In your software powered company, nothing is more important than developer and operations productivity. Ideally, one should be able make change in production - through the safety of a CI and CD pipeline - on day 1 on the job.
Developing an application, a service or infrastructure "as code" requires multiple elements to be in place to be effective: IDEs, test tools, SDKs, emulators and connecting them all to the target environments. Those prerequisites are cumbersome to install, to configure and to maintain. On the other end, we need our application and infrastructure developers to be effective as quickly as possible and minimize the onboarding process. With an all - or partially - remote workforce, getting an environment to work effectively quickly is even more beneficial as it is more difficult to tap on the shoulder of a colleague and ask for help.
This talk shares multiple recipes that we have put in place to get to this "productive on day 1" ideal, including on very restrictive and regulated environments. The PC/MAC itself, the Integrated Developer Environment (IDE), running the service or application locally, as well as everything needed to manage infrastructure. We go through different solutions for 3 typical profiles: a front-end developer, a data scientist and an infrastructure as code developer.