Forge Cloud Dev

Declarative development workspaces on Docker or Hetzner Cloud, with production mirrors and hosted agent slots.

What it does

• Workspaces

  A resource model and state machine for development environments — created, started, stopped, destroyed, with the transitions enforced rather than assumed.

  @forge/workspace

• Manifests

  Declare a workspace once. The manifest is parsed and validated up front, so a bad environment fails before anything is provisioned.

  @forge/manifest

• Providers

  One stable interface over local Docker and Hetzner Cloud. The same manifest runs on a laptop and on a cloud box.

  @forge/provider

• Production mirrors

  Mirror production data into a development workspace under an explicit lifecycle, rather than passing dumps around.

  @forge/mirror

• Agent slots

  Agents run inside the workspace with the same tools a developer has, hosted rather than bolted on.

  @forge/agent-host

• Volume snapshots

  Hetzner volume snapshot lifecycle, so a workspace can be restored rather than rebuilt.

  @forge/volumes

Comparisons

• vs GitHub Codespaces
• vs Ona (formerly Gitpod)
• vs Coder