The future on development is in dev containers: reproducible, versioned development environments that run on any machine with a Docker installation (Win/Mac/Linux). If you want all users of your project to have a consistent, customized environment, dev containers can be added to your repositories. Dev Containers make onboarding new developers easy while reducing the time to get started.
After this session, you will be able to:
- Understand what dev containers are
- Know how to add and configure dev containers for a project
- Tool Installation
- Extensions
- Port Forwarding
- Installing software
Chris is a Senior Customer Engineer on the Fast Track for Azure team at Microsoft. Chris is an organizer for DevOpsDays Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay DevOps, and Tampa.Devs. He has a focus in modern applications built with DevOps, microservices, containers, Single Page Apps, RESTful APIs, and cloud technologies following agile practices. In his free time, Chris is a speaker at numerous meetups, an avid reader and a gamer.