Coder.com•7mo ago

Create default Admin user without UI

Looking for a bit of guidance, I am deploying Coder on a Kubernetes cluster with the Helm Chart, and wondered if there was an env variable that sets the default admin user credentials?

Solution:

Try with ```shell coder login \ --first-user-username coder-admin \ --first-user-email coder-admin@example.com ...

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Codercord•7mo ago

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Category

Help needed

Product

Coder OSS (v2)

Platform

Linux

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Please post any relevant logs/error messages.

Scott•7mo ago

@Brandon - Have you gotten the UI running? If I recall correctly, the initial access to the UI requests for you to create an admin user. I might be wrong though. It's been a while since I installed Coder.

Brandon•7mo ago

Hi @Scott yep UI is up and running and you are correct that is the process. However, I was hoping to be able to pull this in from a predefined secret for reinstall consistency

Scott•7mo ago

Ahh... yeah. I don't think that the credentials are stored anywhere other than in the database.

TitiMoby•5mo ago

As I see this is still open, may I ask if someone has found a way to automate this credentials part? There are still too many manual steps in the guide I want to write for my company. I really try to automate everything possible.

Solution

Atif•5mo ago

Try with

coder login \
    --first-user-username coder-admin \
    --first-user-email coder-admin@example.com \
    --first-user-password SomeStrongPassword \
    --use-token-as-session \
    https://coder.example.com

coder login \
    --first-user-username coder-admin \
    --first-user-email coder-admin@example.com \
    --first-user-password SomeStrongPassword \
    --use-token-as-session \
    https://coder.example.com

Atif•5mo ago

This should create the first admin user and logs it in so that you can use other coder commands to create a default template and workspaces.

Atif•5mo ago

We are using it in our PR deployments workflow. https://github.com/coder/coder/blob/13dd526f11f90cc28ffbd01395261d479b8c3dfd/.github/workflows/pr-deploy.yaml#L409

GitHub

coder/.github/workflows/pr-deploy.yaml at 13dd526f11f90cc28ffbd0139...

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TitiMoby•5mo ago

thanks, I'll try this and it is already a great solution. But it is a post install step and I was looking a step that could be done right from Helm or Terraform.

Atif•5mo ago

I understand. Could you open an issue for that?

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