Setting up a remote development environment can streamline your workflow and enhance collaboration. To create a standardized, collaborative, and secure dev environment on any machine, you'll need to provision a Linux server with at least 2 GB RAM and 2 CPU cores, install Docker Engine and leverage its containers to isolate dependencies and services needed for development, connect Visual Studio Code to the remote environment using VS Code Server, clone a sample project into your container, standardize your development environment with devcontainer.json files, run a preview dev server in VS Code, securely share and expose your projects on the internet behind a domain using Ngrok, and finally, automate this process for consistency across projects. The automation of this setup is possible but requires customization to fit individual systems and doesn't address routine tasks and interactions with repositories, workspaces, and public previews.