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container

An application packaged with everything it needs to run, so it behaves the same on your machine and on a server.

dev 5 videos 11 mentions also: Docker container

Where it comes up

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May 19, 2026first said at 33:373 mentions

“the idea behind the the self-hosted or the yeah, the self-hosted cloud agents is it's you still the same benefits of having having a cloud agent, but the agent or the the container that it's running in isn't in our infrastructure uh at Curs…”

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Apr 14, 2026first said at 9:443 mentions

“local dev environment. So we launch this container and then we check out your repo into this container and then an agent works within that container to make changes, test those changes, um and uh then it can uh connect to your GitHub and po…”

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Feb 3, 2026first said at 24:132 mentions

“environment within for example a you know bastion host system that then uh makes changes to uh your cobalt mainframe uh in an actual EC2 container in a docker container uh in a remote VM whatever makes the most sense you can run cursor wher…”

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Apr 23, 2026first said at 44:292 mentions

“>> Uh so this is how can we container with applications? Um not sure exactly what what that uh what that means, but if you can maybe clarify um what do you mean by uh containers? And then uh Caleb, the description for the summit said it was…”

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May 7, 2026first said at 48:371 mention

“So, Tyler, I don't know if we have any last-minute questions and we want to do a little mini Q&A here and then we can wrap things up. Yeah, I just see two more in the Q&A. One is can we run multi-repo in the cloud? Uh this one's a little bi…”