Run the Broker Locally

Goal

Start a local broker with an explicit trust boundary, the built-in auth Layer, and a file connection for development or integration testing.

Recipe

1. Read the current configuration skeleton in the broker operator guide.
2. Build binaries and storage plugins with make dist.
3. Create a local config with a UDS listener, explicit auth configuration, an [ovstorage] Layer graph, and a file [[connections]] entry. For a trusted-local smoke test, auth = "anonymous" is the smallest explicit choice; use kind = "builtin-auth" when testing policy behavior.
4. Create the file connection's root directory.
5. Start the daemon: