This is a command line tool for building and managing isolated development environments based on the Development Container Specification. It functions as an OCI container image builder and a provisioner for instantiating standardized containers within automated continuous integration workflows.
The main features of devcontainers/cli are: Container Development Environments, Specification-Driven Provisioning, Feature Application, Container Feature Modules, Development Containers, Containerized Development Environments, Environment Bootstrapping, Containerized Provisioning.
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