Coder Desktop Integration

[ThomasK33]

Implement an enhancement making this extension aware of Coder Desktop. With Coder Desktop running, there is already an established tunnel to a workspace; thus, the extension does not need to create another tunnel.

The extension should prioritize the existing tunnel rather than creating a new one and should be able to display tunnel statistics related to the VPN within the editor.

[matifali]

Hi @fioan89. Can you start looking into this? I think the initial launch should contain this functionality.

[matifali]

@ThomasK33 and I can help with how Coder Desktop works here.

[fioan89]

Sure. Right now I was working on integrating uri handling. It's slowly progressing as Toolbox API is not as flexilblle as Gateway's API. Should I put it on hold?

[matifali]

No that's a higher priorty. This is something we can look into after that.

[fioan89]

OK, so I'll continue with uri handling if my understanding is correct.

[matifali]

This depends on coder/coder#16828 otherwise it would be too complex to handle different URIs for Coder desktop and existing Coder CLI.

[matifali]

We have a reference VS Code implementation at coder/vscode-coder#482

[ethanndickson]

I'm not too familiar with the Jetbrains plugins, but I'd recommend actually not using the VSCode implementation as a reference, since it looks like you don't use wildcard SSH configs, you can probably just config something like (not exact, haven't tested):

Match host coder-jetbrains-toolbox-foo--test.coder.bar exec "/path/to/coder connect exists agent1.foo.owner.coder"
  HostName agent1.foo.owner.coder
Host coder-jetbrains-toolbox-foo--test.coder.bar
  ProxyCommand /path/to/coder ssh owner/foo.agent1
  ConnectTimeout 0
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  LogLevel ERROR
  SetEnv CODER_SSH_SESSION_TYPE=JetBrains

Where the ProxyCommand is only used if the agent wasn't available at agent1.foo.owner.coder (also keeping in mind that the .coder suffix is configurable deployment-wide)

For that reason, a better reference implementation would be coder/coder#17419

[fioan89]

Thank you for the feedback @ethanndickson. Wildcard config support was added no too long ago.

[matifali]

since it looks like you don't use wildcard SSH configs

@ethanndickson, we do have wildcard configs on by default with the option to opt out.