How to connect PyCharm to a python interpreter located inside a Docker container?

Question

I\'m starting with Docker, but I don\'t know how to configure PyCharm to use a python interpreter located in a container.

It was easy to setup with Vagrant, but there\'s

Answer 1

With Docker 1.3, use the exec command to construct the path to the Python interpreter:

sudo docker exec container_name /usr/bin/python

See https://docs.docker.com/reference/commandline/cli/#exec, http://forum.jetbrains.com/thread/PyCharm-2224

You could install SSH inside the container and then expose the port, but that isn't how containers are expected to be used, because you would be bloating them.