Build a workspace locally?

[pypeaday]

I have been having some issues with the DevPod GUI not starting or building workspaces, with no logs.. I'm sorry to have no started an issue about that yet, but for now what I can do is use the CLI to start existing workspaces, and update the container for those workspaces.

I'd like to just build a workspace from the CLI but I am a bit confused on the remote aspect. My pattern with the GUI was to make a workspace from an image, not from a .devcontainer.json or git repo, and then in that workspace/container I've just cloned all the repos I want to be working on.

It looks like devpod build <options> is trying to push/pull the workspace from a git repo and I don't see a way to setup a workspace without a remote - ie. just configure the local volume storage path on my machine, start the container from the image I want to use, and be on my way.

Am I missing something about the CLI usage or misunderstanding something about the workspace model?