Docs: Update to guide on dropping satellite cache #3282
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| Running the `update` command with `--drop-cache` will relaunch the instance with an empty cache volume. | ||
| Note that this operation can take a while, and the satellite may also receive any available updates during the process. | ||
| The satellite must also be in a sleep state first, you can force a satellite to sleep by running `earthly satellite sleep` |
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Could we just make it sleep automatically? That would be a nicer UX.
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I like that idea. I think it would make sense for earthly cli to drive that, and perhaps ask the user if they want to force it asleep before proceeding
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It's better if it's not interactive.. maybe it fails, unless --force is used.
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@brandonSc we ran into this use-case today where a user needed to do a --drop-cache on a shared satellite. Even chaining two commands together, e.g. earthly satellite sleep my-sat && earthly satellite update --drop-cache my-sat didn't always work as other users (or the CI) would cause a wake to occur before the second command was executed.
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Interesting... so a client-side-only solution would not be enough. We need the server to support this atomically.
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I'm going to convert this to a draft since it's blocked by code-change. |
Feedback from a user who didn't realize the satellite need to be asleep first.