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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

    Shell 1.9k 837

  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

    Shell 1.3k 540

  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 355

  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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  • 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 2,250 MIT 349 218 49 Updated Dec 8, 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 1,319 MIT 540 170 (1 issue needs help) 139 Updated Dec 8, 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 442 MIT 87 63 11 Updated Dec 2, 2025
  • images Public

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

    devcontainers/images’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 1,862 MIT 836 60 17 Updated Dec 1, 2025
  • devcontainers.github.io Public

    Web content for the development containers specification.

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    HTML 173 MIT 361 16 27 Updated Nov 25, 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 1,288 MIT 355 26 14 Updated Nov 24, 2025
  • spec Public

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

    devcontainers/spec’s past year of commit activity
    4,867 CC-BY-4.0 399 139 (2 issues need help) 32 Updated Aug 1, 2025
  • template-starter Public template

    A template explaining how to author custom dev container Templates

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    Shell 237 MIT 92 4 4 Updated Aug 1, 2025
  • action Public

    GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

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    TypeScript 78 MIT 26 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 389 MIT 219 7 3 Updated Aug 22, 2024
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