How to Run and Debug Python Inside Docker Containers Using VSCode

You don't need to have Python installed on your system in order to run it. Replace Python with almost any other language and keep your computer free from all the things you need to have installed in order to start developing software!
Version collisions are in the past. Create a docker image for each of your projects that you're working on and you will not have to spend hours or days fixing a local environment because you upgraded a package that broke everything.
In this video, I will show you a couple of ways to run Python in a Docker container, and in the end, we will set up VSCode (Visual Studio Code), so you could run and debug your code inside a container without leaving VSCode!
Timeline:
0:00 Why do you want to run code inside a container
0:45 How to run Python in Docker using an interactive terminal
3:00 Create a Docker file to create an image and run your Python code using docker commands
6:10 How to connect Visual Studio Code to a Docker container to run Python code
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  • @codevev
    @codevev4 ай бұрын

    If you want to learn how to connect from VSCode to a remote server via SSH, watch kzread.info/dash/bejne/pp2oxNmPg6-pp9Y.html next

  • @mahmoudelzouka5689
    @mahmoudelzouka56893 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Evgeny for the demo! this is what I was looking for.

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're very welcome! Glad it helped!

  • @TechWazza
    @TechWazza2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the this Evgeny...this was very simple, short and great help.

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    2 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome! Glad it helped!

  • @bluesdog88
    @bluesdog884 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the run through, just what I was looking for!

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    4 ай бұрын

    Glad I could help!

  • @farmingbyfaith4210
    @farmingbyfaith42102 жыл бұрын

    Awesome Video. Im busy with a project to use Python Data Science tools inside docker, but the tools then control metatrader inside wine. So I can have many algorithms running at once. I like the fact that I can debug line by line the Python code as it controls metatrader

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds complicated :)

  • @jarorkwong8042
    @jarorkwong80422 жыл бұрын

    Thank you bro, nice and easy!

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great! Glad it helped!

  • @IFinging
    @IFinging2 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video, Thank you

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad it helped!

  • @irongranca
    @irongranca2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks from canary islands :)

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome, you're welcome!

  • @ahmedshawky9845
    @ahmedshawky9845 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks mate, really appreciate it

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    Anytime!

  • @basicmachines
    @basicmachines4 ай бұрын

    Thanks. I couldn't find the 'Remote - Containers' extension in VS Code but I found something called 'Dev Containers' by Microsoft which sounds like the same thing. Has the name changed maybe?

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    4 ай бұрын

    Just checked, Dev Containers from Microsoft extension does look correct!

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    4 ай бұрын

    Correction. Dev Containers will probably work on its own but it's included in the Remote Development extension, which is a pack that not only lets you connect to Docker containers from VSCode but also ssh into other hosts

  • @danieltala9586
    @danieltala95862 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! much better than debugpy :)

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don't even know what debugpy is 😃

  • @sg22r
    @sg22r10 ай бұрын

    Pure GOLD!

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    10 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @chennahoom
    @chennahoom Жыл бұрын

    Hey! Awesome video! Just a quick question, when I reach the part after I click "Reopen in Container" ... I'm not getting the option to open "From Dockerfile" (7:22 in your video) , I get a list of configuration template. Do you know why maybe?

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! It looks like the option to open from dockerfile is only available when there's a Dockerfile that already exists in your workspace

  • @mohasinsultan
    @mohasinsultan2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @ammadkhan4687
    @ammadkhan46872 ай бұрын

    Nice explanation. Thanks . Do you some some video to map network drive in docker container?

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks! I don't have a video about mapping network drive to a container yet. I haven't used Docker much lately. Good luck!

  • @alchemication
    @alchemication Жыл бұрын

    This is nice, thank you, I just wonder if it could somehow work with K8s, so when your container dies, VS Code still works (as container would just simply restart) ... Also would be great to see version control integrated into this.

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! I haven't done much with K8s but let me know if you decide to try it out

  • @davidvc4560
    @davidvc4560 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Could you clarify if the VSCode actually created the container itself or connected to an existing container? @7:16. It looks like VSCode created a container to me, because it didn't ask for container name or id.

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    It should have created a new container on its own

  • @davidvc4560

    @davidvc4560

    Жыл бұрын

    @@codevev thank you!

  • @devashishnigam5971
    @devashishnigam59712 жыл бұрын

    How do we handle venv and requirements.txt. It would be great if you can cover that

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's really the beauty of running Python inside the Docker container! You actually don't need venv because a container is an isolated environment. Hence, no special treatment of requirements.txt is needed but of course it depends on what exactly you're doing

  • @christiangunther650
    @christiangunther6502 жыл бұрын

    Hej Thx Evgeny! But could you explain the next steps on e.g. launch.json and how to configure properly? I have my problems there ... Cheers

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    2 жыл бұрын

    Christian, do you run into any specific problems? Mind sharing an error message or what is going on exactly?

  • @emanueol
    @emanueol Жыл бұрын

    uou manually installed python extension in the container, i wonder if its possible docker file to also do that ?

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    Great question! You would do that in the devcontainer.json file rather than the Dockerfile

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    Check this link out: code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers#_adding-an-extension-to-devcontainerjson

  • @emanueol

    @emanueol

    Жыл бұрын

    @@codevev thanks 👍

  • @3MandMatt
    @3MandMatt2 ай бұрын

    would you add a video for docker compose?

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    2 ай бұрын

    Anything in particular about it?

  • @pranitpawar2200
    @pranitpawar2200 Жыл бұрын

    after running build command getting below error: failed to compute cache key: "/main.py" not found: not found

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    You may have a typo in your Dockerfile. Sounds like it's not finding the path to the main.py file.

  • @f0l1v31r4
    @f0l1v31r411 ай бұрын

    And does it work for framesworks like fastAPI, Flask and Django?

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes

  • @sergeyasdf2677
    @sergeyasdf2677 Жыл бұрын

    Hi there! How could I remote debugging on docker container?

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you watch the video?

  • @damircicic
    @damircicic3 ай бұрын

    Hi when I click on the icon in the lower left corner and then click on any option in the list I get the message that current user does not have permission to run docker (I wanted to attach to the running container). Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    3 ай бұрын

    Are you on windows? Try opening VSCode as administrator

  • @damircicic

    @damircicic

    3 ай бұрын

    @@codevev I am on Ubuntu. Sounds promising. Thanks! I'll give it a try.

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    3 ай бұрын

    I see. Probably opening VSCode with 'sudo' could work. But maybe it's something else. I don't think I ever did it on Linux, just Windows or Mac

  • @nedkapinill

    @nedkapinill

    2 ай бұрын

    @@damircicic ​ I had same problem. I can open container with rootless in VS code. You can google "Run the Docker daemon as a non-root user (Rootless mode)" to fix permission problem.

  • @UpToTheSkyAgain
    @UpToTheSkyAgain7 ай бұрын

    I appreciate your explanations. Very clear and the step by step procedure is very nice. However I don't manage to do the last part. I get and error reopening the project in the container : [7105 ms] Start: Check Docker is running [7105 ms] Start: Run in Host: docker version --format {{.Server.APIVersion}} [7177 ms] Server API version: 1.41 [7178 ms] Start: Run in Host: docker volume ls -q [7225 ms] Host server: Error: spawn docker ENOENT at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:283:19) at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:476:16) at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) [7270 ms] Host server: (node:11049) PromiseRejectionHandledWarning: Promise rejection was handled asynchronously (rejection id: 1) (Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created) [7274 ms] Error: spawn docker ENOENT at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:283:19) at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:476:16) at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) The only difference with you is that I did the first part already in a remote access, in SSH. However "reopen in container" is supposed to work. Any idea, welcome. :-)

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    7 ай бұрын

    I think when you reopen in container, it just looks for Docker running on your local host. So if you hadn't installed it there, it can't find the running instance of Docker and is throwing an error. I'm actually not sure if what you're trying to do is supported, might be a good thing for me to try figuring out. But at my new job we aren't currently using docker containers and I do all of my development on an ec2 instance via remote ssh through VSCode😂

  • @brunaguterres1817
    @brunaguterres1817 Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunatly there is no Remote - Containers extension on my VS code :(

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    Bruna, you will need to install it first. You can follow this link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack

  • @brunaguterres1817

    @brunaguterres1817

    Жыл бұрын

    @@codevev Thank you so much. Nice tutorial. One of the most useful in KZread lately.

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the kind words :)

  • @MentoriadeSoftware
    @MentoriadeSoftware Жыл бұрын

    Hi codeEV, Thanks for your video, I've done a test like you showed and everything works fine with the remote, but when I want to run my .py file I get an error: Se produjo una excepción: ModuleNotFoundError No module named 'matplotlib' File "/workspaces/python/consulta.py", line 3, in import matplotlib.pyplot as plt This is my Dockerfile FROM python:3.7.13 WORKDIR /home/tips/python RUN pip install surprise RUN pip install d2l==0.17.5 RUN pip install -U mxnet-cu101==1.9.1 RUN pip install seaborn RUN pip install gluon COPY . . CMD [ "python", "./consulta.py" ] This is the consulta.py file import matplotlib.pyplot as plt #

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi! If I'm reading it correctly, the pip command to install matplotlib is missing from your dockerfile

  • @julioalvia3619
    @julioalvia3619 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @codevev

    @codevev

    Жыл бұрын

    You're welcome!