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The program now lives in /usr/local/lib/bamboo and is owned by its service user so it can replace itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Bamboo
Bamboo runs inside your home or private network. It dials out to Blacktip over WireGuard, so it works behind NAT, and passes traffic to your real services. It can also list your Docker containers as targets and run a local mail relay for outgoing mail.
Part of the sharks stack: [Hammerhead](https://git.veillax.com/Veillax/hammerhead) (control plane and dashboard) · [Blacktip](https://git.veillax.com/Veillax/blacktip) (edge) · **Bamboo** (site agent) · [Reef](https://git.veillax.com/Veillax/reef) (shared library). Everything is configured from Hammerhead's web dashboard; the full documentation lives in [its README](https://git.veillax.com/Veillax/hammerhead).
## Run it
In Hammerhead, go to Sites → add a site. The dashboard shows the exact command with your token. It looks like this:
```
bamboo -hammerhead https://hammerhead.example.com -token <site token> -docker
```
Bamboo only makes outbound connections (HTTPS to Hammerhead, and WireGuard UDP to each edge), so it needs no open ports and no port forwarding.
| Flag | Environment | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `-hammerhead` | `BAMBOO_HAMMERHEAD` | URL of Hammerhead |
| `-token` | `BAMBOO_TOKEN` | the site's token |
| `-data` | `BAMBOO_DATA` | folder for this agent's WireGuard key (default `./bamboo-data`) |
| `-docker` | `BAMBOO_DOCKER=1` | report local Docker containers so they can be picked as targets |
| `-env` | | `.env` file to read (default `./.env`) |
Settings and secrets can live in a `.env` file instead of the command line; see `.env.example`. Real environment variables always win.
## What it does
- **Tunnel:** one WireGuard peer per edge, through a userspace network stack (no root, no kernel interface, no driver; works on Windows, macOS and Linux). Its private key never leaves this machine. TCP connections and native UDP datagrams are accepted from the edge and handed to your services.
- **Docker discovery:** with `-docker`, lists running containers (and their ports and networks) so you can pick one as a target in the dashboard.
- **Mail relay:** for a mail egress configured in the dashboard, opens a small SMTP relay on this machine (default `127.0.0.1:2525`). Point your mail server at it (Postfix: `relayhost = [127.0.0.1]:2525`) and each outgoing message leaves from the edge's public IP, so reverse DNS, SPF and your HELO name line up. Supports `AUTH PLAIN/LOGIN`, requires a password if it listens beyond `127.0.0.1`, relays one destination domain per transaction (extra domains get `452` so your server resends them separately), and passes your server's queue and retries through unchanged. 50 MB message limit.
## Deploying
Releases are built by Gitea Actions. Pushing a tag such as `v0.2.0` runs `.gitea/workflows/release.yml`, which tests the code, builds Bamboo for Linux (amd64, arm64, armv7), Windows (amd64) and macOS (amd64, arm64), publishes the archives with a `SHA256SUMS` file on the Releases page, and pushes a multi-architecture container image to this server's registry (`git.veillax.com/veillax/bamboo`). Every push and pull request runs `.gitea/workflows/ci.yml`: formatting, vet, tests, and a check that every release platform still compiles.
**On a Linux server (systemd)**
```
curl -LO https://git.veillax.com/Veillax/bamboo/releases/download/v0.1.0/bamboo_v0.1.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
curl -LO https://git.veillax.com/Veillax/bamboo/releases/download/v0.1.0/SHA256SUMS
sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS
tar xzf bamboo_v0.1.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz && cd bamboo_v0.1.0_linux_amd64
sudo ./install.sh # installs the binary and a hardened systemd service
sudoedit /etc/bamboo/bamboo.env # your settings and secrets
sudo systemctl start bamboo
```
Use `linux_arm64` or `linux_arm` for Raspberry Pi and other ARM machines. To upgrade, repeat the same steps: your settings and data are kept. `sudo ./install.sh --uninstall` removes the service and binary but leaves `/etc/bamboo` and `/var/lib/bamboo` alone. `bamboo -version` tells you which build is running.
**Updates**
Set `BAMBOO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` (or pass `-auto-update`) and Bamboo checks this server for a newer release every few hours, verifies it against `SHA256SUMS`, checks that the new binary runs, swaps it in and restarts itself. It only follows full releases (never pre-releases), never downgrades, and keeps the old binary if anything looks wrong. `setup.sh` turns it on. It is not available on Windows, and it is for the systemd and plain-binary installs: with Docker, pull a new image instead.
**With Docker**
```
cp .env.example .env # fill it in
docker compose -f deploy/docker-compose.yml up -d
```
The image is `git.veillax.com/veillax/bamboo:<version>` (and `:latest` for full releases). The compose file is in the repository and inside each Linux archive.
**Setting up the build (once)**
- A Gitea Actions runner with the label `ubuntu-latest`, and Docker on it if you want the container image.
- Nothing else is required: the workflows use the automatic job token. If your server doesn't let that token publish releases or packages, add the secrets `RELEASE_TOKEN` and `REGISTRY_TOKEN` (access tokens with release and package write permission) and optionally the variable `REGISTRY_USER`.
- To skip the container image, set the repository variable `PUBLISH_DOCKER` to `false`.
- Build locally with `sh deploy/build.sh` (archives in `dist/`).
## Build and test
```
go env -w GOPRIVATE=git.veillax.com # once, so Go fetches straight from this server
go build -o bin/ ./cmd/bamboo
go test ./...
```
The end-to-end tests that run Bamboo together with Hammerhead and Blacktip live in the Hammerhead repository.
## License
AGPL-3.0. See `LICENSE`.