Visual Studio Remote Development

Preface

Recently I built a remote development project Visual Studio Code Remote Development. It moves the VS Code client to the cloud,

letting you use a fully featured development environment inside containers, on remote devices, or even on the Linux subsystem for Windows (WSL).

Official description

Develop on the same operating system you deploy to, or use bigger or more specialized hardware.

Sandbox the development environment so it does not affect the configuration of your local machine.

Make it easy for new contributors to get started, and keep everyone on a consistent environment.

Use tools or runtimes that are unavailable on your local operating system, or manage multiple versions of them.

Develop Linux-deployed applications using the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Access an existing development environment from multiple machines or locations.

Debug applications running in other locations, such as a customer site or the cloud.

How to install

System requirements

Local: a supported OpenSSH-compatible SSH client must also be installed.

Remote SSH host: an SSH server running on:

x86_64 Debian 8 and later, Ubuntu 16.04 and later, CentOS / RHEL 7 and later.

ARMv7l (AArch32) Raspbian Stretch / 9+ (32-bit).

ARMv8l (AArch64) Ubuntu 18.04+ (64-bit).

Experimental SSH host support (VS Code Insiders only):

Windows 10 / Server 2016/2019 (1803+), using the official OpenSSH Server and enabling remote.SSH.useLocalServer in VS Code settings.

Ubuntu 18.04

First, download the package from GitHub download link

wget https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/2.1698/code-server2.1698-vsc1.41.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xvzf code-server2.1698-vsc1.41.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd code-server2.1698-vsc1.41.1-linux-x86_64
# 设置密码
export PASSWORD=password
./code-server --auth password

Process daemon

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/code-server.service

Add the following configuration:

[Unit]
Description=Code Server IDE
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
 
Environment="PASSWORD=password"
 
ExecStart=/path/to/code-server --auth password 
 
StandardOutput=file:/var/log/code-server-output.log
StandardError=file:/var/log/code-server-error.log
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Start the service

systemctl start code-server