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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!

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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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  • 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 1,418 MIT 388 29 11 Updated Jul 8, 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 2,079 MIT 931 54 42 Updated Jul 8, 2026
  • 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 1,496 MIT 607 170 (1 issue needs help) 148 Updated Jul 8, 2026
  • cli Public

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

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    TypeScript 2,835 MIT 422 225 69 Updated Jul 2, 2026
  • devcontainers.github.io Public

    Web content for the development containers specification.

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    HTML 198 MIT 426 23 12 Updated Jun 30, 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 484 MIT 95 64 12 Updated Jun 1, 2026
  • spec Public

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

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    5,572 CC-BY-4.0 478 148 (2 issues need help) 19 Updated Mar 20, 2026
  • template-starter Public template

    A template explaining how to author custom dev container Templates

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    Shell 269 MIT 109 5 4 Updated Aug 1, 2025
  • action Public

    GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

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    TypeScript 87 MIT 31 21 10 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 438 MIT 253 7 5 Updated Aug 22, 2024
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