# VSCode Container Support

**URL:** https://community.doppler.com/t/vscode-container-support/104
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [February 12, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/vscode-container-support/104 "2021-02-12T00:12:48Z")
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### Author: ![ryan-blunden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.doppler.com/ryan-blunden/32/9_2.png) [@ryan-blunden](https://community.doppler.com/u/ryan-blunden)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/vscode-container-support/104/2 "2021-02-12T00:46:17Z")

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Hi Pranav and welcome to the Doppler community!

While we don’t have official docs for VS Code yet (which I will start working on shortly), here are some tips for making it as easy as possible to work with.

**Step 1.** Edit your devcontainer.json file to add a `containerEnv` field:

```auto
{
...
    "containerEnv": {
        "DOPPLER_TOKEN": "${localEnv:DOPPLER_TOKEN}"
    },
...
}

```

**Step 2.** Exit VS Code

**Step 3.** Launch VS code from the terminal with the `DOPPLER_TOKEN` env var is set:

```auto
DOPPLER_TOKEN=$(doppler configure get token --plain) code ~/your-project-here

```

**Step 4.** VS Code should pick-up that you’ve changed the `devcontainer.json` and should offer to rebuild it, which you need to do.

**Step 5.** Now with the dev container rebuilt, you should now have the `$DOPPLER_TOKEN` set inside the container and can use `doppler run` like you would normally.

If launching VS Code using the `DOPPLER_TOKEN=$(doppler configure get token --plain) code ~/your-project-here` approach is a bit kludgy, here is another option which exposes the Doppler CLI token without needing to launch VS Code from the terminal.

**Step 1.** Expose your Doppler CLI (personal) token in your `.bashrc` or `.bash_profile`. We name this `DOPPLER_CLI_TOKEN` so it doesn’t affect Doppler in your local development environment.

```auto
export DOPPLER_CLI_TOKEN=$(doppler configure get token --plain) 

```

**Step 2.** Edit your `devcontainer.json` file to add a `containerEnv` field, mapping `DOPPLER_TOKEN` to the `DOPPLER_CLI_TOKEN` :

```auto
{
...
    "containerEnv": {
        "DOPPLER_TOKEN": "${localEnv:DOPPLER_CLI_TOKEN}"
    },
...
}

```

Let me know how this works out for you.

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