Is it possible to connect vscode (on a local machine) with Google Colab (the free service) runtime?

I’ve just found another method without using ssh.

# Install jupyterlab and ngrok
!pip install jupyterlab==2.2.9 pyngrok -q

# Run jupyterlab in background
!nohup jupyter lab --ip=0.0.0.0 &

# Make jupyterlab accessible via ngrok
from pyngrok import ngrok
print(ngrok.connect(8888))

It will then show a JupyterLab URL

http://f1fe6fb39df6.ngrok.io  # for example

You can click it to run JupyterLab now. Or use the URL with VSCode for remote Jupyter kernel.

You can also use my library to make it short.

!pip install kora -q
from kora import jupyter
jupyter.start(lab=True)