Files
app/docs/code/cli.md
T
stroblmeandClaude Fable 5 fea57064f9 Run node code on the venv Fluksio was installed into
The workflow this serves: make a venv, install what you work with, then `pip
install fluksio` into the same one. Building a second environment beside it
was exactly wrong — the packages the nodes need are already here, and the
Modules screen was asking for them a second time.

`NODE_VENV=auto` (the default) adopts that venv. It declines in the three
cases where adopting would be wrong: `managed` says otherwise, a managed venv
already exists and may hold packages somebody installed on purpose, or the
engine is not running from a venv at all. The images set `managed`, since the
venv in them holds the app and nothing of anybody else's.

An adopted venv is never written to. `uv pip sync` makes a venv hold exactly
the manifest, so pointed at somebody's own environment it uninstalls their
work and the engine with it — `sync()` refuses outright and `reconcile()`
returns before it can be called at startup, which is where that would have
happened first. The Modules screen lists what is installed and drops its
editor; `pip` is how that environment changes.

`fluksio serve` now names the interpreter node code runs on, which is the
thing a data scientist most needs to know at that moment. `fluksio-worker`
already defaulted `--python` to its own interpreter, so a GPU box works the
same way — that was only ever undocumented.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012ue1tkFWB1bcGy3aWhCKpU
2026-08-24 10:35:13 +02:00

216 lines
8.0 KiB
Markdown

# The `fluksio` command
```sh
pip install fluksio
```
Installs the engine and the `fluksio` command. Python 3.10 or newer, Linux or
macOS.
There is a second, smaller distribution — `fluksio-worker` — for a machine that
should only *run nodes* for an engine elsewhere. It has none of the engine in
it. See [Remote workers](workers.md).
The command is two things at once: `serve`, `enroll` and `worker` *are* an
installation, while `login`, `sync`, `run` and `runs` talk to one that may be
anywhere.
## `fluksio serve`
Runs the engine.
```sh
fluksio serve
```
On the first start it creates an admin account and prints its password **once**.
Nothing else has to be running: no database server, no message broker, no
Docker.
| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| `--data-dir PATH` | `~/.fluksio` (or `$FLUKSIO_HOME`) | where this installation keeps everything |
| `--host HOST` | `127.0.0.1` | what to bind |
| `--port PORT` | `8000` | what to listen on |
| `--log-level LEVEL` | `info` | uvicorn's log level |
| `--admin-email ADDR` | `admin@example.com` | the account created on first run |
| `--admin-password PW` | generated | set it instead of having one generated |
| `--enroll CODE` | — | pair with a portal as part of coming up |
| `--portal URL` | — | the portal `--enroll` redeems at |
`--enroll` with `--portal` is the one-command setup: it pairs before the engine
starts, so the connection is dialled as part of coming up rather than needing a
restart. It is skipped if the installation is already enrolled.
!!! warning "One process"
`fluksio serve` holds the flow engine. A second one is a *second engine*
duplicated subscriptions, duplicated cron ticks, two webhooks answering the
same path. Run one, and distribute work with
[workers](workers.md) instead.
!!! note "`$HOME` on a cluster"
A login node's home directory is often NFS, where SQLite's write-ahead log
does not work — the database would be locked or corrupt. `fluksio serve`
warns when it notices; point `--data-dir` at local disk.
### What it prints
```text
Created the admin account admin@example.com
password: k3Qm-8vTpLdX
Shown once. Change it from the dashboard.
Fluksio 0.1.0 — data in /home/you/.fluksio
API http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1
No portal. Pair this installation with:
fluksio enroll <code> --portal https://hub.example.com
```
An enrolled installation says which portal it is on instead, and notes that the
dashboard is served from there rather than here.
## `fluksio enroll`
Pairs an existing installation with a portal.
```sh
fluksio enroll ABCD-1234 --portal https://hub.fluksio.com
```
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| `--portal URL` | **required** — the portal the code was minted on |
| `--as EMAIL` | the local account a portal session arrives as |
| `--data-dir PATH` | which installation, if not the default |
Get the code from the portal under **Installations → Add installation**. It is
single-use and expires in fifteen minutes. `--as` matters when the installation
has several superusers — without it, enrolment refuses rather than guessing.
Afterwards, `fluksio serve` dials the portal as it comes up. See
[Accounts and the portal](../interface/portal.md).
## `fluksio worker`
Runs nodes for an engine elsewhere. Everything after `worker` belongs to the
agent's own parser — it is the same program `fluksio-worker` installs, so the
two are interchangeable:
```sh
fluksio worker --url wss://api.example.com/api/v1/workers/attach \
--token "$FLUKSIO_WORKER_TOKEN" --labels gpu
```
See [Remote workers](workers.md).
## Talking to an engine
The four commands below are the client half: they run wherever you work, and
address an engine over its API rather than being one.
### `fluksio login`
```sh
fluksio login --url http://127.0.0.1:8000
```
Asks for an email and password, and keeps the token it gets in
`~/.config/fluksio/client.json` (`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is honoured). Everything
below reads it from there, or from `FLUKSIO_URL` and `FLUKSIO_TOKEN`, or from
its own `--url` and `--token`.
### `fluksio sync`
```sh
fluksio sync [PATH_OR_MODULE ...] # default: the current directory
```
Imports what you name, collects the flows the decorators declared, and uploads
each one with a generated import shim per node. A directory that is a package
is walked; a dotted name is imported as it stands; nothing is loaded from a
file path, because the shim has to import the same way.
| Flag | What it does |
|---|---|
| `--dry-run` | print the flow documents and shims, upload nothing |
| `--no-publish` | leave the upload as a draft |
| `--force` | overwrite a flow, or a node body, that was edited on the canvas |
Every sync retires the engine's workers, including one that had nothing to
upload — a worker holds your package in memory, so an edit to it is invisible
until the process goes. See
[Getting started: data science](../getting-started/data-science.md).
### `fluksio run`
```sh
fluksio run train --lr 0.05 --seed 7 [--wait]
```
Submits a run. Flags that are not its own are the flow's inputs, typed by what
the flow declares them as. `--wait` blocks until the run finishes and exits
non-zero if it failed.
### `fluksio runs`
```sh
fluksio runs [--flow train] [--limit 20]
```
The runs an engine has recorded, newest first: id, status, flow, duration, the
commit of the repository it came from, and its parameters.
## What lives in the data directory
```text
~/.fluksio/
├── fluksio.db SQLite: users, runs, metrics, observability, agents
├── flows/ a git repository — one directory per flow
│ ├── house/
│ │ ├── flow.json the published structure
│ │ ├── nodes/*.py the published node code
│ │ ├── flow.draft.json unpublished edits, if any
│ │ └── nodes.draft/*.py
│ ├── _lib/ shared node sources
│ ├── _dashboards/ dashboards, drafts and all
│ └── requirements.txt what the Modules screen installs
├── artifacts/ content-addressed bytes, two levels deep
├── user-venv/ the interpreter your node code runs on
├── secrets.enc encrypted credentials, deliberately outside flows/
├── alerts.json alert channels and rules
├── panels.json wall-panel pairings
├── oauth-key.pem signs agent tokens
├── cloud.json the portal enrolment, if there is one
├── secret_key signs sessions and derives the secrets key
└── env optional settings file
```
Two things follow from this layout and are worth internalising:
**`flows/` is a real git repository.** `git log` is the history of every change
anyone made to any flow. A run records the commit it ran at, so `git show` on
that hash is literally the code that produced the number.
**Backing up the data directory backs up the installation.** Everything else is
rebuildable. Copy it while the engine is stopped, or use SQLite's online backup
for the database if it is not.
## Settings
Settings come from the environment, or from an `env` file in the data
directory. The ones you are most likely to touch:
| Variable | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| `DATA_DIR` | `~/.fluksio` via the CLI | everything below it derives from this |
| `DATABASE_URL` | SQLite in the data dir | any SQLAlchemy URL |
| `NODE_VENV` | `auto` | which interpreter node code runs on: `auto` adopts the venv Fluksio was installed into, `managed` builds one of its own, or name an interpreter |
| `REDIS_HOST` | unset | flow state in Redis instead of memory; survives a restart |
| `FRONTEND_HOST` | — | the address used in mails, OAuth metadata and panel links |
| `ENVIRONMENT` | `local` | `production` closes the interactive API schema |
| `MCP_ENABLED` | `false` | opens the [agent endpoint](agents.md) |
| `SECRET_KEY` | generated once | signs sessions, derives the secrets key |
The full list is in [Configuration](../reference/configuration.md).