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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.

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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.

    TypeScript 2.6k 381

  3. images images Public

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

    Shell 2k 898

  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 1.4k 587

  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 1.4k 377

  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 471 92

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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 1,413 MIT 587 171 (1 issue needs help) 146 Updated Mar 22, 2026
  • devcontainers.github.io Public

    Web content for the development containers specification.

    devcontainers/devcontainers.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 188 MIT 398 20 16 Updated Mar 20, 2026
  • spec Public

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

    devcontainers/spec’s past year of commit activity
    5,266 CC-BY-4.0 455 134 (2 issues need help) 33 Updated Mar 20, 2026
  • 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 2,576 MIT 381 215 50 Updated Mar 19, 2026
  • images Public

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

    devcontainers/images’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 1,980 MIT 898 54 28 Updated Mar 17, 2026
  • 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 1,360 MIT 377 26 12 Updated Mar 7, 2026
  • 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 471 MIT 92 62 14 Updated Dec 2, 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 249 MIT 99 5 4 Updated Aug 1, 2025
  • action Public

    GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

    devcontainers/action’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 83 MIT 28 20 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 413 MIT 238 7 5 Updated Aug 22, 2024

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