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Secure remote connectivity with VS Code for the Web
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The Visual Studio Code ecosystem continues to thrive and expand. With thousands of extensions available for download from the marketplace, developers have a bewildering selection to enrich their daily coding experience. The Remote-Tunnels extension [1] [2] is an example of powerfully expanding a developer's remote capabilities. This extension integrates with vscode.dev hosting Visual Studio online services, allowing GitHub users to access a lightweight Visual Studio (VS) Code experience directly through a web browser. Pairing the remote tunneling capabilities of VS Code Server with GitHub integrated cloud services powers this secure remoting capability. As a result, developers can establish remote connectivity to Linux servers hosted in private networks, further expanding the possibilities of their development workflows. In this article, I unpack the details.
Remote SSH Connectivity Revisited
Before diving into the developer experience of a web-based VS Code environment, I'll briefly revisit the established Remote-SSH VS Code extension that provides SSH connectivity capabilities to virtual machines (VMs) or containers and seamlessly integrates with the standard functionalities of a local SSH client.
If you don't already have the Remote-SSH extension installed, use the --install-extension argument on the command-line interface (CLI):
code --install-extension ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh
Of course, you can also access the Extensions view in the VS Code user interface (UI) to search and install.
This command-line action will result in the installation of three extensions. To verify that these extensions were installed successfully, enter:
code --list-extensions
The output dumped to the console will be all the
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