As a note, running devcontainers in VSCode is easy, but not required. There is a...

pwagland · 2026-01-15T21:42:23 1768513343

I assume that you are talking about the [devcontainers LCI](https://github.com/devcontainers/cli) when you say "a CLI"?

mbreese · 2026-01-15T22:32:46 1768516366

Yes. I probably should have included the link.

I stated using devcontainers through VSCode and find them incredibly helpful. It’s great for me to be able to load up exact coding environments on different computers. But, I only used them through VSCode.

When I wanted to branch out a bit (and especially using coding agents), I started using the CLI version more. I find devcontainers a great way to work with different coding projects and wanted to make sure people knew that there was a way to use them outside of VSCode.