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• Creating Your Own Dev Container Feature for VS Code
  2 projects | dev.to | 31 Dec 2025

  This article demonstrates how to create and publish your own Dev Container Feature for VS Code. We'll use the Amazon Q CLI feature from the jajera/features repository as a practical example, showing the complete process from forking the starter repository to getting your feature listed on containers.dev.

• Les Cloud Development Environments (CDE) - Embarquement immédiat !
  8 projects | dev.to | 6 Nov 2025
• GitHub Codespaces Alternatives
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2025

  FWIW there’s a nix feature for devcontainers (https://github.com/devcontainers/features/tree/main/src/nix)

• Development Container Features
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2025
• Create and Configure a GitHub Codespace
  1 project | dev.to | 20 Aug 2024

  // For format details, see https://aka.ms/devcontainer.json. For config options, see the // README at: https://github.com/devcontainers/templates/tree/main/src/dotnet { "name": "C# (.NET)", // Or use a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file. More info: https://containers.dev/guide/dockerfile "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/dotnet:1-8.0-bookworm" // Features to add to the dev container. More info: https://containers.dev/features. // "features": {}, // Use 'forwardPorts' to make a list of ports inside the container available locally. // "forwardPorts": [5000, 5001], // "portsAttributes": { // "5001": { // "protocol": "https" // } // } // Use 'postCreateCommand' to run commands after the container is created. // "postCreateCommand": "dotnet restore", // Configure tool-specific properties. // "customizations": {}, // Uncomment to connect as root instead. More info: https://aka.ms/dev-containers-non-root. // "remoteUser": "root" }

• Dev Containers - Part 2: Image, Features, Workspace, Environment Variables
  4 projects | dev.to | 21 Jun 2024

  Find available Dev Container features here: https://containers.dev/features. You can also create your own feature.

• Dev Containers - Part 3: Full Stack Dev - Docker Compose & Database
  3 projects | dev.to | 21 Jun 2024

  Imagine you're developing server applications relying on both Node.js and PostgreSQL. You might initially use installation commands in a Dockerfile (as discussed in Part 1) or leverage Dev Container Features (covered in Part 2) to install PostgreSQL within your container.

• Dev Containers: Open, Develop, Repeat...
  9 projects | dev.to | 30 Oct 2023

  Dev Containers not only allow you to define which extensions should be installed and which configuration settings shall be set, but they also have something they call "Dev Container Features".

• Unable to Change Workspace Folder Permissions (777 to 775) in WSL VSCode Devcontainer
  1 project | /r/vscode | 30 Sep 2023
• Take your development environment anywhere and on any machine with Dev Containers.
  3 projects | dev.to | 31 Dec 2022

  there are already built docker images for common development environment. You can either use one of them, or build one from Docker file. Using a pre-built dev container doesn't mean you are only limited to that image, because you can still add other tools, which they are called features to that image. For a list of the pre-built templates check here, and for the other features that you can add check this. You don't need a Docker file, unless you want to build your dev environment step by step.

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