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Development Containers

Development containers allow to work with a given repo, or group of repos, without installing the neccessary dependencies locally.

Directly Open Remote Repository and Devcontainer with VSCode

In order to open a repo directly on CERN GitLab with VSCode.

To open the repo readonly:

  • Install GitLab extension and add gitlab.cern.ch using your personal access token.
  • Run the command GitLab: Open Remote Repository.

To clone and open the repo in a devcontainer (if defined):

  • Run the command Dev Containers: Clone Repository in Container Volume.