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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562448

Length 246 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Shell Scripting

Author (1):

Stuart Leeks

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction, Installation, and Configuration

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Windows Subsystem for Linux FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux

4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Windows Terminal

5. Section 2:Windows and Linux – A Winning Combination

6. Chapter 4: Windows to Linux Interoperability

7. Chapter 5: Linux to Windows Interoperability

8. Chapter 6: Getting More from Windows Terminal

9. Chapter 7: Working with Containers in WSL

10. Chapter 8: Working with WSL Distros

11. Section 3: Developing with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

12. Chapter 9: Visual Studio Code and WSL

13. Chapter 10: Visual Studio Code and Containers

14. Chapter 11: Productivity Tips with Command-Line Tools

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Installing Remote-Containers

To use the Remote-Containers extension, you will need it installed, and you will also need to have Docker installed and accessible in WSL. See Chapter 7, Working with Containers in WSL, the Installing and using Docker with WSL section for how to configure this. If you already have Docker Desktop installed, ensure that it is configured to use the WSL 2-based engine. The WSL 2 engine uses a Docker daemon running in WSL 2, so your code files (from WSL 2) can be mounted directly in your containers, without going through the Linux-to-Windows file share. This direct mounting gives you better performance, ensures that file events are handled correctly, and uses the same file cache (see this blog post for more details: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-desktop-wsl-2-best-practices/).

Once you have Docker configured, the next step is to install the Remote-Containers extension. You can do this by searching for Remote-Containers in the EXTENSIONS view in Visual...