If you're looking for a way to develop code remotely, then code-server might be the thing you're looking for. It's an open-source project that lets you run Visual Studio Code in your web browser, so you can access it from anywhere.
In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps needed to install code-server on Fedora CoreOS Latest.
Before you can install code-server, you need to make sure your system is up-to-date. To do that, open a terminal window and run:
sudo dnf update -y
Next, we need to install Docker, which is what code-server runs on. You can install it with the following command:
sudo dnf install -y docker
Once Docker has finished installing, you need to enable and start it:
sudo systemctl enable docker
sudo systemctl start docker
Now you're ready to install code-server. First, you need to create a directory to hold the code-server data:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/code-server/data
Then, you can download and run the code-server Docker image:
sudo docker run -d \
--name=code-server \
--restart unless-stopped \
-p 8080:8080 \
-v /opt/code-server/data:/home/coder/project \
codercom/code-server:latest
This command will download the latest code-server image and start it in a Docker container. It will also expose the container's port 8080 to your host machine, and mount the /opt/code-server/data directory on your host machine to the /home/coder/project directory inside the container.
Once the code-server container is up and running, you can access it from your web browser at http://localhost:8080. You should see a sign-in page asking you for a password. The default password is "password". We recommend changing this password to something more secure.
That's it! You've successfully installed code-server on Fedora CoreOS Latest. Now you can access Visual Studio Code from any web browser and start developing code remotely.
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