VSCode dev containers with Podman

Developing with containers is now simple with VSCode’s Remote Development extension. Any serious project where I use VSCode now has a devcontainer.json (including this blog), yet I’ve never been happy about using Docker on my personal machines. The install process is a little invasive, containers run as root by default, and I never liked the daemon running on my laptop all of the time. I recently switched my desktop and laptop from Fedora to Ubuntu, as my wife is very close to trying a Linux over Windows and I wanted to see what the state of the world was like for non-technical folk (quick summary - once setup, it’s pretty good), and with a nice clean system I wanted to see if I could avoid using Docker and do everything with Podman....

December 28, 2021 · 2 min