With GitHub CodeSpaces and Dev Containers, creating purpose-built, portable development environments is easier than ever. In this session we'll take a look at creating CodeSpaces directly in GitHub, as well as building custom dev containers that can be run from GitHub or locally using Visual Studio Code.

Who should attend? Developers who are learning how to use containerization to increase their productivity.

Why should you attend? You will learn how to create development environments that can run anywhere, reducing ramp-up time for new developers or simply boosting your own productivity along with the consistency of your environment.

Session resources:
https://github.com/features/codespaces
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/codespaces
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/github-codespaces/
https://microsoft.github.io/code-with-engineering-playbook/developer-experience/devcontainers/
https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/setting-up-your-project-for-codespaces/introduction-to-dev-containers
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

Speaker: Josh Garverick, Microsoft Azure MVP
Josh is a .NET developer, solution architect and Visual Studio ALM Ranger. His first language was BASIC in 1986. He started with .NET when it was introduced in 2003 and has been motoring along ever since. Within the past couple of years, Josh has been drawn to all things ALM, including trying to figure out how to build CI/CD environments that target multiple development stacks, for multiple SCMs as well as multiple OSes. He's a huge Docker fanboy and Nodebot enthusiast.
He authored the book "Migrating to Azure", was a contributing author to "The Developer's Guide to Azure (2021)", and additionally is author of several online courses. Josh is a seasoned IT professional with more than 15 years’ enterprise experience working in several large industry verticals (finance, healthcare, transportation, logistics, retail/consumer products, oil & gas, insurance). He specializes in Digital Transformation as well as Application Lifecycle Management and is currently involved in enterprise cloud adoption projects. When not geeking out over technology and architecture frameworks, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter.