Connect your accounts

You need aq v0.8.0 or later, installed and signed in. See Install. Your team must be on the general console line with the $20 seat active.

1. Add a key

aq accounts add simplepod

aq asks for the fields that provider needs, without echoing them, and writes them to accounts.json in your aq config directory with file mode 0600. On first use it downloads the local executor, then checks the key against the provider and prints the result with a key fingerprint. A key the provider rejects is not kept, and aq prints the provider's error.

Check what is stored:

aq accounts ls

See aq accounts for every subcommand.

2. Start the connector

aq connect

aq connect downloads the local executor if it is missing or out of date, then starts it with your stored keys. It prints a line such as connected as <team-id>: simplepod, massecompute (work), where (work) is a label set with --label, then one line per request it handles. Press Ctrl-C to end the session.

Leave it running while you want to create, stop or terminate boxes from the console or from aq up.

What leaves your machine

• Requests to your provider, made from your machine with your key.
• The result of each request, sent to Aquanode so the console can show it.
• A key fingerprint, which is a truncated hash. It identifies which key is in use and cannot be reversed into the key.

The key itself is not sent to Aquanode, not placed in command arguments or environment variables, and not written to logs.