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Dogeboxd runs as a daemon under systemd and acts as the parent process for all 'Dogebox Apps' which it runs within Linux namespaces to provide appropriate process isolation and access to the Dogebox Runtime Environment. In a way Dogeboxd is equivilent to Dockerd, it is responsible for containerisation and orchestration of processes in secure contexts, however it is more than that:
Dogeboxd operates as a package-manager for 'Dogebox Apps': NixOS packaged services and web-apps with a Dogebox Manifest that describes the Dogecoin services and OS requirements they need. These are discoverable via Dogebox package manifests, JSON files served over the web. What this means is anyone can distribute software for Dogebox and provide a package manifest that describes their requirements, that users can then click to install and configure.
Dogeboxd provides an app environment (DRE - Dogebox Runtime Environment) which is a curated set of APIs exposed via local NGINX proxy, so that apps can be developed against a known set of extensible, stable APIs. For example, you can specify your app needs 'core' and 'gigawallet' in your app manifest, and within your process environment core.localhost and gigawallet.localhost will be available respectively. Versioned dependencies will be able to be specified in your app manifest, but ultimate control of what is running will be in the hands of the Dogebox owner.
Major features of the DRE which are under construction:
- NGINX proxy for all 'services' available after the user 'approves access' at app install time.
- A doge-walker API that issues a realtime stream of blocks you can subscribe to, accounting for tip-changes and rollbacks.
- A transaction & block index API which allows quick search of the blockchain, useful for building block explorers.
- Extensible API surface via plugins that will introduce new APIs built by the community to the runtime.
The aim of the Dogebox Daemon is to provide a secure environment for Shibes to try out various kinds of software from the Dogecoin Ecosystem, in a way that puts them in control, without the need to be linux sysadmin. We want to see every member of the Dogecoin community able to contribute to the network, but also to provide a platform where devs can share their work with the whole community also.