Launch VSCode into devcontainer session

Question

It appears that the only way to run devcontainers locally is by following these steps:

1. Open your codebase in VSCode
2. Reopen VSCode / The application in a devcontainer via command or the "Reopen in Container" popup

I would like to skip step 1 and launch VSCode directly into a container session. Is this currently possible?

Answer 1

This is now officially supported in the devcontainer CLI.

After installing the CLI, the project can be opened directly in a devcontainer using the command:

devcontainer open .