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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!

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  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

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  6. ci ci Public

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

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  • 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 1,197 MIT 481 158 (1 issue needs help) 125 Updated Aug 17, 2025
  • 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 2,043 MIT 311 205 41 Updated Aug 15, 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 1,711 MIT 704 53 37 Updated Aug 15, 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 414 MIT 83 60 7 Updated Aug 12, 2025
  • spec Public

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

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    4,533 CC-BY-4.0 339 122 (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 218 MIT 87 3 5 Updated Aug 1, 2025
  • devcontainers.github.io Public

    Web content for the development containers specification.

    devcontainers/devcontainers.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 156 MIT 314 13 45 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 1,229 MIT 338 24 22 Updated Jun 30, 2025
  • action Public

    GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

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    TypeScript 75 MIT 24 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 361 MIT 196 6 3 Updated Aug 23, 2024
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