pv_agent

pv_agent

pv_agent is a per-host daemon that is responsible for starting and stopping development containers. It is basically a wrapper of Docker APIs. It exposes a GRPC service to control the containers.

In Postverta terminology, a container is called a "context" because we want to make the rest of the system agnostic about how a workspace is implemented (it can be a container, or a virtual machine, or something else).

Usage

Build the binary and run it. It can be run as a daemon (with the daemon sub-command) or as a test GRPC client (with the open and close sub-command). It requires the docker daemon to be running and will try to access the well-known UNIX socket at /var/run/docker.sock. It also requires a path to the pv_exec binary.