From b76364db3107fa53836ffff24cbc62bbfe53312c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anmol Sethi Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 23:31:48 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Flesh out FAQ --- doc/FAQ.md | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/FAQ.md b/doc/FAQ.md index 5c8588be..8b6604da 100644 --- a/doc/FAQ.md +++ b/doc/FAQ.md @@ -2,7 +2,24 @@ ## What's the deal with extensions? -Unfortunately, the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace is +Unfortunately, the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace license prohibits use with any non Microsoft +product. + +See https://cdn.vsassets.io/v/M146_20190123.39/_content/Microsoft-Visual-Studio-Marketplace-Terms-of-Use.pdf + +> Marketplace Offerings are intended for use only with Visual Studio Products and Services +> and you may only install and use Marketplace Offerings with Visual Studio Products and Services. + +As a result, Coder has created its own marketplace for open source extensions. It works by scraping +GitHub for VS Code extensions and building them. It's not perfect but getting better by the day with +more and more extensions. + +Issue [https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/1299](#1299) is a big one in making the experience here +better by allowing the community to submit extensions and repos to avoid waiting until the scraper finds +an extension. + +If an extension does not work, try to grab its VSIX from its Github releases or build it yourself and +copy it to the extensions folder. ## How is this different from VS Code Online? @@ -34,16 +51,45 @@ only to HTTP requests. You can use [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) to get an SSL certificate for free. -## Why are there x86 releases? +## x86 releases? -32 bit releases have been +node has dropped support for x86 and so we decided to as well. See +[nodejs/build/issues/885](https://github.com/nodejs/build/issues/885). + +## Alpine builds? + +Just install `libc-dev` and code-server should work. ## 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. +If you want to run multiple code-server's on shared infrastructure, we recommend using virtual +machines with a VM per user. This will easily allow users to run a docker daemon. If you want +to use kubernetes, you'll definitely want to use [kubevirt](https://kubevirt.io) to give each +user a virtual machine instead of just a container. Docker in docker while supported requires +privileged containers which are a security risk in a multi tenant infrastructure. + +## Docker in code-server docker container? + +If you'd like to access docker inside of code-server, we'd recommend running a docker:dind container +and mounting in a /var/run directory to share between that and the code-server container. Install +the docker CLI in the code-server container and you should be able to access the daemon. + +In order to make volume mounts work, mount the home directory in the code-server container and the +dind container at the same path. i.e you'd volume mount a directory from the host to `/home/coder` +on both. This will allow any volume mounts in the home directory to work. Similar process +to make volume mounts in any other directory work. + +## Collaboration + +At the moment we have no plans for multi user collaboration on code-server but we understand this +is a heavily requested feature and will work on it when the time is right. ## How can I disable telemetry? Use the `--disable-telemetry` flag to completely disable telemetry. We use the data collected only to improve code-server. + +## Enterprise + +Visit [our enterprise page](https://coder.com) for more information about our +enterprise offerings.