Coder Community Edition - Cloud Development Environment

What do you like best about the product?

The way it integrates with GitHub and Slack, making collaboration seamless.

What do you dislike about the product?

Permissions setup was confusing at first and needed adjustments.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It’s giving our developers unified workspaces, reducing environment mismatches and saving time.

What do you like best about the product?

It’s helping our developers collaborate in unified workspaces, reducing environment mismatches

What do you dislike about the product?

One sprint slowed down while we fine tuned workspace settings.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It’s helping our developers collaborate in unified workspaces, reducing environment mismatches.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Coder to set up remote workspaces in the cloud and connect from my local environment to program directly on powerful virtual machines. It reduces setup time for new team members and completely eliminates configuration discrepancies, ensuring that we all work in exactly the same environment. I like the development experience because the integration with the usual tools is smooth and natural, allowing me to work remotely without losing the agility of local development. The ability to define and customize workspaces using infrastructure as code is great and valuable to me. The initial setup was easy and very smooth.

What do you dislike about the product?

I find that performance on large-scale projects should be better, as the real speed of large volumes in repositories is slow.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Coder to set up remote workspaces, reducing setup time and eliminating configuration discrepancies, ensuring a consistent environment for the entire team.

What do you like best about the product?

Coder provides some order in our development process. For back-end development, a properly configured workspace that has the necessary environment is predictable for everyday tasks. Coder is primarily used by me for writing code, executing services, and API testing, hence, performance is one of the aspects that I can easily detect. In most scenarios, it works well with our workload although a properly planned infrastructure would be needed for bigger environments. Another thing that I appreciate about how Coder integrates into our development environment is that we do not have to revamp our workflow according to the tool.

What do you dislike about the product?

The one issue that worries me about Coder is how the pricing model will become difficult to assess as use increases. This tool adds value to developers, but having more clarity on the pricing details depending on the level of use would be helpful. As an engineer, I usually focus on the return on investment from an engineering point of view, and thus it is important for the cost expectation to be clear. The onboarding process has been satisfactory for us so far.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The issue that was mentioned before is the number of hours wasted on searching for solutions to development issues that occur less often than usual. The whole process largely depended on personal experience, which could vary from one team member to another. Coder assisted us to overcome some of those uncertainties via its various support and help features. AI features seem to be the other feature of Coder that interests me due to the fact that more intelligent suggestions could assist developers in overcoming their obstacles with fewer breaks.

What do you like best about the product?

The sandboxed environment gave our team an out-of-the-box coding solution, with everything configured from the get-go. Since the sandbox also supports local use of IDEs—VS Code in our case—it provided a solid UI/UX experience as well.

What do you dislike about the product?

The fact that it’s not truly local means the integration with the source system isn’t as strong as it could be. I understand that this is its primary objective, but in exceptional use cases and specific requirements it still doesn’t support integrating with the source system. Also, while the experience feels local, it’s still not truly local in practice, and the performance in particular leaves a lot to be desired.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Coder specifically solved our developer provisioning problem, especially in a workplace where security and a unified environment are important concerns. It gave us a sandboxed environment that helped address those needs.

What do you like best about the product?

The flexibility and control it gives us to create and manage secure workspaces from templates. It also has a skill where I can give you my coding agent; apart from that, self-hosting was a big plus for our use case.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are not enough ready-to-use templates; I have to create and customise my template from scratch, which has a learning curve. Also, optimising that template has taken a lot of my time.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Coder helps us quickly create isolated coding workspaces for our AI interviews usecases. It makes it easier to give candidates a consistent and secure setup without managing each environment manually.

What do you like best about the product?

- Templates declared in Git
- Polished UI, easy on new users coming from a Data Science focused industry
- Templates are fully customizable, easy to enforce governance
- Sandboxed environment for AI agents
- Control plane/workspaces are separated, ease of maintenance
- Integrates with a Kubernetes-native environment

What do you dislike about the product?

- Security when "inside" a workspace requires much setup effort from systems external to Coder. For instance Istio for network isolation, cloud-based secrets manager for user secrets management etc.
- External Authentication for Github needs too much permission scope over an organization. The Github app should only be used for authentication, further scope should follow user's own permissions defined by the org.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

As part of a platform dev team, Coder provides the flexibility for us to unify the development stack for non-technical users, while also allowing them to test their software in a way that is similar to an actual production setup

What do you like best about the product?

I like the extensive documentation and guides provided by the coder team, combined with general configuration features of the platform.

What do you dislike about the product?

End-user education and onboarding could be better, or better integrated into the platform.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solved issues with getting developers access to the tooling that they need to work, and solved easily managing and monitoring those resources in a consolidated fashion.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that Coder is open-source and supports the use of Terraform, which we use in the company as the main tool for infrastructure as code (IaC). This allows us to configure certain components, such as envbuilder, and adapt the Coder server to our needs.

What do you dislike about the product?

I needed special settings to work with the DBMS issue 11987. When we launched Coder, there were many problems with envbuilder, and it caused inconvenience.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Coder to unify infrastructure and automate workspace creation.

What do you like best about the product?

Coder has helped me to create sandboxes for my development environments.

What do you dislike about the product?

It was a little bit difficult to set up the environments the first time.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating and holding onto multiple environments for development.