A self-hosted cloud offering is very close to what I was thinking of from a commercial offer. It is also the least documented, which makes sense. I'm guessing what I am trying to do is the niche case and most devs will either want to run on their local machine and/or a cloud. Therefore a commercial offering is obviously going to want to support local while providing a low-friction on-ramp to their commercial cloud product.

I did some investigation into podman since I'm on Fedora and my limited understanding is that it is a bit more lightweight and less tied to the commercial Docker offering. My conclusion was that even that was a bit more than is actually needed. Both Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 suggested just to set up a single `agents` user on the box that both use and put things like shared dev credentials into a ~/.config/agents subfolder.

But there are many tiny details to the whole setup. Like, making sure services start at boot instead of login. And adding isolation to dev resources (I mostly use Postgres and Redis) to avoid agents stepping on each other. There's also things like setting up GitHub Apps so that attribution works well. And then there are the "remote control" features of Claude vs. a persistent tmux I can ssh into. I've could go on, but I think most people will get the point.

I'm actually surprised I don't see more discussion about this from devs.

Thank you for the resource, this kind of aggregation is very useful.

On a quick skim you have categories: Local, vendor-managed, Hybrid. I am looking for something in-between local and vendor-managed. In a sense, I want the separate box to be the sandbox, rather than have a sandbox on my local machine isolated using a container or VM. That is a bit different of a setup with its own constraints that things like VMs or containers don't directly address.