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Koding is a development environment platform for creating and sharing automated environments across any infrastructure, including cloud providers and local machines. It targets modern distributed applications, micro-services and containers, and provides a browser-based IDE and terminal alongside local development tools. The platform uses stack scripts as blueprints for an application's infrastructure, with version control for low-level components such as storage and networking, and administrator-only write access to configuration.

Koding integrates services through stack scripts, supports multiple cloud providers, and can connect Ubuntu Linux machines with a public IP address. It offers SSH and sudo access, the ability to deploy multiple VMs by adding lines to a stack script, and a FUSE-based file system that simulates a local environment on cloud machines. Stack updates can be distributed to a team with automatic alerts when the stack changes. The platform is available on GitHub, and the pages reference a free tier, a trial, and paid editions, though specific pricing is not stated.

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