Chainguard Container for code-server

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Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/code-server:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

Chainguard's code-server container image is comparable to Coders's code-server. Chainguard's container contains only the minimum set of dependencies needed to run code-server.

Getting Started

The official documentation outlines how to run the code-server image.

As detailed on the official Docker Hub page, to run the image locally, first create a .config directory in your home directory:

mkdir -p ~/.config

Next, the image can be ran with this docker run command:

docker run -it --name code-server -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
  -v "$HOME/.config:/home/coder/.config" \
  -v "$PWD:/home/coder/project" \
  -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
  -e "DOCKER_USER=$USER" \
  codercom/code-server:latest

Alternatively, the image can be installed in a Kubernetes cluster with the official helm chart. Follow the instructions in the documentation to clone the official repository, then create a values.yaml file using the instructions in the same documentation page. In the values.yaml file, under the image section, define the repository and tag keys and set their values to the appropriate Chainguard values, as illustrated below. Be sure to replace ORGANIZATION with your actual organization name.

values:
  image:
    repository: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/code-server
    tag: "latest"

After creating the values.yaml file, follow the remaining instructions to install with helm:

helm upgrade --install code-server \
  ci/helm-chart \
  --values init.yaml

Documentation and Resources

• code-server documentation
• code-server Github
• code-server Dockerhub

What are Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard Containers are minimal container images that are secure by default.

In many cases, the Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest contain only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager. Chainguard Containers are built with Wolfi, our Linux undistro designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a -dev variant.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they feature additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to leverage the -dev variants, copying application artifacts into a final minimal container that offers a reduced attack surface that won’t allow package installations or logins.

Learn More

To better understand how to work with Chainguard Containers, please visit Chainguard Academy and Chainguard Courses.

In addition to Containers, Chainguard offers VMs and Libraries. Contact Chainguard to access additional products.

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