In this blog post, we explore the process of configuring Renovate to automatically update DevContainer images. Development containers offer lightweight, portable development environments, defined through a devcontainer.json file. However, manually updating image references within this file can be tedious and error-prone. We delve into how Renovate, an automated dependency update tool, can be tailored to handle DevContainer files efficiently. By leveraging Renovate's custom managers and flexib...| Wild Wild Wolf
Development Containers represent a paradigm shift in software development methodology, encapsulating comprehensive development environments within containerized configurations. This approach addresses the imperative need for consistency across diverse development environments by packaging essential tools, libraries, and configurations within self-contained units. Developers can utilize DevContainers to seamlessly share and replicate their development setups, fostering collaboration and enabli...| Wild Wild Wolf
Codespace environments are backed with development containers (dev containers for short). They are supported by other tools, for example, Visual Studio Code. And even though Microsoft maintains both Dev Containers extension for VSCode and GitHub Codespaces, they behave differently in some aspects. This article shows one of the bugs, which is related to Automatic Port Forwarding.| Wild Wild Wolf