code-server Instance Manager

(lots of tech debts incoming)

How to setup

Prerequisites

• Passwordless sudo
• Python 3.7
• A text editor
• Smileys :)

Step 1: Create and activate venv

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

Step 2: Install dependencies

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 3: Initialize configs

cp .example.env .env
cp users.example.json users.json

Step 4.3: Create unix users

(just use adduser)

Step 4.6: Ask for their Google Account email (sorry I didn't implement GitHub)

(just hop on Discord or something)

Step 4.9: Add them to users.json

Replace user_email with their email and unix_username with their unix username

Step 5: Change values in .env

API_PASSWD: set whatever you want

SERVER_ADMIN: user that is running this Python program (needs sudo perms too)

OAUTH2_DOMAIN: domain that point to this program

VSCODE_DOMAIN: domain that point to nginx in order to route requests (can leave this blank atm)

EXPIRE_TIME: minutes after code-server expired to shutdown

Step 6: Acquire GitHub OAuth2 client ID and secret

After you have acquired these sacred objects please put them in the following order (in .env):

GITHUB_CLIENT_ID: GitHub client ID

GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET: GitHub client secret

Step outside and enjoy the sunlight view

You can set DEBUG to true if you want Popen's logs to output to stdout

Step 7: Watch this

Step 8: Chill

After you have set this up, please setup nginx for user routing