pbot/applets/pbot-vm/host/bin/vm-client

#!/usr/bin/env perl

# File: vm-client
#
# Purpose: Interfaces with the PBot VM Host server hosted by `vm-server`
# at PeerAddr/PeerPort defined below. This allows us to host instances
# of virtual machines on remote servers.
#
# This script is intended to be invoked by a PBot command such as `cc`.

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Pragmatic Software <pragma78@gmail.com>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

use warnings;
use strict;

use IO::Socket;

use constant {
    SERVER_PORT => $ENV{PBOTVM_SERVER} // 9000,
};

# TODO: extend to take a list of server/ports to cycle for load-balancing
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    PeerAddr => '127.0.0.1',
    PeerPort => SERVER_PORT,
    Proto    => 'tcp'
);

if (not defined $sock) {
    print "Fatal error: $!; try again later\n";
    die $!;
}

print $sock "@ARGV\n";
while (my $line = <$sock>) { print $line; }
close $sock;