## 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>
- Closes#1528.
- Several commands (`builder status`, `image list`,
`stats`, `system df`, `system status`) advertised
`--format yaml` and `--format toml` but only handled
`json`, and every other format fell through to the
table. With this PR, we now route them through one
shared renderer with an exhaustive switch over the
format enum, so a missing format would now be a
compile error, and not just fail silently.
- Since TOML has no top level array, TOML output
now wraps list payloads under an `items` key,
because otherwise it was returning nothing for lists.
- `stats` now prints one static result for machine
readable formats instead of opening its live table
view.
- `builder status` now returns an empty list for
json/yaml/toml when no builder is running, instead
of the unparseable "builder is not running" text.
The table view keeps the message.
- with `--quiet` and no builder it now exits 0 with
no output, earlier it exited non-zero.
Today when we send a signal we don't wait for the container to exit, as
we don't know what signals the program will actually do anything with.
However, sigkill does not fit this mold, and we should wait for the
container to exit (or be removed for --rm containers).
Normalize JSON output for network and volume resources. (#1624)
- Reworks both JSON output presets to use sorted keys, ISO timestamps.
`compact` is used for `ls` output, and `pretty` is used for `inspect`.
- Extracts non-DRY option configuration into presets.
- Closes#1623.
## Type of Change
- [x] Bug fix
## Motivation and Context
Many CLI commands need to reference the system configurations for
`container`. Previously, CLI commands would try to load the system
configurations from the default application root location, regardless of
if `container` had been started with a custom application root location.
This PR fixes that issue by having each CLI command ping the APIServer's
health check service to get the correct app root path.
Closes https://github.com/apple/container/issues/1576
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
Signed-off-by: Kathryn Baldauf <k_baldauf@apple.com>
- Closes#1581.
- This adds stop signal support to the cli. The priority is:
1. If an explicit stop signal is passed on the cli use this.
2. If not, check if there is a stop signal in the image config.
3. Finally, use the default (TERM).
- Replace `URL` with `FilePath` in `container copy` (#1557).
In addition, make `copyIn`/`copyOut` API to use `String` for path as we
need to preserve the trailing slash to the `LinuxContainer.copy`---i.e.,
this trailing slash is used in `LinuxContainer.copy` to determine copy
behavior.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [x] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
Adds the `container copy` (aliased as `cp`) command to copy files
between a running container and the local filesystem.
I saw [#1023](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/1023) and the
feedback from @dcantah — the previous attempt relied on tar being
installed inside the container.
This implementation takes the recommended approach:
file transfers go through the guest agent via the existing
`copyIn`/`copyOut` methods on the core `Containerization`, with no
dependency on container tooling.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
- [x] Added/updated docs
---------
Co-authored-by: jwhur <57657645+JaewonHur@users.noreply.github.com>
- Closes#1565.
- `runtime-config.toml` suggested the config
pertains to just the runtime (managing container
workloads) aspect of the system.
- Also renames `ADDR` columns to `IP` in
`container ls` and `container builder status`.
- This adds support for reading configurations from
a three layer hierarchy:
1. User provided TOML
2. Install root TOML
3. Code defaults
- We add some code to support plugin configurations
via the ConfigurationLoader. Each plugin can provide
a struct with an accompanying id that gets used to
parse the scoped section of the TOML.
- 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
- Closes#1433.
- Renames `env` parameter to `dynamicEnv` to differentiate these
special-case environment variables from the standard container
environment.
- Use `[String: String]` instead of `[String: String]?`.
- Default to `[:]` when an down-revision client calls bootstrap without
supplying `dynamicEnv`.
This PR fixes#357, passing `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` env variable from current
terminal to the `SandboxService` so that the container can mount the
correct ssh auth socket. For that, it introduces `env` parameters to
`bootstrap` RPC of both `ContainersService` and `SandboxService`. This
parameter is used only for passing `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` now, but can be
extended to pass more runtime env variables.
This PR is a follow up PR of #1214.
## Type of Change
- [X] Bug fix
- [ ] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
Container run `--ssh` was inheriting `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` env variable from
launchd, not from current terminal.
## Testing
- [X] Tested locally
- [ ] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
- Closes#1359.
- Create a ResourceLabels type and extract the label validation from
NetworkConfiguration into the new type.
- Create a base AppError type that is compatible with structured logging
and delegates message presentation to the error receiver.
- Define LabelError over AppError for label validation.
- Slightly reworks NetworkConfiguration entity migration code in
NetworksService.
## Motivation and Context
This PR consolidates duplicated list-output formatting across the CLI
into shared rendering infrastructure.
Currently, each list command has its own copy of the same
json/quiet/table branching. This PR pulls that into shared rendering
infrastructure in `ContainerCommands`:
- `ListDisplayable` protocol for table + quiet output
- `renderJSON`, `renderTable`, `renderList` as pure functions that
return strings
- `emit()` as the single stdout boundary (no-ops on empty strings to
avoid blank-line regressions)
- `JSONOptions` so all JSON encoding goes through one path, including
volume inspect's pretty + ISO 8601 case
JSON encoding remains separate from display formatting: each command
still chooses its own JSON model, while `ListDisplayable` is used only
for table and quiet output. `ImageList` remains the intentional
exception for quiet mode so it can avoid unnecessary async work.
This change also replaces inline `JSONEncoder` usage with `renderJSON`,
removes the old `Codable+JSON.swift` helper, and moves `TableOutput` and
`ListFormat` into `ContainerCommands`. It also adds unit tests for the
shared rendering helpers and expands integration coverage for image,
network, and registry list formatting.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
- Adds a `plain` progress output mode (`--progress plain`)
that outputs newline-separated progress lines without
ANSI escape sequences. This is useful for CI environments,
piped output, and non-TTY contexts where ANSI cursor
control is not supported. Unlike `--progress ansi`, plain
mode works even when stderr is not a TTY.
- Closes#1365
- Related: #641, #808
## Type of Change
- [x] Bug fix
- [ ] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Motivation and Context
Fixes#1354.
When `container build` completes the build phase, it enters an unpack
phase that runs outside the `withThrowingTaskGroup` containing the
signal handler. As a result, pressing Ctrl+C during unpacking has no
effect — the SIGINT is never caught and the process keeps running until
the unpack finishes.
Fix this by moving the unpack phase inside the existing build task, so
both build and unpack run within the same task group that hosts the
`AsyncSignalHandler`. The `Task.checkCancellation()` calls already
present in the unpack loop will now fire correctly when a signal is
received.
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [ ] Added/updated tests
- [ ] Added/updated docs
Same as we'd done with kill.
```
➜ container git:(stop-kill-throw-error) ✗ ./bin/container stop foo bar baz
Warning! Running debug build. Performance may be degraded.
Error: internalError: "failed to stop container" (cause: "notFound: "container with ID baz not found"")
internalError: "failed to stop container" (cause: "notFound: "container with ID bar not found"")
internalError: "failed to stop container" (cause: "notFound: "container with ID foo not found"")
➜ container git:(stop-kill-throw-error) ✗ ./bin/container kill foo bar baz
Warning! Running debug build. Performance may be degraded.
Error: internalError: "failed to kill container" (cause: "notFound: "container with ID foo not found"")
internalError: "failed to kill container" (cause: "notFound: "container with ID bar not found"")
internalError: "failed to kill container" (cause: "notFound: "container with ID baz not found"")
➜ container git:(stop-kill-throw-error) ✗ ./bin/container delete foo bar baz
Warning! Running debug build. Performance may be degraded.
Error: internalError: "failed to delete container" (cause: "notFound: "container with ID foo not found"")
internalError: "failed to delete container" (cause: "notFound: "container with ID baz not found"")
internalError: "failed to delete container" (cause: "notFound: "container with ID bar not found"")
```
- 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.
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.
- 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>
Instead of logging errors, and then additionally throwing an error
stating what containers couldn't be stopped/killed/deleted, let's just
concatenate the errors and throw the single error.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Run = Create + Start
1) Mount source points to a valid directory
- Run and Create + Start both correctly create the container with mount.
2) Mount source points to a file
- Run fails bootstrapping the container, thus container not created.
- Create creates the container, but Start fails bootstrapping, removing
the container. (Thus, both are the same.)
3) Mount source deleted or replaced to file after container created
- Start throw errors but do not delete the container.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Closes#824
This implements statistics gathering across the various components, but
ultimately this is for implementing a new CLI command: `container
stats`. This shows memory usage, cpu usage, network and block i/o and
the number of processes in the container. The new command can inspect
stats for 1-N containers and by default continuously updates in a `top`
like stream.
## Type of Change
- [ ] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [ ] Breaking change
- [ ] Documentation update
## Testing
- [x] Tested locally
- [x] Added/updated tests
- [x] Added/updated docs
Raj