Code-server: how to start this from google colab?

[shahidul56]

Is there any way to run code-server from google colab

[sr229]

code-server can't be run in Jupyter.

[shamoji101]

Colaboratory can't use this. GCP and AWS can use this. (same as colab performance in GCP, need $60 per month.)

Colaboratory is running by Jupyter-server. And, colab system basically use .ipynb files. This means colab system start up jupyter kernels for each .ipynb files. So I don't have any ideas without google's official support.

But, google support PyTorch which is mainly supported by Facebook team in the history, google might support this code-server.

[shahidul56]

Hope , google will add support for code server also

[sr229]

Voting to close this as wontfix. We really shouldn't support running via Jupyer (Colab)

[merckxiaan]

Is it certain that this is impossible? Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe clouderizer is able to use google colab instances to host a docker container: https://clouderizer.com/features/#F2?

[sr229]

that is out of scope of this project and we won't support this kind of use case.

[ignitz]

Is it certain that this is impossible? Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe clouderizer is able to use google colab instances to host a docker container: https://clouderizer.com/features/#F2?

You can via ngrok (tunnel port), run code-server inside tmux and redirect with another port. That's not a better place to do this, EC2 it's the better option.

[shamoji101]

I have mentioned this issue, but I found this issue's solution after me comments.
@ignitz mentioned that is true, so we can access colab kernel with ngrok.

This code run in colab kernel is the issue's solution.

!wget https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/2.1688-vsc1.39.2/code-server2.1688-vsc1.39.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
!tar xzvf code-server2.1688-vsc1.39.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
!mv code-server2.1688-vsc1.39.2-linux-x86_64/ ./code
!wget https://bin.equinox.io/c/4VmDzA7iaHb/ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip
!unzip ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip
get_ipython().system_raw('./ngrok http 6006 &')
!curl -s http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels | python3 -c \
    "import sys, json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['tunnels'][0]['public_url'])"

# this commands show access url to this colab kernel.

and run code-server.

!code/code-server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 6006
# this command show password

https://xxxxxxxx.ngrok.io has shown in your colab output, and click url and sign in to the code-server.

[biplobsd]

I have mentioned this issue, but I found this issue's solution after me comments.
@ignitz mentioned that is true, so we can access colab kernel with ngrok.

This code run in colab kernel is the issue's solution.

!wget https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/2.1688-vsc1.39.2/code-server2.1688-vsc1.39.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
!tar xzvf code-server2.1688-vsc1.39.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
!mv code-server2.1688-vsc1.39.2-linux-x86_64/ ./code
!wget https://bin.equinox.io/c/4VmDzA7iaHb/ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip
!unzip ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip
get_ipython().system_raw('./ngrok http 6006 &')
!curl -s http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels | python3 -c \
    "import sys, json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['tunnels'][0]['public_url'])"

# this commands show access url to this colab kernel.

and run code-server.

!code/code-server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 6006
# this command show password

https://xxxxxxxx.ngrok.io has shown in your colab output, and click url and sign in to the code-server.

https://colab.research.google.com/github/biplobsd/OneClickRun/blob/master/OneClickRun.ipynb#scrollTo=HsvEZZy0hrp6

This is my notebook. Maybe it's help you more!