What is a container

The Linux kernel's support for namespaces mostly [1]

Isolates an application's view of the operating environment

• Process trees
• Network
• User IDs
• Mounted file systems

Control groups

cgroups provide resource isolation, including the CPU, memory, block I/O and network.

https://www.oracle.com/technical-resources/articles/linux/resource-controllers-linux.html

In summary

Develop in Containers

The Remote - Containers extension lets you run Visual Studio Code inside a Docker container.

Why?

• Ready to run
• Easy to config