Devpod Round 2
Written by: Dabiddo
New version of Devpod
So, last week I came across devpod tweet promoting their new version 0.3.4, from my previous post, I wasn’t able to make it work with docker-compose, but these last few weeks I’ve been learning a lot about devcontainers, so I thought I would give it another try, and upgraded to their new version.
Testing devcontainer template
Before testing with my docker-compose configuration, I thought I try one of the devcontainer templates freely available.
I chose the PHP & MariaDB template, after downloading the files locally and opening devpod, it all seemed to work fine.
Modifying my own docker-compose file
Since devpod was able to open the docker-compose file just fine, I went and compare the template with my own file and made some changes.
- merge both
docker-compose.yml&docker-compose.workspace.ymlto a single file
I think this is was confusing devpod when running my devcontainers, I have 2 separate docker-compose files, I had them this way because when I was first learning how to use devcontainers, I wasn’t able to get the sigle compose.yml file to run, it always asked for a workspace, and after much fiddleling and searching example githubs, I found that having the workspace in a separate file made it work, but with this template, I now know that the workspace is actually declared in the devcontainer.json file and references what service the app is going to the main workspace.
New features?
I’ve been learning about adding features to the devcontainer, but I haven’t add them to my container images, and at least for the PHP 8.1 containers, every PHP extension is added in the Dockerfile
Updating my devcontainerwizard script
From my previous post, I’ve been working on a bash script that creates devcontainer folders based on my everyday used templates, everything I learned this week is already reflected on the script, I have already tested generating a new container project and have devpod run it, still need a bit of tunning, but I’m happy that it works.