DevTainr

August 16, 2025 · View on GitHub

Setup your VSCode development container configuration files with style 🦗

Features

Install development container configuration files to your repository for one of the following:

Usage

Binary

Download the binary for your machine from the last release page
If you are on Linux or OSX, make it executable with:
```
chmod +x devtainr
```

Run it with

./devtainr -dev go -name projectname
📁 Creating .devcontainer directory...✔️
📥 Downloading .dockerignore...✔️
📥 Downloading Dockerfile...✔️
📥 Downloading README.md...✔️
📥 Downloading devcontainer.json...✔️
📥 Downloading docker-compose.yml...✔️
✏️ Setting name to project-dev...✔️
🦾 Your go development container configuration is ready! 🚀

# More information:
./devtainr -help

Docker

docker run -it --rm --user="$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v "/yourrepopath:/repository" qmcgaw/devtainr -dev go -path /repository -name projectname
📁 Creating .devcontainer directory...✔️
📥 Downloading .dockerignore...✔️
📥 Downloading Dockerfile...✔️
📥 Downloading README.md...✔️
📥 Downloading devcontainer.json...✔️
📥 Downloading docker-compose.yml...✔️
✏️ Setting name to project-dev...✔️
🦾 Your go development container configuration is ready! 🚀

# More information
docker run -it --rm qmcgaw/devtainr -help

Platforms supported

linux/amd64
linux/386
If you need one more, please create an issue

Build it yourself

Install Go, then either

Download it on your machine:

go get github.com/qdm12/devtainr/cmd/devtainr

Clone this repository and build it:

GOARCH=amd64 go build cmd/devtainr/main.go