Advice on a workflow with remote computing

[paskn]

Hi!

Thanks for DevPod, I enjoy using it! I would like your advice on a workflow that I want to implement with DevPod. If this idea seems silly or is covered elsewhere, please point me to the right resource. I am not an advanced user of Docker or DevPod. I am sure this must be a common case, but I couldn't figure out how to make it work.

What I want to do:

• Sometimes, I need to run code that can take hours to complete on my machine. At this point, I would like to push the project to a remote machine, such as an instance on DigitalOcean.
• I would like to save any local changes, then create a new workspace from the saved project directory with my remote provider. Then, on the remote machine, I would like to run the code.
• After the computations are done, I would like to fetch my long-awaited artifacts from the remote.

What I did:

• Created the remote instance.
• SSH'ed into it and ran my code.
• Exited the instance to go about my other business.

What I get:

• DevPod thinks I am not using the remote instance and tries to save me money by shutting it down before my computations are complete.

I suppose that one way to avoid premature shutdown is to add a postCreateCommand that runs my code (haven't tried it yet). But is there another way?

Thanks.

[amithm7]

DevPod thinks I am not using the remote instance and tries to save me money by shutting it down before my computations are complete.

I think Docker [Desktop] is doing this.