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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 2.5k 378
imagesimagesPublic
Repository for pre-built dev container images published under mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers
Shell 1.9k 888
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 1.4k 580
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 1.3k 370
ciciPublic
A GitHub Action and Azure DevOps Task designed to simplify using Dev Containers (https://containers.dev) in CI/CD systems.
TypeScript 462 89

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images Public
Repository for pre-built dev container images published under mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers
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Shell 1,946MIT 888 58 30 UpdatedFeb 20, 2026
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 1,381MIT 580 171 (1 issue needs help) 145 UpdatedFeb 19, 2026
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!
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Shell 1,347MIT 370 32 11 UpdatedFeb 19, 2026
cli Public
A reference implementation for the specification that can create and configure a dev container from a devcontainer.json.
devcontainers/cli’s past year of commit activity
TypeScript 2,484MIT 378 221 50 UpdatedFeb 18, 2026
devcontainers.github.io Public
Web content for the development containers specification.
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HTML 182MIT 383 20 3 UpdatedFeb 3, 2026
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 462MIT 89 62 13 UpdatedDec 2, 2025
spec Public
Development Containers: Use a container as a full-featured development environment.
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5,180CC-BY-4.0 448 163 (2 issues need help) 34 UpdatedAug 1, 2025
template-starter Public template
A template explaining how to author custom dev container Templates
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Shell 246MIT 98 4 4 UpdatedAug 1, 2025
action Public
GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets
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TypeScript 81MIT 27 20 9 UpdatedOct 4, 2024
feature-starter Public template
A bootstrap repo for self-authoring Dev Container Features
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Shell 407MIT 234 7 5 UpdatedAug 22, 2024