Have you ever missed the VSCode on your tablet? Now there is a solution: run the VSCode on your NAS at home and access it with a browser. That will be possible when you run the Codeserver Docker container on your NAS.

Before you do this, you probably want to set up a wildcard certificate and a proxy server on your NAS. That will enable you to access the NAS outside your local network using HTTPS. How to do it, check this: How to Set Up Wildcard Certificate and Reverse Proxy on Synology NAS

You will also need to find out your UID and GID. Here are instructions to get those: How to find out your UID and GID on Synology NAS

And after you have sorted those things, you can set up the Codeserver as follows:

  1. Install Docker to the Synology NAS from Package Center
  2. Create a folder to map the codeserver files into, docker/codeserver works fine
  3. Open the Docker app, search for linuxserver/code-server from the registry, and download the image (latest)
  4. Set the port mapping as 8377:8443
  5. Adjust the advanced settings as follows:
    PUID: <your UID>
PGID: <your GID>
PROXY_DOMAIN: codeserver.<your DDNS domain>
PASSWORD: <your very complex password>
SUDO_PASSWORD: <your very complex password>
TZ: <your timezone, e.g Europe/Helsinki>
  6. Map the /config to the folder you created earlier (docker/codeserver)
  7. Set automatic restart
  8. Run the container

Now you should be able to navigate to codeserver.<your DDNS domain> enter the password and enjoy your fresh VSCode on server.