What problem it solves

Developers need consistent, secure environments that contain the IDEs, dependencies, and configuration required for software development while avoiding the costs of idle infrastructure. Organizations also need to run AI coding agents on their own infrastructure with centralized authentication, auditing, and cost controls, without placing LLM credentials in workspaces.

Key features

• Terraform-defined workspaces — Define cloud development environments as code, including EC2 VMs, Kubernetes Pods, and Docker containers.

  Source: README, examples

• Secure remote access — Connect workspaces to users through a secure Wireguard® tunnel while keeping development infrastructure accessible as a managed workspace.

  Source: README, vpn

• Automatic idle shutdown — Shut down inactive resources automatically to reduce the cost of retaining unused development infrastructure.

  Source: README

• Infrastructure-hosted AI agents — Run a native AI coding agent whose loop executes in the control plane on your infrastructure, without requiring API keys inside workspaces.

  Source: README, agent, aibridge

• Centralized AI governance — Centralize model access, identity, auditing, cost tracking, and governance across AI coding workflows.

  Source: README

Quick start

Copied verbatim from the project's README.

curl -fsSL https://coder.com/install.sh | sh

coder server

coder server --postgres-url <url> --access-url <url>

Who it may suit

This may suit development teams and organizations that want to operate cloud development workspaces and AI coding agents on their own infrastructure.

Topics to discuss

• Which Terraform-defined workspace templates would be most useful for the community to share?

• How should organizations balance centralized AI model governance with local developer flexibility?

• Which editor, agent, and workflow integrations should the community prioritize next?

Written by ReadmeX AI from the project's README, source and public GitHub data; it may contain mistakes.

Read the original README https://github.com/coder/coder#readme

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