coder

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Coder

Software development on your infrastructure. Offload your team's development from local workstations to cloud servers. Onboard developers in minutes. Build, test and compile at the speed of the cloud. Keep your source code and data behind your firewall.

"By leveraging Terraform, Coder lets developers run any IDE on any compute platform including on-prem, AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, Kubernetes, Docker, and more, with workspaces running on Linux, Windows, or Mac." - Kevin Fishner Chief of Staff at HashiCorp

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

Recommended Reading

• How our development team shares one giant bare metal machine
• Laptop development is dead: why remote development is the future
• Learn how Palantir improved build times by 78% with coder.
• A software development environment is not just a container.

Getting Started

The easiest way to install Coder is to use our install script for Linux and macOS. For Windows, use the latest ..._installer.exe file from GitHub Releases.

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

# Requires a PostgreSQL instance (version 13 or higher) 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.

Templates

Find our templates here.

Comparison

Please file an issue if any information is out of date. Also refer to:

• The Self-Hosting Paradox.
• GitHub Codespaces, Coder, and Enterprise Customers
• How our development team shares one giant bare metal machine.

Tool	Type	Delivery Model	Cost	Internet Access Required	Latency and Data Sovereignty	Security isolation model	Product quality	Service Availability	Environments	IDE
Coder	Platform	OSS + Self-Managed	Pay your cloud	No	Self-Hosted	Unopinionated (whatever/wherever you choose to deploy thus 100% configurable)	Defect history	Self-Hosted	All Terraform resources, all clouds, multi-architecture: Linux, Mac, Windows, containers, VMs, amd64, arm64	Anything (vim, emacs, theia, code-server, openvscode-server, entire jetbrains suite inc gateway remote development, visual studio code desktop, visual studio for mac, visual studio for windows) you choose to install and deploy
code-server	Web IDE	OSS + Self-Managed	Pay your cloud	No	Self-Hosted	Self-Hosted docker container	Defect history	Self-hosted	Linux, Mac, Windows, containers, VMs, amd64, arm64	code-server (VSCode MIT) with restrictions
openvscode-server	Web IDE	OSS + Self-Managed	Pay your cloud	No	Self-Hosted	Self-Hosted docker container	Defect history	Self-hosted	Linux, Mac, Windows, containers, VMs, amd64	openvscode-server (VSCode MIT) with restrictions
Amazon CodeCatalyst	Platform	SaaS	Pay AWS	Yes	US West (Oregon)	"all customer multi-tenancy isolation is done through virtual machines" for security reasons	N/A	Service Health	Linux Virtual Machines	Cloud9, Visual Studio Code Desktop (no restrictions) and JetBrains Gateway
CodeAnywhere	Platform	SaaS	Per user	Yes	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Theia
GitHub Codespaces	Platform	SaaS	2x Azure Compute	Yes	Four regions (US West, US East, Europe West, Southeast Asia)	"two codespaces are never co-located on the same VM"	N/A	Incident History	Linux Virtual Machines, GPUs supported	Visual Studio Code (no restrictions) and JetBrains Gateway
Gitpod	Platform	SaaS	Credits	Yes	Two regions (Europe, US)	All customers intermixed on the same machine isolated via runc	Defect history	Incident history	Basic Linux containers, GPUs and kubernetes/k3s is not yet possible	openvscode-server (VSCode MIT) with restrictions inhibiting functionality of .NET, Python, C, C++, Jupyter and usage of GitHub Co-pilot. Visual Studio Code Desktop (no restrictions) and JetBrains Gateway supported
Google Cloud Workstations	Platform	SaaS (Preview, not GA)	Pay Google	Yes	southamerica-west1, us-east1, us-central1, us-west1, asia-east1, asia-southeast1, europe-north1, europe-southwest1, europe-west1, europe-west2, europe-west3, europe-west4	N/A	N/A	Not generally available, offered in preview mode.	Linux	code-oss (with restrictions), Visual Studio Code Desktop (no restrictions) and JetBrains Gateway
JetBrains Space	Platform	SaaS + On-Prem (Dev environments are not supported)	Pay JetBrains	Yes	EU Ireland region (eu-west-1)	EC2	N/A	Service Health	Linux Virtual Machines	JetBrains Suite
Microsoft DevBox	Platform	SaaS (Preview, not GA)	Pay Microsoft	Yes	Australia East, Europe West, Japan East, Canada Central, UK South, US East, US East 2, US South Central, and US West 3	Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine	N/A	Not generally available, offered in preview mode.	Windows Virtual Machine	Any application that runs on Windows via Microsoft Remote Desktop

Last updated: 14/12/2022

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Contributing

If you're using Coder in your organization, please try to add your company name to the ADOPTERS.md. It really helps the project to gain momentum and credibility. It's a small contribution back to the project with a big impact.

Read the contributing docs.

Find our list of contributors here.