The Power of Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces

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Dev Containers plus GitHub Codespaces deliver reproducible development environments using Docker and VS Code, with practical details: 60 free hours per individual GitHub account, machine sizes up to 16 cores 64 GB, and prebuilt images or Dockerfile-based containers. The talk shows real repos (Node, Rust, .NET, Python, Home Assistant) with devcontainer.json, Features (Azure CLI, Terraform), Dependabot auto-updates, F5 debugging working in the container, and port forwarding and public shareable URLs successfully running slides and demos.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 10:47Dev containers and benefits
3. 23:42Building dev containers
4. 39:38Demo in VS Code
5. 52:52GitHub Codespaces overview
6. 1:06:26Q&A

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