One of the newest additions to the dev container specification is Features. Today I’ll explore the basics of the specification and how it lets you create reusable components for your dev containers.
Let’s get a bit crazy for 2023. In this post, we’ll see if we can run some Docker commands from inside our Alpine dev container using Docker-from-Docker and a bit of configuration.
You’re working in a development container. You need access to a port on the host for a proxy SSH connection to a Git server. Sounds tough, right? Turns out it’s simple.
If you need to connect to multiple Git hosts or environments (like EMU and GHEC) with minimal effort, then SSH may provide the options you need to make it painless.
There are many ways to automate the process of marking directories as “safe” to avoid the “detected dubious ownership in repository” message. Last week, I discussed how to modify the devcontainer.json. This week, let’s see an alternative using Dotfiles.
It’s always best to run containers with the least privileges required. Unfortunately, that may result in Git operations that fail with the message “detected dubious ownership in repository”. The trick to eliminating this is quite simple …
Did you know it’s possible to share your AWS credentials between your host computer and your Dev Containers? Once again we explore the power of using mounts in Dev Containers.
If you’ve ever worked with Node.js, you’ve dealt with the joy which is node_modules. Thousands of files slowly churning on your hard drive. Even more slowly if you’re trying to delete them. Want to make them easier to manage? Learn how Dev Containers can help.
