Container Tools

Verified publisher
by Microsoft·ms-azuretools.vscode-containers

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Makes it easy to create, manage, and debug containerized applications.

Tracked since 5 Sept 2026

Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 24 Sept 2026.

Installs and downloads per day, last 7 daysDay-over-day change in each store's counter, with release markers.
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Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it. Days before 5 Sept are reconstructed from public archives rather than read by us.

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Where Container Tools ranks in search

Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.

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#22 on Marketplace for “debuggers”, #410 on Open VSX.

Daily search positions for Container Tools on the VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX, one row per search phrase.
SearchMarketplaceOpen VSX
debuggers#22of 1,519↓3 7d#410of 514↓5 7d
docker#98of 549↓1 7d#101of 161↓6 7d

7 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it.

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Marketplace
Installs
18.1M+1.2% 7d
Rating
3.85from 20 ratings
Rank in Azure
#1of 277
Latest
v2.5.223 Sept 2026

27 releases · first published Apr 2025

Open VSX

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Downloads
14.3M+0.9% 7d
Rating
—from 0 reviews
Rank in Azure
#1of 46
Latest
v2.4.51 Jun 2026

Downloads count every update, not unique installs.

What the publisher says

Container Tools’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.