Open Docker terminal from Terminal

[jmsnavarro]

Open a Docker-hosted terminal directly using Windows Terminal

• Possibility to add a terminal profile hosted in Docker as part of the Windows Terminal profiles.
• This allows the user to instantly launch a terminal session hosted by Docker (provided that there is an already active container)

Proposed technical implementation details

"profiles":
    [
        {
            "guid": "{5743275e-4f2q-5b06-ad1e-a6969a402336}",
            "hidden": false,
            "name": "Ubuntu 18.04 LTS over Docker",
            "source": "Docker.Container.Ubuntu.trusted-twister",
            "fontFace" : "Cascadia Code",
            "fontSize" : 10,
            "acrylicOpacity" : 1,
            "useAcrylic" : false	
        },

[DHowett-MSFT]

You’d be better served by just adding a new profile whose commandline is “docker exec -t -i container /process". Even if terminal guessed what shell you wanted inside a random container, it wouldn’t be very reliable and people would hate the autogenerating profiles for each one 😄

You know your containers a lot better than we ever could!

[DHowett-MSFT]

Thanks, however, for the request!

[jnovick]

@jmsnavarro I have a script in my Ubuntu WSL distro for generating these profiles. I created it as an experiment. I am not sure what the practical purpose of wanting these profiles is, but you could copy and edit this t accomplish what you want. If you do not have jq installed, you can install it via sudo apt-get install -y jq. This also relies on the fact that there are no comments in the settings.json since jq cannot handle them.

VALUE=$(docker ps --format '{{ json . }}' | jq '{"name": ("Docker " + .Names + " " + .Image), "guid": ("{0974efce-f787-4a0a-8468-"+.ID+"}"), "hidden": false, "commandline": ("docker exec -it " + .Names + " /bin/bash")}' | jq -s .)
cat /mnt/c/Users/Joshua/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.WindowsTerminalPreview_8wekyb3d8bbwe/LocalState/settings.json \
  | jq '.profiles.list=([.profiles.list[] | select(.name | contains("Docker") | not)] + '$VALUE')' \
  > /mnt/c/Users/Joshua/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.WindowsTerminalPreview_8wekyb3d8bbwe/LocalState/settings.json

Once #7584/#7632 is done, you could leave comments in place and just direct the first line into a file instead of a variable.