Visual Code Remote Tunnel - Docker

README.md

Visual Studio Code - Remote Tunnel

Simple example to deploy a docker container to run Visual Studio Code CLI to establish a remote tunnel to use with https://vscode.dev/

Deployment

Save both Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml in a folder. Create a sub-folder called home to persist the user data

Start with docker compose up vscode -d

Check the logs for instructions to authorize the tunnel with Github and get the tunnel URL: docker logs -f vscode

docker-compose.yml

services:
  vscode:
    build: .
    container_name: vscode
    entrypoint: >
      /app/code tunnel --name mytunnel
    group_add:
      - 102 # docker
    restart: always
    user: "1000:1000"
    volumes:
      - ./home:/home/user
      - /mnt/data:/mnt/data
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro

Dockerfile

# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
FROM alpine

RUN <<EOF

set -ex
sed -i -r 's/v\d+\.\d+/edge/g' /etc/apk/repositories
apk update
apk upgrade --no-interactive --latest
apk add --no-cache --virtual \
        brotli \
        ca-certificates \
        curl \
        docker-cli \
        docker-zsh-completion \
        git \
        git-zsh-completion \
        jq \
        nodejs \
        openssh \
        rsync \
        tar \
        yq-go \
        wget \
        zstd \
        zsh \
        zopfli

curl --location --silent --output /tmp/vscode_cli.tar.gz 'https://code.visualstudio.com/sha/download?build=stable&os=cli-alpine-x64'
mkdir /app
cd /app
tar -xvf /tmp/vscode_cli.tar.gz
rm /tmp/vscode_cli.tar.gz

adduser -h /home/user -s /bin/zsh -u 1000 -D user

EOF

USER 1000:1000
ENV HOME=/home/user