cpp-tutorial-code-serve

This repository contains Terraform configuration and a startup script to provision a remote C++ development environment with code-server on Google Cloud.

With this setup, you can start coding in C++ in a browser-based VS Code environment, complete with Clang, LLDB, CMake, and preconfigured VS Code extensions.

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🌐 Prerequisites: Google Cloud Setup

Before you begin, make sure you have:

1. A Google Cloud account: https://console.cloud.google.com
2. A GCP project (e.g., cpp-tutorial-code-serve)
3. Billing enabled on the project (free tier is sufficient)
4. Cloud SDK installed on your local machine: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install
5. Terraform installed: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform
6. A local SSH key (~/.ssh/id_rsa or similar) for connecting to the VM

Once these prerequisites are ready, you can provision the VM and start coding.

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⚡ Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:YOURUSERNAME/cpp-tutorial-code-serve.git
cd cpp-tutorial-code-serve

Initialize Terraform

terraform init
terraform apply

Terraform will create a VM and firewall rules.

Wait for the startup script to finish installing packages.

Connect via SSH

ssh -L 8080:localhost:8080 your-username@your-vm-ip

Add code-server authentication

code-server supports a password or token-based login. You can set this in ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml:

auth: password
password: "some-strong-password"

Combined with SSH tunneling, that’s already double protection.

5. Access code-server

Open a browser and go to:

http://127.0.0.1:8080 Use the password defined in the startup script.