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

See history for information on the contents of published images.

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-bookworm, 1-bullseye 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)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go:1.23 (or 1.23-bookworm, 1.23-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:1-1.24 (or 1-1.24-bookworm, 1-1.24-bullseye)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go:1.4-1.24 (or 1.4-1.24-bookworm, 1.4-1.24-bullseye)
• mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/go:1.4.0-1.24 (or 1.4.0-1.24-bookworm, 1.4.0-1.24-bullseye)

However, we only do security patching on the latest non-breaking, in support versions of images (e.g. 1-1.24). 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.

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"
    }
  }
}

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