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Thanks for putting this out! I caught a Gremlin talk at a recent conference and was very impressed with how knowledgeable the developers were.

How does the Gremlin platform interact with one of my hosts? Do I need to install an agent or something? Does it need root access to my host, hypervisor, cloud console?

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Simply install an agent, authenticate with our control plane, and create attacks through our webapp. No root access required.

Check out more info at https://www.gremlin.com/docs/infrastructure-layer/installati... .

If root is not required, how does the agent issue a shutdown or restart?

Hello! I am a Solutions Architect for Gremlin. Great question! It uses four Linux Capabilities to accomplish that listed here: https://www.gremlin.com/docs/security/overview/#linux-capabi...

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