My Ultimate Development Container image

My Ultimate Development Container Image

Using VSCode's Remote Development Feature, we can remotely develop on another station using SSH or WSL. But my favorite feature is using Containers.
We can potentially create isolated development environments per project in a container.

I've cultivated a Container image I use throughout my projects. It includes my most frequently used binaries and tools.

The key here is the layers; they were pre-designed in a way so they could be sharable for all of my containers. Basically:

• Environment variables go at the lowest layer as they rarely get modified.

• Binaries installations go in the next layers separately from one another, so when modified, they'll require only the layers above them to be rebuilt.

• Modules, requirements, dependencies, packages, libraries, etc., go in the top layer as they get modified more frequently.

You can check out the Dockerfile source gist.
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# Base image is Python's image
FROM python:3.8.5

# Set shell with pipeline fail return
SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"]

# Set environment variables
ENV SHELL=/bin/bash \
    DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=true \
    JAVA_HOME=/opt/java \
    MAVEN_HOME=/opt/maven \
    PATH_TO_FX=/usr/share/java/ \
    PATH=$PATH:/opt/java/bin:/opt/maven/bin:/opt/gopath/bin:/opt/go/bin:/root/.dotnet/tools

# Install Linux packages (including dotnet and javafx)
RUN curl -sL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.asc.gpg \
    && mv microsoft.asc.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ \
    && curl -sL https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/10/prod.list \
        -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-prod.list \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends apt-transport-https \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends dotnet-sdk-3.1 \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git-lfs \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends nano \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends openjfx \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Install java
WORKDIR /opt/java
RUN curl -sOL https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk11-binaries/releases/download/jdk-11.0.7%2B10_openj9-0.20.0/OpenJDK11U-jdk_x64_linux_openj9_11.0.7_10_openj9-0.20.0.tar.gz \
    && tar -xf OpenJDK11U-jdk_x64_linux_openj9_11.0.7_10_openj9-0.20.0.tar.gz \
    && rm OpenJDK11U-jdk_x64_linux_openj9_11.0.7_10_openj9-0.20.0.tar.gz \
    && mv jdk-11.0.7+10/* . \
    && rm -r jdk-11.0.7+10

# Install maven
WORKDIR /opt/maven
RUN curl -sOL https://downloads.apache.org/maven/maven-3/3.6.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.tar.gz \
    && tar -xf apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.tar.gz \
    && rm apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.tar.gz \
    && mv apache-maven-3.6.3/* . \
    && rm -r apache-maven-3.6.3

# Install Node.js (includes npm)
RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | bash - \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends nodejs \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Install golang
WORKDIR /opt/go
RUN curl -sOL https://dl.google.com/go/go1.14.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz \
    && tar -C /opt -xf go1.14.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz \
    && rm go1.14.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz \
    && bin/go env -w GOPATH=/opt/gopath GO111MODULE=on

# Install modules, requirements, dependencies, packages, libraries, etc.
RUN \
    # Install node modules
    npm install -g \
        commitizen@4.1.2 \
        cz-conventional-changelog@3.2.0 \
        @commitlint/cli@9.1.1 \
        @commitlint/config-conventional@9.1.1 \
        dockerfilelint@1.8.0 \
        jsonlint@1.6.3 \
        markdownlint-cli@0.23.2 \
        semantic-release@17.1.1 \
        yarn@1.22.4 \
    # Install go modules
    && go get -u \
        github.com/bufbuild/buf/cmd/buf@v0.20.5 \
        github.com/bufbuild/buf/cmd/protoc-gen-buf-check-breaking@v0.20.5 \
        github.com/bufbuild/buf/cmd/protoc-gen-buf-check-lint@v0.20.5 \
        github.com/client9/misspell/cmd/misspell@v0.3.4 \
        github.com/pseudomuto/protoc-gen-doc/cmd/protoc-gen-doc@v1.3.2 \
        github.com/yoheimuta/protolint/cmd/protolint@v0.26.0 \
    # Install python dependencies
    && pip install \
        docutils==0.16 \
        pre-commit==2.6.0 \
        robotframework==3.2.1 \
        yamllint==1.24.2 \
    # Install dotnet tools
    && dotnet tool install -g dotnet-format --version 4.1.131201 \
    && dotnet tool install -g dotnet-reportgenerator-globaltool --version 4.6.4

I hope you find this helpful.