Create a Cloud Development Environment with Coder

Sam Gabrail
12 min readJun 20, 2024

This article was originally published on the TeKanAid blog.

Hey! I’m coding in my backyard on my iPad today, and it’s all thanks to a Cloud Dev Environment provided by Coder. In this post, we’ll be looking at a product I’ve been testing for a week: Coder. With former colleagues from Docker and HashiCorp working at Coder, I’m happy to recommend this.

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Video Chapters

  • 00:00 Introduction to Cloud Development Environments
  • 00:27 Agenda
  • 01:08 Why Cloud Development Environments?
  • 03:28 Why Choose Coder?
  • 04:30 Coder’s Architecture
  • 05:47 Palantir’s Onboarding Success Story
  • 08:36 Setting Up Coder: Initial Steps
  • 08:57 Configuring the Database and Secrets
  • 09:42 Deploying and Accessing Coder
  • 10:51 Creating and Managing Workspaces
  • 12:55 Exploring VS Code Integration

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Sam Gabrail

DevOps and Infrastructure Automation Advocate | Content Creator