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Docker Advance Part 8: How to Connect Docker Container Remotely From Your IDE

Mammad Yahyayev
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4 min readFeb 4, 2025
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Hello developers and DevOps enthusiast, welcome to the new part of my Docker Advance Series. In this part, we are going to connect to the Docker container from IDE to debug our application.

The Importance of Debugging

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No need to explain how important debugging is. Imagine an application which doesn’t have enough logs to identify problems that happened on production. In these cases, it is nearly impossible to add more logs, redeploy the app and wait for the error to reproduce.

Debugging from your IDE makes the bug finding process easier because we see how our values changes in each line.

P.S: If you already solve the problem, try to add more logs for future problems like this. Trust me, it will worth it.

How to Connect Docker Container Remotely from IDE?

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