Coder powers secure, scalable development across key industries — automotive, finance, government, and technology — enabling faster builds, tighter compliance, and seamless AI adoption in enterprise-grade cloud environments.
The 3,000 users architecture targets large-scale enterprises, possibly with
on-premises network and cloud deployments.
Target load: API: up to 550 RPS
High Availability: Typically, such scale requires a fully-managed HA
PostgreSQL service, and all Coder observability features enabled for operational
purposes.
Observability: Deploy monitoring solutions to gather Prometheus metrics and
visualize them with Grafana to gain detailed insights into infrastructure and
application behavior. This allows operators to respond quickly to incidents and
continuously improve the reliability and performance of the platform.
Hardware recommendations
Coderd nodes
Users
Node capacity
Replicas
GCP
AWS
Azure
Up to 3,000
8 vCPU, 32 GB memory
4 node, 1 coderd each
n1-standard-4
t3.xlarge
Standard_D4s_v3
Provisioner nodes
Users
Node capacity
Replicas
GCP
AWS
Azure
Up to 3,000
8 vCPU, 32 GB memory
8 nodes, 30 provisioners each
t2d-standard-8
t3.2xlarge
Standard_D8s_v3
Footnotes:
An external provisioner is deployed as Kubernetes pod.
It is strongly discouraged to run provisioner daemons on coderd nodes at
this level of scale.
Separate provisioners into different namespaces in favor of zero-trust or
multi-cloud deployments.
Workspace nodes
Users
Node capacity
Replicas
GCP
AWS
Azure
Up to 3,000
8 vCPU, 32 GB memory
256 nodes, 12 workspaces each
t2d-standard-8
t3.2xlarge
Standard_D8s_v3
Footnotes:
Assumed that a workspace user needs 2 GB memory to perform
Maximum number of Kubernetes workspace pods per node: 256
As workspace nodes can be distributed between regions, on-premises networks
and cloud areas, consider different namespaces in favor of zero-trust or
multi-cloud deployments.
Database nodes
Users
Node capacity
Replicas
Storage
GCP
AWS
Azure
Up to 3,000
8 vCPU, 32 GB memory
2 nodes
1.5 TB
db-custom-8-30720
db.t3.2xlarge
Standard_D8s_v3
Footnotes:
Consider adding more replicas if the workspace activity is higher than 1500
workspace builds per day or to achieve higher RPS.