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devcontainers

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 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.

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  2. cli cli Public

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

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  3. images images Public

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

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  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 335

  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 475

  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 411 82

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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 2,010 MIT 306 205 40 Updated Aug 4, 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

    devcontainers/features’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 1,166 MIT 475 158 (1 issue needs help) 119 Updated Aug 2, 2025
  • spec Public

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

    devcontainers/spec’s past year of commit activity
    4,498 CC-BY-4.0 336 122 (2 issues need help) 30 Updated Aug 1, 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 217 MIT 86 3 5 Updated Aug 1, 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 1,694 MIT 693 53 33 Updated Jul 29, 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 411 MIT 82 62 5 Updated Jul 29, 2025
  • devcontainers.github.io Public

    Web content for the development containers specification.

    devcontainers/devcontainers.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 155 MIT 314 13 43 Updated Jul 18, 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!

    devcontainers/templates’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 1,221 MIT 335 22 22 Updated Jun 30, 2025
  • action Public

    GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

    devcontainers/action’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 74 MIT 25 19 9 Updated Oct 4, 2024
  • feature-starter Public template

    A bootstrap repo for self-authoring Dev Container Features

    devcontainers/feature-starter’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 358 MIT 199 6 3 Updated Aug 22, 2024
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