Community Devpod

[skevetter]

Hello Everyone,

Back in September (#1915), the question was raised about whether DevPod was still being maintained, given the last activity was in April. I reached out and spoke with a spokesperson from DevPod about opening the door to community maintainers to merge pull requests and provide basic life support to keep this project alive and relevant. Unfortunately, their attention is focused on vcluster for now and the foreseeable future, and that's just how things go in business. I understand.

However, based on the lack of engagement from the original developers in this repository and in the Slack channel, it is fairly safe to say they do not have plans at this moment to allocate resources to maintaining this project.

"The team don't have the bandwidth right now to properly review and verify these changes. Because of that, we won't be able to merge this at the moment. However, you’re more than welcome to fork the provider and include your fix as a custom provider if that works for your setup"

That being said, DevPod is one of my go-to tools, and I do not want it to fade into irrelevance. In fact, I think there are more opportunities for growth. I have forked the project and have shipped a number of upgrades and plan to add more:

https://github.com/skevetter/devpod

• Dependency updates
• Rewriting workflows
• Updating tests
• Refactoring for newer dependencies

There is no obligation to use my fork. I am still getting things set up, so it will be a moment before the release is ready and you would be an early adopter. That said, I am willing to review and merge pull requests from anyone interested. I also plan to work through the backlog of pull requests from this repository, though that will take some time.

If there is enough interest in maintaining a community version, I can look into setting up SSL and Apple Developer accounts for software signing. I am happy to work alongside a co-maintainer(s).

If you're interested in contributing or just want to see this project keep going, leave a comment below.

[skevetter]

I am updating provider packages as well. You're welcome to incorporate these providers to your existing DevPod instance. The main site has instructions for adding a provider.

devpod provider add skevetter/devpod-provider-aws
devpod provider add skevetter/devpod-provider-kubernetes

• https://github.com/skevetter/devpod-provider-aws/releases
• https://github.com/skevetter/devpod-provider-kubernetes/releases

[skevetter]

Published an unofficial v0.7.0 that was never delivered. I tried not to break anything that wasn't already broken 😁.

Note. I am not affiliated with loft.

https://github.com/skevetter/devpod/releases/tag/v0.7.0

What does it include? Well, for starters, some cleaning up and updating, but that's not very interesting. In the small span of time I've been working on it, I have added:

• Added Antigravity Provider Add antigravity option to ide list for cli and desktop #1943
• devcontainer-id flag for the up command (partially implements) Add support of devcontainer.user.json file #1303
• Lifecycle hooks Support lifecycle hooks in devcontainer features #1881
• Use docker compose v2 as primary Devpod fails to start docker compose devcontainer setup #1948

If there are any pressing bugfixes, I would love to hear it.

I can't speak for running DevPod on Linux/Windows right now, so if someone can try it out and provide feedback, that would be much appreciated.

Including the pictures below to show how to enable the app on MacOS, because I haven't paid the $100 Apple developer fee for software signing.