March 2023 Summaries

On September 24th, a Meetup is being hosted at Fly.io's Austin Office for those interested in attending or speaking. The event will cover deploying Coder on Fly.io and creating remote workspaces as Fly.io (firecracker) machines. Instructions are provided to log into Fly.io with the CLI, create a new fly postgres database, create a new fly app, connect to the database with the coder fly app, set up a secret for the connection string, update the fly.toml file, deploy the app, scale the Coder app to 1GB of memory, and use custom domains. Additionally, creating a template that uses a Fly.io machine as the workspace is discussed, along with instructions on installing Coder locally, logging in, creating a new template, pushing the new template, updating the Coder version, and modifying or writing coder templates.

A Meetup is being hosted at the Austin Office on September 24th, 2024. Interested attendees or speakers are encouraged to reach out. Coder templates are crucial in creating workspaces by abstracting cloud environment complexities, allowing developers to focus on their projects. Templates can be organized based on teams, projects, or images. A template is a collection of settings used to create a workspace, while an image is a collection of software for the same purpose. Terraform variables manage choices in templates. To create Coder templates, users need to create a GitHub repository and follow specific steps using Terraform files. The next post will discuss how to keep templates up-to-date, and subscribers can stay updated by joining the Discord server or signing up for the newsletter.

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A tutorial is provided for setting up developer environments for Kubernetes projects using Coder. The tutorial covers creating a Coder template that provisions resources such as kubectl, helm, tilt, and other DevOps tools/home/coder volume to store projects and git repositories, and ServiceAccount with RoleBinding allowing the user to deploy additional resources within the namespace. It also explains how to create a persistent volume for developers to store their repos/files and connect via VS Code, SSH, or web terminal to deploy pods on the cluster. The tutorial assumes that Coder templates are written in Terraform and provides an example of a main.tf file with resource blocks for namespace, ServiceAccount, role binding, agent, app, pod, and persistent volume claim. It also includes metadata resources for icons and custom information about the namespace, pod, PVC, service account, and role binding. The tutorial concludes by encouraging developers to make changes to the template according to their project requirements and provides a link to the author's GitHub repository for a complete example of this template.