Coder Workspace Lab

My playground for experimenting with Coder: self-hosted, Terraform-defined development environments.

The goal is to explore how far reproducible cloud dev environments can go: one-click workspaces with the right tools, IDE integration and AI coding agents already set up.

Templates

Template	Description
docker-dev-env	Docker-based workspace with a persistent home volume, VS Code Desktop, Claude Code and Codex CLI

Getting started

Prerequisites: a running Coder deployment, the coder CLI logged in, and Docker available to the Coder server.

git clone https://github.com/robisa693/coder-workspace-lab.git
cd coder-workspace-lab/templates/docker-dev-env

# Push the template to your Coder deployment
coder templates push docker-dev-env

# Create a workspace from it
coder create my-workspace --template docker-dev-env

See each template's README for its variables and details.

Roadmap

Things I want to try next:

• Custom workspace image with my own toolchain pre-installed
• Dotfiles integration
• Rich parameters (CPU/memory, image choice) at workspace creation
• Kubernetes-based template
• Dev Containers (devcontainer.json) support