AMS configuration

AMS provides various configuration items to customise its behaviour. The following table lists the available configuration items and their meaning.

Name Type Default Description
application.addons string - Comma-separated list of addons that every application managed by AMS will use. See How to enable an addon globally.
application.auto_publish bool true If set to true, AMS automatically published new application versions when the bootstrap process is finished. false disables this. See Publish application versions.
application.auto_update bool true If set to true, AMS automatically updates applications whenever any dependencies (parent image, addons, global configuration) change. false disables this. See Configure automatic application updates.
application.default_abi string - Default Android ABI that applications should use. See Android ABIs for a list of available ABIs.
application.max_published_versions integer 3 Maximum number of published versions per application. If the number of versions of an application exceeds this configuration, AMS will automatically clean up older versions.
container.apt_mirror string - APT mirror to use within the containers. By default, http://archive.ubuntu.com (amd64) or http://ports.ubuntu.com (arm64) is used.
container.default_platform string - The name of the platform that Anbox uses by default to launch containers.
container.features string - Comma-separated list of features to enable (see list below).
container.network_proxy string - Network proxy to use inside the containers.
container.security_updates bool true If set to true, automatic Ubuntu security updates are applied during the application bootstrap process. false disables this.
core.proxy_http string - HTTP proxy to use for HTTP requests that AMS performs.
core.proxy_https string - HTTPS proxy to use for HTTPS requests that AMS performs.
core.proxy_ignore_hosts string - Comma-separated list that defines the hosts for which a configured proxy is not used.
core.trust_password string - The AMS trust password.
cpu.limit_mode string scheduler The mode AMS uses to limit CPU access for a container. See About performance for details. Possible values are: scheduler, pinning
gpu.allocation_mode string all Method of allocating GPUs: all tells AMS to allocate all available GPUs on a system to a container. single allocates only a single GPU.
gpu.type string none Type of GPU: none, intel, nvidia, amd
images.allow_insecure bool false If set to true, AMS allows accepting untrusted certificates provided by the configured image server.
images.auth string - Authentication details for AMS to access the image server. When reading this configuration, a Boolean value that indicates whether the item is set is returned, to avoid exposing credentials.
images.update_interval string 5m Frequency of image updates (for example: 1h, 30m).
images.url string https://images.anbox-cloud.io/stable/ URL of the image server to use.
images.version_lockstep bool true Whether to put the version of the latest pulled image and the AMS version in a lockstep. This ensures that a deployment is not automatically updated to newer image versions if AMS is still at an older version. This only applies for new major and minor but not patch version updates.
load_balancer.url string - URL of the load balancer behind which AMS sits. The URL is handed to containers started by AMS to allow them to contact AMS through the load balancer and not via the address of an individual AMS instance.
node.queue_size integer 100 Maximum size of the queue containing requests to start and stop container per LXD node. Changing the value requires a restart of AMS.
node.workers_per_queue integer 4 Number of workers processing container start and stop requests. Changing the value requires a restart of AMS.
registry.filter string - Comma-separated list of tags to filter for when applications are fetched from the Anbox Application Registry. If empty, no filter is applied.
registry.fingerprint string - Fingerprint of the certificate that the Anbox Application Registry uses to TLS-secure its HTTPS endpoint. This is used by AMS for mutual TLS authentication with the registry.
registry.mode string pull Mode in which the Anbox Application Registry client in AMS operates: manual, pull, push
registry.update_interval string 1h Frequency of Anbox Application Registry updates (for example: 1h, 30m).
registry.url string - URL of the Anbox Application Registry to use.
scheduler.strategy string spread Strategy that the internal container scheduler in AMS uses to distribute containers across available LXD nodes: binpack, spread

Node-specific configuration

In a cluster setup, there are configuration items that can be customised for each node. The following table lists the available configuration items and their meaning.

Name Type Default Description
cpu-allocation-rate integer 4 CPU allocation rate used for over-committing resources.
cpus integer all available Number of CPUs dedicated to Anbox containers.
gpu-encoder-slots integer 0 (for nodes without GPU or with AMD GPU)
32 (for nodes with NVIDIA GPU)
10 (for nodes with Intel GPU)		 Number of GPU encoder slots available on the node.
gpu-slots integer 0 (for nodes without GPU)
32 (for nodes with NVIDIA GPU)
10 (for nodes with AMD or Intel GPU)		 Number of GPU slots available on the node.
memory integer all available Memory dedicated to Anbox containers.
memory-allocation-rate integer 2 Memory allocation rate used for over-committing resources.
public-address string - The public, reachable address of the node.
subnet string - The network subnet of the machine where the node runs.
tags string - Tags to identify the node.
unschedulable bool false If set to true, the node cannot be scheduled, which prevents new containers from being launched on it.

See Configure cluster nodes for instructions on how to set these configuration items.

Features

Anbox Cloud includes some features which are not enabled by default but can be conditionally enabled. The features are enabled by flags which are configured through AMS. You can configure the feature flags either globally for all containers or per application.

To configure a feature globally for all containers, use a command similar to the following:

amc config set container.feature foo,bar

To configure a feature for one application in the manifest, use a syntax similar to the following:

name: my-app
instance-type: a4.3
features: ["foo", "bar"]

System UI

By default, Anbox hides the Android system UI when an application is running in foreground mode. In some use cases, however, it’s required to have the system UI available for navigation purposes. This can be enabled with the enable_system_ui feature flag.

The feature flag will be considered by all new launched containers once set.

Virtual Keyboard

The Android virtual keyboard is disabled by default but can be enabled with the enable_virtual_keyboard feature flag.

For the feature to be considered, applications must be manually updated, because changes to allow the feature to work are only applied during the application bootstrap process.

Client-Side Virtual Keyboard

The client-side virtual keyboard is disabled by default but can be enabled with the enable_anbox_ime feature flag. It requires the client application to embed Anbox WebView which interacts with the client-side virtual keyboard for text editing and sends the text to the Android container.

For the feature to be considered, applications must be manually updated, because changes to allow the feature to work are only applied during the application bootstrap process.

WiFi

WiFi support can be optionally enabled with the enable_wifi feature flag. Anbox will then set up a virtual WiFi device, which sits on top of an Ethernet connection and simulates a real WiFi connection.

The feature flag will be considered by all newly launched containers once set.

Android reboot

By default, Android is not allowed to reboot. With the allow_android_reboot feature flag, this can be allowed.

Note that you must disable the watchdog if reboots are allowed.

The feature flag will be considered by all newly launched containers once set.

AV1 software encoder

since 1.17.0

The AV1 software encoder is disabled by default but can be enabled with the experimental.force_av1_software_encoding feature flag. To transcode the video stream encoded in AV1 codec, all clients must support AV1 decoding.

Once set, this feature flag will be considered by all newly launched containers.

Development settings

since 1.18.0

The Android development settings (which include an ADB connection) are enabled by default. Some applications require these settings to be disabled, which you can do with the disable_development_settings feature flag.

Once set, this feature flag will be considered by all newly launched containers.

Custom Android ID

since 1.18.0

To enable the Android container to use a custom Android ID, add the feature flag android.allow_custom_android_id upon application creation. A system app can influence the Android ID of a specific app during the Android runtime by setting the system property in the format of:

`anbox.custom_android_id.<index>=<package_name>:<android_id>`
  • The <index> is a number in the range from 0 to 126, which allows you to have multiple overrides for different packages. If the same <package_name> with the different <android_id> is given for multiple system properties anbox.custom_android_id.<index>, the Android ID read from the system property which has the highest suffixing index that will be used in the end.
  • The <package_name> is the package name of the application.
  • The <android_id> is a unique ID that represents the Android ID for the targeting application. It must be at least 16 characters in length.

Once set, this feature flag will be considered by all newly launched containers.

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