ELF64 Binary
CloudCaptain supports apps written in Go or any other language and packaged as a single Linux x64 ELF binary.
Get Started
If you haven't already, start by following Go & CloudCaptain tutorial that will get you up and running in 5-10 minutes.
Packaging
Applications should be packaged as a single Linux ELF64 binary.
To properly set up cross-compilation in order to create Linux x64 binaries Windows users should invoke:
> set GOOS=linux
And Mac OSX users:
> export GOOS=linux
To further decrease the size of CloudCaptain images, use the newest version of Go and configure the linker to strip symbols while building the Linux ELF64 binaries:
> go build -ldflags="-s"
Root Certificates
CloudCaptain uses the same root certificate bundle as the latest version of Firefox. Additionally CloudCaptain also includes the root certificates for Amazon RDS, so you can connect securely to RDS databases out of the box.
Temporary Files
CloudCaptain configures the instance to use /tmp as the directory to store temporary files and provisions 1
GB of space by default.
To increase this (up to a maximum of 16 TB), simply set
the tmp configuration setting to the number of GB of temp space you need. To prevent CloudCaptain from
provisioning any temp space set tmp to 0.
Time Zone
By default all CloudCaptain instance use the UTC time zone.
We don't recommend changing this as this greatly simplifies time zone issues in machine to machine communication and cleanly relegates all time zones related aspects to a pure presentation layer concern.
If however you still do want to change this, you can override the default time zone of the instance using the
TZ environment variable. For example to change the time zone of your instance to America/Los_Angeles
you would do so like this:
> boxfuse fuse -envvars.TZ=America/Los_Angeles
Linux Kernel Tuning (experts only)
To tune the arguments passed Linux kernel from the bootloader, simply pass them using the
-linux.args setting when fusing your image.