Development Container Action

Development Container Action A GitHub Action to publish development container assets.

This action is used to package and generate documentation for dev container Features and Templates.

Running this action will publish dev container Features and templates in accordance with following specifications:

• Dev container Feature distribution specification
• Dev container Template distribution specification

This action is used in the devcontainer/features repo, in the release.yaml workflow.

Usage

See the action.yml for available options.

To best get started, create your own repo from the devcontainers/feature-starter or devcontainers/template-starter repos, customize the provided examples, and trigger the release.yaml workflow.

Pinning devcontainer CLI version

This action heavily relies on the devcontainers/cli for various operations. By default, this action will fetch the latest version published to npm. The devcontainer-cli-version property can be used to pin to a specific CLI release. Eg:

- name: "Publish Features"
  uses: devcontainers/action@v1
  with:
    publish-features: "true"
    base-path-to-features: "./src"
    devcontainer-cli-version: "0.53.0"

The changelog for the CLI can always be found here: https://github.com/devcontainers/cli/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Design

Internally, this GitHub Action will fetch the latest published version of the Dev Container CLI and execute the appropriate CLI commands - namely devcontainer features publish and devcontainer templates publish.