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Feature request: Project awareness #22
Description
Would you be open to a contribution that enables the render CLI to auto-detect the project based on the current path/git/project config? This would work similarly to the fly or Heroku CLI when SSH-ing or obtaining logs for a specific project.
Running
render ssh
render logswould not prompt the user to select a project first and just SSH into the container/project detected (maybe via a flag). Please let me know if there are any issues with this approach for Render hosting that I might not be aware of. The current experience is more akin to what you get from k8s or Lazydocker, which is excellent. Still, as an application developer, I want something resembling the fly SSH or Heroku SSH subcommands.
Reacted by Samuel Pordeus, Manu S Ajith, Philip Sampaio, Eugen Minciu, Nick Riebeek, asampers, weirdobeaver, Alexandre Berthaud and Phil Freo
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dviramontes commentedon Mar 28, 2025
Just came across this other issue #9. That idea would address my pain point above and be easier to implement. Let me know if there are blockers to adopting a general services config. It could live in
~/.config/render/services.yaml, or it could be checked into the repo~/.render/services.yaml(which would be my preference). Thoughts?philfreo commentedon Aug 13, 2025
I at least think there should be a way to auto-detect and/or remember the Workspace based on what project folder I'm in. Coworkers and I may have various workspaces but if I am in our project folder that has our git repo and also the project's .yaml I'd want it to know/use that vs use some system-wide chosen workspace.
davidharting commentedon Sep 14, 2026
Directory-based project and workspace awareness is an interesting idea! Unfortunately, we would not be open to a contribution for this currently. Leaving this open - we are discussing similar things internally.