Microsoft’s Visual Studio Codespaces, which offer cloud-hosted growth environments on Microsoft Azure, will likely be included into GitHub Codespaces, which offer hosted Visual Studio Code environments on GitHub. The present Azure-based providing will likely be retired in February 2021.
Microsoft mentioned the service is transferring as a result of, throughout a preview stage, the corporate discovered that transitioning from a repository to a codespace was the most-criticized a part of the workflow. The overwhelming majority of customers most well-liked an built-in, native, one-click expertise. GitHub being the house of 50 million builders, Microsoft determined it made sense to associate with GitHub to deal with the difficulty.
GitHub Codespaces remains to be in a restricted public beta; builders can enroll right here. When builders hook up with a GitHub Codespace by means of a portal or the Visual Studio Code editor, they are going to be prompted to submit add a GitHub account to the beta. Visual Studio Codespaces customers will obtain an e-mail requesting their most well-liked GitHub account.
While GitHub Codespaces supplies an optimized expertise for GitHub repos, builders nonetheless can use Git repos hosted elsewhere, corresponding to on Azure or Bitbucket, by taking a couple of further configuration steps. Also, the non-public preview of Windows-based Codespaces help in Visual Studio 2019 will transfer to GitHub.
Microsoft has offered an FAQ in regards to the consolidation. The compay set the next timeline for plan:
- September 4, 2020: Current customers start transferring to the GitHub non-public beta.
- November 20, 2020: Creation of recent Visual Studio Codespaces will not be allowed, however current Visual Studio Codespaces nonetheless can be utilized.
- February 17, 2021: The Visual Studio Codespaces portal will likely be retired.
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