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constants
The constants object exposes a list of constant values about the system Alloy is running on:
constants.hostname: The hostname of the machine Alloy is running on.constants.os: The operating system Alloy is running on.constants.arch: The architecture of the system Alloy is running on.constants.version: The version of the Alloy instance if the binary was built with the version information, otherwise it’s an empty string.
Examples
> constants.hostname
"my-hostname"
> constants.os
"linux"
> constants.arch
"amd64"Was this page helpful?
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