Welcome to the Jungle: Unraveling GitHub’s Magic Behind Codespace

GitHub Codespaces uses a dedicated virtual machine for each user, currently based on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS with the moby-engine. Key tools like Docker Compose and Node.js via NVM are essential for setting up devcontainer environments. The @devcontainers/cli along with JSON5 and jq help manage configurations and manipulate JSON files efficiently.