Welcome to the very first edition of The Inner Loop, a monthly newsletter written by me—Hi, I'm Tao, Developer Advocate at Garden—about all things DevOps. This month, we're celebrating open source tools that make your life better, platforms that make your social media kinder, and the song of cicadas.

Reproducible dev environments

with Devbox 📦

If virtualization gets your machine smoking, Devbox uses arcane technology (read: Nix) to create portable dev environments for your whole team. Portable dev environments reduce complexity.

Pre-configure new Kubernetes clusters with DevStream

Monitoring, GitOps and anything else your team needs to personalize a cluster before getting ready to work in one command: `dtm init`

Presto change-o →

Launch WASM functions on Kubernetes with Capsule

It's everything you love about WASM running inside the clusters you already have 🥪

Get the capsule cookbook →

The speed of local dev and the power of the cloud with Local Mode

Have a remote staging database but don’t want to push your app to a remote container registry every time you make a change? Garden’s new Local Mode gives you the benefits of both remote and local workflows.

App Local →

🌸 Cabinet of Curiosities

What your author is thinking of this week:

• If you wonder where the DevRel community has gone, it’s over on Mastodon, the kinder Twitter. Have a peep at this list of Developer Advocates and where they are on the network.
• Google continues the trend of developer workspaces in the cloud with Cloud Workstations.
• Working in VR is your author’s norm. On Hacker News a user asks the hivemind how they work in VR comfortably.
• Yes, VS Code can do that
• Pythonistas inside Microsoft tune Python for speed

✍🏻 By Tao Hansen

I am happiest when I help others. That’s why I’d love to help you wherever you are in your container development story, even if you’re brand new. Please reply to this email or reach out on Twitter or Mastodon if you find containers scary, unapproachable or just would like to rubberduck 🦆