devcontainers/ci contains a GitHub action and Azure DevOps task aimed at making it easier to re-use a development container in a GitHub workflow or Azure DevOps pipeline.

This project builds on top of @devcontainers/cli

The example below shows usage of the GitHub Action - see the GitHub Action documentation for more details:

- name: Build and run dev container task
  uses: devcontainers/[email protected]
  with:
    imageName: ghcr.io/example/example-devcontainer
    runCmd: make ci-build

The example below shows usage of the Azure DevOps Task - see the Azure DevOps Task documentation for more details:

- task: DevcontainersCI@0
  inputs:
    imageName: 'yourregistry.azurecr.io/example-dev-container'
    runCmd: 'make ci-build'
    sourceBranchFilterForPush: refs/heads/main

This version updates the implementation to use @devcontainers/cli.

This brings many benefits around compatibility with VS Code Dev Containers. One key area is that container-features can now be used in CI.

In theory, docker-compose based dev containers should also work however these are currently untested and image caching is blocked on this issue

0.1.x versions were the initial version of the action/task and attempted to mimic the behaviour of dev containers with manual docker commands