perquisites: having a github account and login to your local vs code with github, install Remote-Tunnels extension in your local vs code

• Using a container that does not have the vs code installed:

  • enter the container as root (please read the enroot guide on how to do it)
  • install the vs code:

  apt update
  apt upgrade
  apt-get install wget gpg
  wget -qO- <https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc> | gpg --dearmor > packages.microsoft.gpg
  install -D -o root -g root -m 644 packages.microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.microsoft.gpg
  echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.microsoft.gpg] <https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code> stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list > /dev/null
  rm -f packages.microsoft.gpg
  apt install apt-transport-https
  apt update
  apt install code
  

  • open a tunnel using the following command: code tunnel
  • copy the link into your browser and enter the code:

  

  • go to your vs code remote extension and attach to the created tunnel
  • once finished working, close vs code and type exit on the interactive terminal
  • the exported terminal now has the vs code installed

• Using a container with vs code: If you are using a container with VS Code already installed (a pre-made container with PyTorch 2.4.0, CUDA 11.8, cuDNN 9 runtime, VS Code, and base Conda located at /opt/conda/bin/activate is available at /storage/DSH/personal/base_pytorch.sqsh), you can enter the container without root privileges and then type code tunnel in the terminal that opens. If this is your first time accessing the node, you will need to copy the provided link, enter the code:

Next, go to the VS Code Remote extension and attach to the created tunnel. For future sessions, after typing code tunnel, you can simply attach to the tunnel from the VS Code extension without needing to re-enter the code.

<aside> 💡 Note: On the cluster, the name of the tunnel created in VS Code will be based on the first node where you initially started the tunnel. For example, if your first tunnel was created on maryam, the tunnel will always be named maryam, even if you subsequently are running a tunnel on other nodes.

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