- Addresses slow cross-platform builds from #68.
- The shim wasn't doing everything needed to ensure the use of Rosetta for
`container build`. The new shim adds an `--enable-qemu` option that
controls whether `buildkit-qemu-emulator-x86_64 is available; when it is
not available, buildkitd will attempt to build natively, meaning Rosetta
will execute amd64 binaries.
Currently, when `FileDownloader.downloadFile()` encounters an error
during `client.execute()` (e.g., XPC connection interruption or network
timeout), the `HTTPClient` instance is deallocated without calling
`shutdown()`, resulting in a crash:
`AsyncHTTPClient/HTTPClient.swift:187: Fatal error: Client not shut down
before the deinit.`
This caused to a control flow issue when attempting to download the
default kernel during `container system start` and, under certain
conditions (e.g., network latency), encountering the timeout error
`HTTPClientError.connectTimeout`.
To address this, `client.execute()` is now wrapped in a do/catch to
ensure `shutdown()` is always called on both success and error paths.
Also I've added an explicit timeout configuration (30s connect, no read
timeout) to better accommodate large file downloads.
- In Alpine Linux containers (commonly used as Docker base images),
standard DNS resolution is provided by **musl**, a lightweight C
standard library (libc). Musl implements DNS lookups via
`getaddrinfo()`, which queries AAAA (IPv6) records first.
- Problem: DNS did not work correctly **inside containers**. Any
system command attempting to resolve hostnames
(e.g., `ping dynamodb-admin`) **failed** when the DNS server
responded NXDOMAIN for AAAA records, even if A (IPv4) records
existed. Explicitly forcing IPv4 (`ping -4dynamodb-admin`) worked
correctly, showing the issue is specific to musl’s IPv6-first behavior.
- Consequence: In IPv4-only environments, Alpine-based containers
cannot resolve hostnames using standard tools or libraries.
Applications relying on `getaddrinfo()` fail with ENOTFOUND,
breaking networking and inter-container communication.
- Root cause: Following RFC 8305 / RFC 6724, musl treats NXDOMAIN
for AAAA as “hostname does not exist” and does not fallback to A
(IPv4) records.
- Fix: The Apple Container DNS engine now behaves as follows:
* If an **A record exists**, AAAA queries return **NOERROR with empty
answer (NODATA)**.
* If neither **A nor AAAA** exist, NXDOMAIN is returned.
This ensures that Alpine-based containers in IPv4-only networks can
correctly resolve hostnames inside containers without modifying
container images or application code.
- Closes#752.
- Currently, there is no way to specify a custom MAC address for a
container's network interface and the MAC address is auto-generated by
the system.
- Use Cases
- **Network Testing**: Developers testing network-dependent applications
that need predictable MAC addresses
- **License Management**: Running containerized software with MAC-based
license keys
- **Network Automation**: Scripts and tools that expect specific MAC
addresses for configuration
- **Debugging**: Consistent MAC addresses across container restarts for
easier troubleshooting
Closes#782#99
If a Dockerfile can't be found in the context dir, check for the common
alternative Containerfile. This does not implement .containerignore
also, solely Containerfile for now. This also funnily enough fixes us
not checking for the Dockerfile IN the context directory.. woops.
## Type of Change
- [x] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
- [x] Added/updated docs
- Closes#508.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
Adds a `container volume prune` command that removes volumes with no
container references and reports the amount of disk space reclaimed.
This helps users clean up unused volumes and easily reclaim disk space.
Also updates the `volume delete` documentation to clarify and highlight
how the `--all` flag works.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
- [x] Added/updated docs
Fixes#772
Today it fails in bootstrap the second go around, and we also have an
error handler that automatically cleans up the container if bootstrap
failed which is even worse. This change short circuits us first in the
cli if the state is running when we get() the container, and also adds
in a clause to bootstrap to just early return if we already have a
client.
- Closes#690.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
Named volumes are now implicitly created when referenced in container
commands. So, if `myvolume` doesn't exist and you run `container run -v
myvolume:/data alpine`, it is automatically created.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
- [x] Added/updated docs
## Type of Change
- [x] Bug fix
## Motivation and Context
Required for builder to run correctly with bug fix in containerization
here https://github.com/apple/containerization/pull/329. Builder was
previously not passing any environment variables when starting the
initial process.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
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Signed-off-by: Kathryn Baldauf <k_baldauf@apple.com>
Closes#416.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [ ] New feature
- [x] Breaking change (possibly, I would think we're just going to leave
an unused `.build` directory behind which we can document, but can run
more tests next week).
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
We have nothing to hide?
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [ ] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
Closes#691
Any envvars that had equal signs in the value would be ommitted today.
This change brings it much more in line with docker's behavior/parser
and adds unit tests to verify this is the case.
This PR fixes several races with the `stop()` and `shutdown()` methods
by moving all state transitions inside a lock.
## Type of Change
- [x] Bug fix
- [ ] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
[Why is this change needed?]
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [ ] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
- Makes ProcessIO more generally available.
- `Application.handleProcess(processIO:process:)` becomes
`processIO.handleProcess(process:log:)`.
## Motivation and Context
This code shouldn't be in the CLI, it should be part of ContainerClient.
- Initial work for #642. CLI commands will configure this log handler so
that they write warnings and errors to stderr, and only proper output
will go to stdout.
- Facilitates #507. The `--debug` option can set the logging level
appropriately, and CLI commands can just use `log.debug()`.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
- Part of #515.
- Order options alphabetically.
- Use consistent descriptions for platform, os, arch.
- Add os/arch options to push.
- Rename ImageRemove to ImageDelete since delete is the primary command
and rm is the alias.
## Motivation and Context
Clear, consistent presentation of command help.
- Part of #653.
- No need for `defaultCommand` since ContainerService startup will write
a new launchd plist with the `start` subcommand included.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [ ] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
Allows us to add commands to support post-installation, migration, etc.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [ ] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
- Part of #515.
- Add titles to option groups for container subcommands.
- Order option groups and container subcommand options alphabetically.
- Use `container-id` and `container-ids` consistently as argument names.
- Shorten long valueNames to avoid option column overflow in help output
where possible.
- Replace customShort and customLong with short, long, and shortAndLong
where possible.
- Always place global options and arguments after alphabetized
command-specific options.
- Rename RunCommand to ContainerRun and relocate it.
- Rename Executable to ContainerCLI.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [ ] New feature
- [x] Breaking change (if you're depending on `RunCommand`, renamed).
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
See #385.
## Testing
- [ ] Tested locally
- [ ] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
After the large reworks, I'm not as worried about having this timeout
anymore. Prior to the reworks stop was signaled via an async event sent
to the daemon as stop was performed directly on the given runtime-helper
instance. If anything errored during that it was common for things to
explode, but now that stop is:
client -> APIServer -> runtime-helper instance
and the logic for stop has been improved quite a bit, in addition to
stop no longer holding a lock during it's operation, I'm not sure we
need this. In the future it'd also be nice to support no timeout (the
timeout until we send SIGKILL, not response timeout) in which case we'd
have to have an extra bit of logic here to skip the response timeout in
that scenario anyways.
J Logan