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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Forks: 461
Open beginner issues: 2
Indexed issues: 237
Avg merge: 18m
Merged PRs (30d): 5

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 28, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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[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
jenkins support for devcontainers cli as a plugin Open

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

devcontainers/cli#1002 · 5 reactions · Opened May 5, 2025
Same issue being faced for podman compose. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

devcontainers/cli#1000 · Opened May 1, 2025
TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'Env') Open

devcontainers/cli#992 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 17, 2025
Fails with `# syntax=devthefuture-org/dockerfile-x` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

devcontainers/cli#991 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2025
devcontainer up fails with unclear error when specifying non-existent remoteUser Open

devcontainers/cli#990 · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 14, 2025
Update remote UID/GID on MacOS Open

feature-request

devcontainers/cli#981 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 25, 2025
Provide example for how to use dotfiles with the cli Open

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

devcontainers/cli#978 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 19, 2025
how to set --detach-keys / detachKeys when running devcontainer exec Open

feature-request

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

devcontainers/cli#975 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 11, 2025
Building devcontainers does not use .dockerignore file next to the Dockerfile. Open

bug

devcontainers/cli#969 · 7 comments · 9 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 7, 2025
templates publish should support aarch64 Open

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

devcontainers/cli#968 · Opened Mar 7, 2025
broken installsAfter on OCI repo Open

bug

devcontainers/cli#967 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 6, 2025
neovim not working properly using devcontainer exec Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

devcontainers/cli#958 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 15, 2025
Specify compression method (zstd) when building (during up command) from compose file Open

feature-request

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

devcontainers/cli#955 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 12, 2025
Add the ability to start and exec into a devcontainer (docker run -it) Open

feature-request

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

devcontainers/cli#943 · 10 reactions · Opened Dec 27, 2024
@devcontainer/cli publish templates to GitLab container registry Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

devcontainers/cli#934 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 27, 2024
Provide the option to resolve relative workspace path as symlinked path, not real path Open

bug upstream

devcontainers/cli#932 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 18, 2024
Adding labels to containers build by devcontainer cli that are based on a Dockerfile (instead of an image) does not work Open

bug

devcontainers/cli#930 · 2 comments · 5 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 7, 2024
Proxy Settings Open

bug proxy

devcontainers/cli#927 · 4 comments · 5 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 4, 2024
devcontainer features test command inside a container with mounted docker socket -> problems with /tmp Open

feature-request

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

devcontainers/cli#923 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 25, 2024
Allow options when building and using an image instead of a Dockerfile Open

feature-request

devcontainers/cli#922 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 25, 2024
Edits by @JLHwung Open

info-needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

devcontainers/cli#919 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 19, 2024
We just switched to the new Proto library build rules in the [instrumentation-proto](https://github.com/google/instrumentation-proto) repository, by following the instructions at https://bazel.build/blog/index.html#protocol-buffers-in-bazel. Here is the pull request: https://github.com/google/instrumentation-proto/pull/26 Open

info-needed

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

devcontainers/cli#918 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 18, 2024
Mounting files to be used during features build Open

feature-request

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

devcontainers/cli#915 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 8, 2024
`postCreateCommand` fails with EACCES using Docker Engine on an SELinux enforcing system Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

devcontainers/cli#914 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 7, 2024
Valid devcontainer.metadata can corrupt compose override file Open

bug

devcontainers/cli#904 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 24, 2024
Override command without Dockerfile Open

info-needed

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

devcontainers/cli#891 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2024
Proposal: Add `devcontainers init` command similar to `devcontainerize` Open

feature-request

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

devcontainers/cli#890 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 9, 2024
devcontainer exec does not always propagate SIGTERM to docker exec Open

bug upstream

devcontainers/cli#888 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 5, 2024
Variable substitution does not allow default values containing a colon Open

bug

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

devcontainers/cli#883 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2024
devcontainer features and mount Open

bug

devcontainers/cli#881 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2024
Subshell command in build options not executed Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

devcontainers/cli#877 · Opened Aug 23, 2024
Strange behaviour with devcontainer features generate-docs Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

devcontainers/cli#876 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 22, 2024
Read configuration outputs logs as well as configuration Open

info-needed

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

devcontainers/cli#873 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2024
X11 works with container launched via VSCode but not launched via devcontainers/cli Open

feature-request

devcontainers/cli#869 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 5, 2024
when using dockerComposeFile prebuilds are ignored Open

bug

devcontainers/cli#867 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 1, 2024
devcontainer up not working with podman and docker-compose file Open

bug podman

devcontainers/cli#863 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 26, 2024
Option --omit-config-remote-env-from-metadata is not documented Open

debt

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

devcontainers/cli#858 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2024
`runArgs` in Dev Containers image isn't shared to `.devcontainers.json` workspace Open

feature-request

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

devcontainers/cli#857 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 11, 2024
Consistently getting: command failed: {0} Exit code 1 Start: Run in container: test -f '/var/devcontainer/.patchEtcProfileMarker' Open

info-needed

devcontainers/cli#855 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 8, 2024
Push in quay.io/buildah/stable Open

bug podman

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

devcontainers/cli#851 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 28, 2024
Error when devcontainer up Open

bug

devcontainers/cli#849 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 24, 2024
Apply --remove-existing-container before initializeCommand Open

bug

devcontainers/cli#844 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 11, 2024
Add option to get the info on running containers Open

feature-request

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

devcontainers/cli#843 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 10, 2024
Forward docker credentials from docker cred helper Open

feature-request

devcontainers/cli#842 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 9, 2024
Ability to provide version to publish Open

feature-request

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

devcontainers/cli#828 · 7 comments · Opened May 14, 2024
Feature request: `@devcontainers/cli` as a docker CLI plugin Open

feature-request

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

devcontainers/cli#827 · 2 reactions · Opened May 13, 2024
Image and feature digest pinning syntax inconsistency Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

devcontainers/cli#825 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 10, 2024

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