Deploy code-server on a Kubernetes cluster.

This tutorial will walk you through the steps to deploy code-server using a secret password with persistent storage. I am using a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster for the development and testing of this tutorial.

Create a secret for the code-server password

Replace <password> in the following command with your desired password before running.

kubectl create secret generic secret-code-server --from-literal=PASSWORD='<password>'

Create a PersistentVolumeClaim

Using persitent volumes will allow the code-server config and the code you develop to persist pod failures.

The pvc manifest file will:

• Assume that a default storage class is defined.
• Set persistent volumes to 1Gi.

kubectl apply -f code-server-pvc.yaml

Deploy code-server on your kubernetes cluster

The deployment manifest file will:

• Create a service with a loadbalancer ip and expose code-server on port 80 using HTTP.
• Deploy code-server pinned to version 'v3.4.0-ls46'
• Set a password as defined by the kubernetes secret named "secret-code-server" using the PASSWORD value.
• Mount the persistent volume to /config.

kubectl apply -f code-server-deployment.yaml

Access code-server using your browser

You can now access code-server using the service ip.

To get the IP address to access code-server.

kubectl get svc code-server -o=jsonpath={.status.loadBalancer.ingress[].ip}

Note: It may take a minute for the ip address to be assigned so be patient.

Clean-up

If you would like to clean-up the resources created during this tutorial.

kubectl delete -f code-server-deployment.yaml
kubectl delete -f code-server-pvc.yaml
kubectl delete secret secret-code-server