Quickstart
Sign up, create your first workspace, and connect to it from a browser tab in under three minutes.
Before you start#
You will need:
- A modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge).
- An email address you can receive sign-up confirmation on.
- About three minutes. Spinning up a fresh virtual machine typically takes 30 to 60 seconds.
Create your account#
- Sign upGo to dashboard.easyenv.io/auth/sign-up and create an account with email and password, or use Google or GitHub OAuth.
- Create or join an accountEvery user belongs to at least one account. New signups get a personal account by default. Team workspaces, billing, and members are scoped per account, so create a dedicated organization account when you are ready.
Create a workspace#
From the dashboard, the fastest path to a running machine is the New workspace button. EasyEnv will ask you to pick a template (a preset combination of recipes) or compose your own from the recipe catalog.
python_devenv template. It boots a single Ubuntu virtual machine with Python, uv, and a code editor pre-installed. You can always add more machines later.Connect to your workspace#
While your workspace boots, the card on the Workspaces List shows a status of Starting up with a blue progress bar across the top edge. When every machine is reachable, the status flips to Running and the action row swaps in two buttons: Console (open the workspace) and Stop (release compute).
Click Console to enter the workspace. Inside the console you have three ways to interact with the machine:
- Terminal: an in-browser xterm.js shell over SSH, no client install needed. The center pane is one terminal per machine; switch between them via the left rail.
- VS Code (port view): if the machine has the VS Code stack, a port view button in the top bar opens code-server in a new tab, connected to the same machine.
- Port view: any port the recipe declared (3000, 5432, etc.) gets a button in the top bar that opens it through a temporary HTTPS URL, so you can share a dev server or a database UI with someone outside EasyEnv.
For the full layout (left rail of machines, center terminal pane, right AI/Chat pane, top bar with theme + share + view-mode), see Workspace console.
Next steps#
- Save the workspace as a template so your team can reuse it. See Templates.
- Invite a teammate. See Sharing and members.
- Build your first technical assessment. See Create a test.
