How can I set the hosts on docker desktop like `docker -H <url>`?

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

The Docker Desktop UI can’t connect to a remote Docker daemon and it is not likely that it ever will. You can only connect to remote daemons from the terminal using the Docker client. If you don’t want to pass the argument every time, you can configure an ssh context. Since @meyay has just shown a solution, I will leave a link to his comment

Docker on a Cloud Server or in a VPS

I assume VSCode to leverage docker context to communicate with the docker engine of the remote host. You can create a context and switch amongst contexts like this: # create the context for the remote docker engine docker context create myvps --docker "host=ssh://myuser@ip-or-domain-or-remote-host" # switch to the myvps context, to use the remote host's docker engine docker context use myvps # switch back to local docker engine (replacee `default`with `desktop-linux` in case of Docker Deskto…