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Visual Studio Code is a free and open source code editing software that can be deployed on Linux, macOS and Windows. It has an integrated terminal within its user interface that removes the need to switch between command-line tasks and code editing. The default terminal shell is bash on Linux and macOS, and PowerShell on Windows. *For Windows users to configure the default terminal shell to bash, an installation of Git from https://git-scm.com/downloads is required before installation of Visual Studio Code.

You can download Visual Studio Code from the following link: https://code.visualstudio.com.

Terminal

On Linux and macOS, you can log in to Nimbus by opening a shell on your computer's default terminal.

What you need

1. The private keypair file that was created in the Nimbus Dashboard for your instance
   
   1. It is best practice to save the private keypair file to the ~/.ssh location in your local host

   2. If you downloaded it to your Downloads folder, you can use this command

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      mv ~/Downloads/My_Key_Pair.pem ~/.ssh/My_Key_Pair.pem

      
      

2. The login_name, which is the Linux OS image you chose:

   Ubuntu	ubuntu
   Centos	centos
   Fedora	fedora
   Scientific Linux	root
   Debian	debian

   
   

3. The floating IP that you allocated to your Nimbus instance, e.g. ###.###.##.## 


SSH Login on the

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terminal

ssh –i ~/.ssh/My_Key_Pair.pem login_name@###.###.##.##

Login via Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a free and open source code editing software that can be deployed on Linux, macOS and Windows. It has an integrated terminal within its user interface that removes the need to switch between command-line tasks and code editing. The default terminal shell is bash on Linux and macOS, and PowerShell on Windows. *For Windows users to configure the default terminal shell to bash, an installation of Git from https://git-scm.com/downloads is required before installation of Visual Studio Code.

You can download Visual Studio Code from the following link: https://code.visualstudio.com.

To log in, follow the instructions as per above.

Recommended settings in Visual Studio Code

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