Use Dev Box Team Customizations and Imaging to streamline your team’s development workflow
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Dev Box Customization Platform
- Pain Point Addressed
- Dev Box Team Customizations and Imaging
- How It Works
- Optimize Team Customizations into Images
- Public Preview and Registration
1. Introduction
- Introducing team-based customization of Dev Boxes with built-in imaging capabilities to streamline development workflows.
2. Dev Box Customization Platform
- Earlier announcement of Microsoft Dev Box’s customization platform for authoring code-ready configurations.
- Allows freeing up platform engineers and IT admins from custom image management.
3. Pain Point Addressed
- Feedback from preview program highlighted the need for automating onboarding to new teams or projects.
- Observations on Dev Box customizations taking time to set up sophisticated tool sets.
4. Dev Box Team Customizations and Imaging
- New workflow built on the customization platform to create and optimize team Dev Box configurations.
- Available as a private preview, extending the customization platform for team-wide configurations.
5. How It Works
- Project admins and Dev Center admins can create ready-to-code Dev Box configurations for entire teams.
- Simplified process for developers to inherit configurations by selecting the project and relevant pool.
6. Optimize Team Customizations into Images
- Introduction of imagedefinition.yaml to optimize customizations through Dev Center's imaging capabilities.
- Process includes spinning up a Dev Box, applying Image Definition Configuration, sysprepping, and publishing the image to Compute Gallery.
7. Public Preview and Registration
- Public preview of the customization platform caters to personal settings of individual developers.
- Registration for the private preview of Dev Box Team Customizations and Imaging available via registration form.
