team development with remote devcontainers - disconnects whenever another developer builds image

[dss010101]

We have multiple developers working with the same code base in their remote devcontainer environment, but on the same dev server. We are using vscode devcontainers.

I have the following docker compose which is designed to build/start user specific images and containers:

version: '3.8'
networks:
  app1_svc_net:
    driver: bridge

services:
  app1_svc:
    container_name: app1_svc_${USER_NAME} 
    image: "app1_svc_${USER_NAME}"  
    volumes:
      - ../..:/workspaces:cached
      - ~/.ssh:/home/${USER_NAME}/.ssh
    networks:
      - app1_svc_net
    command: bash -c "sleep infinity"

The env file looks like this:

ENV=local
USER_NAME=user1
USER_ID=1001
GROUP_ID=100
SVC_PORT=5010
PYTHONPATH=/workspaces/app1_svc/src

docker compose will pass some of the variables to the docker file as args. the dockerfile should create the user and start set the USER to the specific user

ARG ENV
ARG USER_NAME
ARG USER_ID
ARG GROUP_ID
...
RUN useradd -u $USER_ID -g $GROUP_ID $USER_NAME
USER $USER_NAME

Each developer has different settings for their .env file so that an image suffixed with their name is built as well as a container suffixed with their name is started. I can see the different user specific images with different image ids, and i can also see the running dev containers with different user specific names.

The problem is though, is if im in my container, then another user builds their container, i get a disconnect, and when i reconnect, i am entering as that other user that just built/started their image and container.

Any ideas what may be going on here and how to solve

[samruddhikhandale]

Hi 👋

Thanks for reporting the issue.

We are using vscode devcontainers.

Does that mean you are using Dev Containers extension within VS Code to connect to your dev containers? If that's the case, then can you open an issue in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues, the VS Code team should be able to provide better guidance/investigation.

[dss010101]

please go ahead and delete this. thanks