Problem

Customers want to be able to expose arbitrary ports to other users at different levels of permissions for how those ports can be shared. 2-3 major customers are already making workarounds for this missing feature, so we should build something first class to fit this need.

RFC

https://www.notion.so/coderhq/Shareable-Ports-4140e809958c457ba99f53b3e9ae1673?pvs=4

Related

• allow sharing a coder app or a port with specfic coder users #11201
• UX Improvement: Maximum port persistence configuration #10909
• Port is missing when port-forwarding via Dashboard #8189 :: This is a coder config issue
• Collaborate | Guest mode #8220
• bug: python ports showing in ports workspace UI when running Jupyter #10266
• UX Improvement: Port Sharing in the UI #10908

Action Items

Required

• Shared Ports: Add shared_ports enterprise feature key #11845
• Shared Ports: Add template option for maximum share level #11846
• Shared Ports: Edit MaxSharingLevel on template edit page #11847
• Shared Ports: make create API for shared ports #11849
• Shared Ports: make read API for shared ports #11850
• Shared Ports: Ensure Admins can edit port share level #11851
• Shared Ports: unshare shared ports when workspace goes dormant #11853
• Shared Ports: Enforce access control to ports using new shared ports #11854
• Shared Ports: Allow users to configure share access of ports on the workspace dashboard #11858
• support Internal server scheme setting for port sharing #12232
• Shared ports protocol switching is not instant #12454
• Control protocol on any port #12832
• Sharable Ports: Bring out of experimental #13058
• Documentation for Sharable Ports and Protocol selection  #13070

Reach

• Shared Ports: Control share level of ports in VS Code and code-server #11855
• Shared Ports: users can control share level from Jetbrains Gateway jetbrains-coder#457
• Shared Ports: allow share level control of ports using the CLI #11857
• Shared Ports: share ports with specific users #12651
• Add option to hide ports from listening ports dialog #12722