, which is great. Runs on top of GitHub. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There have been a few bugs (eg Python environments not auto-running pip install requirements) but they haven't been anything I couldn't work around. No other problems, really. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can set up and start working on almost any codebase hosted on a git platform within minutes, without having to worry about the RAM that IDEs like VS Code or IntelliJ gobble up. It has the same integration support as provided by the local IDEs. By just adding a prefix, I can create a gitpod workspace for any github repo. It also leaves the workspaces open for a considerable period, meaning that I don't have to worry about losing uncommitted changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Java support is limited on Gitpod. I cannot switch IDEs - it is either VS Code or IntelliJ, for all repos associated with a user. Build scripts are often hard to tweak when buggy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best part is I could easily work on any machine as there are no limitations regarding configuration capabilities.

Integration with Github makes life easy for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To first connect github still requires some technical work that could be hard for all users.

I think the user interface could be further improved than the existing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am using gitpod from last one year and its Best open source developer platform for remote development.If you have already worked with VS Code, Gitpod will be very familiar to you. It has all the power of VS Code from your browser, connects seamlessly to your repository and you can test your code with its CI system. A nice feature is being able to do code reviews directly from the IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If your gitpod is in ideal condition for more than 5mins it automatically stops the workspace. That is no exact disadvantage but on ther alternatives this functionality is rare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.