Simple Alpine container with Git installed.
| Metadata | Value |
|---|---|
| Categories | Core, Other |
| Image type | Dockerfile |
| Published images | mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:alpine |
| Available image variants | alpine-3.23, alpine-3.22, alpine-3.21, alpine-3.20 (full list) |
| Published image architecture(s) | x86-64, aarch64/arm64 | | Container host OS support | Linux, macOS, Windows | | Container OS | Alpine Linux | | Languages, platforms | Any |
See history for information on the contents of published images.
You can also directly reference pre-built versions of .devcontainer/Dockerfile by using the image property in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json or updating the FROM statement in your own Dockerfile to one of the following. An example Dockerfile is included in this repository.
mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:alpine(latest)mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:alpine-3.23mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:alpine-3.22mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:alpine-3.21mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:alpine-3.20
Refer to this guide for more details.
You can decide how often you want updates by referencing a semantic version of each image. For example:
mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:3-alpinemcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:3.0-alpinemcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:3.0.2-alpine
See history for information on the contents of each version and here for a complete list of available tags.
Beyond git, this image / Dockerfile includes zsh, Oh My Zsh!, a non-root vscode user with sudo access, and a set of common dependencies for development.
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Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE