We also use remote dev boxes, but can VSCode connect to a remote server and connect to remote docker containers?

For example, I don't have ruby installed on the remote dev box, but it is installed inside docker on the remote host. I also don't have ruby or docker running locally.

I think all the linting plugins either expect ruby to be available on the remote host, or inside docker, but not this combo... Is there something I'm missing? (disclaimer: only played a bit with VScode, I use vim on the remote box usually).

> can VSCode connect to a remote server and connect to remote docker containers?

Yes, it can. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers-advance... talks about setting it up.

Thank you! looks cool. Hope I’ll figure it out, considering I’m pretty clueless about VSCode

Yes. Vscode (server) is running on the remote machine. Extensions run on the remote as well.

A new terminal in vscode is a terminal on the remote.

Only the client GUI is local.

Thank you. I managed to get it working... still I'm not sure about things like ruby-rubocop ... I can install it remotely, but not inside a remote docker container (where my ruby runs)... Any tips?

Yes, if you can connect the docker cli to the remote host, then vscode can connect too.

The Azure Codespaces VMs were awfully slow on IOs. It was not a great experience at all.

If you want decent IOs, better than an old notebook, Azure is extremely expensive.

I do this, but with a Linux VM running in Parallels on my Mac. Uses about 1/10 the CPU that Docker on Mac uses for the containers I run.

Same here, but with Hyper-V on Windows.

Originally I did this because of bad performance and bugs in WSL 1. I hear WSL 2 is better but I already have it all set up and it works great for me so I've just kept it.