Yeah, Kubeflow can be rough, we've been down that road too as well.

I really like Coder, but one thing for the life of me I couldn't figure out is that even with the self-hosted version, why does anything have to go through their infra?

With trailer.dev our explicit goal is to have a fulfilling user experience for the following scenario:

  - You have servers you own or rent

  - You have a team that want some persistent developer workspaces that are running on that server

  - You run our 30mb + the server side somewhere and boom, you can have your team(s) work on your project.

If you want we (the trailer team) can run the server component for you, but that's it.

I tried spinning up a coder instance just now again, with docker, and I'm being tunneled through US East Pittsburgh with 117ms of latency for a local dev environment tool :(