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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*yoqdQSrTjNcFl_ARy-LvHQ.png" /></figure>Throughout the years DevOps best practices have driven IT innovation for large organizations’, shortening the development life cycle.Every year, organizations face IP theft, breaches, and inside threats. It’s these challenges that lead to a focus on security within the DevOps pipeline. DevSecOps serves as an extension to DevOps by addressing security risks and vulnerabilities throughout the software development life cycle. As organizations adopt DevSecOps within their software development teams, it is essential to empower their data scientists and software engineers with the right tools to maintain consistent, secure, and performant development environments.Coder acts as the first foundational step in an organization’s DevSecOps pipeline by providing developers with a productive, consistent, and secure development environment. With DevSecOps best practices, infrastructure templates are getting source controlled, container images and source code are being automatically scanned for vulnerabilities, and services are being scaled elastically in real-time. However, the development environment is still running on the user’s isolated endpoint, limiting the available resources for tasks and adding more security overhead by having to protect the intellectual property on each user’s isolated endpoint.Furthermore, the development environment isn’t being source controlled like the infrastructure is in DevSecOps. This makes it difficult and time-consuming for new engineers or engineers switching projects to get their machine in the correct state to work on an application or data set. The engineer has to install the correct version of the project’s programming language, frameworks, and tooling just to start contributing. This installation and setup process is error-prone, very difficult in zero-trust environments, and creates onboarding overhead for development teams.With Coder, the development environment fits into the DevSecOps pipeline alongside the rest of the development workflow. All development actions and source code are centralized on an organization’s internal infrastructure. This allows engineers to use elastic compute resources to complete tasks, while also reducing the security overhead of the organization by keeping all intellectual property inside the centralized infrastructure. Coder works seamlessly within the most restrictive air-gapped environments, providing productivity in a zero-trust environment for software engineers and data scientists.Each development environment is created from an image that is defined by the team. These images contain all of the required software dependencies to get started working on a project immediately, thus removing any installation and setup onboarding overhead. These image definitions can also be source controlled, providing an organization with “development environments as code”, similar to how “infrastructure as code” is currently used in a DevSecOps pipeline. This functionality allows for productivity and security to be in harmony, bringing the development velocity of a startup to the enterprise.<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=988b5e6d6867" width="1" height="1"><hr><a href="https://medium.com/coderhq/how-coder-fits-into-your-devsecops-initiative-988b5e6d6867">How Coder fits into your DevSecOps Initiative</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/coderhq">Coder</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

How Coder fits into your DevSecOps Initiative

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*CFTNolQ4PkTJL1ghLr9fdQ.png" /></figure>As COVID-19 continues to spread and impact communities, many organizations are implementing remote work policies to protect their employees. The development community and our customers have come to us looking to leverage <a href="https://coder.com/">Coder</a> during a work from home mandate, particularly within regulated enterprises. We are committed to ensuring our customers are able to continue pushing technological boundaries whether they’re working from the office or anywhere in the world.Software engineers working in organizations impacted by unexpected business disruptions need to go through a significant amount of effort to get their home environment into the same state as their work environment. The process of installing programming languages, testing frameworks, development utilities, and other tooling is time-consuming, error-prone, and dependent on the underlying machine’s operating system. Time spent setting up this environment can slow down a project’s trajectory and cause development environment drift between team members.Engineers working in a regulated industry or on sensitive code and data sets may have to put their project on hold until the disruption is resolved. In their case, they’re not allowed to work on the project outside of the organization’s internal infrastructure and network. This is the case for many of our customers.<a href="https://coder.com/docs/introduction">Coder Enterprise</a> was built to power and secure an organization’s development environments, including operating in an air-gapped configuration. Engineers using Coder Enterprise can access their development environments on any machine, all through their browser. This remote access provides a consistent and preconfigured environment no matter what endpoint machine is used to access it.Development environments on Coder Enterprise are run on the organization’s secure internal infrastructure and accessed through the standard network and security policies in place across the organization. Centralizing development environments provides visibility and insight into potential security threats, allows updates and patches to be rolled out across the development organization, and ensures that intellectual property isn’t stored on local endpoints. This enables engineers to work on sensitive source code and data sets, without requiring that the intellectual property leave the organization’s protected network.Coder works with any version control provider, your existing CI, and any internal tools your organization may need to be productive.<ul><li>Git — GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket</li><li>Editor — VSCode, Intellij, PyCharm, Eclipse, Jupyter Notebooks, and more.</li><li>Kubernetes Infrastructure — Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, on-premises and more</li></ul>This is a challenging time for engineers and organizations across the globe. We are here to help our customers and engineers do their jobs in good times and bad.The Coder Team<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=2ea21dd3d201" width="1" height="1"><hr><a href="https://medium.com/coderhq/secure-and-productive-software-development-during-a-work-from-home-mandate-2ea21dd3d201">Secure and Productive Software Development During a Work From Home Mandate</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/coderhq">Coder</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Secure and Productive Software Development During a Work From Home Mandate

<h3>Announcing Sail: The universal standard for instant dev envs</h3><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*vZDBU7DGxUAdjTXLwebvqw@2x.png" /></figure>Coder’s objective with <a href="https://sail.dev/">Sail</a> is to accelerate workflow through the orchestration of the development environment. Two months ago, we released <a href="https://github.com/cdr/code-server">code-server</a>. Code-server separates Visual Studio Code’s frontend and backend so you could use VS Code on a remote server. To date we’ve amassed over 19k GitHub stars and 1.4 million docker pulls, validating our vision for the future of development.Today we release <a href="https://sail.dev">Sail</a>. A universal workflow for reproducible, project-defined development environments. Sail allows projects to define their own development environment via a single Dockerfile. With Sail, projects can be opened in a dedicated environment right from GitHub or GitLab. It eliminates the “It worked on my machine” problem. Sail environments run code-server, providing an experience that feels local, but dedicated to the project at hand. More supported editors are just around the corner. Stop setting up environments, share workflow improvements, and collaborate not only on code, but on how the code is written.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/618/1*-d0ZFrWeK832Ig0GliZjQQ.gif" /></figure><a href="https://sail.dev/docs/installation/">Install it now</a>, or check out <a href="https://github.com/cdr/sail">the GitHub</a>.— The Coder Team<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=839e8c1e4c1c" width="1" height="1"><hr><a href="https://medium.com/coderhq/announcing-sail-a-universal-standard-for-instant-dev-envs-839e8c1e4c1c">Announcing Sail: A universal standard for instant dev envs</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/coderhq">Coder</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Announcing Sail: The universal standard for instant dev envs

Announcing Sail: A universal standard for instant dev envs

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*eJ9ztuAqdUe0h4X_4gSb8w.png" /></figure>Coder’s mission is to accelerate a software engineer’s workflow by harnessing the power of the cloud. Today, Coder democratized the cloud-based IDE by open sourcing <a href="https://github.com/codercom/code-server">code-server</a>. Code-server allows VS Code to run on a remote server making it fully accessible through the browser.Developers ready to embrace the cloud-based IDE can do so without losing features, or control. This means you can code on your Chromebook, tablet, and desktop with a completely synchronized environment. You can spill coffee on your laptop without fear of losing work. If you are an organization, you can standardize development environments across the entire team. You can also take advantage of CPU-bursting cloud instances for compilations and heavy tests.Coder believes <a href="https://github.com/codercom/code-server">code-server</a> is the future of software development and we are excited to integrate your feedback and ideas. Don’t hesitate to <a href="https://github.com/codercom/code-server/issues/new/choose">file an issue on our GitHub</a>.— The Coder Team<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=f56cef32e8c3" width="1" height="1"><hr><a href="https://medium.com/coderhq/vs-code-on-your-server-f56cef32e8c3">VS Code on Your Server</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/coderhq">Coder</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

VS Code on Your Server

<h3>Coder Announces $4.5M Series Seed</h3><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*rYhhSJwmKeV3h1Q60rinaQ.jpeg" /><figcaption>CEO John A. Entwistle announcing Coder’s $4.5M Series Seed at Web Summit 2018</figcaption></figure>What if your local computer could double as a portal to limitless computational power and storage? What if you could build applications and collaborate quickly and easily with distributed teams in real time? That is our dream for Coder — to remove the limitations of local machines for software engineers.It is just over a year since we hired our first full-time employee, but coder has been a long time in the making. I met my co-founders when I was 13 running a small game server company. When I needed an extra set of hands, I did what any aspiring tech executive would do — I googled “plugin engineer”. One contact form later and my co-founder <a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/kyle-carberry-92a11bb1">Kyle Carberry</a> and I were working away together. Things were growing quickly when I caught wind of a soon to be legendary systems architect. A few Skype conversations later and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ammar-bandukwala-439512140">Ammar Bandukwala</a> joined our small band of brothers.There we were, a 13-year-old plugin engineer in Saskatoon Canada, a 12-year-old systems architect in Alabama, and a 13-year-old in New York filling our days with twelve hour Skype calls — always working toward “the next big thing”. Over the next several years we evolved from building game servers to building DDOS mitigation platforms, 1M+ monthly visitor websites, and peer-to-peer file-sharing companies.In the process, we earned more than our fair share of battle scars from running businesses driven by software development workflows. Through these companies, we gained a first-hand understanding of the value of the cloud. Our spec sheets, our repositories, and our products all lived in the cloud — so why were we writing code on our local computers? Why did we have to screen share to debug or have our CPU pegged as we ran tests on intermittent changes? The idea of “google docs” for code wasn’t a new one, but we knew that if we didn’t want to use existing solutions — there was a problem to be solved— and who better to tackle it than three teenagers spread thousands of miles apart?Right after high school, we set out to build Coder. We packed our things, left our hometowns, and moved into a tin shack in Austin, Texas to build our new company side-by-side.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*0558ncwicVWDd5HnY2HfZw.png" /><figcaption>The Shack, 2017</figcaption></figure>A year later ( and in a slightly bigger office), we stand together as a team of over 20 united by a shared passion for software. I couldn’t be more grateful for our team’s shared encouragement, patience, and sacrifice.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*D4IOI3tUi4nT_hNDMtDr8Q.jpeg" /><figcaption>Coder Headquarters, 2018</figcaption></figure>Joining our team as part of our 4.5M series seed is <a href="https://uncorkcapital.com/">Uncork Capital</a> and <a href="https://www.redpoint.com/">Redpoint Ventures</a> as co-leads.Along with, <a href="https://foundersfund.com/">Founders Fund</a>, <a href="https://www.capitalfactory.com/">Capital Factory</a>, and several strategic individual investors: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkodumal">John Kodumal</a>,<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/quinnslack"> Quinn Slack</a>, Grant Gregory, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alec-guettel-041b131">Alec Guettel</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-rosenblatt-a250294">David Rosenblatt</a>, and Gregory Kennedy from <a href="https://www.advectioncap.com/">Advection Growth Capital LLC</a> .<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*47JppmDW4DuL3LsSNbJy4w.png" /><figcaption>Coder Series Seed</figcaption></figure>It’s been about two months since our public alpha release, and we’ve been encouraged, inspired and humbled by the enormous number of people trying out coder globally across 125 countries… We have students analyzing the human genome, CEOs coding on their chromebooks, and engineers inside of fortune 50 companies, all using <a href="https://coder.com/">Coder</a> — the scope of use cases and possibilities are incredible. We’ve put our product in the world, and we’ve received so much feedback and love in return. It is this community that is shaping our product.Imagine a world where it no longer matters the kind of hardware you have, where an internet connection allows you to harness 30x the resources of a brand new MacBook… Imagine servers powering the tools we love and have contributed to. We’re well on our way to making it all a reality and truly look forward to working together to shape <a href="https://coder.com/">Coder</a>.JACoder’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/coderhq/">Instagram </a><a href="https://twitter.com/coderhq">Twitter</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/coder-com/">LinkedIn</a><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=919b6e713441" width="1" height="1"><hr><a href="https://medium.com/coderhq/coder-4-5m-series-seed-announcement-919b6e713441">Coder: $4.5M Series Seed Announcement</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/coderhq">Coder</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Coder: $4.5M Series Seed Announcement

<h3>Providing all of VSCode in the browser</h3><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*xIhzLdiMigDZ6bXO3YHu1A.png" /></figure>A portable and extendable development environment shouldn’t require taking hits to your productivity. Providing exact functionality that your local IDE does is crucial, we get that.We’re taking IDEs you love and adding all the Coder benefits. Real-time collaboration (in the same filesystem), dynamically scaling resources, and dynamically expandable storage — to name a few. We’ve started this integration with VSCode.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*XpcB_9NEdx8HJ1gaGlicXw.gif" /><figcaption>Using VSCodeVim with Coder (in the browser)</figcaption></figure>Continue using extensions you are used to. We run some extensions in the browser, and some on the server to reduce the load on your device.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*Q24neNXfkHnNIOJS9Joq8A.gif" /><figcaption>Changing version of Go on the fly</figcaption></figure>We attempt to abstract painful portions of a developers workflow. You can easily switch language versions with a few clicks.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*yDGJCGEGk_uPsqg-m4-mXA.gif" /><figcaption>Customizing color and icon themes (uses extensions)</figcaption></figure>Having no barrier to entry is a must for us. You can use Coder completely free, and optionally upgrade for additional storage, CPU, memory, and networking.You can try it out now at <a href="https://coder.com">https://coder.com</a>. 🎊Big thanks and credit to the VSCode team, their tidy and modular codebase is a large contributor to the speed and functionality we provide.We’re still in alpha, but would absolutely love to hear your feedback. If you have any questions you can tweet me <a href="https://twitter.com/kylecarbs">@kylecarbs</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/coderhq">@coderhq</a>. Feel free to <a href="https://discord.gg/jvZN2kZ">join our discord</a> and share as well!<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=a830535050ee" width="1" height="1"><hr><a href="https://medium.com/coderhq/coder-v0-2-providing-all-of-vs-code-in-the-browser-a830535050ee">Coder v0.2 — Providing all of VS Code in the browser</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/coderhq">Coder</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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