Coder

What it does

Coder is a self-hosted cloud development environment platform that enables developers and AI coding agents to work together in context-rich environments on your infrastructure. It delivers self-hosted development environments, provisioned as code and ready for developer activity on day one. Coder gives developers and AI coding agents the infrastructure they need—with the control and isolation required to deploy agents safely at scale.

How to use: Sign up with single sign-on, select a template, create a workspace, then start coding with your favorite editor. Coder supports Visual Studio Code, JetBrains Gateway, and SSH connections.

Core features

• ✦Self-hosted development environments
• ✦Provisioned as code
• ✦Secure environments for developers and AI agents
• ✦Automatic shutdown of unused resources
• ✦Terraform-defined workspaces

Use cases

• →Safely deploy AI coding agents at scale
• →Onboard contractors with secure remote development environments
• →Build and test large codebases faster
• →Reduce cloud costs by automatically shutting down unused resources