Feature: adding a Dev Container to Minikube

[star3am]

Feature: adding a Dev Container to Minikube, enabling us to launch Minikube in a Github Codespace or in a Dev Container locally

• Enables us to quickly get Minikube running in a Github Codespace
• Enables us to quickly get Minikube running locally using Dev Containers

Once the Codespace or Dev Container is launched

We can run inside the VSCode terminal minikube start - Let's open a new Terminal tab

Now let's run minikube start

Now we should have minikube up and running and we can run minikube and kubectl commads

We can even bring up the Minikube Kubernetes Dashboard by running minikube dashboard --url

And by going to the Ports tab and right click and opening in new browser

And opening the Minikube Kubernetes Dashboard location on our Github Codespace

This is to my knowledge the fastest way to launch Minikube on the internet for Development / Demo purposes

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[medyagh]

thank you @star3am for this PR I am curious where is this image coming from and who builds it ? need a comment to know the origins of it

[star3am]

Good day @medyagh that image is from the Devcontainer organisation on Github

Specifically the image comes from mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:debian (latest)
https://github.com/devcontainers/images/tree/main/src/base-debian

The below page contains information on how Minikube is installed using the feature.
https://github.com/devcontainers/features/pkgs/container/features%2Fkubectl-helm-minikube

More information can be found here https://github.com/devcontainers/features/tree/main/src/kubectl-helm-minikube

The Dev Containers used to be a project by Microsoft, but has been migrated to https://github.com/devcontainers

Can you clarify whether you also wanted a comment in the devcontainer.json file referencing these URLs or just this comment?

Thank you for taking the time to look at my PR and thank you for a great project!

[medyagh]

is this org owned by microsoft or github ?
and how often the image gets updated? I would prefer an image that minikube project can control and can update

[star3am]

Hi @medyagh Thank you for your time! As far as I understand, Miscrosoft used to own it and now it's an Org on it's own. See this announcement microsoft/vscode-dev-containers#1762

Seems to be regular releases such as monthly see here: https://github.com/devcontainers/images/releases

If I understand correctly, do you want a Dockerfile with Image source as Docker in Docker such as FROM docker:dind and then the minikube install to happen in the Dockerfile? Is that whaat you are looking for?