Terminal fallback for Studio images that don't run a webserver
acknowledged
Jon Manning
Right now, Studios is limited to applications that run a web application serving content on a port. But there are use cases where it would be very useful if Studios would fall back to simply providing a terminal interface on the running container, where such an application is not discovered.
This could be useful in a variety of situations, making Studios useful as a way of quickly spinning up machines to test with arbitrary containers, without limiting ourselves to the GUI application use case.
One particular thing this could enable is the interactive debugging of arbitrary processes from workflows in Platform. If Studios can quickly be made to match the software and resource profiles of that job, this could be extremely powerful, and we don't need VSCode/ R-IDE and friends (at least in the first instance)- just somewhere to test commands.
Rob Newman
acknowledged