EDGELESS command-line clients

There are two command-line clients that can be used to interact with live EDGELESS components without developing your own gRPC client:

edgeless_cli: the main command-line utility to build WebAssembly functions and query the ε-CON
proxy_cli: a utility to interact with the ε-ORC via its proxy, if enabled

edgeless_cli

The edgeless_cli has two main functions.

First, it allows to build WebAssembly functions by providing the function specifications in a JSON format.

For example, to build the noop function:

target/debug/edgeless_cli function build ../../functions/noop/function.json

This build mode does not require any live EDGELESS component.

Second, it allows interaction with a live ε-CON via the WorkflowInstance API. The operations currently allowed are reported in the table below.

Operation	Argument	Description
`workflow start`	Path of a JSON workflow specification	Create a new workflow
`workflow stop`	Workflow identifier	Stop an active workflow
`workflow list`		List the identifiers of the active workflows
`workflow inspect`	Workflow identifier	Show details about an active workflow
`domain list`		List the domain identifiers
`domain inspect`	Domain identifier	Show details about an orchestration domain

proxy_cli requires that the ε-ORC has been configured with a proxy enabled.

Then, it allows to:

Query the status of the internal data structures of the ε-ORC, which are mirrored in the proxy.
Send local orchestration intents to the ε-ORC (see the delegated orchestrator concept in this guide).