I'm going to hang out in the voice channel at 3:30 PM CT working on some Docker templates.

Working on a one-line install script for Coder. Feel free to test it out. Should work everywhere except Windows

sh
# dry run
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coder/coder/bpmct/installscript/install.sh | sh -s -- --dry-run

# actually install
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coder/coder/bpmct/installscript/install.sh | sh

I still need to test a few more things & host it on coder.com. It's in an open PR

It's been a while since we've done an update, but we've add some new features! - Full dashboard (workspaces, templates, users) - Workspace applications (run apps such as code-server, noVNC, etc) - Workspace schedule (auto start and shutdown workspaces) I'm sure I'm missing some other cool things too. https://github.com/coder/coder

This is awesome!

Also - if you're working on custom templates for Coder, we'd love to integrate them into one of our examples in the repo! Submit a PR with a high-quality template and we'll reward with a gift card

@timoooooo (and others): not sure if you saw this issue but would love your thoughts, and if you would use it https://github.com/coder/coder/issues/2108

i'm curious about how the

terraform.tfstate

file is handled with Coder - is the state data immediately sent to the postgres DB upon running

coder create

?

Is Windows still a developer friendly OS @Ben 😶! Microsoft playing games.

My project this weekend: Set up my old Mac Mini as a Coder "dev" server so I can connect and do iOS development from any device (e.g my iPad or Linux Thinkpad) Here's the template: https://github.com/bpmct/coder-templates/tree/main/shared-mac. A bit rough but I plan on cleaning it up and adding support on creating system users per-workspace. I might also add wakeonlan support 😛

friendly reminder: this event is happening today! hope to see you there 👋🏼 https://discord.com/channels/747933592273027093/984553991545446411/984561256230961162

really enjoying codepilot tbh

Codepilot is awesome, I havent gotten a chance to dig into it but I have heard great things.

I'm looking for a non docker template that will allow me to deploy a simple code-server temporarily for students and mentees that I periodically assist with projects.

Have you looked at GitHub Codespaces?

That seems like a Docker container anyway. You can get AWS Lambda VMs and control it via Coder ofc.

Oh yeah ... forgot it had to be something other than docker - codespaces is definitely a docker based system

Maybe just use a VM? Cloud/local...

Sounds like the best idea, I have not really had a negative experience with Docker but if you had to use something other than Docker ... VM or spinning up a cloud instance

I was just shown a Terraform interface for proxmox to create and destroy LXC containers on demand.

I know universities often just use a couple of giant boxes and create a linux user for each student

I don't think it would be difficult to write a terraform template that SSH's in as root, creates a user for each workspace and starts the agent as that user

You could also use ansible for it

probably what would be the most difficult part without using a container would be to allocate a unique port to code-server which could be defined in the template

Docker would be so good for that and you can map out all the ports with each container to give everyone their own space.

but if Docker is out of the question the solutions get a bit hacky...

you shouldn't need to port-forward the code-server instances through docker in coder, they should be accessible through the web UI without e.g.

docker run -p 3000:3000

Sorry, I was in a meeting and misread that … this is the way

Wishlist: It would be cool if I could temporarily share a workspace w another coder user without making that coder user an admin. So like if I was pair programming my coworker they could run commands in my workspace.

i'm curious as to if there's a way to limit how many workspaces a user can create?