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FAQ
What's the deal with extensions?
Unfortunately, the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace is
How is this different from VS Code Online?
VS Code Online is a closed source managed service by Microsoft and only runs on Azure.
code-server is open source and can be freely ran on any machine.
How should I expose code-server to the internet?
By far the most secure method of using code-server is via sshcode as it runs code-server and then forwards its port over SSH and requires no setup on your part other than having a working SSH server.
If you cannot use sshcode, then you will need to ensure there is some sort of authorization in front of code-server and that you are using HTTPS to secure all connections.
By default when listening externally, code-server enables password authentication using a
randomly generated password so you can use that. You can set the PASSWORD environment variable
to use your own instead. If you want to handle authentication yourself, use --auth none
to disable password authentication.
For HTTPS, you can use a self signed certificate by passing in just --cert or pass in an existing
certificate by providing the path to --cert and the path to its key with --cert-key.
If code-server has been passed a certificate it will also respond to HTTPS
requests and will redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS. Otherwise it will respond
only to HTTP requests.
You can use Let's Encrypt to get an SSL certificate for free.
Why are there x86 releases?
32 bit releases have been
Multi Tenancy
If you want to run multiple code-server's on shared infrastructure, we recommend using something like kubernetes and the code-server docker image.
How can I disable telemetry?
Use the --disable-telemetry flag to completely disable telemetry. We use the
data collected only to improve code-server.