Dev Container Features & Lifecycle Hooks

Today, we're exploring dev container features and lifecycle hooks, which package your entire development environment into containers. These containers, standardized by the Development Container Specification, are enhanced with tools, runtimes, or libraries (features) and have defined triggers for specific actions (lifecycle hooks). This setup ensures a consistent, reproducible environment across any supporting tool. We'll demonstrate how to add a feature to a dev container, providing a practical example of these concepts in action.⚡️💻

Resources:
Using Images, Dockerfiles, and Docker Compose guide: https://aka.ms/dev-container-docker
Dev Container Specification: https://containers.dev
Features Community Index: https://containers.dev/features
Image or Dockerfile specific properties: https://aka.ms/containers\_image-specific
Docker Compose specific properties: https://aka.ms/containers\_compose-specific

0:00 Intro
0:49 Dockerfile demo
2:47 Docker Compose demo
4:46 Docker Compose + Dockerfile demo
5:45 Summary