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Visual Studio - connect to AWS instance via bastion server

I am developing some machine learning code and I just got an AWS instance for that. To access the instance, I need to

  1. ssh from the local machine to a bastion server (which is also an AWS instance).
  2. ssh from the bastion server to the development machine.

For development, I would like to attach Visual Studio to the remote machine. Is there a way for doing that? I tried adding a ~/.ssh/config file with the login credentials in the bastion server, but that does not change the available hosts listed by Visual Studio.

Solution

  • I think you need to use this plugin and follow this blog:

    https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/10/03/remote-ssh-tips-and-tricks#_proxycommand

    For a quick description, it will open a connection to the bastion in the background, and then it will connect to your development instance