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Overlay .devcontainer
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Description
We need to find a way to overlay .devcontainer.
Suppose that user are switch commented lines on default setting to enable GPU as in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/pull/381.
I still want to distribute updates but if users are editing the same file that I am distributing it will be hard to get updates. So I suppose that user overrides need to be placed in a separate file.
Just to explore some solutions we could get some ideas from https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize#2-create-variants-using-overlays.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the .devcontainer configuration model and the linked vscode-dev-containers pull request, then compare the overlay approach described by kustomize. Done means proposing a concrete way for users to keep overrides in a separate file while still receiving updates to the distributed defaults.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- docker, kubernetes
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100