diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index fe53f6326b0..00000000000
--- a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:6.0-focal
-
-# Avoid warnings by switching to noninteractive
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-
-# Configure apt and install packages
-RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends apt-utils dialog libssl1.1 2>&1 \
-    #
-    # Verify wget, jq, unzip, git and process tools installed
-    && apt-get -y install git iproute2 procps wget unzip jq \
-    #
-    # Upgrade existing packages
-    && apt-get -y upgrade \
-    #
-    # Install Docker CE CLI
-    && apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common lsb-release \
-    && curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/$(lsb_release -is | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')/gpg | (OUT=$(apt-key add - 2>&1) || echo $OUT) \
-    && add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/$(lsb_release -is | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]') $(lsb_release -cs) stable" \
-    && apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y docker-ce-cli \
-    #
-    # [Optional] Add sudo support for the non-root user
-    && apt-get install -y sudo \
-    #
-    # Clean up
-    && apt-get autoremove -y \
-    && apt-get clean -y \
-    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-# Switch back to dialog for any ad-hoc use of apt-get
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=
-
-CMD ["bash"]
diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index 236d25dfc4b..c099142012e 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -1,27 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "Bicep Development Environment",
-  "dockerFile": "Dockerfile",
-  "runArgs": [
-    "-v",
-    "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
-  ],
-  "settings": {
-    "terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {
-      "bash": {
-        "path": "/bin/bash"
-      }
-    }
-  },
   "extensions": [
     "msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools",
     "ms-azuretools.vscode-bicep",
     "ms-dotnettools.csharp",
     "ms-azuretools.vscode-docker",
-    "ms-vsliveshare.vsliveshare",
     "editorconfig.editorconfig",
-    "github.copilot",
-    "github.vscode-pull-request-github",
-    "davidanson.vscode-markdownlint"
+    "github.vscode-pull-request-github"
   ],
   "features": {
     "github-cli": "latest",
@@ -29,6 +14,9 @@
     "node": {
       "version": "lts",
       "nodeGypDependencies": true
+    },
+    "dotnet": {
+      "version": "6.0"
     }
   }
 }
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