Specifying universal devfile images for a Dev Environment

The default universal image includes the most commonly used programming languages and related tools that can be used for your IDE. If no image is specified, CodeCatalyst provides this image and contains tools that are maintained by CodeCatalyst. To remain notified of new image releases, see Subscribing to universal image notifications with SNS.

Amazon CodeCatalyst actively supports the following devfile images:

CodeCatalyst has deprecated the following images. You can still use these images, but they won't be cached on the build host and will result in increased Dev Environment start-up times.

Subscribing to universal image notifications with SNS

CodeCatalyst provides a universal image notification service. You can use it to subscribe to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) topic that notifies you when CodeCatalyst universal image updates have been released. For more information about SNS topics, see What is Amazon Simple Notification Service?.

Whenever new universal images are released, we send notifications to subscribers; this section describes how to subscribe to CodeCatalyst universal image updates.

Sample message

{
    "Type": "Notification",
    "MessageId": "123456789",
    "TopicArn": "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:1234657890:universal-image-updates",
    "Subject": "New Universal Image Release",
    "Message": {
        "v1": {
            "Message": "A new version of the Universal Image has been released. You are now able to launch new DevEnvironments using this image.",
            "image ": {
                "release_type": "MAJOR VERSION",
                "image_name": "universal-image",
                "image_version": "2.0",
                "image_uri": "public.ecr.aws/amazonlinux/universal-image:2.0"
            }
        }
    },
    "Timestamp": "2021-09-03T19:05:57.882Z",
    "UnsubscribeURL": "example url"
}

Universal image 3.0 runtime versions

The following table lists the available runtimes for universal-image:3.0.

Universal image 4.0 runtime versions

The following table lists the available runtimes for universal-image:4.0.