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FLAKE-PILOT(8)() FLAKE-PILOT(8)()

NAME

FLAKE-PILOT(8) -

DESCRIPTION

flake-pilot is a software to register, provision and launch applications that are actually provided inside of a runtime environment like an OCI container or a FireCracker VM. Along with the project a collection of application launchers is provided which are called pilots. For details on the different pilots see:

  • man podman-pilot
  • man firecracker-pilot

The flake registration tool flake-ctl is the management utility to list, register, remove, and-more... flake applications on your host. For details about flake-ctl see:

man flake-ctl

FILES

/etc/flakes

System wide configuration file:

generic:

# Directory to store flake registrations
flakes_dir: /usr/share/flakes
# Metadata directory for the podman-pilot to store
# container ID files from the container instances
# started through the podman-pilot
podman_ids_dir: /tmp/flakes
# Metadata directory for the firecracker-pilot to store
# virtual machine PID files from the firecracker(VM) instances
# started through the firecracker-pilot
firecracker_ids_dir: /tmp/flakes



AUTHOR

Marcus Schäfer

COPYRIGHT

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