Multiple instances on same server?

[dylan-meiners]

I have been looking for a while on ways to have multiple code-servers running at the same time. It would really be a hassle to have to have a different VM for each code-server instance. As far as I can tell, running code-server always uses port 8080. I read somewhere that if you wanted to have different team members, you would need multiple instances. How would I start another instance of code-server on a different port?

[code-asher]

You can use the --bind-addr or --port flags. For example: code-server --bind-addr localhost:1234 code-server --port 1234 You can also use port 0 to use a random port. One thing to keep in mind is that if code-server is handling TLS then there is a bug with running multiple instances: #2200 Using a reverse proxy to handle TLS won't have any problems though.

[bpmct]

@dylan-meiners curious how you ended up doing this. I have been using containers and am thinking of setting up a minikube cluster to give some friends their own web dev environments :)

[dylan-meiners]

My current plan is to setup a server with multiple Docker instances running the official code-server image for them. I will let you know how it goes. This would work because I could direct certain ports from outside to the correct Docker image's port 8080.

[dylan-meiners]

I found this that might help you too.

[dylan-meiners]

I will leave this thread open, in case someone else has any solutions that they used, as there are many to choose from.

So far, the list is

• Running multiple servers directly, but specifying a different port for each @code-asher
• Running Docker containers with the code-server image @rafket here
• Running Minikubes with a code-server instance on each @bpmct