Use VS Code Remote Development w/o marketplace, update connectivity

[LesterCheng]

Is there anyway to get around this limitation "VS Code Server requires outbound HTTPS (port 443) connectivity to update.code.visualstudio.com and marketplace.visualstudio.com"?

To clarify: will this work if the local os and remote machine both have ssh connectivity to each other but no outbound connectivity?

[Chuxel]

@LesterCheng Currently the machine you connect to needs to have outbound connectivity to both update.code.visualstudio.com and marketplace.visualstudio.com. These are used to acquire and update the "VS Code Server" and the extensions installed remotely. So, if I'm understanding correctly, I think the answer to your question is no.

[LesterCheng]

@Chuxel is there any possibility of getting a packaged version of the "VS Code Server" that could be loaded onto the remote machine manually to avoid creating an outbound connection?

[kieferrm]

@LesterCheng not at this time.

[LesterCheng]

@kieferrm Understood, thanks! Any plans to introduce something like this? Otherwise this issue can be closed.

[Chuxel]

@LesterCheng Beyond VS Code server, extensions are also installed on the remote host from the marketplace. We are in preview, so while we don't have specific plans, we are interested in understanding what people need to shape our direction.

That said, our of curiosity, what is your use case? Is there anything in particular preventing you from getting out bound access that we should be aware of?

[LesterCheng]

@Chuxel without getting into specifics, this is an enterprise environment where development is only done on remote machines which need to be ssh'd into. Neither the remote machine nor the local os (where you ssh from) have connectivity to outside connections. I'd be happy to continue this over email you if it would help. I think a similar scenario was mentioned in the blog announcing this release: "Because the code bases are so large, we see engineers at shops like Facebook (and Microsoft!) use editors like vim to work remotely against secure and powerful "developer VMs".

[Chuxel]

@LesterCheng Got it - interesting scenario. I changed the title and made it a feature request.

Is this due to security requirements? Happy to interact via email - you can find my mail in my GH profile (but I won't paste it due to crawlers.)

[underchemist]

Just tagging on to say that I am also developing in a remote environment where we don't have access to outside internet except for certain mirrored repositories like pypi.

[WSLUser]

I would like to add that I'm in the same situation as @underchemist. I will add supplement that with the caveat that my Windows VM can connect to the Internet to download extensions but in order to connect to the corporate network, I need to re-enable the VPN. The Linux server I develop on doesn't and will never have outside access. Everything is done using mirrored repos including PyPi as mentioned already. Basically I need extensions that I install locally to my VM to duplicate over to the server once I connect to it. A prompt that appears once it activates the ssh connection to the server asking if you would like to install and/or update the Linux extensions with a yes/no option to click on would be ideal. A status bar showing the transfer would great to see as well. This would be done through a sftp or scp session.