Comment by gabereiser

Thanks for the detailed explanation. You're right, "consistent" SDLC is what I meant. For compatibility, docker itself is kind of a sort of standard. I say sort of because of OCI. The idea is that if you run your own registry, create your own base images (and include your security team's input) and enforce a policy where you can only pull from your registry than development is forced to use your standard images, your standard environment. We've even gone so far as to then incorporate terraform to standardize the deployments. Having an M1 Mac with 8 cores and 8 gpu feels like overkill if I'm just going to login to a website and code. How do you handle desktop codebases? Electron apps? OpenGL w32 apps? There's still room for an IDE on my mac. I guess my biggest concern with platforms like yours is the fact that big brother can always slip a timeclock in there.