Coder.com•3y ago

VS Code remote - SSH re-installing code-server

Hello Is it normal for VS code to re-install code server on first connect using SSH? Also the extensions I install from the browser app code-server are not installed when I connect to the workspace with VS Code Remote SSH. I am running Coder in Kubernetes and using the default Kubernetes template, with the only change being addition of "storage_provider_name" so that data persists correctly in my environment. The pictures show that the code-server is up and running with me connected from the web-app, and VS code also installing over SSH. The other picture shows that I have the Terraform extension installed on the web-app but the SSH connection needs me to install it again. This is the code-server install that is in the workspace template

resource "coder_agent" "main" {
  os             = "linux"
  arch           = "amd64"
  startup_script = <<EOT
    #!/bin/bash

    # home folder can be empty, so copying default bash settings
    if [ ! -f ~/.profile ]; then
      cp /etc/skel/.profile $HOME
    fi
    if [ ! -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
      cp /etc/skel/.bashrc $HOME
    fi

    # install and start code-server
    curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh  | tee code-server-install.log
    code-server --auth none --port 13337 | tee code-server-install.log &
  EOT
}

resource "coder_agent" "main" {
  os             = "linux"
  arch           = "amd64"
  startup_script = <<EOT
    #!/bin/bash

    # home folder can be empty, so copying default bash settings
    if [ ! -f ~/.profile ]; then
      cp /etc/skel/.profile $HOME
    fi
    if [ ! -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
      cp /etc/skel/.bashrc $HOME
    fi

    # install and start code-server
    curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh  | tee code-server-install.log
    code-server --auth none --port 13337 | tee code-server-install.log &
  EOT
}

These are the host definitions that VS code is using

Host coder.demo
    HostName coder.demo
    ConnectTimeout=0
    StrictHostKeyChecking=no
    UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
    LogLevel ERROR
    ProxyCommand "C:\Program Files\Coder\bin\coder.exe" --global-config C:\Users\samui\AppData\Roaming\coderv2 ssh --stdio demo
Host coder.demo.main
    HostName coder.demo.main
    ConnectTimeout=0
    StrictHostKeyChecking=no
    UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
    LogLevel ERROR
    ProxyCommand "C:\Program Files\Coder\bin\coder.exe" --global-config C:\Users\samui\AppData\Roaming\coderv2 ssh --stdio demo.main

Host coder.demo
    HostName coder.demo
    ConnectTimeout=0
    StrictHostKeyChecking=no
    UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
    LogLevel ERROR
    ProxyCommand "C:\Program Files\Coder\bin\coder.exe" --global-config C:\Users\samui\AppData\Roaming\coderv2 ssh --stdio demo
Host coder.demo.main
    HostName coder.demo.main
    ConnectTimeout=0
    StrictHostKeyChecking=no
    UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
    LogLevel ERROR
    ProxyCommand "C:\Program Files\Coder\bin\coder.exe" --global-config C:\Users\samui\AppData\Roaming\coderv2 ssh --stdio demo.main

P.S. why are there 2 for the same workspace Pod? Thanks for the help

2 Replies

Phorcys•3y ago

I think the fact it's installing the "VS Code server" is normal, since it's not the same as code-server, I think it's being used for file transfer and remote actions like installing extensions (i.e it's the server used to communicate from your VSCode to any server). The extensions are not the same on your VSCode and on code-server because they are not using the same extension marketplace, code-server uses OpenVSIX which doesn't have every extension. You can get code-server to use Microsoft's extension store using environment variables but it might be against ToS so I won't help you with that although it is fairly easy to do it.

niikOP•3y ago

Ok that all makes sense. I forgot that "microsoft VS Code" that comes pre-compiled is different than VS code compiled from source. Thanks for the help

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