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feat(run-spaceapp): add Podman container engine support - #309
Adds first-class Podman (rootless and rootful) container engine support to run-spaceapp alongside Docker:
Added --engine <auto|docker|podman> CLI flag, SPACEAPP_CONTAINER_ENGINE environment variable support, and containerEngine persistence in config.json.
Auto-detects Docker first when healthy, falling back to Podman when Docker is unavailable or not running.
Uses host.containers.internal:host-gateway on Podman, appends :Z SELinux relabel suffix on Linux Podman bind mounts, and updates engine-specific diagnostics.
Testing
Added unit test suite in packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs.
Install and run the app with Podman as an alternative to Docker. Docker remains the default unless Podman is selected or automatically detected when Docker is unavailable.
Status checks and storage information now use the container engine configured for the installation.
Podman installations support engine-specific volume mounts, including SELinux-compatible options.
Limitations
Existing installations cannot switch container engines in place. Back up, uninstall, and restore to migrate.
Podman requires a supported setup and cannot be used with host-root access.
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Walkthrough
The launcher supports Docker and Podman selection during installation. It persists the selected engine and uses it for prerequisites, Compose operations, diagnostics, and storage inspection. Podman-specific configuration validation and workspace mounts are included, with tests for engine selection, readiness, installation, and status.
Changes: Podman engine support
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Engine selection and prerequisite checks packages/run-spaceapp/src/index.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/src/prerequisites.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs
Installation accepts --engine auto, --engine docker, and --engine podman. Configuration persists the engine and rejects unsupported values, engine changes on existing installations, and Podman with host-root access. Detection and prerequisite checks apply engine-specific rules.
Compose generation and runtime routing packages/run-spaceapp/src/index.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs
Compose generation and launcher commands use the configured engine. Podman workspace mounts add SELinux options, and Podman commands are included in trusted command execution.
Diagnostics and storage inspection packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/src/storage.mjs, packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs
Doctor probes and storage commands use the selected engine. Storage inspection handles Podman storage paths and host resource fields, and accepts prefixed or unprefixed SHA-256 image IDs.
sequenceDiagram
participant RunSpaceappCLI
participant composeCommand
participant spawnTrustedCommand
participant Podman
RunSpaceappCLI->>composeCommand: Pass configured engine and Compose operation
composeCommand-->>RunSpaceappCLI: Return engine-specific command
RunSpaceappCLI->>spawnTrustedCommand: Dispatch command and arguments
spawnTrustedCommand->>Podman: Run Podman Compose
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Possibly related PRs
oll4com/spaceapp#246: Both changes implement Podman support in run-spaceapp, including selection, persistence, Compose dispatch, prerequisites, storage checks, and lifecycle commands.
oll4com/spaceapp#267: Both changes cover engine configuration, Compose generation, prerequisite checks, storage inspection, and engine-switch protection.
oll4com/spaceapp#260: Both changes add Podman engine handling, SELinux mounts, engine-specific commands, and engine-switch refusal.
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Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 92e36
Podman support mostly works, but factory reset on a Podman installation drops the engine selection, and automatic engine detection can pick a stopped Docker over a working Podman. Fix these before merging; the remaining items are low-impact diagnostics and edge-case gaps.
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Issue #63 is open and directly linked. The PR implements engine selection and persistence, engine-specific command dispatch, Docker preference, Podman prerequisite checks, SELinux mount labeling, engi…
Implement the remaining [#63] coding requirements. Add macOS Podman-machine resource checks and resize guidance. Validate or test the required Compose provider and template features. Add lifecycle, SELinux ownership, diagnostics, support-bu…
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The changed source and tests support issue #63. They add Podman detection, configuration, command dispatch, storage probes, diagnostics integration, SELinux mount handling, and engine-specific tests. …
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The changed source and tests support issue #63. They add Podman detection, configuration, command dispatch, storage probes, diagnostics integration, SELinux mount handling, and engine-specific tests. The changes do not demonstrate support for Windows, Kubernetes, Quadlet/systemd, Podman-specific images, or another container engine.
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Issue #63 is open and directly linked. The PR implements engine selection and persistence, engine-specific command dispatch, Docker preference, Podman prerequisite checks, SELinux mount labeling, engine-switch refusal, Podman host-root refusal, and mocked unit coverage. The PR does not add the required macOS Podman-machine CPU, memory, and disk checks with resize guidance. The reported changes do not establish support for all required Compose features or lifecycle, workspace ownership, and /readyz behavior across the small, medium, and large profiles. The reported diagnostics changes do not establish all required engine, version, rootless/rootful, cgroup, and delegated-limit facts in doctor and support-bundle. The whole-PR summary lists no required Ubuntu Podman install/backup/purge CI job and no updates to the launcher README, main README prerequisites, or docs/getting-started.md.
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Implement the remaining [#63] coding requirements. Add macOS Podman-machine resource checks and resize guidance. Validate or test the required Compose provider and template features. Add lifecycle, SELinux ownership, diagnostics, support-bundle, and profile coverage for Podman. Add the required Ubuntu CI scenario. Update the three requested documentation files.
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Pass engine to ensureDocker in updateCommand. A Podman installation fails here, or triggers a Docker install.
The installArgs object has no engine field. ensureDockerAvailable routes to Podman only when installArgs?.engine === "podman". For a Podman installation, spaceapp update therefore runs dockerIsReady, which probes docker.
On a Podman-only Linux host, this fails. The flow then reaches ensureLinuxDocker, which tries to install Docker Engine with sudo. The update then runs performUpdate with Podman. The result is an unwanted Docker install or a false prerequisite failure.
Every other changed call site (installCommand, repairRuntime) passes the engine. This one was missed. The new Podman tests do not cover update.
Outside the changed lines, apply this change at line 2398:
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Review comment at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs around lines 2397 - 2398:
Pass config.engine in the installArgs object supplied to ensureDocker in
updateCommand, so prerequisite checks select Podman when configured instead of
probing or installing Docker.
Major · Pass engine in the install failure and recovery paths. They run… · cli.mjs:1656-1660
Pass engine in the install failure and recovery paths. They run docker compose on Podman installations.
These composeCommand calls are outside the changed lines but are now wrong. composeCommand falls back to docker when options.engine is missing. The affected helpers are:
reportInstallDiagnostics (status and logs).
restoreRuntimeAfterFailedInstall (up and down).
Both are reached from failAfterRuntimeMutation after stagedComposeCommand("up") has started the stack with Podman.
When a Podman install or upgrade fails after the runtime starts:
Diagnostics collection invokes docker.
The "restore previous runtime" up and the "stop partial runtime" down run against Docker, or return 127 on a Podman-only host.
The partially started Podman stack stays running. The error message says to rerun install.
Neither helper receives the engine today. Add an engine parameter to both. Pass result.config.engine from failAfterRuntimeMutation. Use existingConfig?.engine ?? engine in the up and down calls.
// reportInstallDiagnostics: add `engine` to the destructured params, then:composeCommand(action,root,{ profile, stateRoot, engine,lines: 200})// restoreRuntimeAfterFailedInstall: add `engine` to the destructured params, then:composeCommand("up",root,{profile: existingConfig.profile,companionsEnabled: existingConfig.companionsEnabled,engine: existingConfig.engine})composeCommand("down",root,{profile: existingConfig?.profile??attemptedProfile,stateRoot: existingConfig ? root : stagedStateRoot,companionsEnabled: existingConfig?.companionsEnabled??companionsEnabled,engine: existingConfig?.engine??engine})
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Review comment at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs around lines 1656 - 1660:
Update reportInstallDiagnostics and restoreRuntimeAfterFailedInstall to accept
the runtime engine, and pass result.config.engine from failAfterRuntimeMutation.
Supply the engine to composeCommand for diagnostics and recovery commands,
preferring existingConfig.engine when restoring or stopping a previously
configured runtime and otherwise using the attempted engine.
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Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs:
- Around line 2469-2470: Update doctor to accept an optional engine and resolve
it before the persisted currentConfig engine, then pass result.config.engine
from installCommand so fresh Podman installs use Podman for probes and readiness
labels.
- Around line 1789-1790: Update parseInstallArgs to accept --engine auto, then
update installCommand to resolve an unspecified or automatic engine through
detectContainerEngine before calling ensureDockerAvailable and composeCommand.
Honor SPACEAPP_CONTAINER_ENGINE if it is the intended override so Podman-only
hosts use the detected engine instead of defaulting to Docker.
Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/index.mjs:
- Line 700: Update the Compose rendering logic around podmanBind so the
multi-user provider secrets, cli-hosts.json, and backups host bind mounts
receive the same SELinux `z` label when config.engine is "podman". Preserve
their existing mount behavior for other engines.
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Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs:
- Around line 2397-2398: Pass config.engine in the installArgs object supplied
to ensureDocker in updateCommand, so prerequisite checks select Podman when
configured instead of probing or installing Docker.
- Around line 1656-1660: Update reportInstallDiagnostics and
restoreRuntimeAfterFailedInstall to accept the runtime engine, and pass
result.config.engine from failAfterRuntimeMutation. Supply the engine to
composeCommand for diagnostics and recovery commands, preferring
existingConfig.engine when restoring or stopping a previously configured runtime
and otherwise using the attempted engine.
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For a Podman installation, Line 2324 purges through Podman. This call then creates a configuration without an engine, which defaults later commands to Docker. On a Podman-only host, the reset reports success but the new installation cannot be started through the selected engine. Pass config.engine into initializeInstallation.
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Review comment at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs at line 2338:
Pass the selected engine from config into initializeInstallation in the factory
reset flow, alongside the runtime version, so the recreated installation retains
Podman or Docker instead of falling back to the default.
Minor · Record the selected engine in the support bundle. · cli.mjs:2245-2253
The installation record includes the profile but omits config.engine. A support bundle from a Podman installation therefore does not identify which container engine its diagnostics concern. Add the engine to this record. The linked acceptance criteria also request resource-limit reporting.
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Add config.engine to the installation record object alongside config.profile so
support bundles identify the selected container engine. Do not expand the change
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Minor · Give Podman-specific help when a Podman probe fails. · cli.mjs:2539-2541
Give Podman-specific help when a Podman probe fails.
When doctorEngine is podman, these branches still print instructions to install or start Docker. A Podman user with a missing CLI, Compose provider, or stopped machine receives the wrong recovery action. Select help from doctorEngine as well as platform.
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Update the help selection in the `doctorEngine` failure branches to use both
`doctorEngine` and `platform`, so Podman probes print Podman-specific
installation and startup guidance while Docker probes retain Docker guidance.
Minor · Apply the engine-switch check before the same-version repair branch. · cli.mjs:1214
Apply the engine-switch check before the same-version repair branch.
In planInteractiveSetup, the same-version branch runs before any engine comparison. hasRequestedConfigChange reads only access mode, companions, and profile. For an existing Docker install with the same version, install --engine podman (or SPACEAPP_CONTAINER_ENGINE=podman) therefore reaches the repair prompt. The repair runs against the stored Docker configuration. The requested Podman switch is not rejected, and no message reports that it was ignored. The rejection at installCommand lines 692-704 is never reached, because installCommand returns as soon as planInteractiveSetup returns { exit }.
This path applies only when the run is interactive, resumes a continuation, or uses approved automation. A non-interactive run without approval exits earlier with an error.
The guard below rejects the mismatch with the same message used at lines 700-704, before the branch can repair the Docker runtime. The requested engine comes from --engine, falling back to SPACEAPP_CONTAINER_ENGINE. auto is ignored.
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- if (path === "same" && !hasRequestedConfigChange(rawExisting, parsed)) {+ const existingEngine = rawExisting.engine ?? "docker";+ const requestedEngineOverride = parsed.requestedEngine ?? env?.SPACEAPP_CONTAINER_ENGINE;+ if (+ path === "same" &&+ requestedEngineOverride &&+ requestedEngineOverride !== "auto" &&+ requestedEngineOverride !== existingEngine+ ) {+ throw new Error(+ `Cannot switch container engine from ${existingEngine} to ${requestedEngineOverride} on an existing installation because container volumes are not visible across engines. Run "${UNIVERSAL_COMMAND} backup", uninstall, and restore on ${requestedEngineOverride}.`+ );+ }+ if (path === "same" && !hasRequestedConfigChange(rawExisting, parsed)) {
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In planInteractiveSetup, check for an engine mismatch before the same-version
repair branch: compare rawExisting.engine (defaulting to Docker) with
parsed.requestedEngine or the SPACEAPP_CONTAINER_ENGINE environment value,
ignoring an absent override and “auto.” Reject a differing requested engine with
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- Line 131: Update the auto-engine selection around
dockerCliAndComposeAreAvailable(execute) to require a successful Docker daemon
reachability check using docker info before selecting Docker; if the check
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Review comments at @packages/run-spaceapp/src/cli.mjs:
- Line 2338: Pass the selected engine from config into initializeInstallation in
the factory reset flow, alongside the runtime version, so the recreated
installation retains Podman or Docker instead of falling back to the default.
- Around line 2245-2253: Add config.engine to the installation record object
alongside config.profile so support bundles identify the selected container
engine. Do not expand the change to resource-limit reporting.
- Around line 2539-2541: Update the help selection in the `doctorEngine` failure
branches to use both `doctorEngine` and `platform`, so Podman probes print
Podman-specific installation and startup guidance while Docker probes retain
Docker guidance.
- Line 1214: In planInteractiveSetup, check for an engine mismatch before the
same-version repair branch: compare rawExisting.engine (defaulting to Docker)
with parsed.requestedEngine or the SPACEAPP_CONTAINER_ENGINE environment value,
ignoring an absent override and “auto.” Reject a differing requested engine with
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Closes #63
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Adds first-class Podman (rootless and rootful) container engine support to
run-spaceappalongside Docker:--engine <auto|docker|podman>CLI flag,SPACEAPP_CONTAINER_ENGINEenvironment variable support, andcontainerEnginepersistence inconfig.json.host.containers.internal:host-gatewayon Podman, appends:ZSELinux relabel suffix on Linux Podman bind mounts, and updates engine-specific diagnostics.Testing
packages/run-spaceapp/tests/podman.test.mjs.node --test packages/run-spaceapp/tests/*.test.mjspasses (216/216 tests).Signed-off-by: huhuli083-creator huhuli083-creator@users.noreply.github.com
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