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•Created by Igor Zimmer on 4/7/2025 in #help

Is there any way to persist files when restarting a coder workspace?

I’m using coder_agent, and in the startup_script, I have logic that clones a Git repo and runs yarn install. The problem is that the yarn install step takes about 10 minutes, which significantly slows down workspace startup. However, I only really need this to run the first time the workspace is created — not every time it’s restarted. I tried adding a check like this:

if [ ! -d "/home/coder/my-repo" ]; then
    echo "Repository not found. Cloning and installing dependencies..."
    git clone https://example.com/my-repo.git /home/coder/my-repo
    cd /home/coder/my-repo
    yarn install
else
    echo "Repository already exists. Skipping setup."
fi

if [ ! -d "/home/coder/my-repo" ]; then
    echo "Repository not found. Cloning and installing dependencies..."
    git clone https://example.com/my-repo.git /home/coder/my-repo
    cd /home/coder/my-repo
    yarn install
else
    echo "Repository already exists. Skipping setup."
fi

But the condition always returns false (the repo isn't present). Is there a recommended way to run expensive setup steps only on initial workspace creation, and skip them on restarts? Thanks in advance!

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•Created by Igor Zimmer on 3/12/2025 in #help

Installed Coder, but can't connect to code-server with VSCode

I just recently installed Coder with the docker-compose.yaml file, it's running on an EC2 instance, in a private subnet that I connect with the Cloudflare ZTNA VPN. I can connect to it, create a template and start a workspace, the problem is, when I try to connect to Coder with VSCode, it tries for a long time then I get this error: OpenSSH_9.9p1, OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024 Connection closed by UNKNOWN port 65535 local-server-1> ssh child died, shutting down [19:54:15.318] WARN: $PLATFORM is undefined in installation script output. Errors may be dropped. [19:54:15.319] Failed to parse remote port from server output [19:54:15.324] Resolver error: Error: ...

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