## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
`container` runs each workload in an ephemeral VM, so there's no
built-in way to keep a persistent Linux environment you can log into and
work in. `container machine` adds one.
A container machine is a lightweight, persistent, and integrated Linux
environments that feel like an extension of your Mac, created from
standard OCI images with a familiar UX. The login user matches your host
account with passwordless `sudo`, your home directory is mounted inside
the VM, and each machine keeps its filesystem and runs the image's own
init system (such as`systemd` or `openrc`).
```bash
container machine create alpine:3.22 --name my-machine
container machine run -n my-machine # interactive shell
container machine set -n my-machine cpus=4 memory=8G
```
Subcommands: `create`, `run`, `list` (`ls`), `inspect`, `set`,
`set-default`, `logs`, `stop`, `delete` (`rm`); `m` aliases `machine`.
Docs added to `docs/command-reference.md` (Machine Management) and
`docs/how-to.md` ("Use container machines").
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
- [x] Added/updated docs
Signed-off-by: Raj Aryan Singh <rajaryan_singh@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Jaewon Hur <jaewon_hur@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: John Logan <john_logan@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Crosby <michael_crosby@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Ernst <eric_ernst@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Danny Canter <danny_canter@apple.com>
- Discussion topic #1336.
- This change migrates away from using `UserDefaults`,
instead providing a TOML configuration mechanism for
user configurable settings. All existing system property
settings keys are supported in the new configuration
file. However, users will have to migrate any settings
they have configured in the `UserDefaults` into TOML
for these settings to take effect.
- Breaking changes:
* `container system property get` is removed in favor of
users directly utilizing `container system property list --format toml | jq<>`.
* `container system property set` is removed since the TOML
configuration is effectively immutable during the lifetime of the
`container` daemon. Uses can edit the TOML they have in their home
directory, however no changes will take effect until the daemon is
restarted via `container system stop && container system start`
* `container system property list --format table` is removed as
generating tabular format is non-trivial and the new TOML format is
intended to be human readable
Raj