devcontainers/ci

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

GitHub Action

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

Azure DevOps Task

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

CHANGELOG

Version 0.2.0

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

This brings many benefits around compatibility with VS Code Remote-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

Version 0.1.x

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