
You’re just a devcontainer.json away (Interview)
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This week we’re joined by Brigit Murtaugh, Product Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, and we’re talking about Development Containers and the Dev Container spec. Ever since we talked with Cory Wilkerson about Coding in the cloud with Codespaces we’ve wanted to get the Changelog.com codebase setup with a dev environment in the cloud to more easily support contributions. After getting a drive-by contribution from Chris Eggert to add a Dev Container spec to our codebase, we got curious and reached out to Brigit and asked her to come on the show to give us all the details.
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Featuring:
- Brigit Murtaugh – GitHub, LinkedIn
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- containers.dev
- Dev containers templates and on GitHub
- Dev containers CLI
- PR #437 (from Chris Eggert): Add GitHub Codespaces support - https://containers.dev 👀
- Beginner’s Series to: Dev Containers
- The Changelog #459: Coding in the cloud with Codespaces with Cory Wilkerson
- The Changelog #277: The Story of Visual Studio Code
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 1:12Sponsor: Postman
- 2:27Start the show!
- 10:04Is resistance futile?
- 13:35Start backwards from the DX
- 16:54Will VS Code become an IDE?
- 19:46Anything from anywhere
- 25:16Dev Container vs Codespaces?
- 28:14Sponsor: Square
- 29:06VS Code and Dev Containers
- 33:15Where does editor config live?
- 35:36devcontainer.local?
- 42:36The best pitch for cloud coding
- 46:42So where is the code?
- 51:11How do credentials work?
- 53:29Moar templates
- 56:33Go curious? Spin up a container.
- 59:20It's JUST that easy
- 1:00:43What's the downside?
- 1:03:11They've pre-baked images
- 1:05:38Have we covered it all?
- 1:07:53Closing
- 1:08:07Outro