podman-development-vm-image

Summary

This container image supports the virtualization of a development environment, for example to manage different projects and their technical requirements. The container image is structured in such a way that it can be used like a VM.

So far, the image has been successfully tested in a Podman environment on a MacOS M2 system.

Features

Prepares an "Ubuntu"-environment
Installs and configures the following tools:
- git, jq, software-properties-common
- curl, wget
- zip, gzip, tar
- vim
Installes and configures Ansible
Installes and configures an SSH server
- Due to this use VS Code or IntelliJ with the remote development option
- creates a user vscdev with public key access (Note: It assumes that the key will be available in a podman secret called vscdev_ssh_key!)

Prerequisites

Podman have to be installed and configured

Minimal steps for application

Clone this repository (or download this solution as a .ZIP-file, then unzip it)

Build the image:

#> cd podman-development-vm-image
#> podman build -t ubuntu-dev-vm -f ./Dockerfile.ubuntu

Create a container based on the image

#> podman run --interactive --tty -d --name testvm -p 2022:22 ubuntu-dev-vm