Is there a way to debug the PostCreateCommand in VSCode Devcontainers?
I think that one cause may be that the user does not have enough permissions to even execute the apt-get update command.
Changing the remoteUser to root, in the devcontainer.json configuration file should allow to execute the postCreateCommand.sh shell script successfully when running it using bash.
I've tried it using the
python:3.8-slim-busterDocker image, having set anon-rootuser in theDockerfile.I've added the following to the
./.devcontainer/devcontainer.json:"postCreateCommand": "bash ./.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh","remoteUser": "root",I've used the following
./.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh:#!/usr/bin/env bashset -exapt-get update && apt-get install -y man git && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*pip install --requirement ./.devcontainer/dev_pip_requirements.txt
Generally, root is not recommended for production environments.
Here is a little more information about postCreateCommand