Ask HN: Setups for Remote Developers

3 points by simonswords82 5y ago ↗ HN

We are a work from anywhere company and I'm trying to find a sustainable computer equipment setup for our 20+ .NET developers.

It needs to be flexible (local admin rights, ability to compile locally) but secure to map to our ISO 27001 and other security policies.

Our developers run Visual Studio IDE, currently they code/compile locally, they will all have a local SQL etc.

The ideal would be to have a cloud based server using RFP/Azure AD but they're against RDP.

So what other options are out there that will allow us to provide standard kit to our team that we can manage access/sign on to in the cloud and facilitates a development environment on their local machines (or RDP if latency definitely won't be an issue?)

Thanks all

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Amin699 5y ago ↗

good job

pantuza 5y ago ↗

I think a good start is to have a VPN. Only within the VPN developers are able/allowed to communicate with the INTERNAL parts of your cloud for things like test, staging environment, databases and so on.

I don't know about Azure, but I know other clouds have services to integrate your VPN with their environment allowing you to directly transit between them.

Hope that it brings some kind of insight to your research ;]

simonswords82 5y ago ↗

Thanks - yep had a feeling it would involve a VPN, cheers

HelloNurse 5y ago ↗

Windows remote desktop works fine on a VPN, unless network speed is low or the VPN itself is flaky. Of course it might be possible to avoid it entirely, with few internal servers accessed from the VPN through SSH and other reasonable protocols and few cloud services accessed through specific outbound firewall exceptions. Ideally, users on the VPN should access what users on the actual office LAN can access, in the same way.