recaptimebot / deploy-code-server

The fork of Coder for Railway to be used as our dev environment for snapcrafting.

The Pins Team's Code Server deplpyment repo

This repository containing the toolkit and Dockerfile for running your own Code Server on the container-based PaaS services.

code-server on a VM vs. a Container

• VMs are deployed once, and then can be modified to install new software
  • You need to save "snapshots" to use your latest images
  • Storage is always persistent, and you can usually add extra volumes
  • VMs can support many workloads, such as running Docker or Kubernetes clusters
  • 👀 Docs for the VM install script
• Deployed containers do not persist, and are often rebuilt
  • Containers can shut down when you are not using them, saving you money
  • All software and dependencies need to be defined in the Dockerfile or install script so they aren't destroyed on a rebuild. This is great if you want to have a new, clean environment every time you code
  • Storage may not be redundant. You may have to use rclone to store your filesystem on a cloud service, for info:
  • 📄 Docs for code-server-deploy-container

Add more dependencies?

(especially new extensions?)

• If it's just for you, please fork the repo and edit Dockerfile.
• For repo collaborators, you can either do editing the Dockerfile (which may break the CI builds) or send an PR.