Deploy code-server on Kubernetes, providing multi-user support.

[torchiaf]

I made a simple application, https://github.com/torchiaf/code-editor.
It can be used to spin up code-server instances on kubernetes, one for each user.
Each user can customize their own code-server instance adding vs-code settings, extensions, git configurations and more .
Do you think it might be something worth working on / useful for people?

[code-asher]

Nice work! I think there is some overlap with our own provisioning software (https://github.com/coder/coder) which uses Terraform and can be used with Kubernetes as well. It supports a number of applications, either custom made or imported as modules (https://github.com/coder/modules), including code-server.

[torchiaf]

Thanks @code-asher !
Can this one https://registry.coder.com/modules/code-server create code-server instances at runtime ?
The goal of code-editor was to provide a server to a main web app, where users want to handle their own code by clicking a button and be redirected to the their fresh installed code-server view.

[code-asher]

With ours the way that would work is you could have an "Open in Coder" button that can launch a workspace based on a template that will automatically clone the repository (and it could clone settings and download extensions as well), and that workspace can have code-server as a module (and/or some other apps).

But, it is not one-click, the user has to fill out some stuff. You can see a demo here: https://coder.com/docs/v2/latest/templates/open-in-coder The advantage though is that you can launch code-server, or JetBrains, or use desktop VS Code, or do something else entirely.