microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release
Extend support for variables in `mount` syntax to include containerEnv, among others in devcontainer spec
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Description
The mount property in the devcontainer spec says it supports variables as defined in variables in devcontainer.json.
As best I can tell some of the spec is not implemented, for example containerEnv does not resolve.
There's also no way (that I found) to easily grab the connecting user nor their home directory (I was trying with ${containerEnv:HOME}), which would very nice for mounting volumes into ~/.foo for tool foo that persists user configuration we don't want destroyed each time the workspace is opened (e.g. ~/.azure, ~/.promptflow, etc).
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