How To Set Up Local DevOps Environment With Docker using Dev Containers

Let's quickly walk through setting up a DevOps local development environment. A local development step that requires many different CLI tools any DevOps would need for the day-to-day job.

Docker can be used to implement a consistent local setup across teams and the Visual Studio Code extension, the "Dev Containers" makes it a whole lot easier. There are a couple of options for setting up the local environment, but Docker with a VSCode extension to run development environment as a Container instance is the cleanest option.

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Related content:

Course: Kubernetes on AWS (Hands-on Get Started Guide):

Episode - Multi-Stage Docker Build

Episode - MySQL and PostgreSQL with Docker in Development

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Author:

Chandra Shettigar | Devteds, LLC

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Chapters:
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00:00 Introduction
00:42 Context
01:00 Local Setup Options
01:44 Dev Containers
06:15 Source Code on Docker Host
08:13 Configure CLI & Share Credentials
11:02 Test & Run Terraform
12:56 Summary

[Ciphrzer]

Thank you for explaining this, out of many videos, this one helped it to click.

[danielhuesca]

Thank so much for this video, it helped me understand DevContainers and motivated me to build my own for daily work

[thetrilbies]

Can we add MySQL to the Dev container?