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devcontainers

Official organization for the Development Containers Specification and dev container resources.

Welcome to the Development Containers Community

In this community we maintain the Development Containers (dev container) Specification. The dev container spec defines a standard for any development tool to use a container as a full-featured development environment.

Join us to continue to make this spec and the reference CLI implementation even better! There are several ways you can chat with the spec maintainers and the community:

  • Open a GitHub Discussion
  • Open issues on the relevant repository in the devcontainers org
  • Join our Slack channel! You may reply to this Discussion to get added

The dev containers specification is maintained in the spec repo.

We maintain a set of images and Features as part of the specification.

You can also create and share your own Features. We've created a Features template repo to help along the way.

The https://containers.dev site is in the devcontainers.github.io repo.

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  1. spec spec Public

    Development Containers: Use a container as a full-featured development environment.

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  2. cli cli Public

    A reference implementation for the specification that can create and configure a dev container from a devcontainer.json.

    TypeScript 1.7k 247

  3. images images Public

    Repository for pre-built dev container images published under mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers

    JavaScript 1.5k 580

  4. templates templates Public

    Repository for Dev Container Templates that are managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. See https://github.com/devcontainers/template-starter to create your own!

    Shell 1.1k 286

  5. features features Public

    A collection of Dev Container Features managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. See https://github.com/devcontainers/feature-starter to publish your own

    Shell 1k 409

  6. ci ci Public

    A GitHub Action and Azure DevOps Task designed to simplify using Dev Containers (https://containers.dev) in CI/CD systems.

    TypeScript 368 60

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  • ci Public

    A GitHub Action and Azure DevOps Task designed to simplify using Dev Containers (https://containers.dev) in CI/CD systems.

    TypeScript 368 MIT 60 56 12 Updated Feb 18, 2025
  • features Public

    A collection of Dev Container Features managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. See https://github.com/devcontainers/feature-starter to publish your own

    Shell 1,008 MIT 409 161 (1 issue needs help) 86 Updated Feb 16, 2025
  • images Public

    Repository for pre-built dev container images published under mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers

    JavaScript 1,453 MIT 580 54 12 Updated Feb 14, 2025
  • cli Public

    A reference implementation for the specification that can create and configure a dev container from a devcontainer.json.

    TypeScript 1,718 MIT 247 180 35 Updated Feb 8, 2025
  • spec Public

    Development Containers: Use a container as a full-featured development environment.

    3,911 CC-BY-4.0 277 108 (2 issues need help) 6 Updated Jan 6, 2025
  • template-starter Public template

    A template explaining how to author custom dev container Templates

    Shell 187 MIT 65 1 4 Updated Dec 20, 2024
  • templates Public

    Repository for Dev Container Templates that are managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. See https://github.com/devcontainers/template-starter to create your own!

    Shell 1,087 MIT 286 19 14 Updated Oct 15, 2024
  • devcontainers.github.io Public

    Web content for the development containers specification.

    HTML 134 MIT 284 11 42 Updated Oct 8, 2024
  • action Public

    GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

    TypeScript 63 MIT 16 17 9 Updated Oct 5, 2024
  • feature-starter Public template

    A bootstrap repo for self-authoring Dev Container Features

    Shell 302 MIT 148 6 3 Updated Aug 22, 2024