@kapa.ai What is airbox?

Airbox is Airbyte’s command-line tool for deploying and managing self-managed data planes on Kubernetes, aimed at teams that have limited Kubernetes expertise or don’t want to deploy with Helm.[Deploy with Airbox] Key points from the docs: • It’s used with Enterprise Flex to run a self-managed data plane (e.g., on a VM, bare metal server, or local machine).[Deploy with Airbox] • It uses Docker to create a Kubernetes cluster on the host and then installs the data plane into that cluster.[Deploy with Airbox] • You configure it to talk to the Airbyte managed control plane (

airbox config init

), authenticate (

airbox auth login

), and then deploy a data plane (

airbox install dataplane

).[[Auth]](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/enterprise-flex/data-plane-util#part-5-authenticate-with-airbyte; \\Deploy DP • It stores its configuration (auth, context, org/workspace IDs) in

~/.airbyte/airbox/config.yaml

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