devcontainers/cli
A reference implementation for the specification that can create and configure a dev container from a devcontainer.json.
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Where it stands
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The project lists 56 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 33% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Creates and configures development containers from devcontainer.json files to provide isolated coding environments.
- Enables consistent, reproducible dev environments with easy container setup and lifecycle management via a CLI.
- Use for setting up isolated development environments for complex projects requiring specific tools and runtimes.
- Use for running continuous integration builds inside containers that mirror developer environments.
- Use for authoring and testing dev container features and templates to standardize container configurations.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
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From the README
This repository holds the dev container CLI, which can take a devcontainer.json and create and configure a dev container from it.
A development container allows you to use a container as a full-featured development environment. It can be used to run an application, to separate tools, libraries, or runtimes needed for working with a codebase, and to aid in continuous integration and testing. Dev containers can be run locally or remotely, in a private or public cloud.
We'd love for you to try out the dev container CLI and let us know what you think. You can quickly try it out in just a few simple steps, either by installing its npm package or building the CLI repo from sources (see "Build from sources").
To install the npm package you will need Python and C/C++ installed to build one of the dependencies (see, e.g., here for instructions).
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Forks
473+39
Open issues
330+32
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