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devcontainers

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

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  1. specspecPublic

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

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  2. clicliPublic

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

    TypeScript 1.9k 291

  3. imagesimagesPublic

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

    JavaScript 1.6k 649

  4. templatestemplatesPublic

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

    Shell 1.2k 321

  5. featuresfeaturesPublic

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

    Shell 1.1k 450

  6. ciciPublic

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

    TypeScript 389 72

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  • 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 1,893 MIT 291 200 36 UpdatedJun 9, 2025
  • features Public

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

    devcontainers/features’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 1,126 MIT 449 163 (1 issue needs help) 109 UpdatedJun 8, 2025
  • template-starter Public template

    A template explaining how to author custom dev container Templates

    devcontainers/template-starter’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 207 MIT 78 3 4 UpdatedJun 5, 2025
  • spec Public

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

    devcontainers/spec’s past year of commit activity
    4,321 CC-BY-4.0 321 118 (2 issues need help) 23 UpdatedJun 5, 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 1,625 MIT 649 52 21 UpdatedJun 3, 2025
  • ci Public

    A 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 389 MIT 72 62 3 UpdatedJun 3, 2025
  • devcontainers..io Public

    Web content for the development containers specification.

    devcontainers/devcontainers..io’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 149 MIT 301 12 41 UpdatedMay 22, 2025
  • templates Public

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

    devcontainers/templates’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 1,174 MIT 321 22 20 UpdatedMay 19, 2025
  • action Public

    Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

    devcontainers/action’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 74 MIT 21 19 9 UpdatedOct 5, 2024
  • feature-starter Public template

    A bootstrap repo for self-authoring Dev Container Features

    devcontainers/feature-starter’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 342 MIT 178 7 3 UpdatedAug 23, 2024
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