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Greenfield architecture spec set for the alknet-docker crate — a thin, single-host bollard wrapper exposing docker container/image operations as call-protocol ops on the shared alknet/call ALPN, plus a DockerTtyBackend (impl TtyBackend) behind a tty feature for interactive terminal sessions into containers over alknet/tty. Six ADRs: - 058: docker ops on alknet/call (no separate ALPN; raw-carriage handoff dissolved by alknet-tty extraction — interactive attach moved to alknet/tty via DockerTtyBackend, no carriage field on call.requested) - 059: bollard 0.21 (verified current on crates.io) + feature selection (http+pipe+time; no ssl/ssh/websocket/buildkit) - 060: container resource model (ADR-050 application) — alknet.managed/ alknet.owner labels, list owned_only flag, hosted-services operator role via static-resource fallback, handler-driven revoke with autonomous-death tolerance, resource-action vocabulary - 061: DockerTtyBackend in alknet-docker behind tty feature (attach vs exec mode; POC drive_attach_raw as reference) - 062: Docker client + OwnershipStore injection via closure capture (not Capabilities, not OperationContext — matches from_openapi pattern) - 063: exit code on terminal call.responded for non-interactive exec (call.completed stays empty, ADR-012 unchanged) Four spec docs (crates/docker/): README, overview, docker-operations, docker-tty-backend. Four deferred-scope OQs (048-051): network/volume ops, buildkit, system events subscription, create options surface. Updates the tty-backend.md Backend implementations table (DockerTtyBackend row now specced) and the architecture README (doc table, ADR table, current-state paragraph, OQ count). Grounded in the alknet-docker POC (docs/research/alknet-docker/poc-summary.md) which validated the hard parts; the remaining lifecycle ops are mechanical bollard wrapping. Reviewed by architecture-reviewer subagent; criticals (the docker_client injection model conflicting with the Capabilities contract) resolved via ADR-062/063 before commit.
Alknet
Status: Pre-alpha — This project is undergoing a major architectural pivot to an ALPN-as-service model. The previous implementation has been archived and a greenfield rebuild is in progress.
A self-hostable networking toolkit built on QUIC+TLS with ALPN-based protocol dispatch. Each protocol handler (SSH, SFTP, Git, HTTP, DNS, messaging, call protocol) registers an ALPN string on a shared endpoint. The ALPN negotiation during the TLS/QUIC handshake routes connections to the correct handler before any application bytes are read.
Core Insight
A service IS an ALPN. One endpoint, one port, many protocols — dispatched by the TLS handshake, not by application-level peeking or separate listeners.
Crates
| Crate | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
alknet-vault |
stable | Local key vault: BIP39/SLIP-0010/AES-GCM key derivation and encryption |
alknet-core |
planned | ProtocolHandler trait, ALPN router, auth/identity, config |
alknet-ssh |
planned | SSH handler (russh), SOCKS5, port forwarding |
alknet-call |
planned | JSON-RPC call protocol (EventEnvelope framing) |
alknet-fs |
planned | Content-addressed file storage (iroh-blobs backend) |
alknet-sftp |
planned | SFTP handler (russh-sftp protocol core) |
alknet-git |
planned | Git smart protocol handler (gix) |
alknet-http |
planned | HTTP handler (axum, REST API, MCP) |
alknet-dns |
planned | DNS handler (hickory-proto, pkarr) |
alknet-msg |
planned | E2E encrypted messaging, mixnet support |
alknet |
planned | CLI binary (assembles and registers handlers) |
Documentation
- ALPN-as-service architecture — pivot proposal
- Cleanup plan — greenfield transition plan
- SDD process — spec-driven development process
- Research references — iroh, russh, russh-sftp deep dives
Reference implementation (previous architecture) is preserved at /workspace/@alkdev/alknet-main/.
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
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