IntelliJ IDEA is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for
JVM languages designed to maximize developer productivity. It does the
routine and repetitive tasks for you by providing clever code completion,
static code analysis, and refactorings, and lets you focus on the bright side
of software development, making it not only productive but also an enjoyable
experience.
Why IntelliJ IDEA
The Most Advanced Editor
Write high-quality code faster with coding assistance
features that search for possible errors and provide improvement suggestions
as you type while seamlessly educating you on community best practices in
coding, new language features, and more.
Deep Code Understanding
IntelliJ IDEA knows everything about your code and uses
this knowledge to offer blazing fast navigation and an intelligent experience
by providing relevant suggestions in every context.
Collaborative and Remote
Work on a project with your team in real time. Create
shared sessions to review code, debug, and more. Move your projects to the remote
machine to harness the full power of IntelliJ IDEA on any laptop and boost
your productivity.
Out-Of-The-Box Experience
Enjoy an unbeatable toolset right from the first
launch. Mission-critical tools and a wide variety of supported languages and
frameworks are at your fingertips – no plugin hassle included.
System requirements
Remote Development is currently in beta. The system
requirements will change over time, we will work to support more types of
systems in the future. Systems that don¡¯t meet the requirements may work with Remote Development, yet we
will not be able to support issues that might arise along the way.
Depending on the size of your project, ensure that the
system you connect to meets the following requirements:
Minimal requirements
4 vCPUs, either x86_64 or arm64 architecture. Also, higher clock
frequency is preferred to higher core count.
8 GB RAM.
At least 500MB of free disk space even if the IDE is already
installed.
A supported version of a common Linux distribution. Specifically,
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10,
CentOS, Debian, and RHEL are supported.
Ensure the user, with which you are connecting, has one of these
shells set: bash, dash, fish, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh. On Ubuntu, ¡®sh¡¯ is
aliased to dash.
The following utilities must be available: tar, wget (or curl),
dd, chmod, test, mkdir, echo, mv, uname, command, and gzip.
The $HOME environment variable needs to be set correctly. The
$HOME/.cache folder needs to be writable by the user with which you¡¯re connecting.
The IDE and the project should be on a local file system. Network
block storage such as EBS is acceptable, a network file system such as
NFS or SMB is not. Additionally, you need to have at least 8GB
available.
OpenSSH server, version 7.9p1 or later is recommended. Other SSH
servers fully implementing RFC 4254 may work too, yet are not supported.
SSH port forwarding must be enabled in server configuration.
The server needs to have at least 50 Mbps downstream capacity from
the internet.
The connection between client and server should have at least 20
Mbps bandwidth, and no more than 200ms latency.
Single tenancy within a server or container.
Recommendations
For larger projects, add more CPUs and RAM. The load average
indication in the IDE will tell you if an upgrade would be advisable.
Enabling Swap is recommended. Even on cloud instances.
Local SSD storage.
Not supported
Single-board computers such as Raspberry Pi. To run your code on a
Raspberry Pi, check out remote interpreters or remote debugging, and
similar features.