connect to local containers

[urielz]

Is it possible with distant.nvim+distance to connect to a local docker container for dev purposes? If so, is there any doc available on how to get started with this?

Apologies if this is documented but I search through the docs and couldn't find anything.

[chipsenkbeil]

Hey there! I've done this plenty of times, and the way I did it was to run the distant server within the container and expose a TCP port out of the container that you connect to. Then you can connect like normal, just using something like localhost with port 12345 if your container is exposed as a port on your local machine.

Today, there's no direct support to interface with docker directly, but it's on the roadmap once the distant codebase is refactored to support more client interfaces easily beyond ssh and raw TCP.

[urielz]

Amazing! Thank you for the prompt response. I'll give it a try, sounds like a good workaround! :)

[chipsenkbeil]

Feel free to drop feedback here if you need help getting this to work. 😄 And once you get it working, feel free to share here and I can add your example/details to the website. Or you're welcome to add it yourself to https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/distant.dev