Because at least for me getting a shared folder to work was a total pain in the ass. Virtualbox just worked in that regard.

Id you don’t like it, get a VPN or consider replacing your government.

Are you kidding me? Tests in prod? Hopefully that means you didn’t fully roll out. That means someone didn’t get a 3am page.

This sounds like a god-damned resounding success.

People learn new stuff all the time bro, no need to be a dick.

For local testing: build and run tests on whatever computer I’m developing on.

For deployment: I have a self hosted gitlab instance in a kubernetes cluster. It comes with a registry all setup. Push the project, let the cicd pipeline build, test, and deploy through staging into prod.