README.md

DotMH Dev Container - Rust

Important

Experimental

A Devcontainer for use with Rust development, optionally with tools for working with AWS

• Rocky Linux
• Ubuntu

Tools

• ZSH (Set as default Shell)
• OhMyZSH
• BAT - A better Cat command
• EZA - A better ls command
• Just - An awesome task runner
• Rustup - The Rust install manager
• RustC - The Rust Compiler
• Cargo - The Rust Package Manager and Build Tool

When Using Cloud containers as the base

• AWS CLI
• Digital Ocean CLI
• Terraform
• Packer

Visual Studio Extentions

When using this devcontainer under Visual Studio Code (vscode) with the Devcontainer Extention, vscode will automatically install the following extentions

• A Spellchecker
• An Extension for working with Just files
• Terraform
• Github Actions
• Copilot
• Copilot Chat
• Rust Analyzer
• Search crates.io

Usage

Requirements

• Devcontainer CLI

Example

devcontainer templates apply -w . -t ghcr.io/dotmh/devcontainer/rust -a '{"baseContainer":"devcontainer"}`

Options

• baseContainer :
  • devcontainer-rust DEFAULT - the ubuntu base container
  • devcontainer-rocky-rust - the rocky linux base container
  • devcontainer-cloud-rust- the ubuntu base container with cloud tools
  • devcontainer-rocky-cloud-rust - the rocky linux base container with cloud tools