Hi all, I’m running Open edX (Sumac) locally with Tutor, and I’d like to use VS Code’s inbuilt debugger with breakpoints. The challenge is that Tutor runs services (LMS, CMS, workers, etc.) inside Docker containers, so VS Code can’t directly attach like it would with a local Django project. I know…

Here is my writeup on it: [image] Debugging with Visual Studio Code Dev Containers Extension Development With the Dev Containers extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), you can have access to VS Code features within a container, which includes debugging too…

Hi @Yogesh . Here is a solution that has been shared to do this. I’ve taken that solution and adapted things to work with the Dev Containers extension. In this scenario, VS Code can attach from within the container, so you don’t need to expose the debugger port. I’m planning on posting a write-up on…

Thanks a lot @tpayne This looks really useful — I’ve been relying on pdb.set_trace() inside the container until now, but being able to use VS Code’s debugger directly with Dev Containers sounds much smoother. I’ll give your write-up a try and see how it works with my Tutor (Sumac) dev setup. Reall…

How can I use VS Code breakpoints to debug Open edX running in Tutor containers?

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tpayne (Taylor Payne) September 4, 2025, 8:21pm 3

Here is my writeup on it:

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How can I use VS Code breakpoints to debug Open edX running in Tutor containers?

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