diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e39a373b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/universal:2",
+  "features": {
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/java:1": {
+      "version" : "8"
+    }
+  }
+}