Architecture

Overview

The cloud desktop architecture is simple. On a high level, it looks like this:

Overview

Cloud Desktop Cluster

Cloud desktop cluster is a cluster of cloud desktops. It is implemented as a K8s cluster for easy scheduling and orchestration of cloud desktop containers.

Cloud Desktop Container

The cloud desktop container provides a virtualized desktop environment that is isolated and portable. It consists of 3 components.

VNC server paired with a NoVNC server
VSCode server
Tailscale client

For details, see Container Image.

Networking

arch network

K8s network: - Used for communication with the load balancer to allow each container to be accessible from a URL - Implemented with Flannel

Tailscale network: - Used for communication between cloud desktops and robots globally - Managed with Tailscale Dashboard

AWS Route53: - Provides DNS records for redirecting traffic to the cluster