Coder vs.
OpenShift Dev Spaces
Both solutions are fully self-hosted and self-maintained affording users the choice of sovereign, isolated deployments. OpenShift’s hybrid cloud features allow for a multi-cloud capable CDE, however OpenShift is required to orchestrate the workspace pods. Workspace extensibility and tooling are also tightly coupled with OpenShift features. Coder on the other hand is fully agnostic allowing users to run on any tools on any provider and deploy workspaces on any platform.
Features
OpenShift Dev Spaces
Coder
Open Source
Partially via Eclipse Che
Yes, even premium features
Delivery Model
Self-hosted
Self-hosted, any cloud, any platform
Self-maintained
Yes
Yes
Data Sovereignty
Yes
Yes
Full Isolation
Yes
Yes
Cost Model
Included in Managed OpenShift
Per user, per year
Multi-cloud Capable
Yes
Yes
Workspace Platform
OpenShift Pods
Kubernetes, Docker, VMs, amd64, arm64, fractional CPU/RAM, GPUs
Workspace Extensibility
Managed via OpenShift CRDs and Operators
Terraform templates,full support for Terraform providers, if there is a provider for your use case, you can incorporate it into your workspace
Workspace OS
Linux
Linux, Windows, macOS
Workspace Tooling
Any tool that can be containerized in OpenShift
Any tool that the workspace OS supports