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remove comments from devcontainer.json - it was not valid json
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15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions .devcontainer/devcontainer.json
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{
"name": "Kubernetes - Minikube-in-Docker",
"image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:bullseye",
"features": {
"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/docker-in-docker:2": {
"enableNonRootDocker": "true",
"moby": "true"
},
"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/kubectl-helm-minikube:1": {
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thank you @star3am for this PR I am curious where is this image coming from and who builds it ? need a comment to know the origins of it

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Good day @medyagh that image is from the Devcontainer organisation on Github

Specifically the image comes from mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:debian (latest)
https://github.com/devcontainers/images/tree/main/src/base-debian

The below page contains information on how Minikube is installed using the feature.
https://github.com/devcontainers/features/pkgs/container/features%2Fkubectl-helm-minikube

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More information can be found here https://github.com/devcontainers/features/tree/main/src/kubectl-helm-minikube

The Dev Containers used to be a project by Microsoft, but has been migrated to https://github.com/devcontainers
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Can you clarify whether you also wanted a comment in the devcontainer.json file referencing these URLs or just this comment?

Thank you for taking the time to look at my PR and thank you for a great project!

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is this org owned by microsoft or github ?
and how often the image gets updated? I would prefer an image that minikube project can control and can update

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Hi @medyagh Thank you for your time! As far as I understand, Miscrosoft used to own it and now it's an Org on it's own. See this announcement microsoft/vscode-dev-containers#1762

Seems to be regular releases such as monthly see here: https://github.com/devcontainers/images/releases

If I understand correctly, do you want a Dockerfile with Image source as Docker in Docker such as FROM docker:dind and then the minikube install to happen in the Dockerfile? Is that whaat you are looking for?

"version": "latest",
"helm": "latest",
"minikube": "latest"
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:mega: **Please fill out our [fast 5-question survey](https://forms.gle/Gg3hG5ZySw8c1C24A)** so that we can learn how & why you use minikube, and what improvements we should make. Thank you! :dancers:

## Github Codespace

You can run Minikube in a Gihub Codespace by clicking here:
[![Open in GitHub Codespaces](https://github.com/codespaces/badge.svg)](https://codespaces.new/kubernetes/minikube?quickstart=1)

This will launch a Github Codespace. You can then run `minikube start` and `minikube dashboard` - You can then open Minikube Dashboard by clicking opening the link displayed in the terminal.

You can also run Minikube in a Dev Container locally using your favourit IDE, for more infor mation see Dev Containers https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers

## Documentation

See https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/
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