Manage Visual Studio Code Server

// To install
# The version of the Microsoft Visual Studio Code Server
version=$(curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/coder/code-server/releases | grep -oP '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | head -n 1)

wget https://github.com/coder/code-server/releases/download/v$version/code-server-$version-linux-amd64.tar.gz
gunzip code-server-$version-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvf code-server-$version-linux-amd64.tar
rm -r code-server-$version-linux-amd64.tar
mv code-server-$version-linux-amd64 /usr/local/vscode

ln -s /usr/local/vscode/bin/code-server /usr/bin/code

# Now start the server! Arguments can be passed for advanced control of the server!
## Run this for all arguments:
/usr/local/vscode/bin/code-server -h
## Use PASSWORD as env to set a password outside those in the config
cat << EOF > /etc/systemd/system/vscode.service
[Unit]
Description=VSCode
After=network.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Restart=always
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/vscode/bin/code-server --bind-addr 0.0.0.0:8932 --locale de --user-data-dir /usr/local/vscode/user --extensions-dir /usr/local/vscode/exts
Environment=

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

systemctl enable vscode.service
systemctl start vscode.service

# Now visit http://127.0.0.1:8932. Your password is in ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml


// To uninstall
systemctl disable vscode.service
systemctl stop vscode.service
rm -r /usr/local/vscode /etc/systemd/system/vscode.service