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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. 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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  5. 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 1.3k 347

  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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  • images Public

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

    devcontainers/images’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 1,831 MIT 814 66 18 Updated Nov 18, 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 437 MIT 86 61 11 Updated Nov 17, 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 1,304 MIT 523 169 (1 issue needs help) 138 Updated Nov 16, 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 2,207 MIT 340 215 49 Updated Nov 14, 2025
  • devcontainers.github.io Public

    Web content for the development containers specification.

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    HTML 166 MIT 344 13 40 Updated Oct 28, 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 1,270 MIT 347 24 13 Updated Oct 28, 2025
  • spec Public

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

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    4,798 CC-BY-4.0 386 125 (2 issues need help) 31 Updated Aug 1, 2025
  • template-starter Public template

    A template explaining how to author custom dev container Templates

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    Shell 233 MIT 90 4 4 Updated Aug 1, 2025
  • action Public

    GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

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    TypeScript 77 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 385 MIT 216 7 3 Updated Aug 23, 2024
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