I see it as being similar to the relationship between Vagrant and Virtual Machines. You can use plain Dockerfiles if you prefer, dev containers provides some t

I see it as being similar to the relationship between Vagrant and Virtual Machines. You can use plain Dockerfiles if you prefer, dev containers provides some tooling to smooth out the rough edges of using Docker to host your dev environment including mounting your source code into the container etc. Details are at: https://containers.dev https://containers.dev