Add pull only feature

[Jochen Steinmann (Jogi7819)]

Hi together,

we use the devcontainer cli on Jenkins as well in a pipeline with a high degree of parallization, in which we use for each parallel branch a different container created from the same devcontainer.json file.

As of now the pipeline has an initial prepare stage where all the containers are created in a sequence. To reduce the overall execution time of the pipeline one could pull the image from the remote to the local cache ones and create the containers parallel during parallel stage execution. My proposal is to add something like

devcontainer pull

or

devcontainer up --pull-image-only

BR Jochen

[Brigit Murtaugh (bamurtaugh)]

Thanks for opening this! Christof Marti (@chrmarti) do you think this would make sense as a feature request in https://github.com/devcontainers/cli/issues?