[Django]-Debugging dockerized Django in VS Code results in error "Timed out waiting for launcher to connect"

The idea of debugging in vs code is to:

• use debugpy to launch your code with a port, say 5678
• in vscode to ‘Remote Attach’ to that process.

I may be wrong but what i can see from your code, you didn’t attach to your process.

I wrote the way I did here, I use docker-compose and docker. My way is different with yours but you will get the idea…:)

There’s no errors compared to the vscode tutorial in your project. Cause the error is timeout waiting for luncher to connect, try restart docker service and reload your window in vscode.

Here is a clue and a workaround:

The instructions I followed had me open VS code inside my ubuntu WLS2 instance. Note: my app is just a generic python app, not django.

If I click this and change it to open as a windows folder, then fun debug, everything suddenly works for me. (It spins up the docker and connects to it with debug, does breakpoints etc.)

I think what is happening for me is that "sometimes" docker is starting the container/app on its own WSL instance and my ubuntu instance cannot route to it for the debug.

I say sometimes, because sometimes it works. I think it might be related to which application (docker, ubuntu, vscode) I start first when I boot my machine.
I’ve messed with the docker, resources, WSL integration settings, the windows firewall, and restarted various things.

I’m sure a proper fix is not that complicated, however running VS code in native windows is enough of a fix for me. I don’t see why the added complexity of starting the VS code session inside WSL is actually necessary.