SSH access to the container

[PabloBelmonte]

Hi folks,

Something that may be good for other developers is to access the container through SSH. I managed to do that, but it involves some manual configuring. Would be really nice to have that feature built-in. I find that working with VSCodium remote access to be smoother than using shared folder (which sometimes causes issues for me), as it provides integrated terminal.
What I've done:

Inside the container (Host server):

Install and setup the OpenSSH Server

• Using the installer (Win64-OpenSSH):

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases/tag/10.0.0.0p2-Preview

• Start the service and set it to automatic

Start-Service sshd
Set-Service sshd -StartupType Automatic

• Allow SSH through the Windows Firewall

New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName OpenSSH_22 -Enabled True -Direction Inbound -Protocol TCP -Action Allow -LocalPort 22
Disable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName sshd

At your linux machine:

Turn off the container, and edit the 'podman-compose.yml' file within .winboat (should work with docker as well):

• CHANGE 1: Add port 22 to the comma-separated list of guest ports

USER_PORTS: "7148,22"

• CHANGE 2: Map host port 2222 to container port 22

- 127.0.0.1:2222:22

• Recreate the container

cd ~/.winboat
podman-compose up -d --force-recreate

• The container should start automatically

Test the ssh connection

• From terminal:

ssh <USER>@127.0.0.1 -p 2222

• From VSCode (remote ssh)

<USER>@127.0.0.1:2222

[BinToss]

Start-Service sshd was failing. I followed https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/803807/how-to-ssh-into-windows-11-vm-winboatpodman-from-steamos to fix it. It seems the 'OpenSSH.Server' Windows Capability must be installed beforehand.

P.S. sudo pwsh -c 'Start-Service sshd'