- Click Launch Instance from your EC2 dashboard.
- Select the Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type
- Select an appropriate instance size (we recommend t2.medium/large, depending on team size and number of repositories/languages enabled), then Next: Configure Instance Details.
- Select Next: ... until you get to the Configure Security Group page,
then add a Custom TCP Rule rule with port range set to
8080
and source set to "Anywhere".Rules with source of 0.0.0.0/0 allow all IP addresses to access your instance. We recommend setting security group rules to allow access from known IP addresses only.
- Click Launch.
- You will be prompted to create a key pair.
- From the dropdown choose "create a new pair", give the key pair a name.
- Click Download Key Pair and store the file in a safe place.
- Click Launch Instances.
- Head to your EC2 dashboard and choose instances from the left panel.
- In the description of your EC2 instance copy the public DNS (iPv4) address using the copy to clipboard button.
- Open a terminal on your computer and SSH into your instance:
ssh -i ${path to key pair} ubuntu@${public address}
Open your DigitalOcean dashboard to create a new droplet
- Choose an image - Select the Distributions tab and then choose Ubuntu.
- Choose a size - We recommend at least 4GB RAM and 2 CPU, more depending on team size and number of repositories/languages enabled.
- Launch your instance.
- Open a terminal on your computer and SSH into your instance:
ssh root@${instance ip}
Pre-requisite: Set up the Google Cloud SDK on your local machine
- Open your Google Cloud console to create a new VM instance and click Create Instance.
- Choose an appropriate machine type (we recommend 2 vCPU and 7.5 GB RAM, more depending on team size and number of repositories/languages enabled).
- Choose Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as your boot disk.
- Expand the "Management, security, disks, networking, sole tenancy" section, go to the "Networking" tab, then under network tags add "code-server".
- Create your VM, and take note of its public IP address.
- Visit "VPC network" in the console and go to "Firewall rules". Create a new firewall rule called "http-8080". Under "Target tags" add "code-server", and under "Protocols and ports" tick "Specified protocols and ports" and "tcp". Beside "tcp", add "8080", then create the rule.
- Open a terminal on your computer and SSH into your Google Cloud VM:
gcloud compute ssh --zone ${region} ${instance name}
- Download the latest code-server release from the
releases page
to the instance, extract the file, then run the code-server binary:
wget https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/{version}/code-server{version}-linux-x64.tar.gz tar -xvzf code-server{version}-linux-x64.tar.gz cd code-server{version}-linux-x64 ./code-server
- Open your browser and visit http://$public_ip:8080/ where
$public_ip
is your instance's public IP address. - For long-term use, set up a systemd service to run code-server.