How it works...

Virtual environments provide an optimal development workspace by isolating the relationship to the physical or host machine. Developers may be using all types of machines for their host environments such as a MacBook running macOS, a Microsoft Surface running Windows or even a virtual machine on the cloud with Microsoft Azure or AWS; however, to ensure consistency within the output of the code executed, a virtual environment within Ubuntu Desktop will be deployed that can be used and shared among a wide variety of host platforms.