Workspaces FAQs
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This issue is to track questions users have asked, in order to keep a record of the questions and possibly identify some common questions that would point to some gaps in documentation.
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## Questions:
[**Does workspaces work per project?**](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/471911#note_1994135944 "Workspaces FAQs")
[**Does workspaces allow a developer to choose the size of compute env, such as cpu and mem, per invocation?**](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/471911#note_1994139603 "Workspaces FAQs")
[**Can workspaces allow running docker compose?**](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/471911#note_1994140481 "Workspaces FAQs")
[**Does workspaces initiate a project env with browser version of VSCode? If so, does it allow setting VScode extensions in code?**](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/471911#note_1994141957 "Workspaces FAQs")
[**Does workspaces support ssh to allow IDEs that support ssh to connect remotely ?**](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/471911#note_1994142487 "Workspaces FAQs")
[**Does workspaces allow exposing ports? This would support collaboration with other teammates**](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/471911#note_1994142930 "Workspaces FAQs")
[**Does workspace shutdown automatically after some time?**](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/471911#note_1994144758 "Workspaces FAQs")
[**Could someone else take over my workspace ?**](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/471911#note_1994144933 "Workspaces FAQs")
[**Can I disable workspaces if for whatever reason I don't want my team using it?**](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/471911#note_2170244493)
[**Within a workspace, can you have on top of the docker image for the environment, a database image?**](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/471911#note_2170246447)
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