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Google today launched a set of plugins for popular development environments like IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code that promise to make building cloud-native applications significantly easier. You can’t say ‘cloud-native’ without saying Kubernetes, so it’s no surprise that the focus here is on helping developers build, debug and deploy their code to a Kubernetes cluster right from their IDE.
Typically, Google argues, developers edit, compile and debug their code locally. That’s often just fine, but it can also create issues when the production environment doesn’t quite match the local one. But building containers comes with its own challenges — and nobody really enjoys writing YAML files by hand just to test code. Indeed, the promise here is that the developer doesn’t have to write a single line of YAML.
The promise then, is that you can continue to develop your code just like you used to, while Cloud Code handles all of the work of turning it into a cloud-native application. The tools are also integrated with Google’s DevOps tools like Cloud Build and Stackdriver.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @01:46PM (1 child)
Now with even more tracking!
We'll even let you snag some of the data too! For just three easy payments of USD$3,999.99, you too can suck up reams of user PII* to sell to marketers or use for your own purposes**!
*Personally Identifiable Information
**Some restrictions apply. Data may not be used for blackmail, extortion or fraud unless Google gets a cut.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday April 16 2019, @10:36PM
I was more skeptical about the part in the summary about Visual Studio Code building anything at all, while it can barely edit text files. I know one motherfucker on the face of the Earth who uses it and he uses it for Powershell. If you want all the spying and analytics, you need Visual Studio Pro or Enterprise.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday April 16 2019, @01:54PM (2 children)
Too much detail for a busy morning, but... does making development easier mean that I can use my 30 years of knowledge refinement in my familiar language(s) and tool chain(s)? or does it mean learning a "new easy" language instead?
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Pino P on Tuesday April 16 2019, @02:05PM (1 child)
From the featured article: "The service will work for virtually all popular programming languages, including Microsoft’s .NET Core."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @07:48PM
Just a new way for them to steal your code.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 16 2019, @02:28PM
Hey, Buzzard - do you mind sharing your last name? It's not Buzzard Cloud, is it? Part of the Cloud clan. There was Sitting Cloud, Running Cloud, Weeping Cloud. Oh yeah, Baby Loud Cloud. The Cloud Native stuff? I'll bet it was all your idea!
(Score: 1) by patricepetticoat on Tuesday April 16 2019, @04:33PM (1 child)
Why is YAML a thing? What problem did it solve?
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Wednesday April 17 2019, @12:47AM
Didn't you know? YAML is the thing now. None of those unnecessary braces and other clutter getting in between you and that sweet sweet data.
Reduced context and structure are just the price we have to pay now.
More seriously, I found this which I guess kinda explains it: https://www.json2yaml.com/yaml-vs-json [json2yaml.com]
IMO it's just yet another lap around the, "I don't like technology X! It's old and smells funny! I'm going to reinvent the wheel and make this new thing even though it solves no problems that weren't already solved by the old thing!"