Sauce Connect handing (setup/teardown)

[santiycr]

Have Grid optionally handle Sauce Connect setup/teardown during registration

[santiycr]

There's Java code available for this already that can be re-used:
https://github.com/saucelabs/ci-sauce

[freynaud]

is that the ssh tunnel ?

[santiycr]

Yes, this is the tunneling technology that allows sauce to hit internal servers

[freynaud]

how does the tunnel work ? is the tunnel between my tests and the sauce grid, or between my tests and a sauce node ?

[santiycr]

That's an excellent question. The answer is "it depends". The tunnel basically let's cloud browsers proxy through an HTTP proxy created in the machine that runs the Connect script. This means that it can be either in the nodes or the hub.
Due to the fact only one tunnel needs to be running for one account and that every test for that account is proxied through the tunnel automatically as soon as connect is started, I'd recommend the hub, as it makes more sense for the hub to be the master coordinator of the tunnel as well as the tests.