How it works using VMs
Machines to DevPod are the infrastructure that ultimately run your devcontainer. Some providers such as gcloud, aws, digitalocean are "machine" providers since they first setup a VM to deploy you container to.
When DevPod starts a workspace, such as devpod up, DevPod uses the provider selected and starts your devcontainer. If using a machine provider, DevPod will check if it should create a VM first.
If so it uses your local environments credentials and the associated CLI tool, such as aws or az to create the infrastructure. Once started DevPod connects to the VM using the provider's specified tunnel, below
are some examples of providers and there secure tunnels.
- AWS: Instance connect
- GCloud:
- Azure:
The dedvpod agent starts a SSH server using the STDIO of the secure tunnel in order for you local DevPod CLI/UI to forward ports over the SSH connection. Once this is done DevPod starts your local IDE and connects it to the devcontainer via SSH.
