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# FAQ
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## What's the deal with extensions?
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Unfortunately, the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace is
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## How is this different from VS Code Online?
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VS Code Online is a closed source managed service by Microsoft and only runs on Azure.
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code-server is open source and can be freely ran on any machine.
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## How should I expose code-server to the internet?
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By far the most secure method of using code-server is via
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[sshcode](https://github.com/codercom/sshcode) as it runs code-server and then forwards
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its port over SSH and requires no setup on your part other than having a working SSH server.
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If you cannot use sshcode, then you will need to ensure there is some sort of authorization in
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front of code-server and that you are using HTTPS to secure all connections.
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By default when listening externally, code-server enables password authentication using a
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randomly generated password so you can use that. You can set the `PASSWORD` environment variable
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to use your own instead. If you want to handle authentication yourself, use `--auth none`
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to disable password authentication.
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For HTTPS, you can use a self signed certificate by passing in just `--cert` or pass in an existing
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certificate by providing the path to `--cert` and the path to its key with `--cert-key`.
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If `code-server` has been passed a certificate it will also respond to HTTPS
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requests and will redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS. Otherwise it will respond
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only to HTTP requests.
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You can use [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) to get an SSL certificate
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for free.
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## Why are there x86 releases?
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32 bit releases have been
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## Multi Tenancy
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If you want to run multiple code-server's on shared infrastructure, we recommend using
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something like kubernetes and the code-server docker image.
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## How can I disable telemetry?
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Use the `--disable-telemetry` flag to completely disable telemetry. We use the
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data collected only to improve code-server.
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