It's becoming more and more common to run the applications you’re developing in Docker containers or on remote machines, rather than in your local environment. Wouldn’t it be handy to run, test, and debug applications remotely without leaving IntelliJ IDEA? Well, our new Run Targets feature makes this possible.
Please note this is an initial version of Run Targets. We plan to make it better in future releases, so we would really appreciate your feedback on this feature.
Terminology and workflow
A target is a configured environment where the IDE will execute your code, for example, in a Docke