microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release
Allow to rebuild DevContainers in the background
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Description
Type: Feature Request
Rebuilding a DevContainer can take a lot of time.
As the current DevContainer is usually not unusable and you often "only" add things to .devcontainer/devcontainer.json, which you already did manually in the current one, it would be great if the rebuilding could happen in the background and, if successful, you would then switch to the new one.
Extension version: 0.427.0
VS Code version: Code 1.105.1 (7d842fb85a0275a4a8e4d7e040d2625abbf7f084, 2025-10-14T22:33:36.618Z)
OS version: Linux x64 6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64
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Remote OS version: Linux x64 6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64
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