For sure not best practice, but I have a SMB share on my servers for the Docker folder and mount it on my dev machine.

Recently switched to a dev VM on my hypervisor, which has VSCode Server from Coder running. It also has the different shares mounted. Now I can VPN in from anywhere, switch on my dev VM and do whatever needs doing with my full environment available to me.

Personally I disagree. You might be running internal services you do not want to expose. It also is an active step to expose something. This way you are in control what is exposed and what isn’t.