Hi,
I'm using the UDE environments almost daily. The advantages for me are:
- Environment up an running 24/7 at the same "cost". No need to shut down the environment (CHE) for cost saving.
- No need to start a remote desktop session for being able to open the AOT with Visual Studio
- When I just need to review something, I can easy and quick open Visual Studio with the source code.
- Faster compared to the CHE's I had.
- As I have database storage available on PPAC, the environment is free for me.
- Online environment has same performance as production environments.
- No option to develop something which has dependency on local resources. This ensures that all you develop, once correctly tested, will work on sandboxes and in production.
Possible issues and limitations
- You need to have capacity available on PPAC to be able to deploy an UDE environment
- Retail development is coming, but not possible today.
- Meta data search is not correctly working on my environment.
- Installation of some micro-services as available on Tier2+ environments aren't available for self-service deployment yet.
- Each version will download a lot of metadata which can fill the hard-drive. You would need to check for cleaning your hard-drive.
