go/

README

Go

Summary

Develop Go based applications. Includes appropriate runtime args, Go, common tools, extensions, and dependencies.

Metadata	Value
Contributors	The VS Code Team
Categories	Core, Languages
Definition type	Dockerfile
Published images	mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go
Available image variants	1 / 1-bookworm, 1.25 / 1.25-trixie, 1.24 / 1.24-bookworm, 1-bullseye (full list)
Published image architecture(s)	x86-64, arm64/aarch64 for trixie, bookworm, and bullseye variants
Container host OS support	Linux, macOS, Windows
Container OS	Debian
Languages, platforms	Go

See history for information on the contents of published images.

Using this image

You can directly reference pre-built versions of 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/go (latest)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go:1 (or 1-trixie, 1-bookworm, 1-bullseye to pin to an OS version)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go:1.25 (or 1.25-trixie, 1.25-bookworm to pin to an OS version)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go:1.24 (or 1.24-bookworm, 1.24-bullseye to pin to an OS version)

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/go:2-1.25 (or 2-1.25-trixie, 2-1.25-bookworm)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go:2.0-1.25 (or 2.0-1.25-trixie, 2.0-1.25-bookworm)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go:2.0.1-1.25 (or 2.0.1-1.25-trixie, 2.0.1-1.25-bookworm)

However, we only do security patching on the latest non-breaking, in support versions of images (e.g. 2-1.25). You may want to run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade in your Dockerfile if you lock to a more specific version to at least pick up OS security updates.

See history for information on the contents of each version and here for a complete list of available tags.

Installing Node.js

Given JavaScript front-end web client code written for use in conjunction with a Go back-end often requires the use of Node.js-based utilities to build, you can use a Node feature to install any version of Node by adding the following to devcontainer.json:

{
  "features": {
    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/node:1": {
      "version": "latest"
    }
  }
}

License

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.