Your engineers are burning hours on slow laptops, IT tickets for Docker permissions, and security reviews for every new contractor. Forge Desk spins up a full Windows or Linux dev environment in under a minute, pre-loaded with your stack, reachable from any browser or thin client, and wrapped in zero-trust access controls. Ship code, not VPN tickets.
No nested virt tricks, no shared cores, no oversubscribed noisy neighbors. Forge Desk runs on bare-metal hypervisors with dedicated vCPU reservations, NVMe-backed persistent storage, and 10 Gbps uplinks per node. Your laptop fan stays silent because the work is happening somewhere else.
Node, Python, Go, Rust, Docker, Postgres, VS Code, JetBrains Toolbox, Git, GitHub CLI, AWS CLI, gcloud, kubectl, Terraform. Opinionated defaults, overridable by team templates.
Click a workspace, get a desktop. 45 to 60 seconds from cold start to a logged-in environment with your dotfiles, SSH keys, and active repos cloned. No Windows update waiting. No reboot roulette.
Cloudflare-style identity-aware proxy, SAML or OIDC SSO, device posture checks, just-in-time access grants. No VPN. No open RDP. Every session logged and revocable in one click.
Shut down your workstation Friday, power it on Monday, find everything exactly where you left it. Dotfiles, repos, shell history, open editors. Backed by NVMe, snapshotted hourly.
Define a Dockerfile or Nix config once, clone it to every engineer. New hire in Monday morning, coding by 10 AM on the same stack as the senior staff. Template changes reach everyone on next boot.
Windows 11 Pro for .NET shops and Unity devs. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for the sensible majority. Fedora Workstation for the people who like pain. All three ship with matching dev toolchains and VS Code pre-configured.
One workstation per client codebase. No cross-contamination, no accidentally committing Client A secrets into Client B repos. Wind down when the engagement ends.
Hire a contractor in Poland on Monday, give them a browser URL, they code by Tuesday. When the contract ends, revoke access and the data never left your perimeter.
Spin up an L40S workstation for a two-week training run, burn it down after. Pay for the GPU hours you used, not the year-round lease on a depreciating GPU rig in the closet.
One persistent workstation per enterprise customer, for replicating bugs against their environment. Snapshot it, share it with a teammate, restore it to a known-good state in one click.
Monthly, per engineer. Workstations suspend when idle, so you only pay for what you actually use on Dev tier. Annual pricing available.
Codespaces is a browser tab running a container. Great for a quick PR review, painful as a daily driver on anything with a heavy native toolchain or a GPU workload. Coder is self-hosted, which means your platform team is now running a DaaS platform instead of shipping product. Forge Desk is fully managed, gives you a real OS (Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora) on real hardware with a persistent $HOME and GPU options, and costs less than the loaded laptop you would otherwise be buying. If you only need a container, use Codespaces. If you need an actual workstation that boots fast and does not fight you, use Desk.
Yes. Pro and Power tiers support custom Dockerfiles, Nix configs, and qcow2 VM images. Upload once, apply to your whole team. We keep a library of starter templates (Rails, Django, Next.js, FastAPI, Unity, PyTorch, Unreal) you can fork and modify.
No. Standard egress (browser sessions, package downloads, git pushes) is included in the seat price with a 500 GB monthly fair-use cap. If you are pulling multi-TB training datasets every day, talk to us about a custom plan or use Power tier with private subnet peering to your own cloud, which is egress-free.
T4 and A10 capacity is available in US-East and EU-West on demand today. L40S is by reservation (we will confirm capacity before you commit). H100 is waitlist only, honest about it. If you need guaranteed GPU capacity for a training run, we will hold it for you with a two-week advance reservation.
Zero-trust by default. No VPN, no open inbound ports, no shared admin credentials. Every session is authenticated through your IdP (Okta, Entra ID, Google, JumpCloud), authorized by device posture policy, brokered through an identity-aware proxy, and logged to your SIEM. Workstations are isolated per user, encrypted at rest (AES-256), and snapshotted hourly. HIPAA BAA available on Pro and Power.
Your workstation keeps running, your builds keep building, your long-running training jobs keep training. When you reconnect, your session restores exactly where you left it. That is the hidden win: cloud desktops are actually more resilient to flaky home Wi-Fi than your local laptop is.
Start a free trial, pick an OS, and be writing code in your first workstation in under five minutes. No credit card, no sales call, no seven-page security questionnaire.