Code Server

Overview and Setup  

Code Server provides Microsoft VS Code accessibility through a browser.

To access the OOD web portal, please refer to our Getting Started with Open OnDemand documentation page. Once logged into the portal, there are a range of interactive apps, including Code Server, which can be launched directly from the portal.

Configuring Code Server  

To get started, connect to OOD and choose Code Server from the Interactive Apps menu.

In the submission form, you can choose the account, partition, the length of your job, and the number of cores you need.

  Note

• For account, put whatever group account you’re associated with. If you do not have a group account, use free.
• The partition is always ood

After you click “Launch”, a new session will be queued. Once the session is active your page will appear as follows:

Using Code Server  

Click on “Connect to VS Code” to begin using Code Server. Once you have entered your session, you should see VS Code in a browser window:

This is a typical VS Code interface that should be familiar to frequent users.