Really Using Visual Studio Development Containers

• devcontainer-example

  1 5 4.9 PHP

  An example devconainer

I encourage you to checkout the example project on GitHub, you should try it out in Codespace as well as launching the stack in Codespace and then connecting with your own, local version of Visual Studio Code. In my opinion this latter option is pretty compelling: you can customize Code the way you like it (including extensions that you prefer) and then connect to a set of running containers hosted at GitHub.

• httpie

  116 31,760 7.0 Python

  🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)

  

This is the simplest scenario where we just plop a development container definition into our project and Code spins it up. But what if we needed to add some of our own tools? Perhaps our team relies heavily on Flyway for database migrations and HTTPie for testing our RESTful endpoints. This can easily be done by writing our own Docker image definition. First remove the "image" attribute from your devcontainer.json file and replace it with a "dockerFile" attribute that points to our soon-to-be-created Dockerfile.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Flyway

  80 7,754 7.2 Java

  Flyway by Redgate • Database Migrations Made Easy.

  

This is the simplest scenario where we just plop a development container definition into our project and Code spins it up. But what if we needed to add some of our own tools? Perhaps our team relies heavily on Flyway for database migrations and HTTPie for testing our RESTful endpoints. This can easily be done by writing our own Docker image definition. First remove the "image" attribute from your devcontainer.json file and replace it with a "dockerFile" attribute that points to our soon-to-be-created Dockerfile.

• Docker Compose

  383 32,312 9.6 Go

  Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

  

Before we go further, let me clarify: a development container isn't just one container. You can also provide a Docker compose file where you can describe all of the other containers your need to work on your project (a database server, web server, etc.)

• Visual Studio Code

  2,831 157,893 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

At this point, like all of us, you wonder "is there a better way?" There's always a better way and the idea of using Docker to support your development environment is nothing new. The interesting bit is that Visual Studio Code is bringing some tooling to the table that makes this much easier.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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