Coder — system requirements

Self-hosted platform for provisioning and managing remote development environments on your own infrastructure. · website · repository

Minimum RAM

4 GB

“2 CPU cores and 4 GB memory free on your machine.”

Scope: Coder server (control plane) host, Docker installation, general · official source · retrieved 2026-08-26

Minimum CPU cores

2 cores

“2 CPU cores and 4 GB memory free on your machine.”

Scope: Coder server (control plane) host, Docker installation, general · official source · retrieved 2026-08-26

No official figure published for: recommended RAM, recommended CPU cores

We publish nothing we can't source. Evidence of the gap.

External services

postgresql (required) — source

External Postgres is the documented general/production path (compose.yaml wires up a separate postgres service) and is what this entry's required:true reflects. Coder also ships a 'Built-in database (quick)' path (docs/install/docker.md) that runs a self-managed embedded Postgres inside the coder container itself (cli/server.go, embedded-postgres) with no separate container — docs scope it to proof-of-concept use and steer production deployments to external Postgres, so it does not change the required:true default here.

Container

Image: ghcr.io/coder/coder · compressed size (amd64): 229 MB · architectures: amd64, arm64, armv7 · source, retrieved 2026-08-26

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