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/vscode/devcontainers/go
Available image variants	1 / 1-bullseye, 1.18 / 1.18-bullseye, 1.17 / 1.17-bullseye, 1-buster, 1.18-buster, 1.17-buster (full list)
Published image architecture(s)	x86-64, arm64/aarch64 for bullseye variants
Works in Codespaces	Yes
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 definition

While the definition itself works unmodified, you can select the version of Go the container uses by updating the VARIANT arg in the included devcontainer.json (and rebuilding if you've already created the container).

// Or you can use 1.17-bullseye or 1.17-buster if you want to pin to an OS version
"args": { "VARIANT": "1.17" }

You can also directly reference pre-built versions of .devcontainer/base.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/vscode/devcontainers/go (latest)
• mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/go:1 (or 1-bullseye, 1-buster to pin to an OS version)
• mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/go:1.17 (or 1.17-bullseye, 1.17-buster to pin to an OS version)
• mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/go:1.18 (or 1.18-bullseye, 1.18-buster to pin to an OS version)

You can decide how often you want updates by referencing a semantic version of each image. For example:

• mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/go:0-1.18 (or 0-1.18-bullseye, 0-1.18-buster)
• mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/go:0.206-1.18 (or 0.205-1.18-bullseye, 0.205-1.18-buster)
• mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/go:0.206.0-1.18 (or 0.205.0-1.18-bullseye, 0.205.0-1.18-buster)

However, we only do security patching on the latest non-breaking, in support versions of images (e.g. 0-1.16). 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.

Alternatively, you can use the contents of base.Dockerfile to fully customize your container's contents or to build it for a container host architecture not supported by the image.

Installing Node.js

Given JavaScript front-end web client code written for use in conjunction with a Python 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": "latest"
  }
}

License

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.