Optionally hide coder_app button in dashboard

[stirby]

A customer wants to run a coder_app in their workspace and access a service via a fixed URL but not have it appear in the dashboard as a button. They can't use listening/shared ports because their deployment doesn't support wildcard domains.

One option is to allow users to hide coder_apps in the UI by adding a new attribute.

resource "coder_app" "hidden-service-url" {
  agent_id     = coder_agent.dev.id
  slug         = "my-hidden-service"
  command      = "run service"
  ...
  hidden       = true  # defaults to false
  # or 
  button       = false # defaults to true
} 

This could ergonomically expand the ability to use workspaces as service providers.

[matifali]

It has been previously discussed in #8326 and #11349. That discusses a slightly different use case where the app could be hidden by using a condition in terraform.

[aaronlehmann]

Those discussions seem to be about conditionally enabling an app, not having an app that doesn't display a button.

[matifali]

@aaronlehmann Yes, they are a different use case. I linked them here for context.

[sreya]

What if we just interpreted leaving the icon value empty as indicative of an app that shouldn't be displayed? We should probably still display it somehow so that we can convey the health of the app even if we make it obvious that it's not supposed to be interacted with in the traditional sense.

[aaronlehmann]

In my use case, it's for internal purposes and I'd prefer it not be exposed to users in the UI at all.