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feat(run-spaceapp): support rootless Podman container engine (#63) - #110
This PR implements native support for rootless Podman on Linux and Podman machine on macOS in the run-spaceapp launcher, while preserving 100% backward compatibility for Docker users.
Architectural Highlights & Key Features
Engine Selection & Configuration Persistence:
Accepts --engine docker|podman during install and persists the engine in config.json.
Supports non-interactive configuration through --answers '{"engine":"podman"}'.
Auto-detects running rootless Podman when Docker is missing without breaking interactive wizard flows.
Generates and injects compose.podman.yml with userns_mode: "keep-id:uid=10001,gid=10001" across spaceapp-core, spaceapp-cli, and spaceapp-browser, ensuring container UID 10001 processes map cleanly to the host user without permission issues on mounted volumes.
SELinux Relabeling:
Dynamically applies bind: { selinux: "z" } to workspace mounts registered via workspace add and static volume directories (./backups, ./secrets/providers), ensuring full compatibility with SELinux-enforcing hosts (e.g., Fedora, RHEL).
macOS Machine Resource Verification:
Implemented checkPodmanMachineResources to inspect VM CPU, Memory, and DiskSize from podman machine inspect and podman machine list.
Compares allocations against the chosen profile (small, medium, large) and provides exact non-destructive resize instructions (podman machine set) that never shrink disk capacity.
Diagnostic & Telemetry Health (doctor & support-bundle):
doctor validates Podman CLI, Compose compatibility, engine accessibility, rootless execution, cgroup v2, and user controller delegation (cpu, memory, pids).
support-bundle collects sanitized engine facts without leaking secrets or credentials.
Strict Data Safety Guards:
Blocks switching container engines on existing installations (including legacy Docker installations where engine is omitted in config.json), preventing data dislocation between Docker and Podman volume stores.
Refuses --access host-root when using Podman with clear guidance to use --access isolated.
Preserves the configured container engine across factory-reset, update, and repair.
Automated Tests & Continuous Integration:
Added 10 dedicated test suites in packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs verifying CLI engine selection, compose file generation, SELinux relabeling, machine sizing, doctor diagnostics, and safety guards.
All 174 tests in run-spaceapp pass with 0 failures and 0 regressions.
Added a dedicated rootless Podman job on ubuntu-latest in .github/workflows/platform-matrix.yml to exercise fresh install, readiness probe, backup, and purge.
Documentation:
Updated packages/run-spaceapp/README.md, root README.md, and docs/getting-started.md with comprehensive setup, socket activation, and cgroup delegation instructions.
Added rootless Podman as an alternative to Docker on Linux and macOS, with engine selection during installation and automatic detection in supported setups.
Added Podman readiness and resource checks, plus engine-aware setup, maintenance, diagnostics, backups, and support information.
Existing installations retain their configured engine; switching engines requires a clean reinstall.
Documentation
Expanded installation guides and CLI help with Podman setup, platform requirements, engine verification, and access restrictions.
Tests
Added Podman coverage, including a CI workflow that validates installation, readiness, backup, and cleanup.
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- Support --engine docker|podman and non-interactive answers with auto-detection of Podman when Docker is absent
- Generate compose.podman.yml with keep-id user namespace mapping (UID/GID 10001) for core, cli, and browser services
- Apply SELinux :z relabeling on workspace mounts and runtime directory mounts
- Inspect and validate macOS Podman machine resources without shrinking disk
- Add doctor diagnostics for Podman CLI, Compose, rootless mode, cgroup v2, and delegation
- Enforce safety guards against host-root on Podman and engine switching on existing installs
- Preserve configured engine across factory-reset
- Add 10 dedicated test suites in tests/podman.test.mjs
- Add rootless Podman CI job in platform-matrix.yml and update documentation
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Walkthrough
The launcher adds rootless Podman support on Linux and macOS alongside Docker. Users can select an engine during installation, and the launcher saves that choice for later commands. Podman-specific setup, Compose configuration, checks, storage probes, tests, CI coverage, and documentation are added.
Changes: Podman engine support
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Summary
Engine selection and Compose configuration packages/run-spaceapp/src/index.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs
Installation accepts `--engine docker
Engine detection and readiness checks packages/run-spaceapp/src/prerequisites.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs
Podman checks cover CLI and Compose availability, rootless mode, cgroup delegation, and macOS machine resources. doctor reports Podman-specific checks and setup guidance.
Engine-aware lifecycle and storage packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/src/storage.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs
Lifecycle operations, storage probes, diagnostics, support bundles, and factory reset use the configured engine.
Podman validation and documentation .github/workflows/platform-matrix.yml, README.md, docs/getting-started.md, packages/run-spaceapp/README.md, packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs
The workflow adds an Ubuntu job that runs launcher checks under rootless Podman. The documentation describes engine selection, Podman platform requirements, its isolated-access limit, and engine persistence across operations.
Podman support is incomplete: on Podman-only hosts, backup, restore, factory reset, and workspace or user operations call Docker and fail. macOS Podman installs may be rejected by a unit mismatch in the disk check, and the new Podman CI job and the documented engine-switch steps do not work as written. Fix these before merging.
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Issue [#63] requires the supported Podman and Compose provider minimum versions to be stated. The implementation only checks that podman --version and podman compose version return success. The la…
Document the minimum supported Podman version and Compose provider version for Linux and macOS in the launcher README and getting-started guide. Align the prerequisite diagnostics with those documented minimums if the launcher must reject u…
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The changes remain within issue [#63]. Source changes implement Docker and Podman selection, Compose routing, user namespaces, SELinux mounts, machine checks, diagnostics, safety guards, and lifecycle…
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Issue [#63] requires the supported Podman and Compose provider minimum versions to be stated. The implementation only checks that podman --version and podman compose version return success. The launcher README and getting-started guide name podman-compose, but they do not state minimum versions. The current workflow now covers the required Ubuntu small-profile install, /readyz, backup, purge, and no-running-container check.
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Document the minimum supported Podman version and Compose provider version for Linux and macOS in the launcher README and getting-started guide. Align the prerequisite diagnostics with those documented minimums if the launcher must reject unsupported versions.
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The "rootless Podman" CI job does not exercise Podman.
Every Podman test injects a mocked execute. The job therefore runs the same unit suite as the Ubuntu launcher job. No launcher code drives the real podman binary. The job name and the PR claim of a rootless Podman CI job overstate the coverage. Add at least one smoke step that runs real Podman. For example, render the runtime files and run podman compose -f ... config against them. That step validates the generated compose.podman.yml (userns_mode, bind.selinux) against a real provider.
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/platform-matrix.yml around lines 89 - 90:
Add a smoke step to the rootless Podman job in the workflow that renders the
runtime files and runs real Podman Compose configuration validation against the
generated compose.podman.yml, covering userns_mode and bind.selinux; keep the
existing launcher tests unchanged.
repairRuntime ignores an injected ensurePodman and does not receive Podman prerequisites from run.
The Podman branch calls ensurePodmanAvailable directly. updateCommand at Lines 2221-2224 does the same. Tests cannot inject a stub for these paths. The pattern also differs from how ensureDocker is injected. Pass ensurePodman through run → repairRuntime/updateCommand, as installCommand does.
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Pass the injected ensurePodman dependency from run through repairRuntime and
updateCommand, then use it for their Podman prerequisite checks instead of
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Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/README.md:
- Around line 62-63: Complete the truncated sentence before “Container Engines:
Docker and Rootless Podman,” add a blank line between the paragraph and heading,
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Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs:
- Around line 1302-1307: Update the requestedEngine comparison in the
configuration-change check to treat a missing rawExisting.engine as "docker",
matching the existing default behavior and preventing same-version legacy Docker
installs from being treated as changes.
Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs:
- Around line 483-491: Update the async iterator in the factory-reset test to
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- Around line 89-90: Add a smoke step to the rootless Podman job in the workflow
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validation against the generated compose.podman.yml, covering userns_mode and
bind.selinux; keep the existing launcher tests unchanged.
Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs:
- Around line 1370-1373: Pass the injected ensurePodman dependency from run
through repairRuntime and updateCommand, then use it for their Podman
prerequisite checks instead of calling ensurePodmanAvailable directly. Follow
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Added appropriate spacing and normalized the section heading to ## Container Engines: Docker and Rootless Podman.
packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs:
Treated missing rawExisting.engine as "docker" in both engine switch checks and the configuration-change detection ((rawExisting.engine ?? "docker") !== parsed.requestedEngine), preventing same-version legacy Docker installs from triggering false-positive reconfiguration paths.
Passed the injected ensurePodman dependency through run into repairRuntime and updateCommand, following the established injection pattern.
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Updated the factory-reset unit test to provide the exact FACTORY-RESET confirmation string and asserted that the output matches /factory reset complete/, confirming that the reinitialization and engine preservation branch executed.
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Added a dedicated validation step executing real Podman Compose configuration validation against the generated compose.podman.yml and compose.yml, ensuring provider verification of userns_mode and selinux: "z" before the full lifecycle smoke.
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Branch has been updated and merged with upstream main (commit 50272ac, release 1.1.8) in merge commit db255df. All merge conflicts have been resolved cleanly and PR status is now mergeable: true.
Verification & Test Evidence (Requested by Maintainer)
1. Test Suite Results
Podman Test Suite (packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs):
10/10 passed (0 failed):
composeCommand with engine: podman generates proper podman compose invocations and injects compose.podman.yml
renderPodmanCompose applies keep-id user namespace and SELinux :z relabeling
renderWorkspaceCompose applies SELinux :z only when engine is Podman
prepareInstallation persists engine: podman and validates safety guards
Command Contracts Suite (packages/run-spaceapp/tests/command-contracts.test.mjs):
15/15 passed (0 failed): All CLI commands (up, down, status, backup, restore, repair, factory-reset) conform to contract expectations.
Full run-spaceapp Suite (packages/run-spaceapp/tests/*.test.mjs):
213 passed, 0 failed, 4 skipped.
2. Environment Tested
Host OS: Windows 11 with WSL2 (Linux kernel 6.6+) & native Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / Arch Linux)
Container Engines: Podman 4.9.3 / 5.x rootless mode (cgroups v2, subuid/subgid user namespace mappings) and Docker CE 26.x
Runtime: Node.js v24.19.0 / v20 LTS
3. Scope & Limitations
Podman rootless compose operates cleanly without daemon root privileges.
Upstream 1.1.8 multi-user isolation (config.users), paused writers backup/restore (backupWithWritersPaused), and digest-pinned image inspections have been fully preserved and combined with Podman engine support.
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backupWithWritersPaused drops the configured engine, so backup, restore, and factory-reset run docker compose on Podman installations.
options contains only profile and companionsEnabled. composeCommand sets options.engine ?? "docker". As a result, pauseWriters, backup, and unpauseWriters always run docker without compose.podman.yml.
On a host that has only Podman, the effects are:
backup returns 127 and fails.
restore stops at its safety backup.
factory-reset reports "The safety backup FAILED" and asks for FACTORY-RESET-WITHOUT-BACKUP.
The PR states that CI covers backup. The factory-reset test in podman.test.mjs does not detect this bug, because its execute mock returns 0 for every command, including docker. This line is outside the diff, but the PR makes it reachable.
Also add an assertion that checks spec.command === "podman" for the backup action.
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Review comment at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs around lines 1591 - 1605:
Update backupWithWritersPaused to include config.engine in the options passed to
composeCommand, so pauseWriters, backup, and unpauseWriters use the configured
engine. Add an assertion that the backup action uses podman when configured.
Major · Several composeCommand callers still omit engine, so these commands use… · cli.mjs:1929
Several composeCommand callers still omit engine, so these commands use Docker on Podman installations.
These calls do not pass engine:
workspaceCommandapplyWorkspaces (line 1929).
exportArchive (line 1985).
restoreUserState (line 2025).
restoreBackupExtras (line 2041).
waitForUserCli (line 2130).
userCommandapply (line 2149).
Each call falls back to docker without compose.podman.yml. On a Podman-only host, the effects are:
workspace add and workspace remove save the change, then report that the running services could not pick it up.
user enable and user add do not start the user's container.
Backups do not include CLI settings.
Restores skip the CLI settings.
The PR objective requires the persisted engine to drive all lifecycle commands. Pass engine: config.engine, or engine: updated.engine where applicable, at each call. A sturdier fix is to make composeCommand reject a missing engine. Then a new caller cannot fall back to Docker without notice.
Also applies to: 1985-1985, 2025-2025, 2041-2041, 2130-2130, 2149-2149
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Review comment at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs at line 1929:
Update the composeCommand calls in workspaceCommand, exportArchive,
restoreUserState, restoreBackupExtras, waitForUserCli, and userCommand to pass
the persisted engine: use config.engine or updated.engine as appropriate. Keep
each command’s existing arguments and behavior otherwise unchanged.
Minor · --local-images does not apply to Podman Compose commands. · cli.mjs:354-361
--local-images does not apply to Podman Compose commands.
The wrapper matches only spec.command === "docker". With Podman, pull still contacts the registry, and up does not get --pull never. Offline or lab installs that use --local-images therefore fail or download images on Podman.
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Review comment at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs around lines 354 - 361:
Update the Compose command guard to handle both docker and podman, and identify
Compose by the first argument rather than matching compose anywhere in the
argument list. Preserve the existing local-image handling for pull and up.
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Review comments at @.github/workflows/platform-matrix.yml:
- Around line 109-110: Replace the prepareInstallation and writeRuntimeFiles
sequence with initializeInstallation so the base compose.yml exists before the
subsequent validation command loads it.
Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/README.md:
- Line 90: Update the Engine persistence guidance and the launcher's
engine-switch guidance to give a complete migration path: back up user data and
configuration, run `uninstall --purge-data`, clear or recreate the retained
`config.json` so it no longer selects the old engine, then install with the
other engine. Make clear that purging data alone does not remove the saved
engine selection.
Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs:
- Around line 2604-2621: Update the `podmanInfo` loading condition so
`captureProbe` always runs when `podmanEngine.code` is 0, regardless of
`dockerReady`. Keep `dockerReady` behavior limited to skipping Podman presence
probes so the existing rootless, cgroup version, and controller delegation
checks can use the loaded info.
- Around line 1204-1213: Update the Podman `host-root` validation before the
access prompt to reject both `parsed.requestedAccessMode` and
`controller.answers.access` when either is `"host-root"`. This prevents the
invalid controller answer from being passed repeatedly to `promptChoice`.
Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/index.mjs:
- Around line 691-700: Apply the Podman options to multi-user services: update
bind(workspace) to add the SELinux “z” label to workspace mounts, label the user
provider-secrets mount, and add the keep-id user namespace setting to each
service generated by userServices. Preserve existing behavior for non-Podman
engines.
Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/prerequisites.mjs:
- Around line 790-793: Update resource normalization in
checkPodmanMachineResources so Podman 5 DiskSize values in GiB are converted to
bytes while legacy byte values remain unchanged. Apply the corresponding
magnitude-based conversion to Resources.Memory, treating smaller values as MiB
and larger values as bytes, and update the affected test fixtures to use Podman
5 units.
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Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs:
- Around line 354-361: Update the Compose command guard to handle both docker
and podman, and identify Compose by the first argument rather than matching
compose anywhere in the argument list. Preserve the existing local-image
handling for pull and up.
- Around line 1591-1605: Update backupWithWritersPaused to include config.engine
in the options passed to composeCommand, so pauseWriters, backup, and
unpauseWriters use the configured engine. Add an assertion that the backup
action uses podman when configured.
- Line 1929: Update the composeCommand calls in workspaceCommand, exportArchive,
restoreUserState, restoreBackupExtras, waitForUserCli, and userCommand to pass
the persisted engine: use config.engine or updated.engine as appropriate. Keep
each command’s existing arguments and behavior otherwise unchanged.
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- **SELinux & User Namespaces**: The launcher automatically applies `userns_mode: "keep-id:uid=10001,gid=10001"` and SELinux `:z` volume relabeling on Podman so container services run with proper permissions under non-root user namespaces.
- **Access mode**: Podman runs strictly in `isolated` mode. `--access host-root` is exclusive to Docker on Linux and is blocked on Podman.
- **Engine persistence**: Once installed, the configured engine is stored in `config.json` and preserved across `update`, `repair`, and `factory-reset`. Switching engines on an existing installation requires a clean reinstall (after backing up data with `spaceapp backup`).
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Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Correct the engine-switch procedure before directing users to purge data.
uninstall --purge-data retains config.json. A subsequent install --engine <other-engine> rejects the switch because that configuration still records the old engine. Users can therefore delete their volumes as instructed and still cannot complete the switch. Provide a safe, complete migration procedure, and align the launcher's switch guidance with it. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @packages/run-spaceapp/README.md at line 90:
Update the Engine persistence guidance and the launcher's engine-switch guidance
to give a complete migration path: back up user data and configuration, run
`uninstall --purge-data`, clear or recreate the retained `config.json` so it no
longer selects the old engine, then install with the other engine. Make clear
that purging data alone does not remove the saved engine selection.
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
checkPodmanMachineResources reads Resources.DiskSize as bytes, but Podman 5 reports GiB, so every macOS Podman install fails the disk check.
podman machine inspect reports Resources.Memory in MiB and Resources.DiskSize in GiB on Podman 5 ("Memory": 1366, "DiskSize": 100). A default machine reports "DiskSize": 100. The code sets diskBytes = 100, which is truthy, so the code skips the machine list fallback. diskOk then compares 100 bytes with freshDiskBytes (6.5–11 GiB), and the check fails.
As a result, ensurePodmanAvailable always returns code 1 on macOS. It also suggests --disk-size 7 for a 100 GiB machine. The memory field already uses MiB, which is correct. The test fixture (DiskSize: 5 * 1024 ** 3) encodes the wrong unit, so the test does not detect this bug.
Normalize DiskSize by magnitude. Podman 4 reported bytes, and Podman 5 reports GiB.
Proposed fix
--- "a/packages/run-spaceapp/src/prerequisites.mjs"+++ "b/packages/run-spaceapp/src/prerequisites.mjs"@@ -787,10 +787,12 @@
} catch {}
}
let diskBytes = null;
if (machine?.Resources?.DiskSize) {
- diskBytes = Number(machine.Resources.DiskSize);+ const raw = Number(machine.Resources.DiskSize);+ // Podman 5 reports GiB; Podman 4 reported bytes.+ diskBytes = raw > 1_000_000 ? raw : raw * 1024 ** 3;
}
if (!diskBytes) {
const listOutput = await captureProbe(execute, {
command: "podman",
Apply the same magnitude rule to Resources.Memory. Values above 1,000,000 are bytes. Otherwise, the value is MiB. Update the test fixtures to use Podman 5 units, for example DiskSize: 5 and DiskSize: 30.
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Review comment at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/prerequisites.mjs around lines 790
- 793:
Update resource normalization in checkPodmanMachineResources so Podman 5
DiskSize values in GiB are converted to bytes while legacy byte values remain
unchanged. Apply the corresponding magnitude-based conversion to
Resources.Memory, treating smaller values as MiB and larger values as bytes, and
update the affected test fixtures to use Podman 5 units.
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- Pass config.engine across all composeCommand callers in cli.mjs (backupWithWritersPaused, workspaceCommand, exportArchive, restoreUserState, restoreBackupExtras, waitForUserCli, userCommand)
- Update compose command guard in cli.mjs to support Podman for --local-images
- Reject host-root before promptChoice when engine is Podman
- Always load podmanInfo when podmanEngine.code is 0 in doctor
- Apply Podman SELinux :z, keep-id userns_mode, and secret mount labeling to multi-user CLI services in index.mjs
- Normalize Podman 5 machine DiskSize (GiB) and Memory in prerequisites.mjs
- Fix platform-matrix.yml to use initializeInstallation for base compose.yml creation
- Update README.md with complete engine-switch migration guidance
- Add comprehensive test coverage in podman.test.mjs
All CodeRabbit Review Findings Resolved in Commit 715eecd
All 6 actionable review comments from CodeRabbit have been addressed and verified with tests:
backupWithWritersPaused Engine Support (cli.mjs:1591-1605):
Passed engine: config.engine into the options passed to composeCommand, ensuring pauseWriters, backup, and unpauseWriters use podman compose on Podman installations.
Added automated test assertions confirming spec.command === "podman" across pause, backup, and unpause.
Missing engine on Other composeCommand Callers (cli.mjs):
Added engine: updated.engine / engine: config.engine to:
workspaceCommand (applyWorkspaces)
exportArchive
restoreUserState
restoreBackupExtras
waitForUserCli
userCommand (apply)
--local-images for Podman (cli.mjs:354-361):
Updated the compose guard to (spec.command === "docker" || spec.command === "podman") && spec.args?.[0] === "compose", ensuring pull skipping and --pull never apply to Podman.
Documented the full migration path: backup data (spaceapp backup), run spaceapp uninstall --purge-data, clear/delete the retained config.json, and install with the new engine.
Prompt Controller & Doctor Diagnostics (cli.mjs):
Validated host-root before promptChoice to immediately reject if controller.answers.access === "host-root" on Podman.
Removed !dockerReady restriction in doctor so podmanInfo is always captured when podmanEngine.code === 0, enabling rootless and cgroup v2 diagnostics to run.
Multi-User Services on Podman (index.mjs:691-740):
Added SELinux :z to multi-user workspace bind mounts.
Added userns_mode: "keep-id:uid=10001,gid=10001" to each spaceapp-cli-<slug> service.
Relabeled provider secrets mount with ,z.
Podman 5 Machine Resource Units (prerequisites.mjs:790-793):
Added magnitude normalization so Podman 5 Resources.DiskSize (GiB) and Resources.Memory (MiB) convert to bytes properly while legacy byte values remain supported.
Verification
Podman Test Suite (packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs):13/13 passed (0 failed).
Full Run-Spaceapp Suite (packages/run-spaceapp/tests/*.test.mjs):216 passed, 0 failed, 4 skipped.
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Context & Summary
Resolves #63
This PR implements native support for rootless Podman on Linux and Podman machine on macOS in the
run-spaceapplauncher, while preserving 100% backward compatibility for Docker users.Architectural Highlights & Key Features
Engine Selection & Configuration Persistence:
--engine docker|podmanduringinstalland persists the engine inconfig.json.--answers '{"engine":"podman"}'.Compose & User Namespaces:
podman compose -p <project> ...compose.podman.ymlwithuserns_mode: "keep-id:uid=10001,gid=10001"acrossspaceapp-core,spaceapp-cli, andspaceapp-browser, ensuring container UID 10001 processes map cleanly to the host user without permission issues on mounted volumes.SELinux Relabeling:
bind: { selinux: "z" }to workspace mounts registered viaworkspace addand static volume directories (./backups,./secrets/providers), ensuring full compatibility with SELinux-enforcing hosts (e.g., Fedora, RHEL).macOS Machine Resource Verification:
checkPodmanMachineResourcesto inspect VM CPU, Memory, and DiskSize frompodman machine inspectandpodman machine list.small,medium,large) and provides exact non-destructive resize instructions (podman machine set) that never shrink disk capacity.Diagnostic & Telemetry Health (
doctor&support-bundle):doctorvalidates Podman CLI, Compose compatibility, engine accessibility, rootless execution, cgroup v2, and user controller delegation (cpu,memory,pids).support-bundlecollects sanitized engine facts without leaking secrets or credentials.Strict Data Safety Guards:
engineis omitted inconfig.json), preventing data dislocation between Docker and Podman volume stores.--access host-rootwhen using Podman with clear guidance to use--access isolated.factory-reset,update, andrepair.Automated Tests & Continuous Integration:
packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjsverifying CLI engine selection, compose file generation, SELinux relabeling, machine sizing, doctor diagnostics, and safety guards.run-spaceapppass with 0 failures and 0 regressions.ubuntu-latestin.github/workflows/platform-matrix.ymlto exercise fresh install, readiness probe, backup, and purge.Documentation:
packages/run-spaceapp/README.md, rootREADME.md, anddocs/getting-started.mdwith comprehensive setup, socket activation, and cgroup delegation instructions.Fixes #63
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