Devcontainer and WSL

I'm encountering the same issue on Pycharm! 

This is with me the activating it with the blue banner “Try the improved WSL2 setup…”

But I found that if I press the “New Project” → Dropdown →"Connect to Host" AND THEN connect to the devcontainer, it works. 

@fnf mods You are right, the problem is that VSCode Gateway cannot access environment variables from .bashrc when setting up mount, so have to use VSCode variables or fixed paths.

Hello, Sebastian. Could you please specify where exactly your Docker is located, on Windows (Docker Desktop) or in the WSL? 

Electrotiger, do I understand correctly that you start the Remote Development in the WSL first, and then build the dev container from there? Or just start the already created dev container? 

Thanks for your replies. The Problem seems indeed to be, that there are environment variables involved which are only available to the VSCode environment. The format is something like §{localEnv:MY_VARIABLE} and there apparently are different scopes (containerEnv and remoteEnv) availble. But as I understand it these variables only function in VSCode environments.

As for your question, I use docker inside WSL. I have it mostly up and running now, but I frankly don't know how I got there anymore. I find all this remote development within WSL highly unstable at the moment. But even if I'm struggling with crashes and out of memory problems, part of it lies in the project I'm working on, which seems a bit overcomplicated to me. One of the latest issues I had, that from time to time I had to restart my docker and docker.socket, because the builder couldnt mount /usr/lib/wsl for some reason. I searched for hours, only to learn at some point, that restarting the aforementioned service. (This has nothing to do with JetBrains IDEs, but it illustrates the frustration ..) 

Anyway I'm using the Gateway app now to start my dev containers and can work with this setup to some extend. I would nevertheless appreciate some good sources or articles which cover devcontainer-development with JetBrains IDEs.

Tanks again for your help

Sebastian

And I keep getting this annoying error: Can't retrieve image ID from build stream. Even when I add “options”: “--load” 

:(

I find all this remote development within WSL highly unstable at the moment.

Please note that you can just open the WSL project without Remote Development or dev containers in the IDE installed on Windows. All you need to do is use the File | Open… action (or any other similar one) and navigate to the WSL directory containing your project.

I would nevertheless appreciate some good sources or articles which cover devcontainer-development with JetBrains IDEs.

We don't have any special documentation about the development in the containers; only these articles about how to build a dev container and these ones about the underlying Remote Development technology.

And I keep getting this annoying error: Can't retrieve image ID from build stream.

Could you please specify if your dev container configuration image-, Dockerfile- or Docker Compose-based? I want to try to reproduce it on my side.