dev containers

Currently I’m working on a small WordPress plugin that does syntax highlighting. I have the need to ship some maintenance scripts with my Dev Containers. I want some aliases to interact with the scripts (instead of calling them through /scripts/actions.sh. This solution uses a Bash startup file and a custom Dockerfile.

In this blog we’ll explore how to combine GitHub, git, SSH, GPG and DevContainers on Windows in such a way that we can interact with GitHub from our DevContainer just as we would from our dev box. We’ll use our bot-zero project as an example.

Let’s run Jupyter notebooks in a Visual Studio Code development container, so we keep our host system clean and our development setup replicable. We’re building a scraper, so let’s add support for Puppeteer (pyppeteer) as well!