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iroh CLI configuration

Open faassen opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

The iroh CLI needs to know what iroh RPC services it's talking to. This needs to be configured.

The path to the configuration can be indicated explicitly using a --config option.

If no --config is given, the configuration is looked up in a well-known location on the filesystem.

If no config file is found, it falls back to built-in configuration.

The built-in configuration uses well-known default ports for each service.

Both iroh-one as well as the individual gateway/p2p/store services default to using these well-known ports.

iroh-one can be started through iroh start, and iroh start takes its own --config argument, which is passes along to iroh-one. iroh-one then uses the same rules as above.

So a super explicit way to do iroh start looks like this:

iroh --config ./iroh.config.toml start --config iroh-one.config.toml

Other services like iroh-p2p follow the same rules concerning configuration.

We avoid configuration of services through the CLI; the CLI for starting services would have -h and -V and --config and not much more. iroh start just has -h and --config, but at least for now, not -V to get version information (we prefer iroh status to get that)

faassen avatar Oct 14 '22 13:10 faassen

Since iroh start now starts multiple services (p2p, store, gateway), each with their own config, I wonder how we're going to pass config information to it.

faassen avatar Oct 19 '22 14:10 faassen

we now have cli.config.toml, which configures the services that iroh start starts. We can expand for more

b5 avatar Nov 02 '22 16:11 b5