Coppice manual

Operator and developer guide for running sandboxes, templates, networking, desktop sessions, and admin surfaces.

The appendices are receipts. The manual is the path through the system: what to run, where to click, which endpoint owns which feature, and what the failure modes look like.

chapter 01

Quickstart

Bring up the gateway, tunnel the UI, create a sandbox, and prove the SDK path.

chapter 02

Feature map

What Coppice provides, which surface exposes it, and what remains intentionally open.

chapter 03

Sandboxes and sessions

How lifecycle, files, commands, browser, desktop, snapshots, and forks fit together.

chapter 04

Templates and guests

Jail templates, OCI imports, bhyve Linux/Windows guests, desktops, and GPU passthrough.

chapter 05

Network and security

VNET, pf anchors, air-gap mode, API keys, secrets, and diagnostics.

chapter 06

Operations

Service management, admin dashboard, metrics, pools, receipts, and safe recovery.