Dev Container: A JSON File for Developers

Jason: Dev containers is a file that lives in your code repo, right? And what does that do for a developer? Yeah, it essentially specifies and codifies as a JSON file what your dev environment should look like. You can also tell it to build a container based on a Docker file and just pointed at that. It's very flexible on how it spins up your environment,. But typically you provide it with some kind of way to create a container and then it drops you inside that container. Jason: If you're I'd say to build cloud infrastructure, like the first thing on any cloud that I try to build is the servers themselves like EC2 and AWS are probably the first skill

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