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Signadot CLI Architecture

Overview​

The Signadot CLI is one of the components of the Signadot Platform. To see a high-level view of all components, visit the architecture page.

The Signadot CLI has 2 primary functions: acting as a REST client to the Signadot Control Plane and supporting Sandboxes containing local services via networking, DNS, and coordination with the Signadot Operator.

Signadot Control Plane Client​

The Signadot Control Plane client provides support for manipulating REST entities such as Sandboxes, Clusters, RouteGroups, and ResourcePlugins.

Support for Sandboxes Containing Local Services​

The Signadot CLI supports development of in-cluster workloads on the local, out-of-cluster machine. This support includes

  • Exporting in-cluster service DNS to the local machine 1.
  • Configuring networking to direct requests from the local machine to the cluster 1.
  • Managing the lifecycle of tunnels for accepting requests directed to the local machine.

The above functionality requires connecting directly to a given Signadot-enabled cluster. As such, the Signadot CLI manages this connection, by default via port-forward.

Notes​

The Signadot CLI is fully documented here.

  1. Requires root access via sudo.↩