Developing Dapr applications with remote dev containers

How to setup a remote dev container environment with Dapr

The Visual Studio Code Remote Containers extension lets you use a Docker container as a full-featured development environment without installing any additional frameworks or packages to your local filesystem.

Dapr has pre-built Docker remote containers for NodeJS and C#. You can pick the one of your choice for a ready made environment. Note these pre-built containers automatically update to the latest Dapr release.

Setup a remote dev container

Prerequisites

Create remote Dapr container

  1. Open your application workspace in VS Code
  2. In the command command palette (CTRL+SHIFT+P) type and select Remote-Containers: Add Development Container Configuration Files...
    Screenshot of adding a remote container
  3. Type dapr to filter the list to available Dapr remote containers and choose the language container that matches your application. Note you may need to select Show All Definitions...
    Screenshot of adding a Dapr container
  4. Follow the prompts to rebuild your application in container.
    Screenshot of reopening an application in the dev container

Example

Watch this video on how to use the Dapr VS Code Remote Containers with your application.

Last modified September 20, 2021 : Merge pull request #1800 from greenie-msft/gRPC_proxying_video (36dff3c)