Remote Services

What is often called origin in , and sometimes simply referred to as the remote location or device can refer to anything from as single-board computer to a massive cloud service.

In fact, with the popularity of the service of offering a repositories’ origin has become an economically relevant business with service providers extending considerably the list of the provided features beyond the already rich functionalities , the version control system, includes.

Thus Remote Services could be defined as follows:

Platforms that host repositories, allowing developers to store, manage, and collaborate on their code projects over the internet.

As we discussed in Part 1, is a distributed version control system (VCS) that manages and tracks change in codebases. is not to be confused with GitHub and GitLab, or similar, which, in turn, are remote hosting web-based platforms that use to offer services to store and collaborate on code remotely.

Remote services like GitHub or GitLab offer a range of features that extend beyond basic functionalities, making project management, collaborations and automation that much easier. In this section, we will go over some of the key features of -based remote services and tools that are particularly useful for project management.