This documentation is organized by the outcome you are trying to achieve.

• Installation — prerequisites, release archives, source builds, and the OCI distribution image.
• Migration — replace @devcontainers/cli in an existing Linux and Docker workflow.
• Use cases — local use, CI, and remote development platforms.
• Troubleshooting — diagnose common host, build, registry, and workspace problems.

• Go-only features — commands and flags added by this implementation.
• Divergences, decisions, and accepted limitations — intentional differences from the official CLI and firm scope decisions.
• Parity matrix — machine-readable compatibility cases.
• CLI flag inventory — tracked upstream command surface.

The validated runtime is Linux (amd64 or arm64), Docker Engine API v1.44 or newer, and Docker Compose v2 when a project uses Compose. Windows, macOS, Podman, and Compose v1 are outside the supported scope.

The CLI is intended for individual workstations, CI runners, remote development hosts, and services that provision Dev Containers. The container image is a distribution artifact, not a Docker-in-Docker runner; see Installation.