The Kubernetes version is, instead, more flexible and supports larger organization that need their installations to scale. The benefit of Docker Compose lies with the simplicity of its configuration and management, which is bases on a YAML file that describes the available services.

The Docker Compose version is most indicated, says JetBrains, for quick trial runs or for smaller organizations. Space On-Premises comes in two fashions, with support for Docker Compose or Kubernetes.

This is especially relevant for any developers or organizations that want to try out the product in its current beta, since the ability of managing and instantiating ready-to-use development enviroments is one of the most appealing features in this kind of products. Most importantly, the beta release does not support development environments yet, although this feature will be available in the public release, says JetBrains. Specifically, it can only use external workers for automation tasks, at the moment. It has some limitations, though, when it comes to features that require hosting on JetBrains. Space On-Premises supports most of the features provided by Space Cloud, including Git hosting, code reviews and issues support, package management, team collaboration, and so on. Being on-premises means the user keeps full control of the deployment, although this will have a cost for the operation of the system. With this introduction, JetBrains is tackling one of the most usual form of criticism to remote development environments such as JetBrains Space Cloud or GitHub Codespaces, in particular the loss of privacy and ownership on some parts of developers' work. In other words, Space On-Premises aims to keep the promise of commoditizing development environments and making it easier to spin up full-fledged environments in short time both for first-time or casual contributors as well across machines for regular contributors. Since Space On-Premises will be deployed inside of the user's network, the focus is more on its containerized nature rather than on it providing a remote development experience.

Space, JetBrains's take on containerized, remote development environments, is now available on-premises as a beta for all organizations that prefer to have full control over their tools instead of relying on third-party Cloud services. The beta includes support for most of the features available in Space Cloud except for development environments, which will be included in the final release, says JetBrains.

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