First steps with Gitpod — great for try out, quick open source contributions and for workshops

Gitpod.io is a SaaS for software developers (that can also be used in self-hosted mode on Kubernetes). Gitpod makes workspaces available — typically based on a Git repository — with tools to develop and build software. A workspace is an ephemeral (not long lasting) Linux environment that I can access from my browser — from a terminal, browser based VS Code and from locally running IDEs. A workspace is created from a Git repo URL (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) launches with source code, relevant…