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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 theDevelopment 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 GitHubDiscussion
Open issues on the relevant repository in thedevcontainers org
Join our Slack channel! You may reply tothis Discussion to get added

The dev containers specification is maintained in thespec repo.

We maintain a set ofimages andFeatures as part of the specification.

You can alsocreate and share your own Features. We've created aFeatures template repo to help along the way.

Thehttps://containers.dev site is in thedevcontainers.github.io repo.

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specspecPublic
Development Containers: Use a container as a full-featured development environment.
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clicliPublic
A reference implementation for the specification that can create and configure a dev container from a devcontainer.json.
TypeScript 1.8k 259
imagesimagesPublic
Repository for pre-built dev container images published under mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers
JavaScript 1.5k 610
templatestemplatesPublic
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 298
featuresfeaturesPublic
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 425
ciciPublic
A GitHub Action and Azure DevOps Task designed to simplify using Dev Containers (https://containers.dev) in CI/CD systems.
TypeScript 369 65

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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 1,770MIT 259 186 35 UpdatedMar 17, 2025
features Public
A collection of Dev Container Features managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. Seehttps://github.com/devcontainers/feature-starter to publish your own
devcontainers/features’s past year of commit activity
Shell 1,040MIT 423 160 (1 issue needs help) 93 UpdatedMar 16, 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 1,499MIT 608 57 10 UpdatedMar 13, 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 369MIT 65 57 1 UpdatedMar 12, 2025
devcontainers.github.io Public
Web content for the development containers specification.
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HTML 137MIT 289 12 41 UpdatedFeb 28, 2025
spec Public
Development Containers: Use a container as a full-featured development environment.
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4,022CC-BY-4.0 288 111 (2 issues need help) 6 UpdatedJan 6, 2025
template-starter Public template
A template explaining how to author custom dev container Templates
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Shell 193MIT 69 2 4 UpdatedDec 19, 2024
templates Public
Repository for Dev Container Templates that are managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. Seehttps://github.com/devcontainers/template-starter to create your own!
devcontainers/templates’s past year of commit activity
Shell 1,110MIT 294 20 16 UpdatedOct 15, 2024
action Public
GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets
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TypeScript 67MIT 17 18 9 UpdatedOct 4, 2024
feature-starter Public template
A bootstrap repo for self-authoring Dev Container Features
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Shell 318MIT 155 6 3 UpdatedAug 22, 2024