DevContainers for Azure cloud platform engineers

You have discovered DevContainers as a great way to get a development environment set up in no time. You might be wondering what more there is to development containers for platform engineers.

Azure

Architecture

Cloud

DevOps

Tooling

In this session we will have a deeper look at DevContainers and find out about reuse, automation and team work, as well as running specialized tooling for Infrastructure as Code and cloud development.

You will also learn how to create templates and features yourself and build these in CI/CD pipelines. We are going to look at more complex scenarios that involve container compositions and dependencies. For teams we will cover versioning strategies for the DevContainer definitions, as well as personalization of the developer experience. To top it of, some nice tips and tricks and inner workings of development containers for anyone working with or for Azure cloud.

Alex Thissen

Alex is an application development enthusiast since the late nineties and works as an architect, lead developer and mentor at large enterprises and small companies. He spends his time teaching other developers the details of the Microsoft development platform and frameworks, and coaches architects to design and build modern distributed applications at cloud scale. He has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Visual Studio and Development Technologies since 2007. In his spare time Alex likes to participate in all kinds of sport, and loves playing and programming new and retro video games.