Coder

Provision remote development environments with Terraform.

Highlights

• Automate development environments for Linux, Windows, and MacOS in your cloud
• Start writing code with a single command
• Use one of many examples to get started

Quickstart

Coder has two key concepts: templates and workspaces. Once templates are added in your deployment, users can create workspaces and start coding.

1. Install the latest release.

2. To tinker, start with dev-mode (all data is in-memory, and is destroyed on exit):

   coder start --dev

3. In a new terminal, create a new template (eg. Develop in Linux on Google Cloud):

   coder templates init
   cd <template-name>
   coder templates create

4. Create a new workspace and SSH in:

   coder workspaces create my-first-workspace
   coder ssh my-first-workspace

Under the hood, templates are Terraform code. Make changes to templates if necessary, or stick to the production-ready examples.

cd <template-name>
# edit the template
vim main.tf
coder templates update <template-name>

Coder keeps your fleet of workspaces up-to-date and in-sync.

Documentation

• About Coder
  • Architecture
  • Coder vs. (other tool)
• Installation
• Web UI vs. CLI
• Templates
  • Persistant vs. ephemeral
  • Troubleshooting
• Workspaces
  • Supported IDEs
• Users & Organizations
  • Roles
  • SSH keys (for git)
  • Dotfiles

Contributing

Read the contributing docs.