IMPORTANT NOTE: We're starting to migrate contents of this repo to the devcontainers org, as part of the work on the open dev container specification.
We've currently migrated the powershell
Feature to devcontainers/features/src/powershell.
For more details, you can review the announcement issue.
Installs PowerShell along with needed dependencies. Useful for base Dockerfiles that often are missing required install dependencies like gpg.
Script status: Stable
OS support: Debian 9+, Ubuntu 18.04+, and downstream distros.
Maintainer: The VS Code and GitHub Codespaces teams
./powsershell-debian.sh [Version]
Or as a feature:
"features": {
"powershell": "latest"
}
Argument | Feature option | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Version | version |
latest |
Version of PowerShell to install. Use latest to install the latest released version. Partial version numbers are allowed. |
To install these capabilities in your primary dev container, reference it in devcontainer.json
as follows:
"features": {
"powershell": "latest"
}
If you have already built your development container, run the Rebuild Container command from the command palette (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P or F1) to pick up the change.
Usage:
-
Add
powershell-debian.sh
to.devcontainer/library-scripts
-
Add the following to your
.devcontainer/Dockerfile
:COPY library-scripts/powershell-debian.sh /tmp/library-scripts/ RUN apt-get update && bash /tmp/library-scripts/powershell-debian.sh
That's it!