Introducing Dev Containers to Framework

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

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+{
+  "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/base:ubuntu",
+  "features": {
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/node:1": {},
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/aws-cli:1": {},
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers-contrib/features/aws-cdk:2": {
+      "version": "2.133.0"
+    }
+  },
+  "postCreateCommand": ".devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh",
+  "workspaceFolder": "/home/vscode/cdk-aws-observability-accelerator",
+  "workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder},target=/home/vscode/cdk-aws-observability-accelerator,type=bind",
+  "hostRequirements": {
+    "cpus": 2
+  },
+  "remoteEnv": {
+    "PATH": "${containerEnv:PATH}:/home/vscode/cdk-aws-observability-accelerator"
+  }
+}

.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# For Kubectl AMD64 / x86_64
+[ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && curl -sLO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
+# For Kubectl ARM64
+[ $(uname -m) = aarch64 ] && curl -sLO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/arm64/kubectl"
+chmod +x ./kubectl
+sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
+
+# For Helm
+curl -fsSL -o get_helm.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/main/scripts/get-helm-3
+chmod 700 get_helm.sh
+echo "Installing 'helm' utility ..."
+./get_helm.sh
+rm -rf get_helm.sh
+
+# setup autocomplete for kubectl and alias k
+mkdir $HOME/.kube
+echo "source <(kubectl completion bash)" >> $HOME/.bashrc
+echo "alias k=kubectl" >> $HOME/.bashrc
+echo "complete -F __start_kubectl k" >> $HOME/.bashrc

README.md

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 Before proceeding, make sure [AWS CLI](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html) is installed on your machine.
 
-To use the eks-blueprints and patterns module, you must have [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) and [npm](https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm) installed. You will also use `make` and `brew` to simplify build and other common actions.
+To use this solution, you must have [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) and [npm](https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm) installed. You will also use `make` and `brew` to simplify build and other common actions.
+
+## Workstation Setup Options
+
+### DevContainer Setup
+
+Users can choose this option, if you dont want to run this solution on a mac or ubuntu machine. Please use the dev container configuration in the `.devcontainer` folder with [devpod](devpod.sh) or any other dev container environment to create a development environment with dependencies such as Node, NPM, aws-cli, aws-cdk, kubectl, helm dependencies for your local development with `cdk-aws-observability-accelerator` solution. 
 
 ### Ubuntu Setup
 
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 Updating npm: `sudo n stable` where stable can also be a specific version above 10.1. May require `sudo`.
 
-### Repo setup
+## Repo setup
 
 1. Clone the `cdk-aws-observability-accelerator` repository