Development Container Templates

Development Container Templates A simple set of dev container 'templates' to help get you up and running with a containerized environment.

A development container is a running Docker container with a well-defined tool/runtime stack and its prerequisites. It allows you to use a container as a full-featured development environment which can be used to run an application, to separate tools, libraries, or runtimes needed for working with a codebase, and to aid in continuous integration and testing.

This repository contains a set of Dev Container Templates which are source files packaged together that encode configuration for a complete development environment. A Template can be used in a new or existing project, and a supporting tool will use the configuration from the template to build a development container.

Contents

• src - A collection of subfolders, each declaring a template. Each subfolder contains at least a devcontainer-template.json and a devcontainer.json.
• test - Mirroring src, a folder-per-template with at least a test.sh script. These tests are executed by the CI.

Contributions

Creating your own collection of templates

The Dev Container Template specification outlines a pattern for community members and organizations to self-author Templates in repositories they control.

A starter repository devcontainers/template-starter and GitHub Action are available to help bootstrap self-authored Templates.

We are eager to hear your feedback on self-authoring! Please provide comments and feedback on spec issue #71.

Contributing to this repository

This repository will accept improvement and bug fix contributions related to the current set of maintained templates.

Feedback

Issues related to these templates can be reported in an issue in this repository.

License

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.