diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
index c2cab0272..11fb010b7 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
+++ b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
@@ -165,10 +165,8 @@ RUN sudo apt update \
 RUN sudo curl -o /root/gdbpg.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tvesely/gdbpg/6065eee7872457785f830925eac665aa535caf62/gdbpg.py
 COPY --chown=root:root .gdbinit /root/
 
-# add some common tools to the final container
-# bin directory for user tools
-RUN mkdir .bin
-ENV PATH="/home/citus/.bin:${PATH}"
+# install developer dependencies in the global environment
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=requirements.txt,target=requirements.txt pip install -r requirements.txt
 
 # for persistent bash history across devcontainers we need to have
 # a) a directory to store the history in
@@ -181,14 +179,16 @@ RUN sudo install -d -o citus -g citus /commandhistory \
 # install citus-dev
 RUN git clone --branch develop https://github.com/citusdata/tools.git citus-tools \
  && ( cd citus-tools/citus_dev && pipenv install ) \
- && ln -s /home/citus/citus-tools/citus_dev/citus_dev-pipenv .bin/citus_dev \
+ && mkdir -p ~/.local/bin \
+ && ln -s /home/citus/citus-tools/citus_dev/citus_dev-pipenv .local/bin/citus_dev \
  && sudo make -C citus-tools/uncrustify install bindir=/usr/local/bin pkgsysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/ \
  && mkdir -p ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/ \
  && ln -s ~/citus-tools/citus_dev/bash_completion ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/citus_dev
 
 # TODO some LC_ALL errors, possibly solved by locale-gen
 RUN git clone https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy.git \
- && ln -s /home/citus/diff-so-fancy/diff-so-fancy .bin/
+ && mkdir -p ~/.local/bin \
+ && ln -s /home/citus/diff-so-fancy/diff-so-fancy .local/bin/
 
 COPY --link --from=uncrustify-builder /uncrustify/usr/ /usr/
 
diff --git a/.devcontainer/requirements.txt b/.devcontainer/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7300b3b89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.devcontainer/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+black==23.11.0
+click==8.1.7
+isort==5.12.0
+mypy-extensions==1.0.0
+packaging==23.2
+pathspec==0.11.2
+platformdirs==4.0.0
+tomli==2.0.1
+typing_extensions==4.8.0
diff --git a/.github/workflows/devcontainer.yml b/.github/workflows/devcontainer.yml
index c62fe11df..dd5d506e4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/devcontainer.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/devcontainer.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
       -
         name: Docker meta
         id: meta
-        uses: docker/metadata-action@v4
+        uses: docker/metadata-action@v5
         with:
           images: |
             ghcr.io/citusdata/citus-devcontainer
@@ -32,14 +32,14 @@ jobs:
         uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2
       -
         name: 'Login to GitHub Container Registry'
-        uses: docker/login-action@v1
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
         with:
           registry: ghcr.io
           username: ${{github.actor}}
           password: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
       -
         name: Build and push
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v4
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
         with:
           context: "{{defaultContext}}:.devcontainer"
           push: true