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by lsaferite 73 days ago
I've been using unix systems in one way or another for the last 30+ years. I only last week figured out I could use authorized_keys with dedicated commands per key as a way to transparently ssh directly into a container on a remote host.

That ability to transparently start a container and connect it to the SSH pipr is useful for isolation methods for coding agents involving containers and I imagine it would work equally well for things like Firecracker VMs. It's made my experiment working with an "immutable OS" (Universal Blue based) much more ergonomic. Also, it's the only way I've found to let Zed run remotely inside a container without having the container run a ssh server.