Prerequisites

Development Platform

Development container creation has been tested using the following platforms:

Ubuntu 24.04 with native rootful or rootless Docker including Docker Compose V2
- Other Linux distributions should be suitable for development container creation.
- Regardless of whether rootful or rootless Docker is used, some configuration is required before development container creation.
- Rootless Docker is recommended to reduce security risks and requires additional configuration before development container creation.
MacOS Sequoia with Docker Desktop.
Windows 11 with non-systemd enabled WSL 2 Ubuntu and Docker Desktop.
Windows 11 with systemd enabled WSL 2 Ubuntu with native rootless Docker including Docker Compose V2

Visual Studio Code with remote containers extension
- Install on Windows host machine when using Windows.
jq utility
- Install on the WSL 2 Linux distribution when using Windows.
GNU coreutils
- These should be available by default when using native Linux and WSL 2.
- These will need installing manually when using macOS.
Ensure GPG-AGENT is running as a daemon
- Run on the WSL 2 Linux distribution when using Windows.
Ensure that an SSH Agent is running. The followng command can be used to start an SSH agent if needed:
```
eval $(ssh-agent -s)
```
- Run on the WSL 2 Linux distribution when using Windows.

Visual Studio Code development containers provide inbuilt support for accessing git credentials without copying them to the container.

GitHub Credential Sharing must be setup on the WSL 2 Linux distribution when using Windows.