Recently I have been playing around with the devcontainer setup for coder. While creating the environment to develop in is useful it appears that there is no documentation to do container builds and run them with envbuilder devcontainers. We have gotten rootless podman to work separately but due to the differences in the images we are unsure how to marry the 2 together so that we can build and run application containers without having a privileged environment available to developers. This in my opinion is one of the only things missing from devcontainers with coder that other solutions like GitPods and GitHub code spaces have out of the box.

References:

• https://coder.com/docs/v2/latest/templates/devcontainers
• https://coder.com/docs/v2/latest/templates/docker-in-workspaces#rootless-podman