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socat

Recipe card from the charly-infrastructure plugin (Images — the deployable catalog).

socat – Socket relay tool

Section titled “socat – Socket relay tool”

Candy Properties

Section titled “Candy Properties”
Property Value
Install files charly.yml, task:

Packages

Section titled “Packages”

RPM: socat, iproute

Cross-distro coverage

Section titled “Cross-distro coverage”

rpm: (Fedora), pac: (Arch), deb: (Debian/Ubuntu — socat, iproute2). Full parity.

Usage

Section titled “Usage”
charly.yml
my-image:
  candy:
    - socat

Typically not added directly. Auto-included when a candy uses port_relay: in its charly.yml.

Note: Chrome no longer uses socat for its DevTools port relay. Chrome now uses a cdp-proxy Python supervisord service (see /charly-selkies:chrome). Socat is still used by other port_relay consumers.

Used In Boxes

Section titled “Used In Boxes”
  • Part of the charly candy’s full toolchain (used in githubrunner)
Section titled “Related Candies”

When to Use This Skill

Section titled “When to Use This Skill”

Use when the user asks about:

  • Port relay setup (eth0 to loopback)
  • socat configuration
  • Exposing loopback-only services
  • The socat candy or port_relay field

Author + Test References

Section titled “Author + Test References”