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

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Last GitHub push: Mar 20, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
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168 open issues indexed

Port features.json properties for most common runtime arguments Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#2 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
customizations.vscode.codeWorkspace property Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#3 · 0 comments · 5 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Allow the use of workspaceFolder without specifying workspaceMount Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#4 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Allow port forwarding visibility to be specified Open

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devcontainers/spec#5 · 12 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Orchestrator interop Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#10 · 14 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Container engine interop Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#11 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
profile.d and entrypoint.d Open

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devcontainers/spec#19 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Bring "attach config" devcontainer.json subset into spec Open

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devcontainers/spec#20 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Feature build performance Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#21 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Addition of "extends" top level property to enable simple configuration inheritance Open

finalization

devcontainers/spec#22 · 15 comments · 145 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Addition of "$ref" property to enable flexible configuration composition Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#23 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
UID/GID sync scripts Open

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devcontainers/spec#25 · 13 comments · 4 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[Notice] Frequently asked questions Open

devcontainers/spec#31 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add OSI machine-readable field to the feature spec Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#35 · 0 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Installing a dev container `feature` more than once in a `devcontainer.json` Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#44 · 20 comments · 14 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Providing a set of values to a single feature `option` Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#57 · 7 comments · 7 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[Features] Supported Architectures/OS Open

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devcontainers/spec#58 · 13 comments · 12 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Allow feature authors to customize the names of the main executables for features. Open

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devcontainers/spec#59 · 7 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Distributing feature templates Open

finalization

devcontainers/spec#71 · 16 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Side-car dev container features Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#73 · 0 comments · 3 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Universal image build and reuse semantics Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#74 · 0 comments · 4 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Introduce support for auto-creation of user referenced in remoteUser or containerUser properties Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#75 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Documenting `customizations` and namespace contribution process Open

documentation

devcontainers/spec#80 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Image buildx CLI arguments Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#85 · 9 comments · 14 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Evergreen containers Open

devcontainers/spec#99 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Consistant automated workspace mounts for Docker Compose Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#106 · 0 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Share code between features Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#129 · 7 comments · 4 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Proposal: enable optional bind mounts Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#132 · 17 comments · 59 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
"How to" articles Open

documentation help wanted

devcontainers/spec#137 · 0 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Features: Support PortAttributes and ForwardPorts in devcontainer-feature.json Open

devcontainers/spec#142 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Support more specific GPU requirements Open

devcontainers/spec#144 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add support for devices in devcontainer-feature.json Open

devcontainers/spec#153 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Proposal: Add the ability to mount remote SMB volumes in devcontainer Open

devcontainers/spec#161 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Support for referencing feature option values in containerEnv Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#164 · 6 comments · 7 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Feature authorship: One per git project kind of sound supported? Open

devcontainers/spec#178 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[proposal] Support for container name option in devcontainer.json Open

enhancement

devcontainers/spec#184 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Define preferred editor for codespaces Open

devcontainers/spec#202 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[proposal] Support yaml as well as jsonc Open

devcontainers/spec#203 · 4 comments · 6 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Features and Templates UX with growing collections Open

devcontainers/spec#205 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Proposal: Allow using env-vars in devcontainer-feature.json Open

devcontainers/spec#220 · 9 comments · 3 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[Bug]When working with a proxy, the extensions cannot be automatically installed. Open

devcontainers/spec#225 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[proposal] Support more lifecycle scripts Open

devcontainers/spec#229 · 10 comments · 5 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Should forwardPorts Automatically Apply To dockerComposeFIle & service? Open

devcontainers/spec#245 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[proposal] add support to custom headers when using HTTPS reference to a feature Open

enhancement

devcontainers/spec#247 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Versioning Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#248 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[Proposal] Introduce `path` property in `devcontainer-feature.json` Open

proposal

devcontainers/spec#251 · 1 comment · 5 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
forwardPorts should also allow "." (dot) in the service name Open

enhancement

devcontainers/spec#254 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Should the namespace of `customizations` be more standardized? Open

devcontainers/spec#262 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Confusion in the spec about metadata and merge logic Open

devcontainers/spec#267 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Duplication while merging lifecycle commands? Open

devcontainers/spec#268 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026

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