How I setup my development environment

[zhouhaibing089]

Container technology has been popular, but VM is still a good choice for myself considering its full flexibility including the hack-ability of kernel.

Full disclosure: I primarily work on Mac, and I like using vscode as my primary tool for developing code. Now coming to my problem, I have to get a Linux environment, because many of the projects that I worked on relies on Linux functionality.

Launching a VM

There might be many choices:

1. Launching VM in cloud. This is awesome, but it limits your capability to work offline.
2. Using VirtualBox. Sadly, due to its license issue, I couldn't run it for my work. It's considered as personal use only as far as I can tell.
3. multipass. This is good considering its simplicity of configuration and license seems to be good as well.

I finally choose multipass. Here is how I create one VM for myself:

$ multipass launch -c=2 -m=8G -d=50G --name=dev

The flags are just so intuitive that I don't even to remember it.

The next step is about configuring the access. Well, obviously, we can use multipass shell dev directly, but that's just not the standard way of access, I mean, internally it is SSH anyway. I just want to make it more explicit.

$ sshkey-gen -t rsa

Then append the following configuration

To make the user experience more straightforward for using vscode, we can add the following script into PATH which name code.

#!/bin/bash

set -o errexit
set -o nounset
set -o pipefail

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
  p=$(pwd)
else
  p=$(cd $1; pwd)
fi

ip=$(pinky | grep -v tmux | grep -v Where | awk '{print $NF}' | uniq)
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa -l haibzhou ${ip} -- /usr/local/bin/code --folder-uri "vscode-remote://ssh-remote+dev${p}"