Get Started with Dev Containers in VS Code 

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

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

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!

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!

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.

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 :)

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.

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

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

The Dev containers are amazing, thanks for this video!

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

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

This is great, especially for python devs

Super helpful video. Thanks!

Amazing!!!!! I love VSCode ❤

The video I was waiting for!

well done! good intro to the dev containers

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.

Great video. Love Docker and containers

That's great job 👍

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

Thanks a lot!

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?

Really nice tutorial :) !

Awesome 🎉

Where can I go to learn how to do marlin firmware for 3D printers. I learned some from watching RU-vid 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

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

Nice..very nice

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

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?

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

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

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

Does it work with podman

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?

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.

MS + VSCode = Powerful

Complex technology is indiscernible from magic

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

support podman？

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

Bring a android version of VS-Code ;)

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.

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.

Btw, is she Jennifer Connelly's sister 😅

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.)

Feels like watching an advertisement.

not sure how that would apply to "dev" in general, seams very specific to webdev

If only those plugins were included in your IDE. Then there would be no need to configure them in dev-contianers...

The facecam looks like it has been generated by an AI lmao

I like! but what we really need is a cloud operating system.

I hate to say it but she's rambling. I would feel better if it was a guy. I also have a feeling a guy would not talk so much.

Docker... no, not interested.