Bitrise is the leading mobile DevOps platform, empowering over 8,500 brands worldwide including Generali, Shopify, TripAdvisor and BuzzFeed. Bitrise provides a full-stack, vertically integrated mobile DevOps solution that unites the tools, processes and testing frameworks engineering teams need to build best-in-class mobile experiences.
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Bitrise Remote Dev Environments
Launched this week
Bitrise RDE gives you cloud Macs & Linux machines that start in seconds, the same machines, stacks and caches as your CI.
Give every agent its machine and run them in parallel via MCP, or attach VS Code, Cursor or Claude Code. Archive when you stop, restore later.
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I would like to know which testing problems teams usually struggle with most.
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@amybradley hey Amy
Would you mind sharing what problems are you reffering to?
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@amybradley mostly mobile app sim/emulator testing. Can be flaky, slow. There is a lot of development in this area now to improve
Orbital
Another from me:
How does your Remote Dev Env solution differentiate from others like GitHub Codespaces, Daytona, or E2B for the "give my coding agent a real sandboxed machine" use case?
Bitrise
@djoragui Github Codespaces and E2B do not have macOS support, while Daytona has, their primary target is agent ephemeral sandboxes. On Bitrise you can do all: code, run agents, can use as ephemeral or persistent.
More flexible. Also check prices ☺️
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@djoragui @arpadk lol, I did not know that other players in the space is so expensive :)
Bitrise
@aorcsik Thanks for checking out RDE, Tony 🎉 Great q!
Bitrise
@aorcsik I just checked the docs on this.
Yes, you can run as many in parallel as your subscription/contract allows you to run. Typically, one agent <> one VM is how we use it. We have an orchestrator we call “Kolega” that coordinates these agents, there is an open-source reference code for it on GitHub.
And they all use git/github to collaborate code and changes, just like any software engineer groups. My teammate and RDE maker ✨, @balazsrostas wrote a good guide on this https://bitrise.io/blog/post/how-we-built-a-coding-agent-that-lives-in-slack-and-the-recipe-to-build-your-own
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Hey Product Hunt!
Absolutely thrilled to be releasing RDE with you all here! Developers have Macbooks, Agents now have RDE!
If you are building a mobile app, after writing code you would launch the app in a simulator, test and iterate. Bitrise Remote Dev Environments gives Agents the same capability, and they perform better because of it. Not only does agents become more capable, RDE enables fully autonomous agents too. An orchestrator can pick up tasks from Slack or JIRA, spin up an RDE with an agent to do a task, create a PR and then shutdown or archive itself.
Here is a demo of using RDE CLI to update an iOS App for Xcode 27
Bitrise
@naveen_nazimudeen Thanks for sharing the demo and for all your cool guides you made 💛
Orbital
Last one that's come to mind...
How do you approach egress? e.g. During RDE sessions can egress be restricted, or will an AI agent have the same network access like a normal CI job?
Bitrise
@djoragui this is a very interesting question :) Let me ask our awesome tech team))
Bitrise
@djoragui the honest answer is that today a session gets the same network access as a CI job on the same infrastructure. Egress controls are not something we expose yet. Tell me what you'd need, allowlists, a proxy, per-workspace policy, and I'll take it to the team. This comes up mostly from enterprise teams and it's on our radar.
Heyday Health
Intriguing, congrats on the launch! Do you have anything preinstalled on VMs?
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@flreln Thanks for checking RDE :)
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@flreln On your question - Yes, and quite a lot.
The VMs are cloned from the same images our CI fleet runs, so on macOS you get Xcode with your choice of version, the iOS simulators and devices, and the usual tooling (Git, npm, fastlane).
On Linux you get Docker and the standard toolchain.
Caches are shared with Bitrise CI, so dependencies come down warm instead of from scratch. If you need something beyond that, you can customise a session with a few scripts or bake it into a template.
Bitrise
@flreln anything on top of that you might need?
Bitrise
@flreln oh yes, all tools are preinstalled that you typically need for software development.
And not just preinstalled, also updated. Pretty cool
Bitrise
Hi Product Hunt, I’m Szabi, Distinguished Software Engineer and Tech Lead of Platform at Bitrise. 👋
I loved working on this product. Persistent disks at SSD speed for macOS VMs was one of the hardest problems. Think of it as EBS for EC2 Macs, except it runs at local SSD speed. It's what lets you or an agent work in an RDE for days and have every line of code, every cache, and every dependency still be there next session. Today we get there by accepting some extra startup and shutdown time. We already have a proof of concept with the same disk performance and zero added delay. Stay tuned!
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@szabolcs_gelencser Thanks for all your help with RDE 💛 This was such a team effort product :)