hocus vs swiss-chocolatey-lab

hocus

🪄 Spin up ready-to-code, disposable dev environments on your own servers. Self-hosted alternative to Gitpod and Github Codespaces. (by hocus-dev)

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Create disposable dev environment VM's for GitHub repositories (by karlgluck)

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hocus		swiss-chocolatey-lab
	Project
11	Mentions	1
3,122	Stars	2
0.5%	Growth	-
8.9	Activity	10.0
9 months ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
TypeScript	Language	PowerShell
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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hocus

Posts with mentions or reviews of hocus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

We Replaced Firecracker with QEMU
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2023

I didn't want to go into all the technical details, but we have another write-up that goes into details about RAM management: https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus/blob/main/rfd/0003-worksp...
Other than making sure we release unused memory to the host, we didn't customize QEMU that much. Although we do have a cool layered storage solution - basically a faster alternative to QCOW2 that's also VMM independent. It's called overlaybd, and was created and implemented in Alibaba. That will probably be another blog post. https://github.com/containerd/overlaybd
Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated
18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023
Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 May 2023

If you’d rather use a self-hosted alternative, we are building Hocus [0]. It’s still in alpha, but already supports prebuilds, VSCode, shared environment variables, and more.
[0] https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus
[Self Hosted] Hocus - Alternative auto-hébergée à Gitpod et GitHub Codespaces, est maintenant publique sur GitHub
1 project | /r/enfrancais | 9 May 2023

[https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus
Hocus 0.2 Release: A Self-Hosted Alternative to Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces - Thank You for 2300+ Stars!
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 9 May 2023

Check out our product launch post on Reddit here and the 0.2 release on GitHub here.
Hocus 0.2 Released
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 8 May 2023
Show HN: Hocus – self-hosted alternative to GitHub Codespaces using Firecracker
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 3 Apr 2023

1 project | /r/hackernews | 3 Apr 2023

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 3 Apr 2023

3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2023

swiss-chocolatey-lab

Posts with mentions or reviews of swiss-chocolatey-lab. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.

Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated
18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023

Same. I started building an automated solution for building gamedev environments in VM’s[1] but I can’t help but think there should be a better way.
[1] https://github.com/karlgluck/swiss-chocolatey-lab

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hocus and swiss-chocolatey-lab you can also consider the following projects:

devpod - Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.

cli - A CLI to create remote development environments in your cloud provider account in seconds

devpod-react-server-comp

projector-docker - Run JetBrains IDEs remotely with Docker

devpod-react-server-components - Demo app of React Server Components.

vcluster - vCluster - Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

devbox - Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

overlaybd - Overlaybd: a block based remote image format. The storage backend of containerd/accelerated-container-image.

firecracker - Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

toolbox - Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux