Custom GitHub Codespaces Container with Azure CLI, Bicep and Terraform

This is my implementation of a GitHub devcontainer with Az CLI, Bicep, Terraform and a few other components pre-installed. It is based on the Azure Bicep Community devcontainer.

You can use it in GitHub Codespaces or locally as a devcontainer.

Try It Out

Often times the deployment process for many repos uses a concept of Developing inside a Container to containerize all the necessary pre-requisite component without requiring them to be installed on the local machine. This is where this template can be useful. The environment you will work in will be created using a development container, or dev container hosted on a virtual machine using GitHub Codespaces.

Note

More information can be found at Developing inside a Container.

What's Available?

Here is a list of tools that are available out-the-box with this Codespaces container:

• Linux Ubuntu Noble Numbat (LTS-24.04) used as a base image
• zsh Linux shell as default (bash is available)
• oh-my-zsh extension for zsh with the legendary STARSHIP theme
• Azure CLI
• Azure Developer CLI (azd)
• Docker in Docker
• Dotnet Runtime
• GitHub CLI
• Azure Bicep CLI
• jq tool (lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor)
• Terraform
• python3
• Node
• Helm
• Minikube
• Kubectl
• sshd

Please note that, if available, the latest version of the package is used.

VS Code Extensions

• GitHub Actions
• Azure CLI
• VS Code dotnet runtime
• VS Code Bicep
• Material Icon Theme
• azurerm-vscode-tools
• ms-azuretools.vscode-docker
• draw.io integration
• scroll-back history for terminal: 1,000,000 lines
• UK Keyboard layout for browser based GitHub Codespaces as default

Remoting Into Codespaces

You can remote into the created Codespaces from your local machine using ssh. Refer to the commands here.

Example:

gh cs ssh -c [CODESPACENAME]

Once connected, you can type zsh to use the zsh shell.

Happy coding!