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Cloud Workstations provides preconfigured, customizable, and secure managed development environments on Google Cloud. Cloud Workstations is accessible through a browser-based IDE, from multiple local code editors (such as IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate or VS Code), or through SSH. Instead of manually setting up development environments, you can create a workstation configuration specifying your environment in a reproducible way.

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Join us and our partner, JetBrains, to learn how Cloud Workstations makes it easy to provide cloud-based IDEs at scale with built-in security mechanisms. In this session, we'll provide an overview and demo of this managed service.

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Nate Avery and Marcos Grappeggia provide an overview of what Cloud Workstations is, how it helps accelerate developer velocity, and will go through live demos of the solution in action.

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In this tutorial you learn how to build an automated pipeline to help ensure that you include security updates and patches in your custom workstation images.

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In this tutorial you learn how to schedule Cloud Workstations operations to perform operations like scheduling Workstation Config updates.

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Last updated 2026-08-11 UTC.

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