When adding a development container configuration for a workspace using the Dev Containers: Add Dev Container Configuration Files, we now recommend the container configurations that could be a good fit your workspace. The recommendation is done based on your current platform and programming languages.
Dev Containers now supports the WSL 2 based engine of Docker Desktop for Windows. You can author your devcontainer.json in WSL 2 using the WSL extension and then reopen the WSL 2 folder in a container:
This currently requires Windows Insiders build 18917 or later (slow ring will do), WSL 2, and Docker Desktop for Windows' Edge version for its WSL 2 based engine.
On Linux, we now support Podman as the container engine. Simply create a symlink docker to the Podman executable on the PATH.
Make sure you have conmon >= 2.0.14 installed to get the fix for containers/libpod#5046.
There are three additional variables for the devcontainer.json:
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
${localWorkspaceFolderBasename} |
Name of the local folder that was opened in VS Code (that contains .devcontainer/devcontainer.json). |
${containerWorkspaceFolder} |
The path where the workspaces files can be found in the container. |
${containerWorkspaceFolderBasename} |
Name of the folder where the workspace files can be found in the container. |