Self-hosting your VSCode online IDE, from Raspberry Pi 4 to AWS Graviton2

Did you write your code in the browser? If so, you may properly heard about platform like AWS Cloud 9, Microsoft Visual Studio Online or GitHub Codespace. Although it may be a promising idea to write code on those online IDE platform, you may have some reasons to have a such platform self-hosted at your machines / data center / cloud.

Thanks to Gitpod, an open-source project OpenVSCode Server is available. It runs the latest VS Code on a remote machine accessed through a modern web browser. The project is backed by GitLab, VMware, Uber, SAP, Sourcegraph, RStudio, SUSE and many others.

VS Code in the browser for everyone

GitHub - gitpod-io/openvscode-server: Run upstream VS Code on a remote machine with access through…

Sadly, the official Docker image (gitpod/openvscode-server) is only available for Intel platform (aka amd64). It missed the ARM platform (arm64). That includes Apple Mac M1, Raspberry Pi 4…