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.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -1,27 +1,49 @@
 {
   "name": "NetAlertX DevContainer",
   "remoteUser": "netalertx",
+  "workspaceFolder": "/workspaces/NetAlertX",
   "build": {
-    "dockerfile": "./Dockerfile",
-    "context": "../",
+    "dockerfile": "./Dockerfile", // Dockerfile generated by script
+    "context": "../", // Context is the root of the repository
     "target": "netalertx-devcontainer"
   },
-  "workspaceFolder": "/workspaces/NetAlertX",
-  "runArgs": [
-    "--add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway",
-    "--security-opt", "apparmor=unconfined" // for alowing ramdisk mounts
-  ],
-
   "capAdd": [
     "SYS_ADMIN", // For mounting ramdisks
     "NET_ADMIN", // For network interface configuration
-    "NET_RAW"    // For raw packet manipulation
+    "NET_RAW" // For raw packet manipulation
   ],
-  
-  
-  
+  "runArgs": [
+    "--security-opt",
+    "apparmor=unconfined" // for allowing ramdisk mounts
+
+    // Uncomment --network=host to run full NetAlertX scanning capabilities of network scanning in
+    // container. This runs too slowly in a large network to be practical for development purposes.
+    // You can start services such as avahi on the host, in other containers within the network, or
+    // even within this container and connect to them as needed.
+    // "--network=host",
+  ],
+  // ATTENTION: If running with --network=host, COMMENT `forwardPorts` OR ELSE THERE WILL BE NO WEBUI!
+  "forwardPorts": [20211, 20212, 9003, 9000, 5678],
+  "portsAttributes": { // the ports we care about
+    "20211": {
+      "label": "Frontend:Nginx+PHP"
+    },
+    "20212": {
+      "label": "Backend:GraphQL"
+    },
+    "9003": {
+      "label": "PHP Debug:Xdebug"
+    },
+    "9000": {
+      "label": "PHP-FPM:FastCGI"
+    },
+    "5678": {
+      "label": "Python Debug:debugpy"
+    }
+  },
+
   "postStartCommand": "${containerWorkspaceFolder}/.devcontainer/scripts/setup.sh",
-  
+
   "customizations": {
     "vscode": {
       "extensions": [
@@ -43,16 +65,13 @@
         "eamodio.gitlens",
         "alexcvzz.vscode-sqlite",
         "yzhang.markdown-all-in-one"
-      ]
-      ,
+      ],
       "settings": {
         "terminal.integrated.cwd": "${containerWorkspaceFolder}",
         // Python testing configuration
         "python.testing.pytestEnabled": true,
         "python.testing.unittestEnabled": false,
-        "python.testing.pytestArgs": [
-          "test"
-        ],
+        "python.testing.pytestArgs": ["test"],
         // Make sure we discover tests and import server correctly
         "python.analysis.extraPaths": [
           "/workspaces/NetAlertX",
@@ -63,26 +82,6 @@
       }
     }
   },
-  "forwardPorts": [5678, 9000, 9003, 20211, 20212],
 
-  "portsAttributes": {
-    "20211": {
-      "label": "Frontend:Nginx+PHP"
-    },
-    "20212": {
-      "label": "Backend:GraphQL"
-    },
-    "9003": {
-      "label": "PHP Debug:Xdebug"
-    },
-    "9000": {
-      "label": "PHP-FPM:FastCGI"
-    },
-    "5678": {
-      "label": "Python Debug:debugpy"
-    }
-  },
-
-  // Optional: ensures compose services are stopped when you close the window
-  "shutdownAction": "stopContainer"
-}
+  "shutdownAction": "stopContainer" // stop container when VSCode is closed
+}