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As a developer, your life is easier when you have your favorite tools. Now that Ubuntu 24.04 is around, one to-do involves installing all the developer tools you require, including Microsoft’s Vs Code. Ubuntu supports vscode, and there are different options you can use to quickly install vscode on Ubuntu 24.04 and start using it for your coding. Read on as this post shares three practical installation methods for any user. How to Install vscode on Ubuntu 24.04 It’s undeniable that vscode is a favorite code editor among developers. That doesn’t come as a surprise considering the numerous options that vscode offers, from plugins to version control. All these features are only accessible after you install vscode. You can install vscode via a command line or GUI. We’ve covered the different options below. This way, go through the options and see which suits your case. Method 1: Installing vscode via Snap Ubuntu uses the App Store, where you can source its snap packages and install them. Vs Code is available as a snap package, and the benefit of installing it this way is that you don’t need to install its dependencies separately. A snap bundles all packages. It requires ensuring that once you run the install command, vscode will install alongside its dependencies, and only one command is needed. Although installing vscode as a snap is possible, you won’t get its latest version. Nonetheless, you will get a stable version and only need to execute the following command. $ sudo snap install --classic code You will get a window showing the progress bar for the running process, from downloading the snap package to installing it. Method 2: Install vscode on Ubuntu 24.04 via Snap GUI Our first method explains how to source vscode from the App Center and install it via the command line. Even for this method, we are still sourcing vscode from the snap store but using the GUI approach. Use the below steps to get it done. Step 1: On your Ubuntu 24.04, search for App Center from your applications and tap on it to open it. Step 2: On the App Center window, click on the Search icon at the top and type vscode and press the search button. Step 3: Once vscode appears in the search results, tap on it. Next, click the Install button. Step 4: Authenticate the installation by entering your password when prompted. Step 5: That’s it. Vs Code will start installing, and a progress bar will show the progress. Once it completes installing, you can start using vscode for your code. Method 3: Install vscode on Ubuntu 24.04 via APT APT is a Ubuntu package manager that allows users to source packages from the Ubuntu repository and other repositories, install them, and manage them. Even when you want to install vscode, it’s possible to use APT. However, Ubuntu 24.04 doesn’t come with vscode in its repository. You can verify this by trying to install vscode via APT using the following command. $ sudo apt install code Notice the error we get: It only shows that vscode can be installed as a snap package, which we already did. The solution is to add the vscode repository to your Ubuntu 24.04 repository and then install it. To do this, let’s follow the below steps. Step 1: The first step is to update your Ubuntu 24.04 package list to prepare it to receive the vscode repository. Run the following update command. $ sudo apt update Step 2: We must install some required dependencies to ensure the installation runs softly. $ sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https wget -y Step 3: Microsoft offers a GPG key to help verify the vscode code repository before you add it. Source the GPG key and add it with the below command. $ wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - Step 4: It’s time we added the vscode repository using the below command. $ sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main" After running the command, different prompts will appear. Confirm them to complete adding the repository. Step 5: That’s it. You can now install vscode on Ubuntu 24.04 using the Apt command. $ sudo apt install code Conclusion Vs Code is a commonly used code editor, and if you recently upgraded or installed Ubuntu 24.04, knowing how to install it easily saves you time. Luckily, this post has shared three approaches you can follow depending on your preference. Happy coding! View the full article

AWS announces the support for Amazon Redshift with Visual Studio Code (VSCode), a free and open-source code editor. The integration with Visual Studio Code enables Amazon Redshift customers to use Visual Studio Code to author and run their SQL queries in a notebook interface and view the schema objects in their Redshift data warehouses. View the full article

The importance of DevOps is now widely recognized across the industry. The value is no longer anecdotal, it's been quantifiably demonstrated through ample research. DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) has shown how elite performing organizations are achieving dramatic improvements in their ability to deliver value to users faster by deploying more often, getting changes from code to production in less time, reducing the number of failures, and recovering from the issues that do fall through the cracks faster with reduced user impact. If you want a deep dive - here it is. A key contributor to these radical improvements lies in development teams owning their services from code to production. This core element of the DevOps transformation is critical to reducing handoffs and accelerating feedback cycles. However, development teams are exposed to a whole new range of expectations and needs around this new way of doing things. In order to succeed, they will need increasing levels of control and visibility, across multiple environments and throughout the lifecycle of their application. Cognitive Load of Context Switching Infrastructure and operation teams are looking at ways in which they can increase the control and visibility of development teams securely, but so far most solutions require developers and DevOps engineers to switch context constantly. The tools, workflows and processes that developers must adopt in order to understand the status of their applications as they are delivered or during runtime usually falls outside of their development workflows. CLIs and web based interfaces are the dominant options today for developers to inspect and understand their application delivery and operation. The problem with this is context switching - every time a developer must move away from their code and IDE and into some other system, there is a cognitive penalty that will negatively impact their ability to perform at their best. This overhead translates into reduced developer efficiency and increased developer burnout. Not to mention it increases the chance of human error when dealing with critical issues that may need fixing. Application Delivery as an Integral Part of the Development Process What has become clear is that the delivery of the application across multiple environments, as well as visibility into the application during runtime, is now an integral part of the development process. Development teams are seeing great benefits from true observability without having to move away from their current workflows and without having to switch tools or mental context. The overarching objective that organizations are looking to achieve is to accelerate, to enable developers to build, troubleshoot and ship features faster to their users. At Weaveworks we believe that a superior developer experience can significantly accelerate the software development lifecycle. The Rise of Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code has seen a meteoric rise, becoming an almost de facto standard as IDE for most developers. In the 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, over 71% of respondents indicated that they use Visual Studio Code as their integrated development environment! Microsoft has done an outstanding job in delivering Visual Studio Code as an open source project and the community has responded - with over 129,000 GitHub stars and over 1,600 contributors, the project continually evolves to satisfy the needs of developers building on top of basically any stack. This great level of community involvement has also resulted in a wide range of extensions becoming available to add-on all sorts of functionality, making Visual Studio Code not just a choice for IDE but also a choice for a vibrant ecosystem of capabilities. A Superior Developer Experience with GitOps Extension for Visual Studio Code The GitOps Extension for Visual Studio Code allows application developers to manage and observe the delivery of workloads and the runtime status of the resources managed and deployed using GitOps, without ever leaving the development environment. With the GitOps Extension developers can enable GitOps in any Kubernetes cluster; it will automatically identify whether the cluster is running in Azure Arc or Azure AKS and use the native Azure extension. For any other cluster, it will use the standard Flux installation process. Once your cluster is GitOps-enabled, application teams are able to see status, logs and versions of the GitOps controllers. Developers can then add Git source repositories, as well as deploy workloads from their local Git clones! One common challenge development teams are facing when using GitOps, is identifying the status of the reconciliation process that is keeping the runtime consistent with the desired state. With the GitOps Extension for Visual Studio Code developers can instantly see the status of sources and workloads and any error messages, as well as the version of the resources being deployed. Once workloads are deployed, developers will be able to see all resources created by them, as well as trace back how any one resource was deployed. Go Ahead and Try it Out! We think integrating GitOps into the IDE is an incredibly valuable step towards providing a superior developer experience for application delivery, accelerating the development lifecycle and ultimately, delivering value to users faster. But we need your feedback so this extension can satisfy the need of application teams! Go to our GitHub repository, follow the instructions in the README to install the latest release and take it for a test spin.Feel free to add issues to request features or report bugs, and since it’s fully open source, you may be able to contribute some on your own. View the full article

As a foundation of many of HashiCorp's products, the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) and its support in various Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) is an integral part of the user experience of our tools. For some time we have supported a first-class experience of Terraform via our Visual Studio Code Extension and Terraform Language Server. Other products were previously supported by a community-maintained HCL Extension. Today we announce that HashiCorp has transitioned the community HCL Extension to an officially supported project. This change allows us to provide a consistent editing experience for both Terraform users and users of other HCL-based products and continue delivering updates that accurately reflect HCL 2 and any changes to the language. View the full article

Using the AWS Toolkit for VS Code, customers can now create, locally debug, and deploy Lambda functions written in Java and Go. Java users will be able to step-through debug Lambdas built with Maven and Gradle in Java 8, Java 8.al2, and Java 11, while Go users will be able to do the same with Lambdas built in Golang 1.14+. View the full article