In a devcontainer, system files are ephemeral and subject to being reset any time the container is rebuilt. This can can be a problem for development package dependencies. In this …
Month: January 2021

Episode #658
Container Run Layers
In Dockerfiles, fewer RUN commands are better. Why? For that, we need to talk about layers. Which is exactly what we're going to do in this video!

Episode #657
Dockerfile
Continuing in our quest to containerize development, in this video we begin customizing our app container in order to capture an essential tool dependency.