Systems and methods for on-demand container-based development environments

An on-demand development system, comprising:

• a plurality of clients;
• a server comprising at least one computer processor executing an on-demand application;
• a template repository comprising a plurality of build templates;
• and
• a plurality of endpoints, each end point executing an on-demand agent;
• wherein:
• the on-demand application receives a request for an on-demand development environment for an application binary from one of the clients;
• the on-demand application verifies that infrastructure for the on-demand development environment is not provisioned;
• the on-demand application identifies a build template for the on-demand development environment from the plurality of build templates, the build template comprising a Docker image comprising an operating system, application infrastructure components, and/or an on-demand agent;
• the on-demand application retrieves the build template from the template repository;
• the on-demand application selects one of the plurality of endpoints for the on-demand development environment;
• the on-demand application initiates the on-demand development environment on the endpoint using the build template;
• the on-demand application deploys the application binary to the on-demand development environment;
• and
• the agent for the selected endpoint unpacks the application binary to the on-demand development environment, wherein the application binary is injected into a runtime container.