Point your IDE at a devcontainer.json. Fifteen seconds later, you're coding in the cloud.
Local input prediction and protocol optimization. Indistinguishable from local.
VS Code, JetBrains, or Zed. All extensions, themes, keybindings. No browser IDE.
No Terraform. No platform team bottleneck. Drop a config in your repo and go.
Aggressive image pre-warming and layer caching. Warm workspaces in under 15 seconds.
Fewer than 10 config values. Zero to running in under an hour.
Code never leaves your VPC. SSO/OIDC. Audit logs. Image policies.
Continuous background sync. Lose connectivity? Automatic local failover.
elmsfire migrate gitpod converts .gitpod.yml to devcontainer.json. Minutes, not days.
Clone or open any repo with a devcontainer.json. Works with VS Code, JetBrains, Zed, or any SSH-capable IDE.
$ git clone myproject && code myprojectElmsfire detects your dev container config and prompts you. One click to launch in the cloud.
→ "Open in Cloud Dev Container?" → Yes15 seconds later, you’re in a container on your company’s Kubernetes cluster. Same IDE, same extensions, same everything.
✓ workspace ready — connected via SSH| Capability | Elmsfire | Coder | Codespaces | DevPod |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open source | ||||
| Self-hosted | ||||
| Native devcontainer.json | ||||
| Kubernetes-native | ||||
| VS Code + JetBrains + Zed | ||||
| < 1 hour setup | ||||
| Offline failover | ||||
| Managed SaaS option |
We're building the simplest way to run dev containers in Kubernetes. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we launch.