So what has your experience been with devcontainers and dotfiles?

[shadycuz]

I'm looking to start using a dotfile repo, mainly because I use so many devcontainers now and I'm sick of not having a consistent shell. How is chezmoi?

[felipecrs]

Hi @shadycuz 👋!

My experience with devcontainers and dotfiles has been great! Chezmoi is awesome!

Little demo:

Code_YNOImQ3uvJ.mp4

[shadycuz]

Oh yeah thats super sweet =).

I'm wondering if I should have Chezmoi call Ansible to do my machine bootstrapping, not my dev containers but my actual machine. Instead of trying to make my install scripts idempotent.

[felipecrs]

Bro, I spent countless hours because I didn't do that. I think I would do that, if I were to start now.

[shadycuz]

What did you do for visual studio code? Are you still setting the file extension stuff to helm?

[felipecrs]

Yes, for yaml files I'm using the Helm Intellisense. For everything else, I try to put the template markers in comment blocks so it does not affect the whole file syntax.

Like this:

dotfiles/root/.chezmoiscripts/run_after_10-install-apt-packages.sh.tmpl

Lines 31 to 40 in c1493f3

	# {{ if .is_gnome }}
	yaru-theme-gtk
	yaru-theme-icon
	yaru-theme-sound
	gnome-tweaks
	gnome-menus
	code
	google-chrome-stable
	# {{ if eq .chezmoi.osRelease.versionCodename "bionic" }}
	python-nautilus