Terminal support on remote Remote Jupyter Servers

[elgalu]

This extension is great, one can start remote JupyterHub kernels with it. I couldn't find how to start a remote Terminal on the remote JupyterHub server, would that be feasible?

[DonJayamanne]

Thank you for your feedback.

remote JupyterHub server, would that be feasible?

Definitely.

Btw, have you checked out https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/tunnels

• With this feature you can setup VS Code server on your remote Jupyter Hub machine
• Then open your browser and connect to vscode.dev and start development on your remote machine
• Or from your desktop version of VS Code as well you can connect to your remote machine

In both cases you can connect to the remote machine (jupyter hub) and work on it as though everything was local.
Files, terminal, everything runs on that machine and VS Code displays as local.

Mentioning this as not many are aware of this feature,
There are other mechanisms to get the same functionality (remote SSH as well).
If this still does not work for you, please do let me know why this isn't a great solution, so we can try to improve it.

[elgalu]

Thanks Don, I tried vscode a few weeks ago and was very unreliable, got tilt, I basically couldn't do any work with it.

Remote SSH is not feasible as there's not direct ports to those remote K8s machines, also no kubectl access so not kubectl port-forward possibilities either.

[mcitoler]

@elgalu, you might be interested in the kubernetes tool extension You can use it to attach VSCode to a running k8s pod. However, I've found some issues while trying to use Jupyter notebooks in them, see for example #12764. I think that if you don't use .code-workspace files to organize your stuff you should be fine.

[jabbera]

Thanks Don, I tried vscode a few weeks ago and was very unreliable, got tilt, I basically couldn't do any work with it.

Remote SSH is not feasible as there's not direct ports to those remote K8s machines, also no kubectl access so not kubectl port-forward possibilities either.

You can host sshd on a pod with ingress and use it as a jump host.