Workspace provider management

This article walks you through the process of managing your workspace provider via the Coder UI.

Admin UI

Site admins and site managers can view the workspace providers configuration page available via Manage > Workspace Providers.

The Admin panel shows an overview of all configured workspace providers and indicates their statuses and details.

Statuses

A workspace provider can have one of the following statuses:

• Pending: The workspace provider has been registered but not deployed to the remote Kubernetes cluster.
• Ready: The workspace provider is online and available, and you can provision new workspaces to it.
• Error: The workspace provider encountered an issue on startup or cannot be reached by the Coder deployment. The workspace provider's details will include an error message.

Edit a workspace provider

To edit a workspace provider, log in to Coder, and go to Manage > Providers.

In the Providers list, find the workspace provider you want to edit. Click the vertical ellipsis to its right, and select Edit.

At this point, you can:

• Change the name of the provider.

• Select the organizations that can use this provider; if you do not select at least one organization, no one will be able to provision workspaces using this provider.

  Organizations must not contain any workspaces in the workspace provider before you remove them from a workspace provider's allowlist.

• Change the features of the workspace provider. You can:

  • Enable end-to-end encryption for this provider
  • Enable external SSH connections to the provider's workspaces via the Coder CLI
  • Specify a Kubernetes storage class to use when Coder provisions workspaces (this is useful for improving disk performance)
  • Specify the Kubernetes service account that Coder uses to provision workspaces

  If you enable end-to-end encryption, end-users using SSH need to rerun coder config-ssh.

• Specify the Kubernetes tolerations and nodeSelector for the workspaces deployed with this provider:

  {
    "tolerations": [],
    "nodeSelector": {}
  }
  

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Once you've made your changes, click Update Provider to save and continue.

Delete a workspace provider

1. Log in to Coder, and go to Manage > Providers.

2. In the Providers list, find the workspace provider you want to delete. Click the vertical ellipsis to its right. Select Delete.

3. Confirm that you want to delete the provider; once deleted, no user will be able to provision workspaces using that provider.

You can only remove a workspace provider if it no longer contains any workspaces, so you must remove all workspaces before deleting the workspace provider.