Do you have any more detail on how you're handling this on a shared host? My understanding is that the base remote containers + remote ssh extensions would require the code to exist directly on the remote host, and then the container to be created afterwards (and bind to the host directory etc). Is this what you're doing?
- Open Cursor (or vscode) locally, click "open remote window" little blue button at the bottom left of the screen
- Navigate to the folder you cloned and press open
- IDE will recognise that there's a .devcontainer inside the folder and pop a dialog saying "Re-open in container", click that. If this dialog doesn't show press "Shift+Ctrl+P" and type "Rebuild" and a menu option "Dev containers: Rebuild and re-open in container" will show up, select that.
- The docker container will be built and you'll be dropped inside it, with the appropriate folder mounts happening automatically. Now when you open a terminal inside the IDE it's a terminal inside the container.
Great thanks for the info, this is along the lines I was thinking. I'm guessing that means you also have dedicated user accounts on the shared host for each developer? I suppose that would be pretty easy to manage with some ansible.
I've always liked the devcontainer approach, and in particular github codespace. But I've wanted to run it on hardware we can buy and manage. This approach sounds like it gets you 95% of the process, just missing a bit of the convenience around env per branch like codespaces can do. But that's hardly a problem really.
