Title: Harness the Power of Docker from Your IDE Presented at All Things Open 2022 Presented by Olivia Guzzardo Abstract: Docker has revolutionized developer productivity through a simple local setup and deployment story. It helps ensure everyone on your team is working on the “same box”, reducing overhead time spent on things like setting up projects, resolving dependencies, and onboarding other developers. Now what if we could capture the power of Docker, while never leaving the comfort of our IDE? In this session, you’ll learn how to use the remote development extensions within VS Code to move to container-based development – even if you know very little about Docker.

1. Harness the
Power of Docker
from Your IDE
(even if you don’t know anything
about Docker)

2. Agenda
• Containers Overview
• Dev Container Demo
• Codespaces Demo
• Open Specification + Dev Container CLI

3. Olivia Guzzardo
Developer Advocate at Microsoft

4. tiktok.com/@vscode
youtube.com/code
@code

5. Containers

7. Development + Containers = Dev Containers

8. Why?

9. Sounds
great… but
how?
VS Code
Docker
Dev Containers Extension
devcontainer.json

10. Demo: Choose Your Own
Adventure

11. Take Dev Containers to the Cloud
GitHub Codespaces

12. Demo

13. Not Just for VS Code
• Open specification + dev container CLI: https://containers.dev/

14. Dev Container
Features +
Templates
Features blogpost:
aka.ms/DevContainerFeatures

15. Wrap-up
• Dev containers can drastically reduce overhead time spent
on things like setting up projects, resolving dependencies,
and onboarding other developers
• Never have to leave the “home” of your editor

16. Thanks!
aka.ms/WhyDevContainers