Dev Containers and Remote Development

17 repos

Standardized container environments for consistent local and remote development workflows. This cluster centers on the Dev Containers specification and tooling ecosystem—primarily shell-based feature scripts, TypeScript implementations, and documentation—that enable developers to define reproducible containerized development environments across VS Code, Docker, and other tools. Key resources include the official specification, starter templates, feature libraries, and implementation guides for adopting containerized dev environments.

Shell · 7

TypeScript · 3

HTML · 2

Dockerfile · 1

Markdown · 1

Rust · 1

devcontainers ·30,265

containers ·29,770

vscode ·16,025

docker ·8,911

remote ·8,911

dev-containers ·8,911

remote-development ·8,911

visual-studio-code ·8,911

codespaces ·4,739

devcontainer ·4,739

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devcontainers/containers.dev

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devcontainers/images

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

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devcontainers/feature-starter

A bootstrap repo for self-authoring Dev Container Features

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devcontainers/cli

A reference implementation for the specification that can create and configure a dev container from…

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devcontainers/feature-template

A bootstrap repo for self-authoring Dev Container Features

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devcontainers/action

GitHub Action to build & publish your own dev container assets

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devcontainers/templates

Repository for Dev Container Templates that are managed by Dev Container spec maintainers. See…

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microsoft/vscode-remote-release

Visual Studio Code Remote Development: Open any folder in WSL, in a Docker container, or on a…

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microsoft/vscode-dev-containers

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devcontainers/ci

A GitHub Action and Azure DevOps Task designed to simplify using Dev Containers…

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microsoft/vscode-remote-try-rust

Rust sample project for trying out Dev Containers

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microsoft/vscode-docs

Public documentation for Visual Studio Code

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devcontainers/template-starter

A template explaining how to author custom dev container Templates

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