Running VSCode DevContainers with Podman

Instructions.md

Running Visual Studio Code DevContainers with Podman

Modify the corresponding .devcontainer.json to include this settings. If the container already has runArgs merge this setting with the existent.

"workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder},target=/workspace,type=bind,Z",
"workspaceFolder": "/workspace",

"runArgs": ["--userns=keep-id"],
"containerUser": "vscode"

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https://opensource.com/article/21/7/vs-code-remote-containers-podman

This works if the user is actually vscode. Some images have a different user: the nodejs image uses node as the user. So if this is the case, you need to change containeruser to node. Otherwise, this is the first easy solution that actually works.