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Justin_Buckley
Copper Contributor
Feb 24, 2023

Personal vs Pooled VMs for Developers

Hello! I'm currently looking into using AVD as a solution for providing remote developers a managed environment to work in. Our dev team sent over the list below when asked what tools/packages they needed for work. I am thinking we'll have to use Personal, but I wanted to see if anyone had opinions on developing on Pooled VMs, if there were limitations with FSLogix, etc. Pooled would certainly be cheaper but I've only used it for environments where the users/usage would be classified as light/medium and didn't require any individual customization. Thanks in advance for any advice!

  • Php 8.1
  • Laravel 8.4+
  • VS code
  • Python
  • Java SDK
  • nodejs
  • Git
  • Microsoft ODBC Provider
  • SSMS
  • Docker
  • Teams
  • Chrome browser
  • Microsoft Edge browser
  • Postman app
  • Nginx
  • Selenium for windows

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  • steveturnbull1975's avatar
    steveturnbull1975
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 26, 2023
    We have a shared pooled developer vm running multi user, Majority of these apps will be ok with pooled and fslogix to store the appdata. The only one I’m not sure about is docker. You might need to investigate any articles on getting docker working on a non persistent vm

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