A development container (or dev container for short) allows you to use a container as a full-featured development environment. It can be used to run an appli...

Use Docker or Kubernetes from a container While you can build, deploy, and debug your application inside a dev container, you may also need to test it by running it inside a set of production-like containers.

In this post, we'll take a look at how both of these tools work, and how you can leverage them in Visual Studio Code to productively use dev containers in WSL 2.

The Visual Studio Code Dev Containersextension lets you use a Docker containeras a full-featured development environment. It allows you to open any folder inside (or mounted into) a container and take advantage of Visual Studio Code's full feature set.

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I want to run a dev environment to develop & debug an image in a private docker registry. My idea is to build the dev container with that as a base to keep the production image clean with only the bugfixes and features permanently added to it.

Dev Containers provide the perfect solution in VS Code. With just a few files, you can configure VS Code to have a consistent environment (including plugins) for all your team. Setting up a Dev Container As a pre-requisite, you will need the “Remote - Containers” extensionfrom Microsoft.

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Visual Studio Code has support for Remote Developmentwhich is a really cool feature. You can connect to another machine via SSHand work with code there (the language services etc run remotely which is the really cool part!), connect to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or run your development environment in containers(aka dev containers). The last of these is the topic for this post.