Cloud Workstations documentation

Cloud Workstations provides preconfigured, customizable, and secure managed development environments on Google Cloud. Cloud Workstations is accessible through a browser-based IDE, from multiple local code editors (such as IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate or VS Code), or through SSH. Instead of manually setting up development environments, you can create a workstation configuration specifying your environment in a reproducible way. Learn more

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Managed and secure dev environment on Google Cloud

Join us and our partner, JetBrains, to learn how Cloud Workstations makes it easy to provide cloud-based IDEs at scale with built-in security mechanisms. In this session, we'll provide an overview and demo of this managed service.

45 minutes introductory Free

How to accelerate developer velocity with Cloud Workstations

Nate Avery and Marcos Grappeggia provide an overview of what Cloud Workstations is, how it helps accelerate developer velocity, and will go through live demos of the solution in action.

60 minutes introductory Free

Automate Cloud Workstations container image rebuilds to synchronize base image updates

In this tutorial you learn how to build an automated pipeline to help ensure that you include security updates and patches in your custom workstation images.

Schedule Cloud Workstation Operations using Cloud Scheduler and Cloud Run

In this tutorial you learn how to schedule Cloud Workstations operations to perform operations like scheduling Workstation Config updates.