Google's Cloud Code Extends IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code To Kubernetes Apps (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:15AM from the interesting-developments dept.

An anonymous reader writes: If you were paying close attention during Google Cloud Next 2019 yesterday, you may have heard talk of Cloud Code. The new developer tool was only mentioned briefly, but today Google offered more details. Cloud Code extends two Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code, to cloud-native Kubernetes applications. Google's message here is that moving to the cloud isn't just about data. It can also be about code, and the developers who write it. IDEs are designed for editing, compiling, and debugging code for local applications. Google wants to adapt them to developing applications for the cloud.

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What this actually means is... by Richard_at_work · 2019-04-10 11:01 · Score: 2

Google released plugins for IntelliJ based IDEs and VS Code (which isn't an IDE, its more of a text editor on lots of steroids) to add Kubernetes functionality, along the same lines as the Docker functionality that already exists as a plugin. The plugins basically allow you to interact with the deployed parts of the application you are currently working on, without switching contexts to another window.
Its neat, but its nothing mind blowing - its akin to having source control integration. Never the less, congrats Google!