| title | SSH access |
|---|---|
| description | Learn how to configure SSH access to your workspaces. |
Before accessing your workspace via SSH:
- Your site manager must enable access to workspaces using SSH
- You must install the Coder CLI on your local machine
You can access your workspaces via SSH by configuring your local machine as follows:
$ coder config-ssh
An auto-generated ssh config was written to "/Users/yourName/.ssh/config"
Your private ssh key was written to "/Users/yourName/.ssh/coder_enterprise"
You should now be able to ssh into your workspace
For example, try running
$ ssh coder.backendYour workspace is now accessible via ssh coder.<workspace_name> (e.g.,
ssh coder.myEnv if your workspace is named myEnv).
You will need to rerun the coder config-ssh command if:
- You reconfigure or modify your keypair using the Coder dashboard
- You add additional workspaces (running this command will ensure that your ~/.ssh/config file populates correctly with alias targets)
Coder supports the use of the SFTP protocol. To connect to a workspace using
SFTP, run sftp coder.<workspace_name>.
You can use rsync to transfer files to and from Coder.
To do so, use the flag -e "coder ssh" in your rsync transfer invocation. For
example, the following shows how you can transfer your home directory to your
workspace:
rsync -e "coder ssh" -a --progress ~/. my-env:~To access your server via SSH port forwarding:
- Create a dev URL
- Run
coder config-sshusing the Coder CLI
Once done, you can configure the dev URL port using:
ssh -L [localport]:localhost:[remoteport] coder.[workspace]localport is the port you want to use on your local machine (e.g.,
localhost:3000), and remoteport matches the port of your dev URL.
After SSH port forwarding is configured, you can access the dev URL (e.g.,
http://localhost:3000) in a browser.