How to make VS-Code Flatpak to detect Docker Snap

Question

In my conquest to make all my apps run from containers, I have, as expected, ran into some problems. I installed VS-Code as a Flatpak and installed the Docker plugin, but the plugin is not able to detect the docker binary because docker is actually running in a snap.

STEPS TO REPLICATE:

snap install docker
flatpak install com.visualstudio.code

• open vscode
  
• install plugin: Name: Docker
  Id: ms-azuretools.vscode-docker Description: Makes it easy to create, manage, and debug containerized applications. Version: 1.17.0 Publisher: Microsoft VS Marketplace Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-azuretools.vscode-docker
• click on docker icon
  

EXPECTED RESULT:

All resource monitors work and docker is detected.

ACTUAL RESULT:

Nothing works. Starting a terminal and executing echo $PATH gives: /app/bin:/app/bin:/usr/bin which is not my actual path.

THINGS I HAVE TRIED:

• export PATH=$PARH:/snap/bin but /snap/bin shows as empty in the integrated terminal
• export PATH=$PARH:/snap/docker/current/bin integrated terminal now works but the rest of the monitors and build options do not.
• setting the docker PATH in the plugin settings '/snap/docker/current/bin' but now gives: Failed to connect. Is Docker installed and running? Error: connect ENOENT /var/run/docker.sock
• giving permissions to the vscode flatpak like:

flatpak override --filesystem=host-os com.visualstudio.code 
flatpak override --filesystem=host com.visualstudio.code
flatpak override --filesystem=/snap/bin com.visualstudio.code

did not seem the be any difference

Joleen