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VS Code Development Using Docker Containers on Remote Host

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I’ve gotten close to getting this to work. I do remote development on an SSH box using remote SSH, and I want intellisense to use containers running on that host while I edit files on the host.

I’ve done everything in this blog post, but the problem is “open folder in docker container” is only an option from my local workspace. I cannot do it from the SSH workspace. So the code that gets mounted is the code from my local machine, not the remote machine.

Do you also do all of your dev in Remote - SSH? I haven’t found anyone that does that besides me.

I started working like that after being work from home started rather aprubt a in March. The work laptop is a very slow windows machine but with remote - ssh to the office workstation the local environment does not matter.

With some settings tweaks I could even convince it to do a remote session via a jumphost.

https://tilt.dev/

We recently got this setup running company wide. It is a headache to iron out all the kinks, but the reproducibility is great.

Essentially each developer has their own Kubernetes cluster in the cloud. As you develop your code is r-sync'd across to the pod running the relevant compiler/server/etc.

Again, a bit of a pain to get running but really powerful once its setup. We now have near carbon-copy deployments across prod, dev, local development, and (soon) even the CI.

(I don't work for Tilt, just a fan of their product and vision)

Yep. I moved to it when I got frustrated with the performance of docker on Mac (our stack also includes quite a number of containers).

It was a great decision. I barely notice the difference, thanks to how seamless VSCode makes it. My laptop fans hardly ever spin anymore. And there’s no mental block to starting work or managing resources on my laptop, since I leave the dev box running 24/7 and it’s always there.

I wouldn’t be exaggerating to say it was the single best decision I made for my productivity in the last year. Don’t underestimate the mental effects of your laptop heating up based on how much work you’re doing. It’s been great to have those things decoupled.

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