---
title: "Using Containers to move from Local to Remote Development"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-containers-to-move-from-local-to-remote-development-q1vvzib3i
source_url: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2022/04/04/increase-productivity-with-containers
type: article
source: "Visual Studio Code"
published: 2022-04-04T18:33:44.654Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:56:46.218Z
tags: ["cloud", "containers", "general-programming", "github"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 32
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Using Containers to move from Local to Remote Development

**[Visual Studio Code](https://daily.dev/sources/vscode)** · 7 min read · 32 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Using Containers to move from Local to Remote Development is a big buzzword in the industry. Containers provide a way to ship your software as a unit, including all binaries, dependencies, and configuration. This reduces time spent on configuration, as the container packages can then be easily deployed from environment to environment.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ssmiller25** · 2 upvotes

> Essentially a review of Github Codespaces.  Really interesting, but I'm disappointed Github hasn't made Codespaces available for individual/personal accouts.  Also a few alternatives exist, such as Gitpod (which I do enjoy using)

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