Integration with Microsoft Dev Box

[asilverman]

Suggested new feature or improvement

Microsoft Dev Box gives you self-service access to high-performance, preconfigured, and ready-to-code cloud-based workstations. Connecting to a Dev Box happens through a RDP connection.

As a developer using Dev Box, I would like to be able to instantiate, connect and manage my Dev Box instances from Dev Home. I would also like to provision my Dev Box machines with a configuration stored in Dev Home, that way I can create fully customizable development sandboxes that are ready to go from within Dev Home.

Scenario

One example is https://devbox.microsoft.com/.

Currently, the only way to create a new Dev Box is through this portal. When I create a new Dev Box, I need to spend a lot of time provisioning it with my custom developer configurations including:

• Applications not pre-installed in the image
• Visual Studio Code Extensions and Settings
• Creating a familiar folder structure to store my code and other work artifacts
• Creating new SSH keys and granting them access in the different remote services (GitHub, AzDO, Docker, etc.)

I would be useful to store a private GitHub repository with a deploy configuration for a new Dev Box and have Dev Home orchestrate the provisioning and make it available for me to connect to the newly provisioned machine from within the app.

Additional details

One example is https://devbox.microsoft.com/.

Currently, the only way to create a new Dev Box is through this portal. When I create a new Dev Box, I need to spend a lot of time provisioning it with my custom developer configurations including:

• Applications not pre-installed in the image
• Visual Studio Code Extensions and Settings
• Creating a familiar folder structure to store my code and other work artifacts
• Creating new SSH keys and granting them access in the different remote services (GitHub, AzDO, Docker, etc.)

I would be useful to store a private GitHub repository with a deploy configuration for a new Dev Box and have Dev Home orchestrate the provisioning and making it available for me to connect to the newly provisioned machine from within the app.

[asklar]

Looking into this a bit.
Whoever picks this up, ping me on teams.