Using the Remote Tunnels: Turn on Remote Tunnel Access command, users now have the option to either run the tunnel in the current VS Code instance, or install it as a service on their system. Service-mode is supported on Windows, macOS, and systemd-based Linux systems.
When installed as a service, the Turn off Remote Tunnel Access command will uninstall the service.
You no longer need a build toolchain to install the @devcontainers/cli package. A simple npm install -g @devcontainers/cli
will do the trick. The Dev Container CLI lets you to build and manage development containers, and is a companion to the Development Containers Specification.
Feature dependencies are now also recorded in the devcontainer-lock.json
. You can enable the use of lockfiles with the dev.containers.experimentalLockfile
user setting: