crib

crib

Devcontainers without the ceremony.

Your devcontainer.json, minus the IDE. crib builds the container and stays out of your way.

Documentation

Note: This is the main branch where active development happens. Docs here may describe unreleased features. For documentation matching the latest release, see the stable branch.

cd my-project
crib up        # build and start the devcontainer
crib shell     # drop into a shell
crib restart   # restart (picks up config changes)
crib down      # stop and remove the container
crib remove    # remove container and workspace state

Installation

Install with mise:

mise use github:fgrehm/crib

Or download the latest binary from GitHub releases:

# Replace OS and ARCH as needed (linux/darwin, amd64/arm64)
curl -Lo crib.tar.gz https://github.com/fgrehm/crib/releases/latest/download/crib_$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')_$(uname -m | sed 's/x86_64/amd64/;s/aarch64/arm64/').tar.gz
tar xzf crib.tar.gz crib
install -m 755 crib ~/.local/bin/crib
rm crib.tar.gz

Make sure ~/.local/bin is in your PATH.

License

MIT

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