Visual Studio Code: Remote dev with Containers & Codespaces

Part 2 of Remote Development with Visual Studio Code, Brigit Murtaugh, a PM with VS Code, explains how to set up a remote development environment using either Docker containers or GitHub Codespaces.

This episode will cover:


00:19 What is remote development in VS Code?
1:13 What is a container?
2:05 Why is container-based development useful?
3:34 How can I leverage container-based development in VS Code?
4:14 Demo: Let's configure a Remote Container
11:20 Demo #2: Let's try some sample commands in a Remote Container
17:42 Demo #3: Let's try using GitHub Codespaces

Links:
-- Part 1 - VS Code Remote Development with SSH, VMs, and WSL on Tabs vs Spaces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkLjxr9iQ-8

-- Install Docker Desktop for Windows
https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install/?WT.mc_id=windows-c9-niner

-- Sign up for GitHub Codespaces beta
https://github.com/features/codespaces/signup/?WT.mc_id=windows-c9-niner

-- Download Visual Studio Code
https://code.visualstudio.com/Download/?WT.mc_id=windows-c9-niner

-- VS Code docs: Developing inside a container
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

-- Windows docs: Overview of Docker remote development on Windows
https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/dev-environment/docker/overview

-- GitHub docs: About Codespaces
https://docs.github.com/en/github/developing-online-with-codespaces/about-codespaces

-- Azure docs: Run Docker containers on-demand in a managed, serverless Azure environment
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/container-instances/?WT.mc_id=windows-c9-niner