Remote Core

[elusiveshiba]

Dogebox should be able to connect to a remote Dogecoin Core instance. What should this look like?

[edtubbs]

Consider core RPC as a command/control/status interface and ZMQ as a block/tx stream. We should be able to add an additional authentication layer beyond what's needed for RPC access that's built into Dogebox (TLS, token).

[SomeoneWeird]

Yeah so we already have the concept of 'interfaces' and providers (pups) - I think this "Remote" core basically stemmed from an idea that we can have a pup that is basically just a TCP proxy to a core instance not running on your dogebox. All your other dependant pups can still rely on this proxy but just think they're talking straight to a local core.

[edtubbs]

Yeah a pup controlling a remote core via TCP proxy sounds good. Could expose the existing RPC/ZMQ interfaces to the host with Dogebox handling auth and access control.

[elusiveshiba]

I like the sound of a 'Remote Core' pup! Very little configuration required and would allow other pups to plug into it easily in the existing way they'd plug into Core.

[elusiveshiba]

Dogebox-WG/pups#19