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devcontainers

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

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  3. images images Public

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

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  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!

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  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

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  6. ci ci Public

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

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  • 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

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    Shell 1,054 MIT 432 164 (1 issue needs help) 95 Updated Apr 6, 2025
  • ci Public

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

    devcontainers/ci’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 376 MIT 67 57 1 Updated Apr 4, 2025
  • cli Public

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

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    TypeScript 1,788 MIT 269 188 37 Updated Apr 4, 2025
  • images Public

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

    devcontainers/images’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 1,532 MIT 616 60 11 Updated Apr 4, 2025
  • 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!

    devcontainers/templates’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 1,122 MIT 305 21 11 Updated Apr 1, 2025
  • devcontainers.github.io Public

    Web content for the development containers specification.

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    HTML 139 MIT 293 12 45 Updated Feb 28, 2025
  • spec Public

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

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    4,097 CC-BY-4.0 293 116 (2 issues need help) 22 Updated Jan 6, 2025
  • template-starter Public template

    A template explaining how to author custom dev container Templates

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    Shell 197 MIT 72 2 4 Updated Dec 19, 2024
  • action Public

    GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

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    TypeScript 68 MIT 18 18 9 Updated Oct 4, 2024
  • feature-starter Public template

    A bootstrap repo for self-authoring Dev Container Features

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    Shell 326 MIT 162 6 3 Updated Aug 22, 2024
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