Tired of hearing "It works on my machine"? Dev Containers solve the pain of onboarding and dependency conflicts by treating your entire development environment as code. But getting a basic setup running is only the beginning.

In this live-coding session, we will explore how to build consistent, reproducible, and highly personalized developer workspaces. We will cover the fundamentals of Dev Containers, when to use them, and how to effortlessly add tools using "Features." You will also learn how to maintain developer happiness by injecting your personal dotfiles and user-scoped extensions, without polluting the team's shared environment.

Finally, we will tackle the modern workflow requirement: seamlessly integrating AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Opencode directly into your isolated containers across VS Code and other supported IDEs. You will leave this session ready to containerize your workflow, code from anywhere, and keep your local machine entirely clutter-free.

- This is a more developer/technical audience focused session.
- Normal runtime is 50-60 minutes
- Example video of me speaking on some of these items can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk5Z3D2k-OY