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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.

    4.5k 332

  2. cli cli Public

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

    TypeScript 2k 305

  3. images images Public

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

    JavaScript 1.7k 676

  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 1.2k 332

  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 1.2k 468

  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 407 80

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  • images Public

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

    JavaScript 1,681 MIT 677 51 29 Updated Jul 21, 2025
  • 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 1,159 MIT 467 162 (1 issue needs help) 112 Updated Jul 20, 2025
  • devcontainers.github.io Public

    Web content for the development containers specification.

    HTML 155 MIT 313 12 41 Updated Jul 18, 2025
  • cli Public

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

    TypeScript 1,999 MIT 305 203 40 Updated Jul 18, 2025
  • ci Public

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

    TypeScript 407 MIT 80 64 3 Updated Jul 15, 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!

    Shell 1,213 MIT 332 22 20 Updated Jun 30, 2025
  • template-starter Public template

    A template explaining how to author custom dev container Templates

    Shell 217 MIT 85 3 5 Updated Jun 5, 2025
  • spec Public

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

    4,470 CC-BY-4.0 332 124 (2 issues need help) 38 Updated Jun 5, 2025
  • action Public

    GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

    TypeScript 74 MIT 24 19 9 Updated Oct 4, 2024
  • feature-starter Public template

    A bootstrap repo for self-authoring Dev Container Features

    Shell 355 MIT 193 6 3 Updated Aug 22, 2024