devscope

The tool devscope allows the server to control the client, while the client can see what the server is doing. It is useful for remote assistance, and explore non-interactive develop environments such as containers by cloud providers.

Build

Building requires go >= 1.15. Simply, run

go build ./cmd/devscope

Example Run

1. Server starts listening:

~$ devscope listen :5072
   • Listening at :5072

2. Client connects to the server, and transfer control to the server.

~$ devscope connect localhost:5072
   • Connected to localhost:5072
   • Running /bin/sh -i
   • Control transferred to Server
$

3. Server can explore on behalf of the client:

~$ devscope listen :5072
   • Listening at :5072
   • Accepted from 127.0.0.1:44694
$ echo hello world
hello world
$