Remote Dev with SSH, VMs, and WSL
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Visual Studio Code Remote Development allows you to use a container, remote machine, or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a full-featured development environment.
- Develop on the same operating system you deploy to or use larger or more specialized hardware.
- Sandbox your development environment to avoid impacting your local machine configuration.
- Make it easy for new contributors to get started and keep everyone on a consistent environment.
- Use tools or runtimes not available on your local OS or manage multiple versions of them.
- Develop your Linux-deployed applications using the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
- Access an existing development environment from multiple machines or locations.
- Debug an application running somewhere else such as a customer site or in the cloud.
Brigit Murtaugh, a PM with VS Code, will talk through the benefits of remote development workflows and then demonstrate how to set things up using VS Code, WSL, Windows Terminal, a remote desktop machine, and a Virtual Machine (VM).
Topics:
- 0:27 What is remote development? What are the benefits?
- 1:35 Why is remote development a priority for VS Code?
- 3:00 How do I set up a remote dev environment in VS Code?
- 4:29 What is SSH? How do I do remote dev work with SSH?
- 6:27 Demo: Use SSH to debug on a remote machine and virtual machine.
- 18:09 What is WSL? Why is it good for remote dev work with VS Code?
- 19:27 Demo: Use WSL to run a Python app in Linux but debug on Windows.
- 26:22 What about remote development with Docker containers?
- 27:18 Tabs vs Spaces?
- 28:50 Where can I learn more?