Remoting SSH support for Alpine Linux

[Bit-Chaos]

Currently Alpine Linux is supported for WSL-Remoting only. It would be great seeing support for Alpine using SSH on remote machines so that development can be done on cloud-instances running MUSL-based distributions.

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[J-Siu]

I was looking for this for a long time. However I found a way to use remote-ssh to a alpine vm recently. Following is what I did on the alpine(remote) box:

# This is what make vscode remote-ssh work
apk add gcompat libstdc++ curl git

# As alpine by default use busybox and some common utilities behave differently, like grep
apk add grep dropbear-scp dropbear-ssh

# Add zsh if using zsh shell
apk add zsh

The warning still show up, but work normally so far. I can verify docker extension works in this setup.

[EzequielBruni]

gcompat libstdc++ curl

THANK YOU! For ages, this just wouldn't work. Note that I made a couple of changes: I use openssh, and it works just fine. bash works too. Otherwise, everything is flawless with a properly set up .ssh/config file. I can now log into my LXD containers through a proxy tunnel flawlessly.