mandatorize clab version during the build and add runargs

.devcontainer/dood/devcontainer.json

@@ -7,13 +7,17 @@
             "CLAB_VERSION": "${localEnv:CLAB_VERSION}"
         }
     },
+    "runArgs": [
+        "--network=host",
+        "--pid=host",
+        "--privileged"
+    ],
+    "mounts": [
+        "type=bind,src=/run/netns,dst=/run/netns"
+    ],
     "features": {
-        "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/docker-outside-of-docker:1": {
-            "version": "26.1.4",
-            "dockerDashComposeVersion": "none",
-            "moby": "false"
-        },
-        // Add sshd to support gh cli codespace cp.
+        "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/docker-outside-of-docker:1": {},
+        // Add sshd to support gh cli codespaces cp.
         "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/sshd:1": {
             "version": "latest"
         },

.github/workflows/build-devcontainer.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 name: build-devcontainer
 on:
   workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      CLAB_VERSION:
+        description: "Containerlab version"
+        required: true
+        type: string
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       CLAB_VERSION:

.github/workflows/cicd.yml

@@ -491,7 +491,8 @@ jobs:
     if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') && contains(github.ref, '-') != true
     needs: build-and-release
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build-devcontainer.yml
-
+    with:
+      CLAB_VERSION: ${{ github.ref_name && github.ref_name[1:] }} # remove the leading 'v'
   # update docs allows to make the docs changes outside of the release cycle
   # it skips the code build/release and proceeds with docs publishing
   # the intended usage is to provide fixes/updates to docs, which do not require code changes