Everyone loves free stuff.
Would you not want to have a computer in the cloud that is always ready to login and work from anywhere?
Yes, this is what github codespaces provide. It is useful in many other different ways, but let's talk about this interesting use case.So simple enough, codespaces are computers in the cloud, which allows you to login remotely from anywhere and start working in them. You can use VScode to access the codespace and work on your project on the codespace computer.
Enough background, Lets get right into it
Github free account provides you free codespace where you have 120 core hours that means NUMBER OF CORES x HOURS OF USES = CORES HOURS. Lets say you picked a codespace with a spec of 2 core that means you have 120/2 = 60 hours of uses time per month. It renews every month and the good part is that if you keep the codespace turned off when not required it will not add up in cores hour.
Next thing, Lets talk about the storage. codespaces provide 15gb of storage that means you can have a total of 15 gbs of file stored in that codespace but, The storage counts even of the codespaces are turned off.
Finally
Mine limit is higher because I have a pro account provided by the GitHub student program. Get yourself a codespace. Do not worry about the storage used because it will not allow you to store more than what is allowed. Keep checking the amount of CPU time used and left in the billing section of your github account and enjoy the remote workbench from anywhere.
Get your codespace here : https://github.com/codespaces
Use this vs code extension to easily connect to codespace
: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.codespaces
Top comments (2)
very helpful information, now i am mostly using my github codespace since it is running in cloud, it is also very fast and saving my compute.
🤔Sounds interesting since I have a potato computer