Running VS Code inside Docker

coder shifts software development from local machines to the cloud.

You can run VS Code on a server side docker container and access it using HTTPS. All that is required on the client is a modern web browser on any device - laptop, iPad, etc. This setup works for a single developer only and is not multi-user or multi-tenant ready.

The LinuxServer.io provides code-server docker images for 64bit Intel and ARM architectures.

See also: remote-development for other remote development approaches.

Installing

# Ensure config/ folder is writable by the user who is going to run code-server
mkdir config
chown 1002:1002 config

File: docker-compose.yaml

# Filename: docker-compose.yaml
# Run VS Code (code-serve) inside docker and publish it via traefik.io.
#
# Note: this is NOT a multi-user setup as the UID/GID is for a specific user.

version: "2.4"

services:
  code:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/code-server:latest
    container_name: code.rsubr.in

    restart: unless-stopped

    environment:
      - PUID=1002
      - PGID=1002
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
      - PASSWORD=secretpassword
#      - HASHED_PASSWORD=
      - SUDO_PASSWORD=secretpassword
#     - SUDO_PASSWORD_HASH= #optional
      - PROXY_DOMAIN=code.rsubr.in
      - DEFAULT_WORKSPACE=/config/workspace #optional


    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
# Mount your project folders from the host
	  - /home/rsubr/projects:/home/rsubr/projects
      - /opt/go:/opt/go:ro
# Mount host binaries as required, docker is needed to start/stop host containers 
      - /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:ro
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - /usr/bin/docker:/usr/bin/docker:ro

    labels:
      - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true
      - traefik.enable=true
      - traefik.http.routers.code.rule=Host(`code.rsubr.in`)
      - traefik.http.routers.code.tls=true
      - traefik.http.routers.code.tls.certresolver=lets-encrypt

References:

LinuxServer docker code-server: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-code-server/