{section: description}

The annex daemon will be the production implementation of the _condor_annex_ tool.  (See ExperimentalCondorAnnex.)  At present, it provides only the ability to provision leased AWS instances efficiently (in bulk).

The lease implementation requires an AWS Lambda function; rather than upload it every time, for efficiency the annex daemon must be provided the function's ARN.  This may be automated in the future; see the installation instructions, below, for the manual process.

{section: installation}

Install the pre-release package(s) as normal.

Add the following three lines to your HTCondor configuration:

{verbatim}
# Turn the annex daemon on.
DAEMON_LIST = $(DAEMON_LIST) ANNEXD

# Optional: configure the default endpoints.  All three endpoints need to be the same region.
ANNEX_DEFAULT_EC2_URL = https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
ANNEX_DEFAULT_CWE_URL = https://events.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
ANNEX_DEFAULT_LAMBDA_URL = https://lambda.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
{endverbatim}

{subsection: Lambda function}

Do the following for each region you intend to use.

[FIXME]  The examples directory will include a file, =template-3.json=.

{section: usage}