The environment tax: why we built Bitrise Remote Dev Environments

Bitrise has launched Remote Dev Environments (RDE) in beta to streamline development by allowing developers and coding agents to work in the same environment as the Bitrise CI and Build Hub, eliminating the discrepancies that arise when local development environments differ from CI environments. By offering the same virtual machines, stacks, and cache infrastructure used in Bitrise's CI builds, RDE ensures consistent execution and testing, thus removing the common "works on my machine" problem. This approach provides developers with the benefits of real macOS systems on Apple Silicon, complete with the Xcode toolchain and build caching for Bazel, Gradle, and Xcode, and enables the use of tools like Claude Code and Codex. The integration simplifies the configuration process, as developers can connect using VS Code, JetBrains, or SSH, and orchestrate parallel agents through an open-source MCP server, leveraging the existing security infrastructure previously approved for Bitrise.

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