devcontainer (DevPod)

Use this repo to test a devcontainer with the help of devpod. This container contains a large number of development tools.

For further information on devpod visit devpod.sh

Table of Content

• Features
  • Config Files
• Preperation / Installation
  • macOS Silicon/ARM
  • macOS Intel/AMD
  • Windows
  • Linux AMD
  • Linux ARM
• Usage
• Provider Inactivity Timeout
• Provider Options
• zsh Shortcuts
• Neovim (nvchad) Shortcuts
• FAQ
  • Attaching the Ansible Language Server to yaml files in neovim (LSP)
• Mirror
• Related Links

Features

This development container (Debian 12) has the following features:

• Contains all tools for ansible development
• Starship Cross Shell Prompt
• Uses a customizable user account instead of root
• Container uses persistent volume for the shell history
• git inclusive default config
• lf file manager incl. fzf support
• neovim complete IDE nvchad
• pre-commit
• ripgrep
• sudo command available without password
• tmux inclusive plugins & themes
• vim
• zsh with syntax-highlighting & autosuggestions
• Uses the local credentials (docker/git/ssh) from the client

Config Files

• devcontainer.json
• Dockerfile
• post-exec.sh

Preperation / Installation

Install the devpod cli with the following command.

macOS Silicon/ARM

curl -L -o devpod "https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod/releases/latest/download/devpod-darwin-arm64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 devpod /usr/local/bin && rm -f devpod

macOS Intel/AMD

curl -L -o devpod "https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod/releases/latest/download/devpod-darwin-amd64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 devpod /usr/local/bin && rm -f devpod

Windows

md -Force "$Env:APPDATA\devpod"; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]'Tls,Tls11,Tls12';
Invoke-WebRequest -URI "https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod/releases/latest/download/devpod-windows-amd64.exe" -o $Env:APPDATA\devpod\devpod.exe;
$env:Path += ";" + $Env:APPDATA + "\devpod";
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $env:Path, [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User);

Linux AMD

curl -L -o devpod "https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod/releases/latest/download/devpod-linux-amd64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 devpod /usr/local/bin && rm -f devpod

Linux ARM

curl -L -o devpod "https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod/releases/latest/download/devpod-linux-arm64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 devpod /usr/local/bin && rm -f devpod

Usage

First prepare your provider. This example shows the docker provider.

devpod provider add docker

Type the following command to start the container.

devpod up ./ --ide none

or

devpod up https://github.com/stormmurdoc/devcontainer --ide none

or with personal dotfiles and VSCode.

devpod up ./ --dotfiles https://github.com/stormmurdoc/dotfiles --ide vscode

Currently the following IDEs are supported:

• clion
• fleet
• goland
• intellij
• jupyternotebook
• none
• openvscode
• phpstorm
• pycharm
• rider
• rubymine
• vscode
• webstorm

The following command start your vscode and connect remotely to your development container.

devpod up https://github.com/stormmurdoc/devcontainer --ide vscode

The IDE option openvscode starts a VSCODE instance in your local browser.

Connect to your devcontainer with the following command:

ssh devcontainer.devpod

Provider Inactivity Timeout

Automatically shutdown unused workspaces to save costs with the following provider option. The following command sets the timeout to 10min for the ssh provider.

devpod provider update ssh -o INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT=10m

Provider Options

You can list the table of provider's options by using

devpod provider options ssh

zsh Shortcuts

Inside the terminal you can use the following shortcuts:

Key	Command
[CTRL-o]	starts lf file manager
[CTRL-n]	starts neovim
[CTRL-p]	run pre-commit run -av
[CTRL-l]	clear screen

Neovim (nvchad) Shortcuts

Use the following shortcuts in neovim.

Key	Command
[space]th	change the theme
[space]ff	open telescope fuzzy finder
[space]fa	open telescope fuzzy finder (all files)
[space]fw	open telescope live grep
[space]gt	show git diff/status
[space]gb	show git blame (current line)
[CTRL-n]	to open nvimtree

FAQ

Attaching the Ansible Language Server to yaml files in neovim (LSP)

You can fix this by setting the correct file type for the current buffer:

:set ft=yaml.ansible

Mirror

This repo is only a mirror from a private gitea instance.

Related Links

• nvchad install
• nvchad documentation @ rocky linux
• nvim installation
• Turn vim into a full featured IDE with only one command
• Devlopment Containers Community
• Uber Blog DevPod