I’m attempting to set up a development environment for a Node.js library that interfaces with RabbitMQ, the configuration for which is in the spoiler below.

ARG VARIANT=14
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/javascript-node:0-${VARIANT}

version: "3"
services:
  main:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    volumes:
      - ..:/workspace:cached
    command: sleep infinity
    ports:
      - 3000
rabbit:

image: rabbitmq:3-management

restart: unless-stopped

ports:

- 5672

- 15672

{
  "name": "Node.js & RabbitMQ",
  "dockerComposeFile": "docker-compose.yml",
  "service": "main",
  "workspaceFolder": "/workspace",
  "settings": {
    "terminal.integrated.shell.linux": "/bin/bash"
  }
}

This works wonderfully and the main service that I use to develop on can successfully reach the rabbit service and interact with it.

However, the RabbitMQ server exposes a helpful UI at port 15672 which I would like to be able to see, but I don’t know if it’s possible for me to get at it.

I can add "forwardPorts": [15672] to my devcontainer.json, but this seems to forward that port to my main service, when I want it to go to the rabbit service.

Is there any way to achieve this?

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