Coder’s blog shows wiring Microsoft’s VS Code Server into a Coder template so developers get browser VS Code with legal access to the Microsoft Extension Marketplace—including Copilot and Pylance—on cloud workspaces.
Official Coder docs compare four ways to run Docker builds and tests inside container workspaces: Sysbox runtime, Envbox, rootless Podman, or a privileged docker:dind sidecar.
Coder’s tutorial walks you through a Docker+Ubuntu workspace template in Terraform: coder_agent, code-server via coder_app, persistent home volume, then push with the CLI or dashboard.
Workshop write-up: define persona templates (cloud-native, serverless, agentic, GenAI) as Terraform, GitOps them, and run parallel agents each in isolated AWS workspaces instead of conflicting on one laptop.
PATH-fronted proxies for terraform/aws/kubectl: TOML policies allow plan/read but block destroy/terminate/recursive deletes before the real binary runs—no LLM judgment in the safety path.