How To Use The Docker Extension For Visual Studio Code To Build A DockerFile

Microsoft's Docker extension for Visual Studio Code makes it easy to manage and run Docker images and containers. The extension also helps in the authoring of Dockerfile files within VS Code by offering automatic file generation, syntax highlighting, hover tips and IntelliSense.

In this video, Matt will demonstrate how to use the Docker extension to generate a new Dockerfile taking advantage of the snippets that the Docker extension makes available in VS code. Once the Dockerfile is complete, we can then build and run the new container image thanks to the Docker extension without having to type anything at the command line.

Prerequisites include:
Docker
Visual Studio Code