Remove devcontainer

Causing headaches

Author: robmarkcole

.devcontainer/Dockerfile

@@ -3,35 +3,50 @@
 # Licensed under the MIT License. See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2090316 for license information.
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-FROM python:3.7
+FROM python:3
 
 # Avoid warnings by switching to noninteractive
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 
-# Copy requirements.txt (if found) to a temp locaition so we can install it. Also
-# copy "noop.txt" so the COPY instruction does not fail if no requirements.txt exists.
-COPY requirements.txt* .devcontainer/noop.txt /tmp/pip-tmp/
+# Or your actual UID, GID on Linux if not the default 1000
+ARG USERNAME=vscode
+ARG USER_UID=1000
+ARG USER_GID=$USER_UID
+
+# Copy requirements.txt (if found) to a temp location so we can install it. The `*`
+# is required so COPY doesn't think that part of the command should fail is nothing is
+# found. Also copy "noop.txt" so the COPY instruction copies _something_ to guarantee
+# success somehow.
+COPY *requirements.txt .devcontainer/noop.txt /tmp/pip-tmp/
 
 # Configure apt and install packages
 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends apt-utils 2>&1 \
+    && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends apt-utils dialog 2>&1 \
     #
     # Verify git, process tools, lsb-release (common in install instructions for CLIs) installed
     && apt-get -y install git procps lsb-release \
     #
     # Install pylint
-    && pip install pylint \
+    && pip --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir install pylint \
     #
     # Update Python environment based on requirements.txt (if presenet)
-    && if [ -f "/tmp/pip-tmp/requirements.txt" ]; then pip install -r /tmp/pip-tmp/requirements.txt; fi \
+    && if [ -f "/tmp/pip-tmp/requirements.txt" ]; then pip --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir install -r /tmp/pip-tmp/requirements.txt; fi \
     && rm -rf /tmp/pip-tmp \
     #
+    # Create a non-root user to use if preferred - see https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/containers/non-root-user.
+    && groupadd --gid $USER_GID $USERNAME \
+    && useradd -s /bin/bash --uid $USER_UID --gid $USER_GID -m $USERNAME \
+    # [Optional] Uncomment the next three lines to add sudo support
+    # && apt-get install -y sudo \
+    # && echo $USERNAME ALL=\(root\) NOPASSWD:ALL > /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME \
+    # && chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME \
+    #
     # Clean up
     && apt-get autoremove -y \
     && apt-get clean -y \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 # Switch back to dialog for any ad-hoc use of apt-get
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=dialog
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=
 
 

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-// See https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/devcontainer.json for format details.
+// For format details, see https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/devcontainer.json or the definition README at
+// https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/master/containers/python-3
 {
 	"name": "Python 3",
 	"context": "..",
@@ -10,12 +11,16 @@
 	// Uncomment the next line to run commands after the container is created.
 	// "postCreateCommand": "python --version",
 
+	// Uncomment the next line to use a non-root user. See https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/containers/non-root-user.
+	// "runArgs": [ "-u", "1000" ],
+
 	"extensions": [
 		"ms-python.python"
 	],
 	"settings": {
 		"python.pythonPath": "/usr/local/bin/python",
 		"python.linting.pylintEnabled": true,
+		"python.linting.pylintPath": "/usr/local/bin/pylint",
 		"python.linting.enabled": true
 	}
-}
+}