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Codespaces is a cloud development environment (CDE) that’s hosted in the cloud. You can customize your project for GitHub Codespaces by committing configuration files to your repository (often known as Configuration-as-Code), which creates a repeatable codespaces configuration for all users of your project. GitHub Codespaces overview

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Prerequisites

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Configure Dev Container

To configure t he dev container, open the Hedela Local Node repo and click on the Code->Codespaces->...-> Configure dev container.
This will open the dev container configuration file where you can customize your configuration like the CPUs and memory.
Note: If you make changes to your config file, commit and push your changes before running local node, to ensure the project starts with the right configuration.

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Creating and Running Your Codespace

Open the Hedela Local Node repo and click on the Code->Codespaces->...-> New with options... button and choose the appropriate settings:
Once your codespace is created, the template repository will be automatically cloned into it. Your codespace is all set up and have the local node running!

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Conclusion and Additional Resources

Congrats on successfully setting up your Codespace and running a Hedera Local Node! ➡ Hedera Local Node Repository ➡ Quickstart for GitHub Codespaces ➡ Adding Dev Container Config to Repo