If you are using VSCode against WSL2 or Linux and you have installed Docker, managing devcontainers is very straightforward. What I usually do is to execute "Connect to host" or "Connect to WSL", then create the project directory and ask VSCode to "Add Dev Container Configuration File". Once the configuration file is created, VSCode itself will ask you if you want to start working inside the container. I'm impressed with the user experience of this feature, to be honest.
Working with devcontainers from CLI wasn't very difficult [0], but I must confess that I only tested it once.
Working with devcontainers from CLI wasn't very difficult [0], but I must confess that I only tested it once.
[0] https://containers.dev/supporting