Setup code cloud extension inside of devcontainer

[mark-dropbear]

Resources:

• https://cloud.google.com/code

[mark-dropbear]

It looks like running Docker is a prerequisite for using code cloud which will present some of it's own challenges for running inside of a dev container. It seems like there is Docker in Docker support outlined here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/main/containers/docker-in-docker but I need to do more research on it first.

[mark-dropbear]

I ended up getting Docker-in-Docker set up via another method I was playing around with. It's really not too bad at all. However, I ended up in a weird position where I was manually installing a bunch of things like gcloud SDK, skaffold and wound up with 2 different versions of kubectl etc. Just generally a bit of a mess.

Instead the new plan of attack here is going to be:

Step 1. Start with a base docker-in-docker support devcontainer. Helpful resource here

Step 2. Get minikube setup potentially as simple as follows Helpful resource here

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube_latest_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i minikube_latest_amd64.deb

Step 3: Set up the cloud code VSCode extension Helpful resource here
This only has a dependency on having a Docker installation (and presumably minikube for skaffold?) but will get me the following for free as a part of the extension.

• kubectl
• skaffold
• Cloud SDK

From there we are still in a position of actually making skaffold work the way we want it to as per Issue #26 but this then gets me the environment I am actively looking for. If we want to end up going down the cloud build or bazel route later to have a unified build system it should also be easy to put it on top with some luck :)