The Jumpstarter Protocol defines the gRPC-based communication layer for the Jumpstarter Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) ecosystem. It enables seamless, secure, and scalable interaction between clients, the Jumpstarter Service, and exporters - whether they are interfacing with physical or virtual hardware, locally or remotely.
The protocol provides a unified gRPC interface for clients to control and monitor hardware, exporters to expose hardware interfaces, and the Jumpstarter Service to route and manage connections. Thanks to gRPC's support for HTTP/2, streaming, and tunneling, the protocol works efficiently across enterprise networks, VPNs, and cloud environments.
The protobuf definitions live under proto/. Downstream consumers generate
language-specific bindings using Buf. Both the controller
(Go) and the Python packages maintain their own buf.gen.yaml to generate stubs
from these definitions.
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