Dev Containers for Podman Desktop

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

It's more of an ease of use issue. I'm trying to move over from docker desktop and it's hard due to how easy they make disposable/reusable dev containers.

Describe the solution you'd like

Docker Desktop has a great and easy way to create dev containers per the standard. I can still run docker dev containers in podman, but it is not as easy as with Docker Deskdop. It would be amazing if there was a feature in Podman Desktop for selecting one and spinning one up for isolating your dev work from your personal data, and might just bring in some devs to the fold.

Describe alternatives you've considered

docker desktop

Additional context

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[simonrey1]

Can you share a link or a tutorial of how these are used with Docker Desktop? I can't really find information online about your usecase.

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Hi Simon, thanks for looking at this. It was called the "Dev Environments" tab in Docker Desktop. It would be amazing to be able to create an isolated/reproducible dev environment from scratch from within Podman Desktop. Not sure what it would take. Here's an article on it. They depreciated it after vers 4.42. The feature was initially introduced as a tech preview in June 2021 and was intended to simplify the process of sharing code and setting up development environments. However, it was later removed, with Docker suggesting that similar workflows can be achieved using Docker Compose or custom configurations. That being said, newer devs may not have that background, and having that in Podman would be an ease of setup game changer for those folks new to the game.

https://thenewstack.io/create-a-development-environment-in-docker-desktop/