awesome-devcontainers

In this session, Yohan Lasorsa demos how to isolate each of your projects' environment, and share it with your teammates to quickly onboard newcomers.

A series of videos about dev containers in Visual Studio Code! We'll show you how to get, create, and configure a container-based development environment with the VS Code Remote - Containers extension.

In this demo, Alvaro Videla makes the RabbitMQ tutorials "Codespaces ready" and ran them directly from the browser without the need to install RabbitMQ or Node.js.

In this session, Brigit Murtaugh demos how to use the VS Code Remote extensions to connect to remote environments and build and deploy applications using the same, familiar Visual Studio Code you already know locally.

In this video, check out how you can get started with a VS Code dev container in just 5 minutes as a student.

A list of tips to enhance your Dev Containers to support Apple M1, include various tooling and customizations.

Visual Studio Code Remote Containers official documentation.

Development containers with Visual Studio Code can serve as a fantastic tool in education to ensure students have a consistent coding environment. They take care of setup so that students and instructors can quickly move past configuration, and instead focus on what's truly important: learning and coding something great!

Discover how to get started in seconds on a new project, isolate all your dev environments and share them with your teammates using VS Code dev containers.

See how you can use remote containers in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2).

Dev containers are awesome, we can use them to define an isolated development environment within Docker that has all that we need, and only what we need, installed in it.

A CLI that creates a durable Docker dev container workspace for AI coding agents on a laptop or remote VM, installs Claude Code, Codex, Pi, OpenCode, and other harnesses on demand, gives parallel agents separate git worktrees, and supports attaching from VS Code Dev Containers.

A CLI that drops a sandboxed dev container into any project for running AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) in auto-approve mode, with filesystem isolation, a filtered Docker socket, and an opt-in outbound firewall.

A lean devcontainer runner that shells out to Docker/Podman. Single binary, no SSH, just

A linter for Dev Container definitions, Features, and Templates, with checks for correctness, security, and reproducibility.

A GitHub action and Azure DevOps task aimed at making it easier to re-use a Visual Studio Code devcontainer in a GitHub workflow or Azure DevOps pipeline.

A DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code dev container (Terraform, Terragrunt, Azure CLI, Ansible, Kubernetes, PowerShell, .NET) with a

Microsoft's agent-development course environment with Python, Node.js, .NET, and notebook support. Includes Microsoft Agent Framework and MCP SDK dependencies for agent and tool-calling examples.

Microsoft's Python, R, and Jupyter development environment for statistics and notebook-based experimentation. The published image is documented as x86-64.

Microsoft's devcontainer for learning LLM application development with Python, Jupyter notebooks, model APIs, and course dependencies.

Suggested stack: PyTorch, Transformers, Datasets, Accelerate, and PEFT, optionally with TRL, for reproducible fine-tuning and LoRA experiments. A compatible GPU is recommended for practical LLM workloads.

Community devcontainer template based on Jupyter Docker Stacks, with selectable base images for dataset exploration, preprocessing, visualization, and machine learning.

Suggested stack: Node.js, Python, promptfoo, and versioned evaluation datasets for comparing prompts and models, checking outputs, and catching quality regressions in CI. Hosted model evaluation does not require a local GPU.

Develop C++ applications on Linux. Includes Debian C++ build tools (maintained by Microsoft).

Ultimate Go development container for Visual Studio Code.

Develop Go based applications. Includes appropriate runtime args, Go, common tools, extensions, and dependencies (maintained by Microsoft).

Develop Java applications. Includes the JDK and Java extensions (maintained by Microsoft).

Develop C# and .NET based applications. Includes all needed SDKs, extensions, and dependencies (maintained by Microsoft).

Develop Node.js based applications. Includes Node.js, eslint, nvm, and yarn (maintained by Microsoft).

A free, self-paced course in three levels — from opening your first Dev Container to designing multi-service setups, mirroring pre-commit hooks in CI, and auditing supply-chain risk. No sign-up required.

Get, create, and configure a container-based development environment with the Visual Studio Code Remote - Containers extension.