Connecting Visual Studio Code to a Codeanywhere container

Question

I use Codeanywhere. The cloud IDE is okay but I'd rather use Visual Studio Code. Since I'm on a work computer without admin rights, I have a portable version of Visual Studio Code that I'd like to use to connect to my CodeAnywhere container. I found a couple of extensions that let you mount a folder through ssh. They are SSH FS and FS Remote. But I can't figure out how to actually connect. Anyone have any experience with this? Or know any alternatives to hosting a container remotely and connect with VSC code? Thanks

Answer 1

The following are instructions from a Mac.

Setting up SSH keys

1. Open a terminal.
2. Run the command to generate the SSH keys: ssh-keygen -t rsa
3. Hit enter to accept the default location to save the key.
4. Hit enter twice when prompted for entering passphrase.
5. Copy the public key: pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
6. Open an SSH session on your Codeanywhere container.
7. Paste your copied public key to the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the container.

Gather Container Information

1. Right-click the container and select Info.
2. You'll get an information page specifically for your container such as host and port.

Setting up Visual Studio Code

1. Install Remote - SSH extension by Microsoft for Visual Studio Code.
2. Click on the button at the left bottom corner of VSC, which will open the command palette with a list of Remote-SSH options.
3. Select Open Configuration File...
4. Select the ssh config file to edit, example /Users/username/.ssh/config
5. Add the following, but fill in the info for your container:

Host Codeanywhere
    HostName hostXX.codeanyhost.com
    User cabox
    Port 12345
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

6. Save and exit the config file.
7. Again, open the command palette for Remote-SSH and select Connect to Host.