Agent channel service

This channel plugin manages communications with execution environments that are accessed via agents.

It exposes user-facing endpoints that are used by agents.

There are no service-specific configuration file options.

Environment variables

Logging

You can set the AGENTCHANNEL_DEBUG_LEVEL (all upper-cased) or DEBUG_LEVEL environment variables to DEBUG to add additional information in the console for the launched service. It defaults to INFO. (Please note that setting DEBUG_LEVEL to DEBUG will produce tons of logs.)

The possible values are NOTSET, DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, and FATAL. Those values are from the most verbose, NOTSET, which shows all logs, to the least verbose, FATAL, which only shows fatal errors.

If AGENTCHANNEL_DEBUG_LEVEL is not defined then the value of DEBUG_LEVEL is used (or INFO if DEBUG_LEVEL is not defined either).

Access logs are only shown at NOTSET and DEBUG levels.

Hooks specification

The AGENTCHANNEL_CHANNEL_HOOKS environment variable, if defined, must refer to an existing file that contains hook definitions.

For more information about hooks, see “Hooks for jobs and providers.”

Tip

If the content of this referred file changes, the hooks definitions used by the channel handler will change accordingly. You do not need to restart the provider plugin.

Configuration file

This plugin has a configuration file (agentchannel.yaml by default) that describes the host, port, ssl_context, and trusted_authorities to use. It can also enable insecure logins.

If no configuration file is found it will default to the following values:

apiVersion: opentestfactory.org/v1beta2
kind: ServiceConfig
current-context: default
contexts:
- context:
    port: 443
    host: 127.0.0.1
    ssl_context: adhoc
    eventbus:
      endpoint: https://127.0.0.1:38368
      token: invalid
  name: default

The configuration included in the ‘allinone’ image is described in “Common settings.” The listening port is 24368 and the bind address is 0.0.0.0 as the service exposes user-facing endpoints.

There are no service-specific configuration options besides the common ones.

Subscriptions

The agent channel plugin subscribes to the following events:

kind	apiVersion
ExecutionCommand	opentestfactory.org/v1beta1

The agent channel plugin exposes an /inbox endpoint that is used by the event bus to post relevant events.

Launch command

If you want to manually start the agent channel plugin, use the following command:

python -m opentf.plugins.agentchannel.main [--context context] [--config configfile]

Additional command-line options are available and described in “Command-line options.”