Rust Dev Container

April 29, 2026 · View on GitHub

Rust development container for Visual Studio Code

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Features

Rust 1.95.0
Rust Analyzer 2026-04-27
Clippy
Rustfmt
Alpine based with Docker tags :latest and :alpine
- Compatible with amd64 (1.99GB image size)
- Based on qmcgaw/basedevcontainer:alpine
  - Based on Alpine 3.23
  - Minimal custom terminal and packages
  - See more features
Debian based with Docker tag :debian (1.51GB, based on qmcgaw/basedevcontainer:debian)
- Compatible with amd64 (1.96GB image size) and arm64 (1.86GB image size)
- Based on qmcgaw/basedevcontainer:debian
  - Based on Debian Trixie
  - Minimal custom terminal and packages
  - See more features
Cross platform
- Easily bind mount your SSH keys to use with git
- Manage your host Docker from within the dev container, more details at qmcgaw/basedevcontainer
Extensible with docker-compose.yml
Comes with extra binary tools for a few extra MBs: kubectl, kubectx, kubens, stern and helm

Setup your configuration files
- With style 💯
```
docker run -it --rm -v "/yourrepopath:/repository" qmcgaw/devtainr:v0.2.0 -dev rust -path /repository -name projectname
```
  If you run on Linux not as root, run the docker run command with --user="$(id -u):$(id -g)".
  
  Or use the built binary
- Or manually: download this repository and put the .devcontainer directory in your project.
If you have a .vscode/settings.json, eventually move the settings to .devcontainer/devcontainer.json in the "settings" section as .vscode/settings.json take precedence over the settings defined in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json.
Open the command palette in Visual Studio Code (CTRL+SHIFT+P) and select Remote-Containers: Open Folder in Container... and choose your project directory
See .devcontainer/README.md#Setup

This repository is under an MIT license unless indicated otherwise.