consider remote CLI support (ssh)

[aureq]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The app is awesome, but the cli and all the projects must be local. I personally don't like much programming on my windows host so everything is done through WSL or over SSH

Describe the solution you'd like

Please consider adding WSL and SSH support as a way to connect to an existing CLI.

[praneetloke]

In fact this is a blocker for Windows users who use WSL. The app does not communicate with the CLI through WSL today. The app should also support importing projects from WSL mounted directories.

[praneetloke]

It looks like it is possible to execute commands in a WSL distro using the wsl command. For example, wsl -d Ubuntu --shell-type login --cd ~ -- ~/.pulumi/bin/pulumi version works. This could be used by the app to communicate with the CLI installed in the WSL distro. As you probably noticed though, it seems that PATH is not set correctly when executing the command so I had to specify the full path to the pulumi binary in order to execute it.

Lastly, there is a way to identify a Pulumi project that is located inside a WSL folder. The paths to files in a distro have the format: \\wsl.local\<distro name>\<absolute path to file>. So the app could show both WSL and native Windows-based Pulumi projects alongside and execute commands either in the default Windows shell or as a wsl command based on that.

[praneetloke]

FYI, support for WSL mode is in-progress.

[praneetloke]

WSL mode is now supported in the latest version v0.0.60. I'll update the title to reflect the pending support for remote environments via SSH.