Paul Krill
Editor at Large

JetBrains IDEs connect with Gitpod for cloud-based development

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May 3, 20221 min
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Native integration with Gitpod allows JetBrains users to spin up remote development environments and access them from cloud-based JetBrains IDEs.

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Users of JetBrains IDEs now can do remote development in the cloud via the Gitpod platform.

Through an integration between Gitpod and JetBrains announced April 27, developers can access source code hosted in ephemeral development environments from JetBrains IDEs running in the cloud. Language processing occurs in the Gitpod environment. This is done via an integration between Gitpod and JetBrains Gateway, JetBrainsโ€™ remote development application now in a beta stage. Developers can access JetBrains Gateway to get started with linking Gitpod and JetBrains IDEs.

Gitpod provides an open source orchestration and provisioning platform for automated developer environments. JetBrains Gateway is a standalone app that connects to a remote server via SSH, installs an IDE as a back-end service, and opens a project hosted on a remote machine. JetBrains Gateway then launches the JetBrains Client, a thin client that connects to the IDE back-end service. The developerโ€™s project will be presented as if it were running locally.

JetBrains IDEs can be used including IntelliJ IDEA for Java, PyCharm for Python, GoLand for the Go language, and PhpStorm for PHP.

Paul Krill

Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorldโ€™s news coverage of software development platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a reporter who prioritizes accuracy, integrity, and the best interests of readers, Paul is sought out by technology companies and industry organizations who want to reach InfoWorldโ€™s audience of software developers and other information technology professionals. Paul has won a โ€œBest Technology News Coverageโ€ award from IDG.

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