diff --git a/content/technicalposts/P2PRC-automatic-ports.md b/content/technicalposts/P2PRC-automatic-ports.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..879810a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/technicalposts/P2PRC-automatic-ports.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +title: "Automatic ports allocation P2PRC" +summary: Allocating ports to plugins P2PRC +date: 2021-10-03 +aliases: ["/P2PRC-Automatic-ports"] +tags: ["P2PRC","Ports","TCP","Automatic"] +author: "Akilan Selvacoumar" +draft: false +aliases: [//P2PRC-Automatic-ports] +weight: 2 +--- + +## Automatic port allocations +P2PRC would be in-charge to set to the ports to various TCP ports +opened. Due to this implementation the plugin being executed is +copied to the tmp directory with a unique UUID. +``` +Command: ls /tmp +output: Semantic _ +2e6d76c4-0ed1-4b55-9385-79a58d4f0492_p2prc-vscode-browser +7b631e08-62ee-4c1c-a2a4-c05857b9aa7d_p2prc-vscode-browser +``` +Once the copy of the plugin is added to the /tmp directory +the site.yml file inside the appropriate yaml is modified +with the appropriate ports assigned to the container. + +### Ex: +1. Create container called c1 with an automatic generated TCP port + 3313 (external) - 3313 (internal) +2. Assumption of plugin p1 exists. p1 has one server which needs to + be mapped to a free open TCP port in container c1. Below shows + an implementation of a sample site.yml file. +``` +--- +- hosts: all + tasks: + - name: start vscode code server + shell: sh server.sh 0.0.0.0:{{index . 0}} +``` +Notice there is the following {{index . 0}}. {{index . 0}} does not belong to +Ansible but rather is a way to mention where to add the external free port +of the container. We use the golang [template library](https://pkg.go.dev/text/template) +to parse and populate the site.yml with the appropriate open ports. An array of ints +which consists of open free ports are sent to the site.yml. 0 in {{index . 0}} refers +to the index in the int array passed on. + +After the port is automatically it's ready to run ! +``` +--- +- hosts: all + tasks: + - name: start vscode code server + shell: sh server.sh 0.0.0.0:3313 +``` + +### Sample plugins implemented: +- [VSCode Plugin](https://github.com/Akilan1999/p2prc-vscode-browser) \ No newline at end of file