localpod

a bare minimum version of gitpod.io for local development

start up a preconfigured/shared development environment locally

configured via environment variables or config files

vscode and localpod both use .devcontainer.json - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/devcontainerjson-reference (not fully supported yet)

dependencies

• docker
• a terminal

tips

inside the container, file within /.ssh/* are copied into the users home directory and given the correct permissions, an ssh-agent is started and the default private key names are added.