Devcontainer support

[auser]

My organization uses devcontainers extensively. I personally love using zed.

Are there plans on integrating devcontainer work with zed?

[Moshyfawn]

There's already a feature request for this in #5347.

[sikmir]

zed tasks + devcontainer cli works fine for me.

[kodmigor]

can you tell, please, how did you setup it?

[OlegChuev]

@kodmigor I believe you can use the following approach

1. Install devcontainers cli

npm install -g @devcontainers/cli

2. Create a .devcontainer/devcontainer.json file in your project root.

3. Create a .zed/tasks.json file in your project root with these tasks:

[
  {
    "label": "DevContainer: Up",
    "command": "devcontainer up --workspace-folder ${ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT}",
    "use_new_terminal": true,
    "allow_concurrent_runs": false,
    "reveal": "always"
  },
  {
    "label": "DevContainer: Build",
    "command": "devcontainer build --workspace-folder ${ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT}",
    "use_new_terminal": true,
    "allow_concurrent_runs": false,
    "reveal": "always"
  },
  {
    "label": "DevContainer: Exec",
    "command": "devcontainer exec --workspace-folder ${ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT} ${1}",
    "use_new_terminal": true,
    "allow_concurrent_runs": true,
    "reveal": "always"
  },
  {
    "label": "DevContainer: Run User Commands",
    "command": "devcontainer run-user-commands --workspace-folder ${ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT}",
    "use_new_terminal": true,
    "allow_concurrent_runs": false,
    "reveal": "always"
  }
]

Usage:

1. Open your project in Zed
2. Press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P to open the command palette
3. Type task: spawn and select it
4. Choose “DevContainer: Build” to build your container
5. Use “DevContainer: Up” to start it
6. Run commands inside your container with “DevContainer: Exec”

Footprints: https://alessandro-annini.medium.com/lightning-fast-development-with-zed-and-dev-containers-11df1135b635

[kodmigor]

thanks! i'll try.