feat: add devcontainer testing environment for PR reviews#530
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Add devcontainer-based testing environment proposal with design, specs, and tasks. This change will provide maintainers with a one-command Fedora environment for interactive CLI testing during PR reviews using GitHub Codespaces, DevPod, or VS Code Dev Containers. Assisted-by: OpenCode (claude-opus-4-6) Signed-off-by: Marcus Burghardt <maburgha@redhat.com>
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Add .devcontainer/ configuration providing a Fedora 43-based testing environment for interactive CLI testing during PR reviews. New files: - .devcontainer/Containerfile: Fedora 43 base with required packages - .devcontainer/devcontainer.json: devcontainer standard config - .devcontainer/scripts/post-create.sh: automated setup script - docs/dev-testing-environment.md: maintainer/contributor docs Modified files: - README.md: add link to dev testing environment docs - AGENTS.md: add .devcontainer/ to project structure - Makefile: add test-devcontainer smoke test target The post-create script builds complyctl and mock-oci-registry, installs snappy (v0.2.4) and ampel (v1.2.1) at pinned versions, clones and builds complytime-providers from main, configures a test workspace with Gemara content, and starts the mock OCI registry. GITHUB_TOKEN is handled with least-privilege scoping. Assisted-by: OpenCode (claude-opus-4-6) Signed-off-by: Marcus Burghardt <maburgha@redhat.com>
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Summary
Add a devcontainer-based Fedora 43 testing environment that gives maintainers and contributors a one-command path from reviewing a PR to running
complyctlcommands in a realistic environment.The environment supports GitHub Codespaces, DevPod, and VS Code Dev Containers. A post-create script automates the full setup: builds complyctl and mock-oci-registry, installs snappy (v0.2.4), ampel (v1.2.1), and conftest (v0.68.2) at pinned versions, clones and builds all complytime-providers, configures a test workspace with Gemara content, and starts the mock OCI registry with a readiness check. GITHUB_TOKEN is handled with least-privilege scoping.
The environment auto-rebuilds complyctl on shell login when the source has changed (e.g., after checking out a PR branch), with opt-out via
COMPLYCTL_SKIP_REBUILD=1. SELinux compatibility is handled via--security-opt label=disablefor podman rootless.Once merged, the same approach will be replicated to complytime-providers with a mirrored devcontainer configuration, enabling consistent testing of changes on both sides of the complyctl + providers pipeline.
OpenSpec artifacts in
openspec/changes/dev-testing-environment/(proposal, design with 10 decisions, spec with 3 FRs and 15 scenarios, tasks with 6 phases).Related Issues
This PR addresses a key friction point in the project collaboration workflow. Today, manually testing CLI UX changes requires setting up a complex multi-repository environment (complyctl + complytime-providers + complytime-demos) with Vagrant, Ansible, and libvirt. This discourages thorough manual testing during PR reviews.
With this change, any maintainer or contributor can go from "looking at a PR" to "running complyctl commands in a Fedora environment" in a single command. This accelerates:
Review Hints
docs/TESTING_ENVIRONMENT.mdfor the user-facing documentation and workflows (Codespaces, DevPod, VS Code)..devcontainer/scripts/post-create.shmirrors patterns fromtests/cross-repo/cross_repo_integration_test.sh(GITHUB_TOKEN least-privilege, mock registry readiness check).make test-devcontainerruns the CI smoke test (Containerfile builds). The full environment test requires DevPod or Codespaces:devpod up . --ide none && devpod ssh complyctl