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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.yml

System wide configuration file. By default loaded or when the calling user is root. If the calling user is a normal user the file $HOME/.config/flakes.yml is loaded when present.

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


  # Path to the podman storage configuration file


  # this information is used by the podman-pilot to


  # launch containers with a custom storage setup


  # As a user run "export CONTAINERS_STORAGE_CONF=/etc/flakes/storage.conf"


  # to allow podman commands to show information for this


  # flake storage location.


  podman_storage_conf: /etc/flakes/storage.conf


The user specific configuration for running flake applications is created by the following command:

flake-ctl init --user


For details see:

•
man flake-ctl-init


SEE ALSO

flake-ctl(8), flake-ctl-init(8), podman-pilot(8), firecracker-pilot(8)

AUTHOR

Marcus Schäfer

COPYRIGHT

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