- Adds a a `--log-root` option to `swift system start`, propagating the
value as `CONTAINER_LOG_ROOT` to services for logging to files instead
of the OS log facility. This is not a "production" capability as it
neither merges nor rotates logs.
- Currently we don't collect logs on CI builds, and we don't have
permission to run the `log` command there. The PR adds `--log-root` to
the CI test phase, archives the results, and uploads the archive as an
artifact.
- Use FilePath from swift-system for the log root. Foundation URL is a
bit of a footgun for filesystem paths, so unless we identify a
showstopper, we should incrementally transition to this type everywhere
except where we really need network URLs.
- Output the hostname of the CI runner at the start of the test phase so
we can identify runner-specific issues where they exist.
- Fix formatting for log messages with multiple metadata items, and fix
unstructured messages on instances that weren't found using `grep -r
'log\.' Sources`.
- Adds command reference documentation for `--log-root`.
- Closes#1206.
- Closes#1185.
- Closes#507.
- Addresses existing log messages for #642.
- Nondeterministic CI errors are resulting from very slow launch times
for the first runtime helper, which causes ContainersService to be
locked for longer than our 20 sec timeout. Bumping the timeout to 60
seconds addresses this case for now.
- Since many log messages needed to be changed to troubleshoot the
issue, updated all log messages to use structured logging, and
implemented consistent entry/exit logging for all service operations.
- Added logging for ContainerService lock acquisition to help with
finding root cause for the slow service startup.
- Plumbed the `--debug` flag on both `container system start` and
`container system logs` so that the flag is actually useful.
- Updated the `install-init.sh` script so that can install in a custom
app root directory.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
Authors of CLI plugins for container will be able to reuse the container
flags defined in the CLI package, instead of having to duplicate them in
their project
## Testing
- [ ] Tested locally
- [ ] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
Closes#1202
Today it's possible to pass a memory amount that very easily will cause
the container's VM to not be able to boot. We should protect against
this to avoid weird hangs/error messages. I could be convinced that a
limit should be in Containerization as well, but I think having one in
the daemon is a decent idea regardless.
## Type of Change
- [x] New feature
- [x] Breaking change
## Motivation and Context
We want to be able to support using multiple network plugins during
`container`'s lifetime. This additionally means needing to pick an
interface strategy to interpret a network attachment based on what
network plugin was used to create that attachment. This PR will
potentially replace https://github.com/apple/container/pull/1081.
Followups:
- doc updates to include the ability to specify plugin in the network
creation cli
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
Closes#1046 -- Right now we're creating container bundles in
ContainersService. Move this to the SandboxService to make it easier to
support different container bundle types.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
This is not intended to be used to support `--filter` or similar on the
CLIs list yet, it's solely to clean up our rather awkward use of
`ContainerClient.list()` today in the CLI. The list RPC simply returns
all of the containers we have created. Because of this, for a LOT of our
commands we filter to what we need client side, which feels like a
waste.. This change introduces a filter struct that we can provide an
array of container IDs, labels, and the status of the containers to
filter the `list()` output from.
This additionally, because it was killing (pun not intended) me and I
was already having to change this area for the `list()` additions,
changes container kill slightly to return an error if you try and kill a
container that doesn't exist.
`make test` occasionally fails with:
```
✘ Test testHostDNSReinitialize() recorded an issue at HostDNSResolverTest.swift:132:45: Expectation failed: (error →
Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory") as? (ContainerizationError → NSError)
✘ Suite HostDNSResolverTest failed after 0.119 seconds with 1 issue.
```
- Implemented the TODO at
ContainerAPIService/Client/Utility.swift:358 — warn the
user when a named volume is auto-created.
- This only triggers for named volumes (not anonymous
ones), matching Docker's behavior of informing users
about implicit resource creation.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Closes#1150.
- The problem seems to be that the selinux label attribute enforcement
doesn't play well with overlayfs.
- Solution is to set the `lsm` boot line argument. The new value
corresponds to what one would see in a Lima VM with Colima. The Kata
kernel we use doesn't provide any of those modules, so now if you run
`dmesg | grep -i lsm` in a container you will just see: `LSM:
initializing lsm=capability`
Send the hash of entire tar file in the first BuildTransfer packet to
prevent container-builder-shim from using stale cached contents.
This PR resolves#1143.
This PR relies on apple/container-builder-shim#64.
## Type of Change
- [X] Bug fix
- [ ] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
Current container-builder-shim uses only first few bytes of tar file as
checksum, which leads to the usage of stale cached contents if the
change of build context is not included in the first bytes of tar file.
## Testing
- [X] Tested locally
- [ ] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
---------
Co-authored-by: Ronit Sabhaya <ronitsabhaya75@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: J Logan <john_logan@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: saehejkang <saehej.kang@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Anthony DePasquale <anthony@depasquale.org>
- Bump `containerization` to `0.25.0`
- Updates for parameter changes on containerization
registry access API.
- Updates for change to containerization
`cleanUpOrphanedBlobs` function.
ClientContainer was honestly extremely awkward. It could only be created
by passing either a ContainerConfiguration, or a Snapshot that had to be
obtained from calling a static method on the type itself. The type also
did not store a connection, so every single method got a new xpc
connection to the APIServer. This change aims to rework this type to be
just a generic client, that is *not* a client for one specific
container, but for any.
- Rename to ContainerClient
- Have list() return [ContainerSnapshot]
- Create a connection in the constructor
- Change all the callsites to use the new API
- Small, somewhat related, change to logs API in the APIServer. Now that
we don't need to call get() to grab a client anymore which was typically
what did "does this container exist" logic and gave a nice error
message, I added a small check in the APIServer to see if the container
exists and return mostly the same error message.
- Closes#1122.
- Adds placeholder ManagedResource and unit tests. Nothing is using
these yet.
- Adds system-defined resource labels for owning plugin and resource
role. The system discriminates the builtin network using role "builtin".
- Adds builtin role when creating builtin network at startup, and
ensures that a preexisting network with ID "default" gets updated with
the role label.
- Replace all network ID checks for "default" with the builtin role
check.
- Adds "builder" role to builder VM.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
Role and owner labels should make cross-cutting resource policy easier
to implement.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
## Summary
The `reload()` method in `PacketFilter.swift` references
`/sbin/reloadProcess` (the local variable name) instead of
`/sbin/pfctl`. This causes all DNS create and delete operations to fail:
```
Error: internalError: "pfctl reload exec failed: "Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "The file "reloadProcess" doesn't exist.""
```
## Fix
One-line change: `/sbin/reloadProcess` → `/sbin/pfctl`
## Testing
Verified on macOS 26 (Tahoe) with Apple Silicon:
- `sudo container system dns create test.sdc.internal --localhost
203.0.113.1` succeeds without error
- Container can resolve and reach host services through the DNS redirect
- Closes#1113.
- This is the newest we can do until we address #767.
- Slight change to PacketFilter error handling so unit tests work more
reliably.
- Try making CLINetworkTests serialized to see if parallel execution is
causing flakes.
- Refer to #862
- Updated `SIZE` field to `FULL SIZE`, as it seemed more appropriate so
it does not get mixed up with the `descriptor size` field
- Closes#860
- Fixed#892.
- By contrast with `rm`, `prune` should display
the amount of reclaimed storage, so added code
to retrieve it.
Signed-off-by: ChengHao Yang <17496418+tico88612@users.noreply.github.com>
- Closes#977.
- Closes#1058.
- Prevents unexpected removal of containers on
bootstrapping and starting failures, by reorganizing
error handling for container `run`, `start`, and
`exec` so that error handling only unwinds that
which was done in the current scope.
- Relies on apple/containerization#495.
- Closes#1037.
- Adds a `--mode` flag that has `nat` and `hostOnly` options.
The host-only option selects the vmnet host-only mode,
where containers attached to the network can reach each
other and the host, but not external systems.
- Closes#346.
- This PR enables connecting host's localhost ports from
containers.
- It adds an option `--localhost <localhost>` to DNS
create command, after which the packets heading
ip address in container are redirected to localhost in
host machine. Packet filter rule is added and deleted
along with the creation and deletion of localhost domain.
This change adds --dns parameter support to the build command, matching
the existing functionality in the run command. This allows users to
specify custom DNS nameservers (like Google DNS 8.8.8.8) when building
container images, which is essential when the host machine uses a local
DNS resolver (e.g., 127.0.0.2) that doesn't work inside containers.
Changes:
- Added --dns option to BuildCommand to accept DNS nameserver IP
addresses
- Modified build logic to detect DNS configuration changes and recreate
the builder container when DNS settings differ
- Passed DNS configuration to BuilderStart.start() method
- Updated builder container creation to use specified DNS nameservers or
fall back to network gateway
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [X] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
This change adds --dns parameter support to the build command, matching
the existing functionality in the run command. This allows users to
specify custom DNS nameservers (like Google DNS 8.8.8.8) when building
container images, which is essential when the host machine uses a local
DNS resolver (e.g., 127.0.0.2) that doesn't work inside containers.
## Testing
- [X] Tested locally
- [ ] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
---------
Co-authored-by: J Logan <sgtbakerrahulnet@yahoo.com>
- Facilitates #507, #642.
- Plumb logger with logger option access into every command.
- StderrLogHandler allows logging to be enhanced for ANSI color mode for
log levels, JSONL log output, replacing `--debug` with `--level level`.
- Global logger is now just an Application.swift fileprivate only used
for initial args processing.
- Log with timestamp at debug and trace level.
- Metadata output is crude at present; we can refine this in a
follow-up.
## Type of Change
- [x] Bug fix
## Motivation and Context
This PR changes the behavior of the Allocation Only vmnet network plugin
to use the default subnet in the fallback case if no subnet was
specified in the network configuration. This matches the behavior of
`ReservedVmnetNetwork`.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
Closes https://github.com/apple/container/issues/1050
If the sandbox svc exits out of band of the usual stop (or regular exit)
case the container svc's state is not properly updated for the
container. This was due to the cleanup steps involving trying to send
the shutdown rpc which cannot succeed as the sandbox svc does not exist
to service it.
To handle this, let's treat shutdown not returning successfully as
non-fatal (as this is mostly best effort), log an error and continue the
state cleanup.
- Update image load and build to handle rejected paths during tar
extraction. For the image load command there is now a `--force` function
that fails extractions with rejected paths when false, and just warns
about the rejected paths when true.
- Update `container stats` for statistics API properties now all being
optional.
## Type of Change
- [x] Bug fix
- [ ] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [x] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
See above
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
- [x] Added/updated docs
- Adds `aarch64` as an alias for `arm64` in the `Arch` enum. This
addresses the maintainer's request to support this common architecture
name, ensuring consistency with `x86_64` normalization and preventing
failures for users expecting `aarch64` support.
- The container fails to start with a generic "permission denied"
error when attempting to publish privileged ports (ports below
1024) without root privileges. This provides a confusing user
experience as the error doesn't explain why permission was
denied.
- Closes#1005.
- Adapt everything to use MACAddress type from containerization 0.20.0.
- Allocate MAC addresses for every container so that we have
deterministic IPv6 link local addresses.
- Add AAAA handling to ContainerDNSHandler.
- NOTE: Only works on Tahoe. On Sequoia, we don't have a good way to set
or determine the IPv6 network prefix when networks are created, so we
can't infer the IPv6 link local addresses for AAAA responses and we
instead return `NODATA`.
- Closes#461.
- Extract core types into ContainerResources target.
- Extract ContainerNetworkServiceClient from ContainerNetworkService.
- Relocate sandbox client from ContainerClient to
ContainerSandboxServiceClient.
- Relocate ContainerClient to ContainerAPIServiceClient.
- Common structure from services and clients under Source/Services.
Updated project hierarchy:
```
Sources/CAuditToken - audit token access wrapper
Sources/CLI - CLI executable
Sources/ContainerBuild - builder
Sources/ContainerCommands - CLI command implementations
Sources/ContainerLog - logging helpers
Sources/ContainerPersistence - persistent data and system property helpers
Sources/ContainerPlugin - plugin system
Sources/ContainerResource - resource (container, image, volume, network) types
Sources/ContainerVersion - version helpers
Sources/ContainerXPC - XPC helpers
Sources/CVersion - injected project version
Sources/DNSServer - container DNS resolver
Sources/Helpers - service executables
Sources/Services/*/Client - service clients
Sources/Services/*/Server - service implementations
Sources/SocketForwarder - port forwarding
Sources/TerminalProgress - progress bar
```
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [ ] New feature
- [x] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
The ContainerClient library was a bit of a grab bag. This refactor
applies a more sensible project and library structure for resource data
types, services, and clients.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
Fixes#833.
Currently, when stopping and immediately restarting a container, it would fail with the error:
`“container expected to be in created state, got: shuttingDown”` and then be automatically deleted.
The `SandboxService` process waits five seconds before exiting after shutdown. During this interval, a rapid restart could reconnect to the still-terminating process in the `shuttingDown` state, triggering a state validation error.
This fix forcefully terminates the `SandboxService` process with `SIGKILL` upon container exit, instead of waiting five seconds. The bootstrap now defensively checks for and cleans up any stale services before registering new ones, preventing reconnections to processes in the `shuttingDown` state.
- Part of work for #460.
- Enable set/get of IPv6 network prefix in ReservedVmnetNetwork.
- Show IPv6 prefix in `network list` full output.
- Option for setting IPv6 prefix when creating a network.
- System property for default IPv6 prefix.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [x] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
See #460.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [ ] Added/updated tests
- [x] Added/updated docs
- Part of work for #460.
- With CZ release 0.17.0, the IP and CIDR address
types changed from String to IPv4Address and
CIDRv4, respectively. This PR applies the corresponding
adaptations to container.
J Logan