Devpod: Base Image (Early attempt)

Devpod base settings for future more customized versions.

Using mise, chezmoi, and devcontainers.

Prerequisites:

Docker and devpod cli installed.

To Use:

Clone the repo onto your machine.

git clone [email protected]:davidjnevin/devpod-base.git .
cd devpod-base

Edit the devcontainer.json file to set your username.

This will define both the name of the user with sudo privileges and the folder structure.

NB: The remoteUser and the USERNAME in the devcontainer.json must match.

{
  "build": {
    "context": "..",
    "dockerfile": "Dockerfile",
    "args": {
      "USERNAME": "david"  <--- must match
    }
  },
  "remoteUser": "david",  <-- must match
  "containerUser": "root",
  "postCreateCommand": "scripts/setup"
}

Then run the following commands from within the devpod-base folder.

Caveat: This assumes you have a dotfiles repo set up for use with mise. See this repo for my early attempts at this.

Also, I use nvim in my devpods, so my IDE is set to none. Other options include openvscode or vscode.

The full documentation is available at [https://devpod.sh/docs/what-is-devpod].

devpod provider add docker
devpod up . --ide none --dotfiles [email protected]:<github_username>/<dotfiles-repo> (--recreate) # start/mount a devpod using the current directory, no IDE set and a specified dotfiles repo. (recreate rebuilds the container)
devpod ssh  # gives a list of available containers to ssh into

This is a work in progress and is subject to change without warning or reason.