Coder is an open-source solution that takes a platform-agnostic approach to remote development architecture that enables software development on infrastructure designed by you which is always under your control. By leveraging Terraform, Coder lets developers run an IDE on any compute platform including on-prem, AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, Kubernetes, Docker, and more, with workspaces running on Linux, Windows, or Mac.
Feature | Microsoft DevBox Alternative | Coder |
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Delivery Model | SaaS (In preview, not GA) | OSS + Self-Managed |
Cost | Pay Microsoft | Pay your cloud |
Internet Access Required | Yes | No |
Latency and Data Sovereignty | Australia East, Europe West, Japan East, Canada Central, UK South, US East, US East 2, US South Central, and US West 3 | Self-Hosted |
Security isolation model | Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine | Unopinionated, 100% configurable and depends upon how you design your solution |
Environments | Windows Virtual Machine | All Terraform resources, all clouds, multi-architecture: Linux, Mac, Windows, containers, VMs, amd64, arm64 |
IDE | Any application that runs on Windows via Microsoft Remote Desktop | Anything (vim, emacs, theia, code-server, openvscode-server, entire jetbrains suite inc gateway remote development, visual studio code desktop, visual studio for mac, visual studio for windows) you choose to install and deploy |
Last Updated | 14/12/2022 | Please file a GitHub issue if any information is out of date. |