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Just curious, have you been able to figure out a good way of persisting remote vscode extensions when re-recreating the container? I've been able to add them from the interface, but can't find a way to install them from the CLI. This command doesn't appear to work:

> code --install-extension ms-dotnettools.csharp

No installation of Visual Studio Code Stable was found.
Install it from https://code.visualstudio.com and try again.

If you already installed Visual Studio Code and we didn't detect it, run `code version use stable --install-dir /path/to/installation`

I tried using that --cli-data-dir tag via a docker ENV variable VSCODE_CLI_DATA_DIR, but it doesn't appear to persist any extension related info.

Note, I did modify your existing dockerfile and got it to work for a windows docker image, so I did end up finding the extensions stored in %userprofle%\.vscode-server (not sure what the equivalent would be in the linux world), so I suppose we could just link up a volume to that directory, but that seems a little hacky. I'd prefer to setup some default extensions during the build process so I have a consistent environment whenever it's torn down and recreated.

Appreciate you putting this example repo together, really made it easy to get up and going.