Editing in VSCode from geodesic

[mtb-xt]

Hi guys,

Silly question probably - is there a way to launch a vscode editor from within a geodesic shell? So I can basically do 'kubectl edit configmap' or something, and instead of vim it launches a vscode on my host?

I know I can attach vscode to the geodesic container, but it never worked for me.

[dudymas]

Hey there,
While it can be a bit tricky to get started, it's possible to do this.
You'll need to basically use the 'remote' mode in VS Code. This article has the gist: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers

That said, the way that geodesic runs requires:

• mounting your project folder into geodesic
• setting env vars for geodesic

Rather than enumerate how that's done, I'd recommend just running geodesic normally, then using 'docker inspect' in a separate terminal to get all the env vars and the workspace volume mount. Sadly, I don't have a script for it, but it's likely pretty easy to take the json output of docker inspect and ask something like chatgpt to generate a dev container that preserves the env vars and volume mount.

Let me know how this goes, and I can test it on my side when I have more time.