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Run dev container on remote host

Prepared host

SSH key

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ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "dev@gmail.com"

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ssh-copy-id <user>r@<host>

Prepared VSCode

  • install Remote - SSH (ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh) extension
  • install Dev Containers (ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers) extension

Set docker environment .vscode/setting.json

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{
    "docker.environment": {
        "DOCKER_HOST": "ssh://user@10.0.0.4"
    }
}

Devcontainer

Note

Create project folder on the remote machine in the same location like the local machine

for example 

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/home/user/projects/vscode_remote_devcontainer

devcontainer.json
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{
  "name": "Remote DevContainer",
  "workspaceFolder": "/workspaces/vscode_remote_devcontainer",
  "build": {
    "dockerfile": "Dockerfile"
  },
  "remoteUser": "user",
  "runArgs": ["--network=host"],
  "postCreateCommand": "echo 'DevContainer is ready!'"
}

Dockerfile

Base on ubuntu 22.04 add none root user and install and config sudo

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FROM ubuntu:22.04

ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

ARG USERNAME=user
ARG USER_UID=1000
ARG USER_GID=$USER_UID

# Check if "ubuntu" user exists, delete it if it does, then create the desired user
RUN if getent passwd ubuntu > /dev/null 2>&1; then \
        userdel -r ubuntu && \
        echo "Deleted existing ubuntu user"; \
    fi && \
    groupadd --gid $USER_GID $USERNAME && \
    useradd -s /bin/bash --uid $USER_UID --gid $USER_GID -m $USERNAME && \
    echo "Created new user $USERNAME"

# Add sudo support for the non-root user
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y sudo \
  && echo $USERNAME ALL=\(root\) NOPASSWD:ALL > /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME\
  && chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME \
  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*


  ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=

Run

Warning

How to sync files from remote to local machine