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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.

    4k 283

  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 254

  3. images images Public

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

    JavaScript 1.5k 594

  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 290

  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 416

  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 62

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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

    Shell 1,019 MIT 416 158 (1 issue needs help) 89 Updated Mar 2, 2025
  • cli Public

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

    TypeScript 1,741 MIT 254 180 34 Updated Mar 1, 2025
  • devcontainers.github.io Public

    Web content for the development containers specification.

    HTML 133 MIT 285 11 37 Updated Feb 28, 2025
  • images Public

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

    JavaScript 1,475 MIT 593 56 7 Updated Feb 25, 2025
  • 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 62 57 2 Updated Feb 25, 2025
  • spec Public

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

    3,953 CC-BY-4.0 283 109 (2 issues need help) 6 Updated Jan 6, 2025
  • template-starter Public template

    A template explaining how to author custom dev container Templates

    Shell 190 MIT 68 1 4 Updated Dec 19, 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 1,099 MIT 290 19 14 Updated Oct 15, 2024
  • action Public

    GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

    TypeScript 66 MIT 16 17 9 Updated Oct 4, 2024
  • feature-starter Public template

    A bootstrap repo for self-authoring Dev Container Features

    Shell 308 MIT 151 6 3 Updated Aug 23, 2024