VSCode dev container with Podman and WSL

I have been running VSCode development containers for many years. My main machine running Windows 10, I was using Docker Desktop to inject Docker in WSL. And that has been nothing but slow and steady troubles, so it was time to migrate to Podman. Problems with Docker Desktop Slow to start Not that reliable, it can crash at start, stop or while running rarely It seems to sometimes crash WSL which won’t even stop with wsl --shutdown Why Podman Daemon less so it can’t really crash unless being called for something No need to install it on the host system, installing in WSL is enough Rootless Prerequisites My configuration is as follows:...

March 18, 2024 · 3 min · Quentin McGaw