Go Dev Container

Ultimate Go development container for Visual Studio Code

Features

• Compatible with amd64, 386, arm64, armv6 and armv7 CPUs
• qmcgaw/godevcontainer:alpine and qmcgaw/godevcontainer
  • Based on Alpine 3.22 (size of 996MB)
• qmcgaw/godevcontainer:debian
  • Based on Debian Buster Slim (size of 1.21GB)
• Based on qmcgaw/basedevcontainer
  • Based on either Alpine or Debian
  • Minimal custom terminal and packages
  • See more features
• Go 1.25 code obtained from the latest tagged Golang Docker image
• Go tooling integrating with VS code, all cross built statically from source at the binpot:
  • Google's Go language server gopls
  • golangci-lint, includes golint and other linters
  • dlv ⚠️ only works on amd64 and arm64
  • gomodifytags
  • goplay
  • impl
  • gotype-live
  • gotests
  • gopkgs v2
• Terminal Go tools
  • mockgen to generate mocks
  • mockery to generate mocks for testify/mock
• Cross platform
  • Easily bind mount your SSH keys to use with git
  • Manage your host Docker from within the dev container, more details at qmcgaw/basedevcontainer
• Extensible with docker-compose.yml
• Comes with extra Go binary tools for a few extra MBs: kubectl, kubectx, kubens, stern and helm

Requirements

• Docker installed and running
  • If you use OSX, share the ~/.ssh directory and the directory of your project with Docker Desktop
• Docker Compose installed
• VS code installed
• VS code dev containers extension installed

Setup for a project

1. Setup your configuration files

   • With style 💯

     docker run -it --rm -v "/yourrepopath:/repository" qmcgaw/devtainr:v0.2.0 -dev go -path /repository -name projectname

     Or use the built binary

   • Or manually: download this repository and put the .devcontainer directory in your project.

2. If you have a .vscode/settings.json, eventually move the settings to .devcontainer/devcontainer.json in the "settings" section as .vscode/settings.json take precedence over the settings defined in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json.
3. Open the command palette in Visual Studio Code (CTRL+SHIFT+P) and select Dev Containers: Open Folder in Container... and choose your project directory

Customization

See the .devcontainer/README.md document in your repository.

TODOs

• qmcgaw/basedevcontainer todos

License

This repository is under an MIT license unless indicated otherwise.