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gitpod
The developer platform for on-demand cloud development environments to create software faster and more securely.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
The SaaS service (gitpod.io) uses both GKE and k3s. GKE is used for hosting the control place (dashboard, components that interact with the database etc). The workspaces (ie, the things that build, provision and manage where you run your code) run on k3s. This is the more complex stuff because it requires specific modules on Ubuntu 20.04, specific versions of containerd in order to isolate the processes safely (eg, so I can't use my workspace to access yours). Fundamentally, it's making Kubernetes do things it wasn't designed to do.
After I left, I decided that I wasn't going to let Gitpod die as a self-hosted proposition, so I've been working on some instructions to keep it alive. So far, I've got support for Hetzner and Azure cloud and looking for help/inspiration/support for the project.