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My end goal is to have a simple way to connect my foundry instance to a local llm setup on my macbook. The Data Connection Agent approach would be the simplest setup it seems like, but it has HW/SW requirements that make it hard to run on a Mac target. I am looking into secure tunnel initiator now but I am wondering if there is a simpler product offering that would make this setup easier?

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Hi!

Agents are intended to be run on either Linux (recommended) or Windows (not recommended). Running an agent on MacOS is not supported.

However, one workaround depending on your system is to follow the standard Linux agent installations steps but with the following changes:

  1. Ensure JAVA_HOME points to Java 21 in your environment
    1. For example: export JAVA_HOME=$("/usr/libexec/java_home" -v "21")
  2. Delete the javaHome line from the service/bin/launcher-static.yml file in your agent
    1. It may look like javaHome: "jdk/..."

Running a Secure Tunnels initiator requires either an existing agent to run it on, or to configure it as a Helm chart via Apollo.

There currently aren’t any other ways we support connecting to local machines.

Hope that helps!