devcontainers/cli

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A reference implementation for the specification that can create and configure a dev container from a devcontainer.json.

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Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 28, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
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234 open issues indexed

Podman: automatic `--userns=keep-id` breaks containers using host networking Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

devcontainers/cli#1301 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Podman: --userns=keep-id and --security-opt label=disable are never applied on the Docker Compose path Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

devcontainers/cli#1300 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Feature request: First-class array input for Feature options (array option type + multiple invocations) [blocked on spec#766] Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

devcontainers/cli#1298 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Multi-variable ARG declared via line continuation loses its second variable Open

devcontainers/cli#1286 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Podman fix: derive `--userns=keep-id` mapping from the remote user's actual UID/GID Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

devcontainers/cli#1284 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Dotfiles install script interpolates targetPath/repository unquoted: paths with spaces break git clone/cd Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

devcontainers/cli#1283 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Add "no-lockfile" as an option to "devcontainer.json" config file Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

devcontainers/cli#1282 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2026
`up --frozen-lockfile` doesn't fail when lockfile is outdated Open

devcontainers/cli#1273 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 1, 2026
`up` hangs indefinitely when the container start event is missed (warm daemon + cached image) Open

devcontainers/cli#1269 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Support for the Containerization Framework on macOS Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

devcontainers/cli#1263 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Build context for a Dev Container Feature is invalidated on every build Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

devcontainers/cli#1262 · Opened Jul 6, 2026
shell completions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

devcontainers/cli#1257 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 25, 2026
--mount-git-worktree-common-dir silently ignored when devcontainer.json sets a custom workspaceMount Open

devcontainers/cli#1243 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Podman: up can hang after "Container started" on create/recreate Open

devcontainers/cli#1236 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 21, 2026
install.sh wrapper relative link not resolved correctly Open

devcontainers/cli#1232 · 1 assignee · Opened May 20, 2026
Dockerfile `ENV` mutates system-wide `/etc/environment` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

devcontainers/cli#1231 · 1 comment · Opened May 19, 2026
```suggestion Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 10/100

devcontainers/cli#1217 · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Multiple services in docker-compose with separate devcontainer.json files - only one service gets features installed Open

devcontainers/cli#1211 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 24, 2026
Proposal: pin `getProjectName` precedence behavior with tests Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

devcontainers/cli#1210 · Opened Apr 23, 2026
@nvt261991-sys Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100

devcontainers/cli#1209 · Opened Apr 23, 2026
Question / Improvement: Incremental publishing of devcontainer features and `devcontainer-collection.json` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

devcontainers/cli#1208 · Opened Apr 21, 2026
[Feedback] Started using devcontainers last week, was looking for devcontainer down Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

devcontainers/cli#1207 · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 20, 2026
README npm install section mentions Python and C/C++ but they are no longer needed Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

devcontainers/cli#1203 · Opened Apr 14, 2026
`overrideFeatureInstallOrder` gets confused when higher-priority features have dependencies Open

devcontainers/cli#1200 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 10, 2026
Empty ${localEnv:} in mount source should skip the mount, not pass empty source to Docker Open

devcontainers/cli#1190 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 6, 2026
devcontainer exec: no error message when Docker is not running on macOS Open

devcontainers/cli#1187 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 2, 2026
test: findUserArg has no unit tests Open

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

devcontainers/cli#1178 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Add flag similar to --pull always Open

devcontainers/cli#1161 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 25, 2026
Error: spawn EINVAL / node 22 breaks `devcontainer up` Open

info-needed

devcontainers/cli#1147 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 9, 2026
That might not help much because the folders would be added in a sequence and a change to an earlier folder would invalidate all following layers. Maybe keep this as-is and make it a limitation of the non-buildx case. (I think performance with buildx is better in general, so anyone concerned about performance should make sure they have it installed.) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

devcontainers/cli#1144 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 6, 2026
Unactionable error while publishing to private gitlab registry Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

devcontainers/cli#1122 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 17, 2025
Can you add dynamic mount functionality? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

devcontainers/cli#1110 · Opened Nov 25, 2025
Inconsistent `pull_policy` behavior with `docker compose` when combining build and image Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

devcontainers/cli#1100 · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 3, 2025
runArgs is not honoured Open

devcontainers/cli#1099 · 5 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Nov 2, 2025
`Devcontainers features publish` cannot handle registries with url path Open

devcontainers/cli#1098 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Unable to install the Azure CLI via features Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

devcontainers/cli#1096 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2025
Mise ... vs Dev Container Environment setup Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

devcontainers/cli#1090 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 10, 2025
Microsoft CLA still relevant? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

devcontainers/cli#1088 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 9, 2025
VS Code Server example no longer works Open

info-needed

devcontainers/cli#1080 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 29, 2025
New feature: Add --build-secret argument Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

devcontainers/cli#1077 · 2 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Sep 25, 2025
Podman: SELinux detection fails when VS Code runs inside Flatpak (label=disable needed) Open

devcontainers/cli#1071 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 18, 2025
Missing manifest digest when building and pushing multi-platform images Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

devcontainers/cli#1062 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 20, 2025
Unexpected workspaceFolder mount behavior when dev container is opened before Git initialization Open

devcontainers/cli#1055 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 3, 2025
Custom devcontainer folder name when developing features locally Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

devcontainers/cli#1051 · Opened Jul 17, 2025
allow exec command after --workspace-folder flag Open

devcontainers/cli#1050 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Jul 16, 2025
[question] Is there a configuration file? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

devcontainers/cli#1046 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 11, 2025
Compose project name is stripped of punctuation when using podman-compose Open

devcontainers/cli#1017 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 5, 2025
[Enhancement] Add proper feature testing library/framework Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

devcontainers/cli#1013 · Opened May 29, 2025
[Feature Request] Autocompletion for devcontainer cli commands Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

devcontainers/cli#1011 · 1 reaction · Opened May 28, 2025
[Features][test-lib] Add message arg to the check function Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

devcontainers/cli#1010 · 1 comment · Opened May 28, 2025

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