Quickstart

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#

1. Sign up
   Go to dashboard.easyenv.io/auth/sign-up and create an account with email and password, or use Google or GitHub OAuth.
2. Create or join an account
   Every 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.

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.