CLI to launch vscode in a remote container (using devcontainer.json)

[tmaslach]

My project has a .devcontainer/devcontainer.json file. When I open vscode in my project's folder, a dialog pops up asking if I want to open the folder up in the container. This is nice.

But, is there any way to automatically specify on the command line to do this? So I don't have to start vscode, then restart it once again? It's a minor usability issue, but would be nice to make a little more seamless.

I see several examples showing vscode://vscode-remote uri syntax. But, everything I've seen so far relates to existing containers and ssh. I have not seen anything related to using the information in the devcontainer.json. Is there a way to do this? If not, I think such a feature would be valuable.

I have posted on stack overflow, but have not gotten any responses.

Thanks!

[egamma]

@tmaslach it is currently not possible to open a remote container using the CLI.

As a workaround there is an entry for the remote container in the Open Recent menu.

[tmaslach]

@egamma - I appreciate the response. I'll stop looking for a way to do it now :)

It would be nice to have that at some point in the future. I imagine there'd be some nice way to fit it into the URI specifier

Thanks!

[EricHripko]

+1 to this, looks like one could do this for Remote - WSL too with vscode://vscode-remote/wsl+Ubuntu-18.04/home/myuser/myproject. Would be great if we had an equivalent for Remote - Containers where giving a host path would reopen the project in a Remote - Container.

[egamma]

Duplicate of #2133