connect to specified ssh host

[mayberts]

Hey, is there a way of passing arguments to open a specific ssh host? I know I can command id opensshremotes.openEmptyWindowInCurrentWindow which brings up the list of configured hosts, but I would like the be able to pass the hostname and the same for opening container with remote-containers.attachToRunningContainer which again opens the list

[nicollasricas]

Hi,

I believe you can do that for the openEmptyWindow (it works with the openEmptyWindowInCurrentWindow as well) passing the host information as JSON.

Here's how you can do it:

{
  "host": "127.0.0.1",
  "userName": "myuser",
  "port": 123456
}

Now for the attachToRunningContainer the only way you could achieve this would be creating a custom task. There are two ways this could be achieved:

• Create a custom task inside your workspace and execute this task that will be executing the attachToRunningContainer command. Although I don't know if that will work because the workspace must be fully loaded so that tasks inside were considered. You can try and if it doesn't work create a multi-action and chain both commands with some delay.
• Create a user level task that will work any workspace.

The 6.0 update adds a new action just for tasks and also support for arguments as types and not just JSON objects as the current latest released version does. The 6.0 won't be released until I finish the documentation.

Tasks.json:

{
  "label": "mycustomtask",
  "command": "${command:remote-containers.attachToRunningContainer}",
  "args": ["container id or name"]
}

I hope it helps, let me know.

[mayberts]

Thanks for the info, the openEmptyWindowInCurrentWindow works, but the attaching container is not, but I am still testing it. I might wait for version 6.0