---
display_name: Rust Development Workspace
description: Docker workspace for Rust development with rustup, Python, and Claude Code.
icon: /icon/rust.svg
maintainer_github: sirblob
verified: false
tags: [docker, container, gpu, rust, python, claude, ollama]
---

# Rust Development Workspace

Docker workspace for Rust development with rustup, Python, and Claude Code.

Provisions a Docker container as a [Coder workspace](https://coder.com/docs/workspaces) with selectable GPU passthrough, Docker-out-of-Docker, and a persistent home directory.

## Preinstalled tools

- Rust stable via rustup, with cargo, clippy, rustfmt, and rust-src
- Python 3 with pip, venv, and uv
- Claude Code
- Docker CLI for Docker-out-of-Docker
- Gitea CLI (`tea`)
- code-server and JetBrains Toolbox support

## Parameters

| Parameter | Description | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `GPU Assignment` | Which GPU(s) to attach: GPU 0, GPU 1, or both. GPU 1 is shared with the Ollama and Immich stacks. | GPU 0 |

## Prerequisites

The host needs the NVIDIA container toolkit for GPU passthrough. Coder itself runs as a container and creates workspaces through the host's Docker socket, so its service needs the socket mounted and the host `docker` group added:

```yaml
volumes:
  - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
group_add:
  - "987"
```

Workspaces get the same GID through the `docker_group_id` template variable, which defaults to `987`. Confirm the host GID with `getent group docker` and override the variable if it differs.

## Ollama

`OLLAMA_HOST` is preset to `http://host.docker.internal:11434`. Verify with:

```sh
curl "$OLLAMA_HOST/api/tags"
```

## Gitea

The `tea` CLI manages repositories, issues, and pull requests from the workspace:

```sh
tea login add --name sirblob --url https://git.sirblob.co --token <token>
tea repos list
```

Docker-out-of-Docker lets you build and push images to the registry:

```sh
docker login git.sirblob.co -u <user> -p <token>
docker build -t git.sirblob.co/<user>/<image>:<tag> .
docker push git.sirblob.co/<user>/<image>:<tag>
```

## Updates

The image is built with the base packages already upgraded, and the agent runs `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` on every workspace start so a long-lived container keeps picking up security updates.

## Persistence

`/home/coder` is mapped to a host directory and survives workspace restarts. The rest of the root filesystem is ephemeral, so every preinstalled tool lives under `/opt` or `/usr/local` instead of the home directory.

## Files

| File | Contents |
| --- | --- |
| `main.tf` | Providers, data sources, and shared locals |
| `parameters.tf` | Workspace parameters |
| `agent.tf` | Coder agent, startup script, and metadata |
| `apps.tf` | code-server and JetBrains modules |
| `container.tf` | Docker image build and container resource |
| `Dockerfile` | Workspace image |