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Learning about Development Containers

devcontainer-hello

Learning about Development Containers

This requires to have the Docker on your machine.

• Development Containers

• [GitHub Org] devcontainers

  • [GitHub] devcontainers/spec - Development Containers: Use a container as a full-featured development environment.

  • [GitHub] devcontainers/templates - Repository for Dev Container Templates that are managed by Dev Container spec maintainers.

  • [GitHub] devcontainers/images - Repository for pre-built dev container images published under mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers.

Learning

• Use a Docker container as a development environment with Visual Studio Code - Training | Microsoft Learn

• [YouTube Playlist] Dev Containers Overview | Visual Studio Code

  • [YouTube] Get Started with Dev Containers in VS Code | Visual Studio Code (2023/09/05)

    • [GitHub] microsoft/vscode-remote-try-python - Python sample project for trying out Dev Containers

    • Developing inside a Container using Visual Studio Code Remote Development | Visual Studio Code Docs

    • Dev Containers tutorial | Visual Studio Code Docs

  • [YouTube] Different Ways to Run Dev Containers: VS Code vs CLI | Visual Studio Code (2023/10/04)

  • [YouTube] Dev Container Features & Lifecycle Hooks | Visual Studio Code (2024/02/28)

• [YouTube] Working with Dev Containers by Chris Ayers | Devoxx (2023/05/16)

• [YouTube] If you're not developing with this, you're wasting your time | Articulated Robotics (2024/01/05)

• [YouTube] My Favorite Way To Handle Dev Environments - VS Code Devcontainers | DanCanCode (2023/01/12)

• [YouTube] How To Set Up Local DevOps Environment With Docker using Dev Containers | Chandra Shettigar (2023/11/15)

  • DevOps Local Setup: Docker & Dev-Containers in VSCode | Devteds

  • [GitHub] devteds/devops-local-setup-docker-devcontainer-vscode

• [YouTube] How to build your first Devcontainer | GitHub (2024/03/19)

  • [GitHub] diagrid-labs/dapr-workflow-demos

• Using Devcontainers for Local Development | xMatters (2021/05/31)

• Getting Started with Dev Containers | JosephGuadagno.net (2022/12/10)

Advanced container configuration

• Advanced container configuration | Visual Studio Code

  • Environment variables

  • Change the default source code mount

  • Connect to multiple containers

  • Configure separate containers

Using Docker Compose

• [YouTube] Customize Dev Containers in VS Code with Dockerfiles and Docker Compose | Visual Studio Code (2024/01/31)

• [YouTube] Working with Multiple Dev Containers in VS Code | Visual Studio Code (2023/11/30)

  • [GitHub] madebygps/multiple-dev-container-vscode - An example repo on how to use multiple devcontainer.json files with VS Code.

Tips

• Dev Containers Tips and Tricks | Visual Studio Code

• Sharing Git credentials with your container | Visual Studio Code

MacOS - passing the ssh credentions to inside of the devcontainer

If you get and issue while trying to commit your changes from inside of the devcontainer, the solution that I took on my case

1. Make sure to have your ssh key for the git host mapped like the following example

# ~/.ssh/config

Host *
  ForwardAgent yes

Host github.com
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/{private_ssh_key}
  AddKeysToAgent yes

2. On your devconfig.json file, add the following mount configuration

...

  "mounts": [
    "type=bind,source=${localEnv:HOME}/.ssh,target=/home/vscode/.ssh,readonly"
  ]

...

Projects that uses Development Containers

• [GitHub] home-assistant/core - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

Tools

• Supporting tools and services | Development Containers

• [GitHub] esensar/nvim-dev-container

CLI

• [GitHub] devcontainers/cli - A reference implementation for the specification that can create and configure a dev container from a devcontainer.json.

DevPod

• DevPod - Open Source Dev-Environments-As-Code

• [GitHub] loft-sh/devpod - Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated: Works with any IDE and lets you use any cloud, kubernetes or just localhost docker.

• [YouTube] Introducing DevPod - Codespaces but Open Source | Loft Labs (2023/05/16)

  • Introducing DevPod - Codespaces but Open Source | Loft Blog - DevPod does not host or manage the dev environments. Instead, DevPod introduces a way to define a dev environment which can then be run in any cloud infrastructure or even on a localhost machine using Docker or Kubernetes.

• [YouTube] Running Dev Containers with DevPod | Containers from the Couch (2023/06/27)

• [YouTube] Open Source Dev Containers with DevPod | Cloud Native Rejekts (2023/12/07)

• [YouTube] Open Source Dev Containers for macOS with Colima and DevPod | Loft Labs (2023/11/23)

  • Open Source Dev Containers for macOS with Colima and DevPod | Loft Blog

  • [GitHub] abiosoft/colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

Visual Studio Code Extensions

• Dev Containers extension - Open any folder or repository inside a Docker container and take advantage of Visual Studio Code's full feature set.

  • Customizing the VS Code Extensions

• Remote Development extension pack - An extension pack that lets you open any folder in a container, on a remote machine, or in WSL and take advantage of VS Code's full feature set.

IntelliJ IDEA

• IntelliJ IDEA 2023.2 EAP 6: AI Assistant, Dev Containers Support, and More | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

• Dev Containers | WebStorm Documentation

CodeSandbox

• Dev Containers | CodeSandbox Docs