Entering Your Development Environment

Once you’ve initialized your environment and added some packages, you’ll want to actually use it. Grove makes this really simple.

Tip

Grove environments are completely isolated from your system. This means you can have Python 3.9 in one project and Python 3.11 in another, without any conflicts!

Entering your environment

To start using your development environment, just run:

kanuka grove enter
# or use the shortcut
kanuka dev

This will drop you into a clean shell where all your packages are available and ready to use.

Checking everything works

You can verify your environment is working by checking the versions:

# Inside your grove environment
node --version
python --version
go version

Using AWS authentication

If you’re working with AWS, Grove can handle authentication for you:

kanuka grove enter --auth

This will prompt you for AWS SSO details and authenticate you automatically.

Using named environments

You can also use different environment configurations:

kanuka grove enter --env production
kanuka grove enter --env testing

Next steps

To learn more about kanuka grove enter, see the development environments concepts and the command reference.

Or, continue reading to learn how to manage your environment.