docker-documentation/images/docker-code-server.md

linuxserver/code-server

Code-server is VS Code running on a remote server, accessible through the browser.

• Code on your Chromebook, tablet, and laptop with a consistent dev environment.
• If you have a Windows or Mac workstation, more easily develop for Linux.
• Take advantage of large cloud servers to speed up tests, compilations, downloads, and more.
• Preserve battery life when you're on the go.
• All intensive computation runs on your server.
• You're no longer running excess instances of Chrome.

Supported Architectures

Our images support multiple architectures such as x86-64, arm64 and armhf. We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.

Simply pulling linuxserver/code-server should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.

The architectures supported by this image are:

Architecture	Tag
x86-64	amd64-latest

Usage

Here are some example snippets to help you get started creating a container from this image.

docker

docker create \
  --name=code-server \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Europe/London \
  -e PASSWORD=password `#optional` \
  -e SUDO_PASSWORD=password `#optional` \
  -p 8443:8443 \
  -v /path/to/appdata/config:/config \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  linuxserver/code-server

docker-compose

Compatible with docker-compose v2 schemas.

---
version: "2"
services:
  code-server:
    image: linuxserver/code-server
    container_name: code-server
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
      - PASSWORD=password #optional
      - SUDO_PASSWORD=password #optional
    volumes:
      - /path/to/appdata/config:/config
    ports:
      - 8443:8443
    restart: unless-stopped

Parameters

Docker images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

Ports (-p)

Parameter	Function
8443	web gui

Environment Variables (-e)

Env	Function
PUID=1000	for UserID - see below for explanation
PGID=1000	for GroupID - see below for explanation
TZ=Europe/London	Specify a timezone to use EG Europe/London
PASSWORD=password	Optional web gui password, if not provided, there will be no auth.
SUDO_PASSWORD=password	If this optional variable is set, user will have sudo access in the code-server terminal with the specified password.

Volume Mappings (-v)

Volume	Function
/config	Contains all relevant configuration files.

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below:

  $ id username
    uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)

Application Setup

Access the webui at http://<your-ip>:8443.
For github integration, drop your ssh key in to /config/.ssh.
Then open a terminal from the top menu and set your github username and email via the following commands

git config --global user.name "username"
git config --global user.email "email address"

Support Info

• Shell access whilst the container is running:
  • docker exec -it code-server /bin/bash
• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:
  • docker logs -f code-server
• Container version number
  • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' code-server
• Image version number
  • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' linuxserver/code-server

Versions

• 09.07.19: - Add optional sudo access.
• 01.07.19: - Add nano.
• 24.06.19: - Initial Release.