Is there a way to launch Visual Studio Code and force it to open in a Remote Container?

I regularly open Visual Studio Code via code . and then have to click the Re-open in Container button.

Am I missing any shortcut to force it to do this from the command line?

Solution

You can open devcontainer directly with devcontainer CLI.

Install devcontainer CLI by running Remote-Containers: Install devcontainer CLI from VS Code. Then just run:

devcontainer open

in the same directory where you'd run code . and you will skip the Re-open step.