Vagrant VS vscode-dev-containers

Take a look at Vagrant! https://www.vagrantup.com/ In my admittedly limited understanding I believe it offers closer to a nix like reproducable rather than repeatable deployments.

on the off chance one hasn't been tracking it, there were several "we don't need your stinking BuSL" projects when this drama first started:

https://github.com/opentofu#why-opentofu (Terraform)

https://github.com/openbao/openbao#readme (Vault)

and I know of several attempts at Vagrant <https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/forks> but I don't believe one of them has caught traction yet

There are also some who have talked about an "open Nomad" but since I don't play in that space I can't speak to it

It sounds like you're using Nix as a sort of configuration management solution. CM just isn't worth it for managing a single desktop IMO. It triples the effort for whenever you need to add or remove a package, as you must now add that also to your nix configuration. You're supposed to be able to make that back up in time saved restoring to the next machine, but inevitably the next machine will be different enough that you'll have to edit it all anyway. In the end I just got tired of trying to manage my own machine with infrastructure as code (though in fairness I was using puppet at the time not nix).

I keep a git repository with all my dot files in it[1]. This seems to work the best. It has a Windows folder as well, and I copy that out whenever I need to set up Windows.

A lot of people like using WSL but I hate how it hogs on my memory. Hyper-V is a terrible virtualization engine for consumer-grade use cases because it can't thin provision RAM. If I need to use docker, I will spin up a small Linux VM using vagrant[3] with Virtualbox[4] and put Docker on there. Vagrant is an extremely underrated tool in my opinion, particularly in a Windows context.

I use scoop for packages. Typically I will scoop install msys2 and then pin it so that it doesn't get blown away by the next upgrade.

Then I basically do all of my development inside of msys2. I can get most things running in there without virtualization. In my case that means sbcl and roswell for common lisp, senpai for irc, and tmux and nvim for sanity. Msys2 uses the pacman package manager and this is good enough.

All In all, I set up my Windows machine affresh after a while of not using it and it took me about 3 hours. Most of that time was just getting through upgrades though, I felt like it was pretty fast.

1: https://git.sr.ht/~skin/dotfiles

2: https://www.msys2.org/

3: https://www.vagrantup.com/

4: https://www.virtualbox.org/

Tools like Docker and Vagrant can be used to allow local environments to mimic production environments.

There's an open issue [1]. A scripting interface has since been added [2], and updated [3], so there's progress.

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/12518

Someone should fork and maintain Vagrant with an MPL open source license:

https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant

https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/blob/v2.3.7/CHANGELOG.m... ?

The changelog lists both improvements and bug fixes and there's even apparently some effort to port it away from ruby: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/blob/v2.3.7/internal/cl...

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// For format details, see https://aka.ms/devcontainer.json. For config options, see the README at: // https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/v0.241.1/containers/ubuntu { "name": "Ubuntu", "build": { "dockerfile": "Dockerfile", "args": { "VARIANT": "ubuntu-22.04" } }, "postStartCommand": ".devcontainer/env.sh", "remoteUser": "vscode", "features": { "git": "os-provided", "aws-cli": "latest", "golang": "latest", "sshd": "latest" } }

# See here for image contents: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/v0.245.0/containers/python-3/.devcontainer/base.Dockerfile # [Choice] Python version (use -bullseye variants on local arm64/Apple Silicon): 3, 3.10, 3.9, 3.8, 3.7, 3.6, 3-bullseye, 3.10-bullseye, 3.9-bullseye, 3.8-bullseye, 3.7-bullseye, 3.6-bullseye, 3-buster, 3.10-buster, 3.9-buster, 3.8-buster, 3.7-buster, 3.6-buster ARG VARIANT="3.10-bullseye" FROM mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/python:0-${VARIANT} # [Choice] Node.js version: none, lts/*, 16, 14, 12, 10 ARG NODE_VERSION="none" RUN if [ "${NODE_VERSION}" != "none" ]; then su vscode -c "umask 0002 && . /usr/local/share/nvm/nvm.sh && nvm install ${NODE_VERSION} 2>&1"; fi # Install Google Chrome Stable and fonts # Note: this installs the necessary libs to make the browser work with Puppeteer. ENV PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD true RUN apt-get update && apt-get install gnupg wget -y && \ wget --quiet --output-document=- https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/google-archive.gpg && \ sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list' && \ apt-get update && \ apt-get install google-chrome-stable -y --no-install-recommends && \ rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* # [Optional] If your pip requirements rarely change, uncomment this section to add them to the image. COPY requirements.txt /tmp/pip-tmp/ RUN pip3 --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir install -r /tmp/pip-tmp/requirements.txt \ && rm -rf /tmp/pip-tmp

Looks like they do? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/issues/675

In the vscode-dev-containers repo, you'll see that there too is a .devcontainer directory. This contains instructions for building the dotnet vscode-dev-container. Click into the directory.

I'm trying to set up a dev environment which utilises the standard Python 3 devcontainer for Python files (which is great IMO), but also utilises the R devcontainer for R files. Or at the very least sets up the basic R for VSCode environment espoused on the VSCode tutorials.

Select a predefined container definition. In my case I will select 'Ubuntu'. NOTE: There is a growing variety of predefined images that can be selected from, maintained on GitHubs vscode-dev-containers repository:

As documented here, a Dev Container's built-in features are sources from the script-library folder in the vscode-dev-containers repo. The Remote - Containers extension and GitHub Codespaces include "preview" functionality to extend Dev Container features. You can add any custom feature by using the dev-container-features-template sample repository.

In your case in the development container you can specify a specific version of .NET SDK and Azure Functions SDK. There is a premade devcontainer for VSCode with Azure Functions and C#: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/main/containers/azure-functions-dotnet-6-isolated