Ability to run rsync from a local devcontainer host terminal

[igorauad]

Hi,

When developing inside a devcontainer, is there a way to run rsync from a terminal within the local container host, as opposed to a terminal on the devcontainer?

On Mac, Docker containers do not have access to the local network (i.e., option --net host does not work as in Linux), so it becomes hard to use rsync to other hosts in the local network. Imagine the following scenario:

• Host A (dev host): a devcontainer on a MacOS host.
• Host B (test host): another host in the local network.

I would like to rsync from Host A to Host B using vscode-rsync.

My current workaround is to open a local terminal on vscode (command Create New Integrated Terminal (Local)), which opens a terminal directly on the devcontainer host (the shell opens with the message below). Then, from this terminal, I call a script to rsync. However, it would be a lot nicer to just run the Sync-Rsync command.

*  This shell is running on your local machine, NOT on the connected remote machine 

Any ideas?