Yeah, that's fair. The blog was getting quite long, so we need to do some deeper dives in follow-ups.

Gitpod Flex is runner-based. The runner interface is intentionally generic so that we can support different clouds, on-prem or just Linux in future.

The first implemented runner is built around AWS primitives like EC2, EBS and ECS. But because of the more generic interface Gitpod now supports local / desktop environments on MacOS. And again, future OS support will come.

There’s a bit more information in the docs, but we will do some follow ups!

- https://www.gitpod.io/docs/flex/runners/aws/setup-aws-runner... - https://www.gitpod.io/docs/flex/gitpod-desktop

(I work at Gitpod)