diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+# 
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+FROM docker.io/library/ubuntu:22.04@sha256:b492494d8e0113c4ad3fe4528a4b5ff89faa5331f7d52c5c138196f69ce176a6
+
+# Install dependencies
+RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get update && \
+    DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        # Development dependencies \
+        dos2unix \
+        git \
+        locales-all \
+        rsync \
+        tar \
+        ssh \
+        tzdata \
+        sudo \
+        vim \
+        # Build dependencies \
+        build-essential \
+        ccache \
+        cmake \
+        cmake-curses-gui \
+        curl \
+        default-jdk \
+        gcc \
+        g++ \
+        gdb \
+        make \
+        lcov \
+        python3 \
+        python3-pip \
+        # Celix dependencies \
+        civetweb \
+        libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev \
+        libcivetweb-dev \
+        libcpputest-dev \
+        libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+        libczmq-dev \
+        libffi-dev \
+        libjansson-dev \
+        libxml2-dev \
+        libzip-dev \
+        rapidjson-dev \
+        uuid-dev && \
+    apt-get clean
+
+# Install conan
+RUN pip3 install conan && pip3 cache purge
+
+# Add user celixdev with sudo rights and a "celixdev" password
+RUN useradd -m -s /bin/bash -G sudo celixdev
+RUN echo "celixdev:celixdev" | chpasswd
+USER celixdev
diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
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+{
+    "name": "Apache Celix Dev Container",
+    "build": {
+        "dockerfile": "Dockerfile",
+    },
+    "postCreateCommand": "sh .devcontainer/setup.sh",
+}
diff --git a/.devcontainer/setup.sh b/.devcontainer/setup.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+# 
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+BUILD_TYPE=${1:-Debug}
+LC_BUILD_TYPE=$(echo ${BUILD_TYPE} | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
+
+mkdir -p cmake-build-${LC_BUILD_TYPE}
+
+cmake -S . \
+      -B cmake-build-${LC_BUILD_TYPE} \
+      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
+      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/celix-install \
+      -DENABLE_TESTING=ON \
+      -DENABLE_ADDRESS_SANITIZER=ON \
+      -DRSA_JSON_RPC=ON \
+      -DRSA_SHM=ON \
+      -DRSA_REMOTE_SERVICE_ADMIN_SHM_V2=ON