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## What's the deal with extensions?
Unfortunately, the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace is
Unfortunately, the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace license prohibits use with any non Microsoft
product.
See https://cdn.vsassets.io/v/M146_20190123.39/_content/Microsoft-Visual-Studio-Marketplace-Terms-of-Use.pdf
> Marketplace Offerings are intended for use only with Visual Studio Products and Services
> and you may only install and use Marketplace Offerings with Visual Studio Products and Services.
As a result, Coder has created its own marketplace for open source extensions. It works by scraping
GitHub for VS Code extensions and building them. It's not perfect but getting better by the day with
more and more extensions.
Issue [https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/1299](#1299) is a big one in making the experience here
better by allowing the community to submit extensions and repos to avoid waiting until the scraper finds
an extension.
If an extension does not work, try to grab its VSIX from its Github releases or build it yourself and
copy it to the extensions folder.
## How is this different from VS Code Online?
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You can use [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) to get an SSL certificate
for free.
## Why are there x86 releases?
## x86 releases?
32 bit releases have been
node has dropped support for x86 and so we decided to as well. See
[nodejs/build/issues/885](https://github.com/nodejs/build/issues/885).
## Alpine builds?
Just install `libc-dev` and code-server should work.
## Multi Tenancy
If you want to run multiple code-server's on shared infrastructure, we recommend using
something like kubernetes and the code-server docker image.
If you want to run multiple code-server's on shared infrastructure, we recommend using virtual
machines with a VM per user. This will easily allow users to run a docker daemon. If you want
to use kubernetes, you'll definitely want to use [kubevirt](https://kubevirt.io) to give each
user a virtual machine instead of just a container. Docker in docker while supported requires
privileged containers which are a security risk in a multi tenant infrastructure.
## Docker in code-server docker container?
If you'd like to access docker inside of code-server, we'd recommend running a docker:dind container
and mounting in a /var/run directory to share between that and the code-server container. Install
the docker CLI in the code-server container and you should be able to access the daemon.
In order to make volume mounts work, mount the home directory in the code-server container and the
dind container at the same path. i.e you'd volume mount a directory from the host to `/home/coder`
on both. This will allow any volume mounts in the home directory to work. Similar process
to make volume mounts in any other directory work.
## Collaboration
At the moment we have no plans for multi user collaboration on code-server but we understand this
is a heavily requested feature and will work on it when the time is right.
## How can I disable telemetry?
Use the `--disable-telemetry` flag to completely disable telemetry. We use the
data collected only to improve code-server.
## Enterprise
Visit [our enterprise page](https://coder.com) for more information about our
enterprise offerings.