diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
index 61566da6..16acd9e1 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
+++ b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 # See here for image contents: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/v0.234.0/containers/dotnet/.devcontainer/base.Dockerfile
 
 # [Choice] .NET version: 6.0, 6.0-bullseye, 6.0-focal
-ARG VARIANT="6.0-bullseye"
-FROM mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/dotnet
+ARG VARIANT="7.0-bullseye-slim"
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/dotnet:0-${VARIANT}
 
 # "install" the dotnet 6.0 runtime for tests
 COPY --from=mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:6.0 /usr/share/dotnet/shared /usr/share/dotnet/shared
 
 # # Add mkdocs for doc generation
-# RUN apt-get update && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends python3-pip
-# RUN pip3 install mkdocs
+RUN apt-get update && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends python3-pip
+RUN pip3 install mkdocs
 
 RUN apt-get install -y mono-complete