jakehwll / coder

Remote development environments on your infrastructure provisioned with Terraform

Coder

Coder creates remote development machines so your team can develop from anywhere.

Manage less

• Ensure your entire team is using the same tools and resources
  • Rollout critical updates to your developers with one command
• Automatically shut down expensive cloud resources
• Keep your source code and data behind your firewall

Code more

• Build and test faster
  • Leveraging cloud CPUs, RAM, network speeds, etc.
• Access your environment from any place on any client (even an iPad)
• Onboard instantly then stay up to date continuously

Getting Started

Note: Coder is in a beta state. Report issues here.

The easiest way to install Coder is to use our install script for Linux and macOS.

To install, run:

curl -L https://coder.com/install.sh | sh

You can preview what occurs during the install process:

curl -L https://coder.com/install.sh | sh -s -- --dry-run

You can modify the installation process by including flags. Run the help command for reference:

curl -L https://coder.com/install.sh | sh -s -- --help

See install for additional methods.

Once installed, you can start a production deployment¹ with a single command:

# Automatically sets up an external access URL on *.try.coder.app
coder server --tunnel

# Requires a PostgreSQL instance and external access URL
coder server --postgres-url <url> --access-url <url>

¹ The embedded database is great for trying out Coder with small deployments, but do consider using an external database for increased assurance and control.

Use coder --help to get a complete list of flags and environment variables. Use our quickstart guide for a full walkthrough.

Documentation

Visit our docs here.

Comparison

Please file an issue if any information is out of date. Also refer to: What Coder is not.

Tool	Type	Delivery Model	Cost	Environments
Coder	Platform	OSS + Self-Managed	Pay your cloud	All Terraform resources, all clouds, multi-architecture: Linux, Mac, Windows, containers, VMs, amd64, arm64
code-server	Web IDE	OSS + Self-Managed	Pay your cloud	Linux, Mac, Windows, containers, VMs, amd64, arm64
Coder (Classic)	Platform	Self-Managed	Pay your cloud + license fees	Kubernetes Linux Containers
GitHub Codespaces	Platform	SaaS	2x Azure Compute	Linux containers

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Last updated: 5/27/22

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Contributing

Read the contributing docs.

Find our list of contributors here.