Host a Dev Environment on Render with VS Code and Tailscale

• tailscale

  1,006 16,535 9.9 Go

  The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

  

I've been curious about Tailscale for a while, and now a use case for their "zero config VPN" has presented itself. Render's developer advocate, Chris, and founder, Anurag, were recently in touch with the Tailscale team to figure out the best way to use Tailscale on Render. It's possible to run Tailscale in the same container as a Render service, but we found the experience smoother when we deployed a tailscale subnet router as a standalone Render private service. Either way we need userspace networking mode.

• Code-Server

  396 65,274 9.2 TypeScript

  VS Code in the browser

  

I recently heard about an open source project called code-server, which is maintained by the people behind Coder, and lets you access a remote VS Code process from the browser. Deploying code-server to Render feels like a good place to start my exploration. I'm excited to discover an additional repo that helps with deploying code-server to cloud hosting platforms. The repo includes a Dockerfile, so I suspect we can deploy it to Render without any changes.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• deploy-code-server

  4 836 0.0 Shell

  Deploy code-server to the cloud with a few clicks ☁️ 👨🏼‍💻

  

I recently heard about an open source project called code-server, which is maintained by the people behind Coder, and lets you access a remote VS Code process from the browser. Deploying code-server to Render feels like a good place to start my exploration. I'm excited to discover an additional repo that helps with deploying code-server to cloud hosting platforms. The repo includes a Dockerfile, so I suspect we can deploy it to Render without any changes.

• tailscale

  1 52 3.1 Shell

  Tailscale Subnet Router on Render (by render-examples)

  

I've been curious about Tailscale for a while, and now a use case for their "zero config VPN" has presented itself. Render's developer advocate, Chris, and founder, Anurag, were recently in touch with the Tailscale team to figure out the best way to use Tailscale on Render. It's possible to run Tailscale in the same container as a Render service, but we found the experience smoother when we deployed a tailscale subnet router as a standalone Render private service. Either way we need userspace networking mode.

• render-dev-env

  1 0 0.0 Dockerfile

  A remote development environment that can be hosted on Render.

Create your own repository using my Render dev environment template and one-click deploy it to Render. When prompted, enter the public SSH key for the key pair you want to use to access your environment.

• dropbear

  14 1,544 8.8 C

  Dropbear SSH

I need an SSH server. I try OpenSSH, but run into an issue when I attempt to log in. OpenSSH servers use privilege separation as a security measure. The OpenSSH subprocess that handles authentication runs as an unprivileged user with its root directory set to some safe location. The CAP_SYS_CHROOT capability is required to change the root directory for a process, but Render services run in unprivileged containers without this capability. I discover that there are other SSH servers, like dropbear, that don't do privilege separation. This is great because it's not necessary for my use case anyway. My SSH server will run as a non-root user and will only be available within the VPN.

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