Open FoundationDB in a Dev Container

[Pierre Zemb]

I've been working with FDB for a few years now, and I've always struggle to setup and build fdb locally. There is multiple documentation available:

• The README (with outdated info?),
• the README in https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-build-support
• the FoundationDB Development Setup in the Wiki.

While I do get that building such a massive project is no easy task, I'm wondering how far can we go setting up a Dev container file.

I see several benefits:

• ease setup
• allow remote dev env
• pin the right tag of the build container
• commit info like the BOOST_ROOT or which devtoolset to use.

Would you be interested in such a contribution? I would be happy to do it 😄

[Michael Stack]

I'd be up for trying it out if that helps.

[Pierre Zemb]

I would love some help 😁 I'm a bit familiar with FDB's building systems, but not as a useable dev environment