CLI server seperation

[enricoschaaf]

Hi 👋🏽

Awesome project! I was wondering why the microsandbox branch explicitly states that the CLI does not need a server? I feel like the seperating the CLI from the server architecture really helps when you are running this on a remote host. Are there any plans to bring this mode back?

[appcypher]

The server has been a point of friction for a lot of users, including myself.

The initial idea was to create a simple control plane for managing sandboxes, but honestly, there are better control planes out there. From Kubernetes to nomad, we leave the control plane decision up to the user.

With the ongoing rewrite, we are removing the server entirely for a more embedded approach. It improves the UX and makes it a proper library that you can use in your app, instead of a server you have to bootstrap or worry about managing its lifecycle.

[enricoschaaf]

Ok also possible, my usecase is having multiple Hetzner bare metal machines and spawning Sandboxes on those that are full dev envs. Docker worked great because you can do remote hosts both for the SDK and the the cli. But long term this needs to be microVMs and your project seems to be nearly the only high level solution out there so well worth building my own SDK and CLI around