howto configure docker context within workspace

Asking this here because I suspect this is actually a bug or missing feature.

How might one configure a docker context with a particular workspace such that when using dev containers remotely the workspace always uses a configured context? I've attempted to use settings: {"docker.context": "my-context"} but it appears as though this setting is only used by the docker plugin, and not remote containers. I've also scoured the devcontainer reference for some way I specify an environment variable (DOCKER_CONTEXT) to be applied to the local environment before the remote container is created (thus leveraging the correct context), but this doesn't appears to be an option.

Dev containers work well on remote machines withdocker context use my-context but this is actually global setting for your docker client. vscode remote container should not require a global docker client setting when there are simple ways to specify a context at container creation time via the DOCKER_CONTEXT environment variable, or the --context global flag. Vscode appears to support neither of these methologies as best as I can tell.

Any thoughts or advice?