My thoughts on GitHub Codespaces in February 2022

I’ve tried GitHub Codespaces.

My dev environment with Visual Studio Code devcontainers

Description here.

No access to docker-compose output and no control over what will happen in case my service fails.

Todo:

Experiment: try to run docker daemon in devcontainer.

Alternatives

Local development

Personal server on DigitalOcean

I have personal server in DigitalOcean. It seems I can scale up and scale down it when needed.

I think the time to scale up the server is comparable to the time for starting a codespace.

Experiment: try it.