Visual Studio Code: Remote dev with Containers & Codespaces

In part 2 of Remote Development with Visual Studio Code, Brigit Murtaugh, a PM with VS Code, will explain how to set up a remote development environment using either Docker containers or GitHub Codespaces.

This episode will cover:

• [00:19]What is remote development in VS Code?
• [01:13]What is a container?
• [02:05]Why is container-based development useful?
• [03:34]How can I leverage container-based development in VS Code?
• [04:14]Demo: Let's configure a Remote Container
• [11:20]Demo #2: Let's try some sample commands in a Remote Container
• [17:42]Demo #3: Let's try using GitHub Codespaces

You can learn more by following these links:

• Part 1 - VS Code Remote Development with SSH, VMs, and WSL on Tabs vs Spaces
• Install Docker Desktop for Windows
• Sign up for GitHub Codespaces beta
• Download Visual Studio Code
• VS Code docs: Developing inside a container
• Windows docs: Overview of Docker remote development on Windows
• GitHub docs: About Codespaces
• Azure docs: Run Docker containers on-demand in a managed, serverless Azure environment