A curated list of resources for using VS Code in Containers

Contents

• Official Documentation Quick Links
  • Specifications
• Articles
• Videos
• Containers
• Features
  • Authoring Features
• Tools and Services
• Other tools for working with standardized development environments
• Developer Resources

Official Documentation Quick Links

• VS Code Remote Development
• Official images repository
• Official images repository on Docker Hub
• Official feature repository
• Official list of (contrib) features
• Official feature quick start repository

Specifications

• devcontainer.json reference
• devcontainer-feature.json reference

Articles

• Dev Containers: Going further - From Microsoft's Engineering Fundamentals Playbook.
• Use a Docker container as a development environment with Visual Studio Code - Official Microsoft tutorial.

Videos

• Remote Development with Visual Studio Code
• A Clean Dev Env, Working Every Time, Everywhere
• Beginner's Series to: Dev Containers

• Official Microsoft Devcontainer Images
• devcontainer.community images
• Devcontainer Images for Arch Linux

Features

• Available Features
• devcontainer.community features

Authoring Features

• Official feature quick start repository
• Devcontainer features test lib
• devcontainer.community shell snippes for easy install.sh generation

Tools and Services

• devcontainer.ai - A service to generate devcontainer.json files for your projects.
• Unofficial devcontainer CLI in go
• vscli - Unofficial CLI for VS Code.
• tyedev - A tool to generate devcontainer.json files for your projects.
• GitHub CodeSpaces - GitHub CodeSpaces.
• devpod.sh - CodeSpaces but Open Source.

Other tools for working with standardized development environments

• devenv - Create Development environments based on Nix.

Developer Resources

• Official Feature Index (OCI)