Katie Horne

Technical Writer

Tyler Crandall

Product Manager

<p>We’re pleased to announce the release of Coder v1.29, which includes support for remote Docker providers, support for FUSE devices inside CVM-enabled workspaces, the ability to provision workspace providers via CLI, and Projector improvements.</p>

<h2>Remote Docker providers</h2>

<p>Coder now supports the deployment of Docker providers. This is useful if you are running Coder for Docker, and you would like a separate Docker host to be the workspace provider, rather than have workspaces provisioned to the same host running <code>coderd</code> for scalability or resiliency purposes.</p>


Adding a new Docker provider via the Coder admin UI

<h2>Support for FUSE devices inside CVM-enabled workspaces</h2>

<p>Coder now supports the creation of custom filesystems using Linux FUSE. Once you’ve toggled on the Enable FUSE device setting on CVM-enabled workspaces, Coder will mount a <code>/dev/fuse</code> device into the workspace at build time. FUSE devices can be used for things like mounting specialized filesystems (e.g., Google Cloud Storage buckets), to your workspace.</p>

<h2>Workspace provider provisioning via CLI</h2>

<p>In addition to provisioning workspace providers via the admin section of the Coder UI, you can now provision them via the Coder CLI. This was requested by customers where admins would like to operate primarily using the CLI. </p>

<h2>Projector improvements</h2>

<p>We’ve upgraded the version of Projector in use from version 1.5 to <a href="https://github.com/JetBrains/projector-server/releases/tag/v1.6.0">version 1.6</a>, which fixed bugs (including an issue rendering Markdown) and provided a significant improvement to performance.</p>

<h2>Coder on DigitalOcean</h2>

<p>We’ve added Coder to the DigitalOcean marketplace (with additional providers, such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Vultr, to follow).</p>

<p>Our image includes a single VM image with Coder installed, which will then provision workspaces with Docker. For more details, check out <a href="https://coder.com/blog/coder-is-on-the-digitalocean-marketplace">our blog post</a>.</p>

<h2>UI updates, bug fixes, and more</h2>

<p>For a full list of everything included in v1.29, please see <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/changelog/1.29.0">the changelog</a>.</p>


We’re pleased to announce the release of Coder v1.29.

Coder v1.29 has been released

<p>Coder 1.28 is now available for installation or upgrade. Features include TUN device support, improved autostart settings, and onboarding improvements. </p>

<h2>TUN device support with CVM workspaces (+Tailscale)</h2>

<p>We&#39;ve introduced support for TUN devices inside CVMs. Once you&#39;ve enabled this feature, Coder workspaces can run VPNs or developer tools (such as <a href="https://tailscale.com/blog/coder/">Tailscale</a> and <a href="https://www.telepresence.io/">Telepresence</a>) that leverage virtual network devices.</p>

<h2>Workspace autostart times are now exposed</h2>

<p>Coder admins have requested the ability to view the workspace auto-start times set by users. We’ve added a new field called autostart_at to the users API endpoint to provide you with this information. </p>

<h2>New users are now prompted to link their Git accounts on first sign-in</h2>

<p>Because a linked Git account provides the best experience in Coder and is a part of the flow, we now prompt users to link their Git accounts when they sign in for the first time. This improves the onboarding experience for new Coder users. </p>


<h2>Single access URL for distributed deployment</h2>

<p>We’ve introduced the ability to use a single access URL for both your primary deployment and your satellite deployments. This means that all of your users access Coder with a single URL, rather than using separate URLs assigned to satellites. Coder will route users to the appropriate satellite based on their geographic location. This eliminates any confusion regarding which access URL should be used by whom.</p>

<h2>Authenticated users can now retrieve OIDC access token via CLI</h2>

<p>Users have requested the ability to obtain their OIDC access token from the CLI if they have already authenticated with Coder. You can now do this using <code>coder tokens get-oidc-access-token</code>. This is a quality of life improvement to avoid having to re-authenticate multiple times.</p>

<h2>Resources</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/changelog/1.28.0">1.28 changelog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/v1.28/setup/upgrade">Upgrade documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://coder.com/trial">Try Coder</a> or <a href="https://coder.com/demo">Request a demo</a></li>
</ul>


Coder 1.28 is now available for installation or upgrade. Features include TUN device support, improved autostart settings, and onboarding improvements. 


Coder v1.28 has been released

<p>Coder 1.27 is now available for installation or upgrade. Features include workspace process logging, rootless Podman support, code-server 4.0, and more!</p>

<h2>Rootless Podman</h2>

<p><a href="https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/">Podman</a> is a tool and container engine compatible with the OCI containers specification, similar to Docker. You can now run Podman in Coder workspaces as an alternative to running <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/admin/workspace-management/cvms">CVM workspaces</a>.</p>

<p>This can be useful in cases where your deployment’s Linux kernel version does not support CVMs or if your organization prefers to use Podman. Support for Podman provides additional flexibility in the way that teams can use Coder and allows a wider variety of use-cases and infrastructure stacks.</p>

<p>Documentation for using this capability is found here: <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/guides/deployments/podman">https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/guides/deployments/podman</a></p>

<h2>Workspace process logging</h2>

<p>We’ve added a feature that allows Coder admins to audit the commands that are entered into Coder workspaces by users in their deployment. This output is viewable from a sidecar container in the workspace pod and can be sent into a monitoring stack, such as CloudWatch, to filter and view as needed. </p>

<p>With <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/admin/workspace-management/process-logging">workspace process logging</a>, security-conscious organizations can introduce new technologies to their stack (such as Docker and <code>containerd</code>) with the necessary auditing capabilities.</p>

<p>This feature is off by default and can be toggled from the admin settings. These logs are not recorded or sent outside of your deployment in any way, shape, or form.</p>

<p>The core of this feature is also open source and can be found at this Github repo here: <a href="https://github.com/coder/exectrace">https://github.com/coder/exectrace</a></p>

<h2>Bundled code-server upgraded to 4.0</h2>

<p>code-server is our open source implementation of VS Code in the web browser. This month, we <a href="https://coder.com/blog/code-server-4-0">released code-server 4.0</a>. In this Coder release, we’ve upgraded the bundled code-server that runs in a Coder workspace to the latest version.</p>

<h2>Disabling workspace auto-off</h2>

<p>By default, Coder workspaces have a set auto-off where they are shut down and then auto-started the following day. In some cases, it may be necessary to have a workspace running overnight or for a longer duration. We’ve introduced a UI toggle that allows the auto-off feature to be disabled, so a job in a workspace can continue to run without being interrupted.</p>


<h2>Admin control to force OIDC</h2>

<p>We’ve heard your feedback and made it possible to disable username/password logins for deployments that have OIDC single sign-on enabled. There is still an admin bypass to access the instance using the set admin username and password as an “escape hatch”.</p>


Coder 1.27 is now available for installation or upgrade. Features include workspace process logging, rootless Podman support, code-server 4.0, and more.

Coder v1.27

<h2>Azure Container Registry Authentication using AAD Pod Identity (Alpha)</h2>

<p>We are pleased to announce support for authenticating with private Azure Container Registries (ACR).</p>


Adding an ARC registry in Coder. Additional authentication options can be managed in the Admin panel

<p>Organizations using ACR who do not wish to provision static credentials for Coder can now leverage (<a href="https://azure.github.io/aad-pod-identity/docs/">Azure Active Directory (AAD) Pod Identity</a>) for authentication.</p>

<h2>Service Banner Markdown</h2>

<p>The terms of service and banners now support Markdown formatting.</p>


The banners support basic HTML and markdown for advanced formatting

<h2>View workspaces by image tag</h2>

<p>Image tags can be used to version-control the tools and infrastructure inside a workspace. Teams managing images with many tags can now filter or sort the workspaces list by tag. This can be useful for checking if workspaces are up to date.</p>

<p>With this release, the workspaces list will include the tag in its own column. Users can now sort/filter by tags as well.</p>

<h2>Updates to JetBrains Projector and JetBrains Gateway</h2>

<p>JetBrains projector makes it possible to access IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, GoLand, and other JetBrains IDEs through the web browser. Coder v1.26 includes JetBrains Projector 1.5.0 which includes improved Markdown rendering, font support, and popup mechanics. We have also fixed a window sizing bug.</p>

<p>For developers using local JetBrains IDEs, Coder v1.26 also supports JetBrains Gateway and the remote development features included in the 2021.3 version of IDEs.</p>

<h2>Ready to try out v1.26?</h2>

<p>Start a <a href="https://coder.com/trial">free trial</a>, <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/setup/upgrade">upgrade</a>, or <a href="https://coder.com/demo">request a demo</a></p>


Coder 1.26 is now available for installation or upgrade. Features include Azure ACR support, markdown in the service banner, and improved JetBrains support.



Coder v1.26

Ben Potter

VP of Product

<p>Coder 1.25 is now available for installation or upgrade, with some important milestone features. In previous releases of Coder, you needed a Kubernetes cluster to install Coder. Today, we are pleased to announce that you can also install and run Coder with Docker! </p>

<p>This release also adds alpha support for using AWS EC2-based workspaces, multi-zone support, and more.</p>

<h2>Run Coder with Docker</h2>

<p>You can now run Coder in seconds with a Docker run command:</p>

<pre><code class="shell">docker run -it --rm -p 7080:7080 \
    -v ~/.coder:/var/run/coder \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    codercom/coder:1.25.0
</code></pre>

<p>All you need is <a href="https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/">Docker</a> installed on the machine where you are installing Coder.</p>

<p>Coder for Docker is limited to a single host machine, so it won&#39;t scale to large numbers of workspaces, Coder for Docker can also be used to evaluate features in the latest Coder version before upgrading your larger Coder deployment. For detailed instructions, <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/setup/docker">visit our documentation</a>.</p>

<h2>EC2 Workspaces in Coder (Alpha)</h2>

<p>We’ve also added support for provisioning workspaces on EC2 instances, virtual machines managed by Amazon Web Services. </p>

<p>Similar to Coder’s Docker and Kubernetes workspace providers, EC2 workspaces use container images. Each EC2 workspace runs in a container on an individual EC2 instance.</p>


<p>You can try the alpha feature in v1.25 by adding Amazon EC2 in the admin panel. After that, developers can begin creating EC2 workspaces in Coder.</p>

<h2>Workspace providers: explained</h2>

<p>Workspace providers are logical groups of resources to which developers can deploy workspaces. Since the <a href="https://coder.com/blog/coder-v1-17">release of workspace providers in March</a>, they have been mainly used to improve connection speed for geo-distributed teams.</p>

<p>With the introduction of Docker and EC2 workspaces in Coder v1.25, workspace providers now give Coder admins more options for deploying Coder workspaces. As of 1.25, the three providers are now:</p>

<ul>
<li>Kubernetes: one pod powers a single workspace</li>
<li>EC2: one instance powers a single workspace</li>
<li>Docker: one container powers a single workspace</li>
</ul>

<p>We plan to continue to expand the available options in the future with new ways to deploy Coder and workspaces. Read more about <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/admin/workspace-providers">workspace providers in our docs</a>.</p>

<h2>AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts</h2>

<p>We&#39;ve added support for using  IAM roles for AWS Service Accounts. This allows more flexibility in defining which AWS resources Coder can access. To configure this, see <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/admin/registries/ecr#option-b-link-an-aws-iam-role-to-the-coder-kubernetes-service-account-irsa">our docs</a>.</p>

<h2>Multi-Availability Zone Deployments Support</h2>

<p>We&#39;ve added support for Coder deployments distributed across multiple availability zones. This improves availability and reduces downtime for teams. This can be done by changing the affinity in the Workspace Provider. Previously this was set by default and is now exposed and can be modified.</p>

<h2>New workspace screen</h2>


<p>The “New workspace” screen has been simplified in Coder v1.25, with many options being moved to the “Advanced” panel. All of the options are still available for familiar users, but the experience has become easier for a user who is new to Coder.</p>

<h2>Kubernetes 1.19 End of Life</h2>

<p>Coder v1.25 will be the last release to support Kubernetes v1.19 clusters.</p>

<p>The final patch release of Kubernetes 1.19 was published on 28 October 2021. As such, Coder v1.26 (released next month) and later will require the use of Kubernetes 1.20 or later. See Coder&#39;s <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/setup/kubernetes#supported-kubernetes-versions">version support policy</a> for more information.</p>

<h2>Ready to try out v1.25?</h2>

<p>Start a <a href="https://coder.com/trial">free trial</a>, <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/setup/updating">upgrade</a>, or <a href="https://coder.com/demo">request a demo</a></p>


Today, we are pleased to announce that you can also install and run Coder with Docker! 


Coder for Docker and AWS EC2 Alpha: Coder v1.25

<p>The latest version of Coder includes an improved installation experience and a better developer experience—including a dark theme!</p>

<h2>Dark theme for Coder dashboard</h2>

<p>Join the dark side with the new dark theme in the Coder dashboard. Toggle the dark theme in the “Feature Preview” section of your account.</p>


<h2>Easier installation</h2>

<h3>Coder Doctor</h3>

<p>For customers running the Coder control plane or workspaces on Kubernetes, we’ve released <a href="https://github.com/cdr/coder-doctor">Coder Doctor, a command-line diagnostic tool</a> that checks whether a Kubernetes cluster can run Coder successfully. The coder-doctor command will verify that the cluster supports all required API resource types and that the current user has appropriate permissions in the namespace.</p>

<h3>Install on GKE with Terraform module</h3>

<p>We now provide a Terraform module for creating and managing all of the infrastructure needed for a production installation of Coder, including management of the Coder control plane and database. The initial release provides support for installing Coder on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and we will be adding support for additional service providers in the future.</p>

<h3>Try Coder on a local machine</h3>

<p>Our <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/setup/kubernetes/local-preview">local preview</a> makes it possible to try a Coder installation on your local machine with a lightweight version of Kubernetes (either Docker Desktop or Kind) by running a single script. This gets you up and running with a lightweight version of Coder for testing purposes in a matter of minutes. The script has been updated to support webRTC networking, and we’ve added instructions for <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/setup/kubernetes/local-preview#using-dev-urls-with-local-preview">running dev URLs on local previews</a>.</p>


<h2>Developer experience improvements</h2>

<h3>JetBrains Projector updated to latest version</h3>

<p>We integrate with JetBrains Projector to provide remote development support for JetBrains IDEs like PyCharm, IntelliJ, WebStorm, GoLand, and more. Coder now uses the latest stable version of JetBrains Projector. Thanks to everyone who has left feedback on using JetBrains IDEs in Coder!</p>

<h3>Coder CLI self-updates</h3>

<p>The latest release of coder-cli includes the ability to update itself, as an alternative to installing with Homebrew or manually downloading the release. Run <code>coder update</code> to fetch the latest version directly from GitHub.
Workspace applications
Users can now provide images containing their <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/v1.23/workspaces/applications">custom applications</a>, rather than relying on the hard-coded applications that have been built into the container image PATH.</p>

<h3>Custom applications</h3>

<p>Users can now provide images containing their <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/v1.23/workspaces/applications">custom applications</a>, rather than relying on the hard-coded applications that have been built into the container image PATH.</p>


<p>Previously, Coder supported a number of IDEs, including VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, RStudio, and JupyterHub. Now, users can add custom applications to workspaces alongside these IDEs so developers can continue using the applications and versions they are used to with local development.</p>

<p>For an example, see our <a href="https://github.com/cdr/enterprise-images/tree/main/images/vnc">VNC image</a> that allows you to get a remote desktop in Coder.</p>

<h3>See what’s new directly from within Coder</h3>

<p>A changelog will appear when Coder has updated, or by clicking “What’s new” next to  your avatar.</p>


<h3>Create workspaces through the API</h3>

<p>Admins can now use the Coder REST API to create workspaces on behalf of users. </p>

<h3>Ready to try out v1.23?</h3>

<p>Start a <a href="https://coder.com/trial">free trial</a>, <a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/setup/updating">upgrade</a>, or <a href="https://coder.com/trial">sign up for our SaaS beta</a>.</p>


The latest version of Coder includes an improved installation experience, custom applications, the ability to try Coder on coder.com, and a better developer experience—including a dark theme! 

Dark mode, custom applications, and more: Coder v1.23

<p>Coder v1.22 brings speed optimizations to the developer experience, including faster Container-based Virtual Machines (CVMs) and direct point-to-point connections between the developer and the workspace when working from the Coder CLI.</p>

<h3>Cached CVMs</h3>

<p>Container-based virtual machines (CVMs) are a popular way to launch Coder workspaces. Using CVMs, you can run more of your familiar development tools, including Docker, Podman, systemd, and more, inside your workspace container. By default, CVMs maintain a separate cache in each persistent volume, rather than sharing the cache across users and workspaces.</p>

<p>In this release, we have introduced cached CVMs as an alpha feature, which unpacks images&#39; root filesystems using a sidecar container that runs alongside envbox. This improves workspace startup performance, reduces disk utilization through sharing, and uses node pull credentials, if available. </p>

<h3>P2P Workspace Connections</h3>

<p>Point-to-point (P2P) connectivity between you and your workspace is now available when using the Coder CLI and SSH. This functionality reduces latency and improves connection reliability, as it avoids the need to proxy the traffic through a TURN server. </p>

<p>For teams with developers all over the globe, this enables the lowest latency from any developer to any workspace. We&#39;ve observed the latency from our workstation to workspace decrease from up to 10ms since enabling P2P workspace connections. P2P workspace connections can be enabled in the admin console. </p>

<p>Read more about this in our blog post: <a href="https://coder.com/blog/rearchitecting-coder-networking-with-webrtc">Rearchitecting Coder’s networking with WebRTC</a></p>


<h3>Usability Improvements</h3>

<p>As part of this release we have also introduced various improvements, enhancements, and bug fixes. These include:</p>

<ul>
<li>A Helm check will prevent users from being able to install Coder to an unsupported version of Kubernetes by requiring a minimum version for install.</li>
<li>Base CPU and memory requirements are now part of the &quot;Create Workspace&quot; UI when based on Packaged images.</li>
<li>Backend improvements for behavior around user deletion.</li>
<li>Username validation now clarifies what input is not acceptable and why.</li>
</ul>

<p><a href="https://coder.com/docs/coder/v1.22/changelog">Read more in our release notes.</a></p>


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