Nicholas Bruce commented on merge request !4 at Johan Forsberg / Boogie

Nicholas Bruce
2026-02-28T00:41:34Z

Yes happy to expand on the reasoning!

Where I work we have a series of isolated tango systems which you can't ping from a central location (so I can't install boogie on one central computer and then set TANGO_HOST=ip1:10000 or TANGO_HOST=ip2:10000 since ip1 and ip2 are behind various firewalls. The port forwarding would be more brittle than just installing boogie everywhere.

I could install boogie on one of the servers that is a part of each tango system, but a container is preferred because:

everything else is containerized (including the tango devices) so there is actually very little installed on each OS except for docker,

the servers are regularly redeployed, so tools like this often have to be reinstalled

it is possible that it is going to be more difficult in the near-future (due to company policy) to retain elevated permissions on some of these systems. Containers will be continue to be usable, but installing on the host OS will be a bit more annoying.