{
  "name": "DevPod",
  "build": {
       "dockerfile": "Dockerfile"
   },
  "remoteUser": "vscode",
  "containerUser": "vscode",
  "updateRemoteUserUID": true,
  "workspaceFolder": "/home/vscode/workspaces",
  "workspaceMount": "source=${localEnv:PROJECT_PATH},target=/home/vscode/workspaces,type=bind,consistency=cached",
  "remoteEnv": {
    "SHELL": "/usr/bin/zsh",
   }
}

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/python:3.12-bookworm
ARG USERNAME=vscode
ARG USERGROUP=vscode
USER root

# ---------------- install zsh ----------------
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends zsh

# ---------------- create devpod folders and files and change ownership ----------------
RUN mkdir -p /var/run/devpod /var/cache/devpod /var/devpod /tmp/devpod
RUN echo '{}' > /etc/envfile.json && chown $USERNAME:$USERGROUP /etc/envfile.json
RUN echo '{}' > /var/run/devpod/result.json && chown $USERNAME:$USERGROUP /var/run/devpod/result.json
RUN chown -R $USERNAME:$USERGROUP /run/devpod/ /var/devpod /var/run/devpod /var/cache/devpod /tmp/devpod
ENV SHELL="/usr/bin/zsh"
USER $USERNAME
WORKDIR /home/$USERNAME/workspaces

name: kubernetes
version: v0.0.1
options:
  PROJECT_PATH:
    description: "Path to local repo content"
    required: true
  HOME_PATH:
    description: "Home path for kube config path"
    required: true
agent:
  containerInactivityTimeout: 10m
  path: ${DEVPOD}
  driver: kubernetes
  kubernetes:
    clusterRole: xxxx
    kubectlPath: "${HOME_PATH}\\Tools"
    kubernetesConfig: "${HOME_PATH}\\.kube\\config"
    kubernetesNamespace: devpod-ns
    diskSize: 10Gi
    podManifestTemplate: "${PROJECT_PATH}\\.devcontainer\\pod_manifest_template.yaml"
    strictSecurity: true
    storageClass: azureblob-nfs-premium
    inactivityTimeout: 10m
    podTimeout: 10m
exec:
  command: |-
    ${DEVPOD} helper sh -c "${COMMAND}"

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: devpod
spec:
  containers:
    - name: devpod
      securityContext:
        runAsNonRoot: true
        runAsUser: 1000
        runAsGroup: 1000
        capabilities:
          drop:
            - ALL
          add:
            - CHOWN
            - SETUID
            - SETGID
            - FOWNER
            - DAC_OVERRIDE

Windows powershell commands to init / start devpod

devpod provider add ".devcontainer\provider.yaml" `
      -o HOME_PATH="$HOME" `
      -o PROJECT_PATH="$PWD" `
      --name "kubernetes" `
      --debug

devpod up "$PWD" `
   --id "devcontainer-$env:USERNAME" `
   --provider kubernetes `
   --workspace-env PROJECT_PATH="$PWD" `
   --ide vscode `
   --debug 

17:33:48 info Create Pod 'devpod-default-de-bc5bd'
17:33:48 info Waiting for DevContainer Pod 'devpod-default-de-bc5bd' to come up...
17:33:51 debug execute inject script
17:33:51 debug Received line after pong: done
17:33:51 debug done exec
17:33:51 debug done inject
17:33:51 debug done injecting
17:33:51 debug Done InjectAgentAndExecute
17:33:51 debug Injected into container
17:33:51 info Setup container...
17:33:51 debug Inject and run command: '/usr/local/bin/devpod' helper ssh-server --stdio --debug
17:33:51 debug Attempting to create SSH client
17:33:52 debug SSH client created
17:33:52 debug SSH session created
17:33:52 info Execute SSH server command: zsh -c '/usr/local/bin/devpod' agent container setup --setup-info '..........................'
17:33:53 debug Created logger
17:33:53 debug Received ping from agent
17:33:53 debug Start setting up container...
17:33:53 debug Syncing mounts...  [type=bind,src=C:\Users\XXXX\Repos\devpod ,dst=/home/vscode/workspaces,consistency=cached type=bind]
17:33:53 info Copy C:\Users\XXXX\Repos\devpod into DevContainer /home/vscode/workspaces
17:33:56 info Uploaded 0.26 MB
17:34:27 info Uploaded 0.92 MB
17:34:33 debug Credentials server started on port 14213...
17:34:34 debug Incoming client connection at /
17:34:35 debug Credentials server started...
17:34:35 error Error configuring git credentials: add git credential helper: exit status 255
17:34:35 info Chown workspace...
17:34:35 info Chown projects...
17:34:36 debug Patch etc environment & profile...
17:34:36 debug Run lifecycle hooks commands...
17:34:36 debug running user env probe with shell "zsh", probe "loginInteractiveShell", user "vscode" and command "cat /proc/self/environ"
17:34:36 debug running user env probe with shell "zsh", probe "loginInteractiveShell", user "vscode" and command "printenv"
17:34:36 warn failed to probe user environment variables: probe user env: fork/exec /usr/bin/zsh: operation not permitted, probe user env: fork/exec /usr/bin/zsh: operation not permitted
17:35:48 debug Done setting up environment
17:35:48 debug Setup VSCode...
17:35:48 info Install extensions '....'
17:35:48 debug Start DevPod Container Daemon with Inactivity Timeout 10m
17:35:48 debug Connection to SSH Server closed
17:35:48 debug Done executing ssh server helper command
17:35:48 debug Done setting up container
17:35:48 17:35:48 debug debug Connection to SSH Server closed
done inject
17:35:48 debug done injecting
17:35:48 debug Done InjectAgentAndExecute
17:35:481 7:35:48 debugdebug  Done executing ssh server helper command
done exec
17:35:48 debug Done creating devcontainer
17:35:48 info Run 'ssh devcontainer-xxxx.devpod' to ssh into the devcontainer
17:35:48 debug No dotfiles repo specified, skipping
17:35:48 info Starting VSCode...
17:35:49 debug Run VSCode command code --disable-extension ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers --new-window --folder-uri=vscode-remote://ssh-remote+devcontainer-xxxx.devpod//home/vscode/workspaces

-> After that the scripts runs to the end, start vscode, tries to connect to the kubernetes devpod pod and fails