Is it possible to connect vscode (on a local machine) with Google Colab (the free service) runtime?

Question

I know on GCP, we can set up a vscode server and connect to that. But what I\'m after here, is to know whether it is possible to connect to the runtime instance on Google Colab

Answer 1

I've just found another method without using ssh.

# Install jupyterlab and ngrok
!pip install jupyterlab==2.2.9 pyngrok -q

# Run jupyterlab in background
!nohup jupyter lab --ip=0.0.0.0 &

# Make jupyterlab accessible via ngrok
from pyngrok import ngrok
print(ngrok.connect(8888))

It will then show a JupyterLab URL

http://f1fe6fb39df6.ngrok.io  # for example

You can click it to run JupyterLab now. Or use the URL with VSCode for remote Jupyter kernel.