New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?
Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience? 2 by Erndob | 2 comments on Hacker News. My current setup is just doing my entire development in a dev container that is running locally. I open VS Code, I open the local folder in a dev container. The local folder gets mounted into container for persistent changes. The container dockerfile is my setup of dev dependencies. Within the container I can do whatever global installs I want that persist between sessions, and the project edits persist on host machine. That works and I like the setup. I can run CLI codent agent in the terminal of VS Code, while still having good dev experience. Now, I would like to have basically this flow but be MicroVM based, where the main thing I solve is allowing me to run docker inside that microvm, as docker-in-docker does not work well. Additionally if I could use secrets without them being exposed in the microvm itself, that would be amazing. But I've spent a good amount of time ch...