Get Started with Dev Containers in VS Code

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Get Started with Dev Containers in VS Code

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@mightydrew1970 11 ай бұрын

I've been in IT for 35+ years, in various walks including development... and even this just looks like pure magic to me...

@code 11 ай бұрын

Dev containers ARE magic!! So glad you enjoyed!

@_____case 11 ай бұрын

Because for 35 years, there have been teams dedicated to building developer experiences that feel like magic.

@tomdemay9675 9 ай бұрын

Yeah... 32 years for me. And been there for the evolution. Remember when client server was a brand new idea! WOW I just started at a new high profile company and they don't have virtual machines for development. I thought that was so odd. Unfortunately everyone is using their laptops. But I'm trying to introduce better workflows. But someone just suggested a container approach and it sounds interesting. haven't watched the videos yet. But I hope I can find a comparison between a VM and a container for dev environments. I can see how a containerized approach would solve so many problems for VMs, but for what cost? Is there a trade off?

@HDenizD 11 ай бұрын

the fact that the code writes it self at 0:54 is fascinating.

@prasenjitnayak_ 11 ай бұрын

may be black box ig or chatgpt

@prasenjitnayak_ 11 ай бұрын

@@squishy-tomato yes dude. 😅 To clear the concept

@DodaGarcia 8 ай бұрын

Lol it's GitHub Copilot making a cameo

@onofreliscano 3 ай бұрын

hahaah./yeah😁

@DiegatxoMgro 3 ай бұрын

AI taken to the next level

@ani_b 2 ай бұрын

I have been a developer working on several specialized technologies, like 3D graphics, GPGPU, AI/ML and simulation. Devcontainers have changed the way I code and made it seamless to setup very complex dev enviroments, including h/w accelerated and multi-toolchain, multi-container and other kinds of environments that would take "normal" processes a giant onboarding doc and a day or more to setup. My startup is also investing heavily in devcontainer based tooling as a seamless way to IaC and deployment. Add Linux to this and you have just the BEST dev experience ever. This is the single best thing I've discovered in my 2.5 decades of programming. KUDOS, VS Code team!

@SidPrice 10 ай бұрын

This looks very interesting. A future video might show how to take a "typical" developer environment with all the various tools required for various project installed locally and move the projects into their own dev containers. I am sure there are many developers who find themselves in this condition and would benefit from a demonstration of how to do this. Thank you for an excellent video!

@tejeswar 9 ай бұрын

I have been using WSL2 for creating desired environments, but that was completely manual process takes 30 minutes to completely setup and development ready. This Docker Dev container concept is really clever. Under the hood, it used WSL2 in Windows, which is very efficient and virtually no performance drop.

@louderbackbarry 11 ай бұрын

Vs code was trying to get me to install docker and dev container and I didn’t know what it was until now. So this video was extremely valuable information

@maevwat 11 ай бұрын

Docker is goated

@code 11 ай бұрын

So glad you found it useful! Thanks for watching!

@arun279 11 ай бұрын

This is great, I think I’ll clear out and reset my vscode and use dev containers for all my projects, everything is clean and separated out that way

@code 11 ай бұрын

Yessss, dev containers make working on multiple projects so much cleaner and easier!

@michaelrobson3092 11 ай бұрын

I was looking for Portainer app templates yesterday that would create, an environment with all dependencies needed, this just ticks all the boxes. THANK YOU :)

@code 11 ай бұрын

Thank YOU for being here and sharing your feedback!

@Kayzewolf 5 ай бұрын

Honestly, this gives me a lot of excitement on creating new projects. Setup and managing multiple dependency services like Databases is usually the biggest annoyance. So easier use of your actual code using this easy Dev Containers feature plus using docker directly for database, cache, search, etc dependencies is like night and day in my workflow.

@gorandev 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for this short demo, looking forward to learn about more advanced topics. I somehow skipped the part in the official documentation stating that we can get a list of the most common commands by clicking on the "Remote Indicator", thanks for bringing that up.

@thghtfl 8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, it didn't work with Docker containers for me, attaching to a running container just hangs forever at "Starting Dev Container"...

@LeonardoJCaballeroG 2 ай бұрын

The Dev containers are amazing, thanks for this video!

@robinmordasiewicz 7 ай бұрын

wow, you are a very good presenter, good job.

@chetanesque158 Ай бұрын

well done! good intro to the dev containers

@codernerd7076 11 ай бұрын

The video I was waiting for!

@gkennedy_aiforsocialbenefit 6 ай бұрын

Great video. Love Docker and containers

@daveg4861 5 ай бұрын

Super helpful video. Thanks!

@thedelanyo 11 ай бұрын

This is great, especially for python devs

@REDIDSoft 11 ай бұрын

Amazing!!!!! I love VSCode ❤

@georgehammond867 11 ай бұрын

That's great job 👍

@andreasmastronikolis3987 4 ай бұрын

Really nice tutorial :) !

@hcmlopes 11 ай бұрын

This does seem quite amazing but besides being a little easier to setup could you talk about the additional benefits or differences to just using a docker-compose file?

@technolus5742 11 ай бұрын

One benefit is you can easily define vscode extensions to be used in your container.

@jeffreysmith9837 6 ай бұрын

Nothing

@thephoenixstudio 3 ай бұрын

@@jeffreysmith9837 Wrong. This helps alleviate issues between different OSes. For example, if you have bash scripts that use `sed`, Windows dosen't support sed, and Mac and Linux (used in CI/CD) have differences. This makes sure everyone is running the same environment.

@jeffreysmith9837 3 ай бұрын

@@thephoenixstudio why would I have incompatible bash scripts if I go through the effort of dockerizing the app. Might as well dockerize the bash scripts too

@thephoenixstudio 3 ай бұрын

@@jeffreysmith9837 That dosen't help if the scripts need to be run locally...

@ThangTran-hi3es 8 ай бұрын

MS + VSCode = Powerful

@kanishk7267 8 ай бұрын

Complex technology is indiscernible from magic

@viomyst 11 ай бұрын

I love dev containers since day one. I lately came back to a project with compose setup but I was missing the "Dev Container by existing Dockerfile/Docker-compose" on the command palette. Why was this removed?

@AdamHarte 11 ай бұрын

Why do dev containers need their own config to declare VSCode extensions. We already have extensions.json, couldn't it just use that?

@robcannon 11 ай бұрын

I would love to see how to keep a devcontainer that is used by lots of projects up to date across all of those projects.

@AdamHarte 11 ай бұрын

Isn't the point that you have a dev container per project? They should not be sharing. That would just be a development machine in that case

@robcannon 11 ай бұрын

Not when I have 60+ repos for the same team where we want to keep them all on the same set of tools. We are using GitOps and all of these repos are extremely active and it would be a nightmare if we had to manually update them (or even script something to update the devcontainer.json file and commit). But we also support 100+ other repos that have different requirements so we do want to let those repos be different based on the toolset that that dev team is using.

@bayoudata 7 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot!

@scigama71 7 ай бұрын

Nice..very nice

@ArifMatubber-km4nv 11 ай бұрын

Awesome 🎉

@StefanoV827 10 ай бұрын

Apart from VSCode extensions, what's the difference on using just docker-compose file?

@jeffreysmith9837 6 ай бұрын

Nothing. Just another repackaged tool like every software since 2010.

@audiodiwhy2195 2 ай бұрын

The python you container you present runs flask then an html file inside flask. I can use an html editor for that. How do you run .py files?

@DaPenguin447 11 ай бұрын

Is there a way to load extensions sequentially? Marlin Autobuild fails to load in a dev container due to being dependant on Platform IO, and Platform IO takes a few seconds to initialise properly. this isn't a problem outside a container with a persistent environment as it only fails the first time, but with a container it now fails every time

@Key_Capz_ 11 ай бұрын

well I'll be... but can my host code compile with the container code or viceversa without it just being exclusive to the container?

@aboudezoa 10 ай бұрын

How do I keep the changed code or added additional files leveraging the installed dependencies when connected to remote container ?

@alexkhonko4115 14 күн бұрын

why do i need this, if i have already configured docker? i mean - in big team, we have a docker i run it, all my colleagues run it. All of us have the same environment because we up it from the same config thats how we can both use and run the same stuff looks like useless toy. Maybe there is a good articles about it?

@louderbackbarry 11 ай бұрын

Where can I go to learn how to do marlin firmware for 3D printers. I learned some from watching KZfaq videos but I’m having a hard time to get marlin firmware to compile into firmware.bin file in visual studio code and I can’t figure out how to get GitHub copilot to work

@deepakdonde9199 8 ай бұрын

Microsoft's next project : Share Application requirements with Microsoft bot and it will do everything from development to deployment and respond to you in few seconds.

@sulfur32066 11 ай бұрын

This is all good but python extension test discovery doesn't work for two months now

@akramsabir7961 11 ай бұрын

I am unable to open folders throught vs code explorer and it is not showing any folder in vs code explorer ,someone please help

@randomforest_dev 11 ай бұрын

Btw, is she Jennifer Connelly's sister 😅

@itomalux 11 ай бұрын

What's the difference between this Dev Containers and creating local .env?

@bjmmedeiros13 11 ай бұрын

Isolation beyond python packages (environment variables, files, other dependencies, etc); automation (no need to generate and activate virtual envs then install requirements); sharing with other devs; "dev-environment-as-code"... The list goes on and on

@junaga2 11 ай бұрын

a container is a VM. .env is a file of variables

@RetiredInThailand 11 ай бұрын

I don't want to sound unappreciative as this video explains a bit more than most, but I've never written any serious code that was a simple one container, python static webpage. When are we going to get some 'best practices' on real applications with real configurations of multiple containers (app, web, database, etc.) I've basically given up on using the VSCode built in 'devcontainer' support and gone back to just writing up docket-composer and dockerfiles as using the command pallet process always gives confusing prompts about overwriting things, and no matter what I answer it's always a case of it 'not working', so I just go back to mostly manual configuration. Lots of potential, but just not quite 'there' enough to delivery on the promise it 'seems' to claim to offer (quick, effortless set up and configuration of an application ... Real application, not just a simple sample single container .. environment.)

@rehthro 11 ай бұрын

I like it, isolated environments for whatever project you want to quickly work on without breaking or mutating your own environment. Adoption is going to take a while though

@RetiredInThailand 11 ай бұрын

@@rehthro oh, I get that, but if I'm going to work on an application that only requires one container then I'm not sure how much actual effort I'll be saving using VSCode devcontainers vs just pulling an image from docker hub and attaching to it? The argument that I can share the devcontainer with the team for consistency seems a bit hallow in that would I really be working with a team to build an app that only used one 'technology' in one container? Maybe? But again I'm not sure how much effort devcontainer saves vs a readme with a 'docker run' command?

@code 11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your feedback!! We love hearing what content we can put out that will be the most helpful, and we'll add this to our list of future ideas for a video or livestream!

@RetiredInThailand 11 ай бұрын

@@squishy-tomato but you don't need containers to do any of that configuration, the are profiles that can do almost all of that stuff ... Don't need Docker containers to do any of that.

@vitorleal666 5 ай бұрын

You realize you can use docker-compose with this... right? This is only a different way to spin up a Docker container.

@johnm8358 11 ай бұрын

Does it work with podman

@prasenjitnayak_ 11 ай бұрын

Bring a android version of VS-Code ;)

@dmytrk 11 ай бұрын

There is a web version

@dmytrk 11 ай бұрын

@waterbonkle6346 yeah, it never meant to be as usable, as on pc, but they showed in some video, that you can do some small work, such as fixing typos, while being on vacation without your laptop

@dmytrk 11 ай бұрын

@@squishy-tomato maybe, Termux with Vim/NeoVim could do better

@prasenjitnayak_ 11 ай бұрын

@@squishy-tomato well said man

@prasenjitnayak_ 11 ай бұрын

@@dmytrk bringing an android version will help a lot of people, like those who haven't any laptop or desktop.

@xyzl4176 11 ай бұрын

support podman？

@littlebrit 10 ай бұрын

Feels like watching an advertisement.

@rajaarunachalam8550 11 ай бұрын

Hey how you doing? Thank you so much for this video tutorial. Can you please help me to find Dev Container for CakePHP framework? I really need that stuff. Hope you reply me.