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Re:Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker by brabel on Sunday July 13, 2025 @06:14AM (#44549075)
Just tried it... and it says it's client-only, but when I try to run the SSH provider using my Rapberry Pi it says it needs `docker` to be installed on it :/. So it's not just client-only, is it?
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Re:Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker by adastra22 on Sunday July 13, 2025 @09:18AM (#44550248)
Isn't that what client-only means?
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Re:Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker by brabel on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:21AM (#44557630)
Like, oh you need to install this extremely heavy tool on your server... but yeah it's still client-only, trust me?
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Re:Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker by adastra22 on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:42AM (#44557750)
No, client-only as in this is the client only. You need a corresponding server. Are you thinking of "runs locally"?
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Re:Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker by brabel on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @05:26AM (#44580334)
Mate, if you need to install something on a server how the hell can it be called client-only??? eMacs is an example of client-only perhaps, with TRAMP as it works purely on top of SSH , though you could argue it still isn’t client-only as it requires the SSH server to be enabled… so I thought the SSH connector for this would also work the same way but it also requires a full freaking Docker install not just SSH. This is totally misleading.
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Re:Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker by CGamesPlay on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @03:21AM (#44568775)
No, client-only means Devpod is contrasting itself to Coder, which requires a central server to orchestrate the containers it creates. Devpod does not. It does still have dependencies, though, among them Docker.
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Re:Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker by shepherdjerred on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @08:12PM (#44588296)
It's client-only because if you install it on a machine with Docker, you don't need a server to use devcontainers.

Docker is required to use devcontainers, so there's really no getting around the Docker requirement

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