🪙 Gold  

Gold is a containerized environment for working on provably correct software and more

Quick Start

Use VS Code in the browser in Three Easy Steps™

1. Install Docker or Podman
2. Run the command ¹

   docker run -it \
       --privileged \
       --name notebook \
       --hostname $(hostname) \
       -p 1337:1337 \
       ghcr.io/jhwohlgemuth/gold

3. Open a browser and navigate to https://localhost:1337 ²

Tip

See Container Customization section for more details on how to customize the container.

What is Gold?

🚧 UNDER CONSTRUCTION

So what, big deal, who cares?

🚧 UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Things you can do with Gold

Tip

See the examples directory for details on all the things you can do with Gold.

• Write, run, and debug Coq code from within a browser-based instance of VSCode ³
• Work with modern Rust-based projects to write provably correct software
• Spin up feature-rich development environments for use from a terminal or browser-based IDE ³
• Work with WebAssembly
• Quickly and easily compare multiple languages using interative notebooks
• 🚧 UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Container Customization

Note

Use install_extensions to install VS Code extensions.

Note

install_extensions accepts any number of image names (see Image Design section)
Example install_extensions development python rust

The following environment variables are available to customize containers:

• CODE_SERVER_CONFIG: Location of code-server server configuration file (within container)
  • Default: /app/code-server/config/config.yaml
• CODE_SERVER_PORT: Port to use for code-server server
  • Default: 1337
• CODE_SERVER_PASSWORD: Password to use for code-server server
  • Default: password
• JUPYTER_CONFIG: Location of code-server server configuration file (within container)
  • Default: /root/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py
• JUPYTER_PORT: Port to use for Jupyter server
  • Default: 13337
• JUPYTER_PASSWORD_HASH: Password to use for Jupyter server
  • Default: password

Tip

Change environment variables with the --env parameter ⁴ (ex. docker run -it --env CODE_SERVER_PORT=8080 <image>)

Contributing

Tip

See CONTRIBUTING.md

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Footnotes

[1]

--privileged is required to use Apptainer within the container

[2]

The default code-server port can be changed with the CODE_SERVER_PORT environment variable. See the Container Customization section for more details.

[3]

[4]

See docker run documentation