adamlm / devcontainer-features

Additional Development Container (Dev Container) Features to supplement the official offerings

Development Container Features

This repository contains extra Development Container (Dev Container) Features that I use in my projects.

Organization

Each Feature resides in its own directory under the src/ directory. For more information about a specific Feature, see the README.md file in the associated sub-directory. This repo contains the follow Features:

• CMake
• ROS 2

Usage

To use a feature in your Dev Container, add its configuration to your devcontainer.json file. Here is an example for adding the CMake feature to an Ubuntu Dev Container:

// devcontainer.json
{
  "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:ubuntu",
  "features": {
    "ghcr.io/adamlm/devcontainer-features/cmake": {
      "version": "3.27.4"
    }
  }
}

For more information about Dev Container Features, see the official docs.

Support

Found an bug? Open a ticket in the repository's Issues tab.

Need some help or want to discuss the library? Head to the repository's Discussions tab to connect with someone.

Contributing

Want to help improve existing features or develop new ones? Check out the contribution guidelines to get started.

License

See the LICENSE.md file for license information.

devcontainer-features's Issues

Update GitHub workflows

The existing workflow configurations (specifically test.yaml) target the color and hello example features. These should be updated to target only the features used in this repo.

CMake Feature does not work for arm-based systems

The CMake Feature is hard-coded for x86 systems. The script should be generalized to work for arm-based systems too.

Add ROS 2 feature

There is no first-party ROS 2 Dev Container Feature provided, so it would be good if we could provide one ourselves.

Update README.md with new Feature

Now that the ROS 2 Feature has been merged, the README.md file for the repo should be updated.

Add CMake feature

Non Dev Container images such as ubuntu don't come with CMake preinstalled, and Dev Container images that do come with it can have outdated versions. Additionally, there is no existing CMake Dev Container feature as far as I know.