What Is DevContainer and Why Every Developer Will Use It Soon (2025 Guide)

2 devtechinsights 0 7/3/2025, 7:36:12 PM

DevContainers are gaining momentum in 2025 as a way to fix onboarding pain, avoid “works on my machine” bugs, and run cloud-ready environments with just a config file. Curious to hear how others are using them — and what issues they’ve run into.

I wrote this breakdown based on real-world usage across teams, open source, and cloud IDEs: https://devtechinsights.com/what-is-devcontainer-developers-2025

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What Is DevContainer and Why Every Developer Will Use It Soon (2025 Guide)

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