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This pull request introduces support for a new container frontend, "Apple Container" (using the container binary), alongside Docker and Podman. It adds the implementation for managing containers, images, and volumes under this frontend, updates configuration and autodetection logic, and includes corresponding unit tests. A review comment points out critical resource leak and error-handling issues in the ImageLoad function of the new frontend, suggesting an anonymous function wrapper to properly scope deferred file closures and cleanups.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis PR replaces the container frontend abstraction with a unified engine client. It adds Docker, Podman, Apple Container, and stub drivers. It migrates BuildKit and build flows, adds runtime compatibility changes, and updates Apple Container documentation. ChangesEngine and Apple Container support
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes Change: Feature Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to BuildKit startup and reuse can fail under partial TLS files or transient engine errors, so these issues should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Line 145: Use the distinct `buildkitd-staging-${GITHUB_SHA}-latest-arm64` tag
throughout the ARM64 image push and artifact-save flow, while retaining `latest`
for standard artifacts. Update the Darwin ARM64 binary’s default image
configuration to reference the ARM64 tag, and ensure the standard BuildKit image
continues using its existing `latest` tag.
In `@buildkitd/buildkitd_test.go`:
- Around line 166-168: The test around Start must verify the exact
ContainerSpec.PortMappings instead of conditionally inspecting unrelated errors.
Configure the stub engine’s RunContainer to capture the spec and return nil,
then assert that the local-registry case contains only 127.0.0.1:8372 mapped to
8372 and the Apple-container case contains no mappings.
- Around line 371-382: Remove the externally dependent
TestIsBuildkitActive_RealContainer test, or replace it with a self-contained
integration test that creates and cleans up a uniquely named BuildKit container
in a controlled inactive state before invoking isBuildkitActive. Ensure the
assertions are deterministic and do not rely on the externally managed
inst2-buildkitd container.
In `@buildkitd/buildkitd.go`:
- Line 1582: Update stopInactiveBuildkitContainers so cleanup is opt-in and
guarded by atomic ownership/activity state before selecting or stopping
containers. Require the dev.earthly.settingshash label when matching containers,
and prevent the later bulk StopContainer call unless the guard confirms this
Earth installation still owns an inactive session; do not rely on a second
isBuildkitActive probe alone.
- Around line 1456-1457: Update prepareServerCertsDir to reject an empty
settings.ServerTLSCert before calling filepath.Dir or constructing
serverCertsDir, returning an appropriate error so certificate staging and
cleanup never operate from the current directory.
In `@cmd/earth/base/init_buildkit.go`:
- Around line 50-55: Update the certificate-generation guard in InitBuildkit to
verify all five runtime TLS paths—TLSCACert, ClientTLSCert, ClientTLSKey,
ServerTLSCert, and ServerTLSKey—exist before skipping GenCerts. Keep TLSCAKey
out of this existence check, allowing GenCerts to use it to repair missing
runtime certificates and reject unsafe partial sets.
In `@config/config.go`:
- Line 82: Update the help text for ContainerFrontend to document “auto” as the
default and state that automatic detection checks Docker first, while preserving
the listed valid options.
In `@docs/alt-installation/alt-installation.md`:
- Line 206: Update the container volume cleanup command for earth-cache to
remove the unsupported -f option, while preserving the existing volume name and
cleanup flow.
In `@docs/caching/managing-cache.md`:
- Line 9: Qualify the cache-size and manual-reset procedures near the Docker
storage path and Docker commands as Docker-only, or provide equivalent commands
for Podman and Apple Container. Keep the introductory description applicable to
all supported container engines while ensuring users are not directed to
incompatible cache inspection or reset commands.
In `@internal/engine/apple_container.go`:
- Around line 304-311: Update RunContainer to append spec.PortMappings to the
Apple Container command before spec.ImageRef, preserving the existing argument
order for mounts, name, additional arguments, run arguments, image, and
container arguments.
- Line 196: Update the inspection methods around CommandOutput to retain and
classify its returned error instead of discarding it. Map only confirmed CLI
not-found responses to StatusMissing; propagate daemon, permission, and other
command failures from all five Apple and shared Docker/Podman inspection sites
rather than treating empty output as missing.
- Around line 379-380: Update the scheme selection in PullImage so cleartext
HTTP is used only for the configured local registry or an explicit allowlist,
not for every private or loopback IP. Preserve HTTPS for all other configurable
image references, including private-IP registries, and ensure MaybePull and
local-registry callers retain their intended behavior.
In `@internal/engine/docker.go`:
- Line 150: Update the docker system df invocation in CommandOutput to capture
and propagate its error before attempting to decode output, preserving the
original command failure instead of allowing a misleading JSON decode error.
- Line 167: Update the volume-processing loop in Client.InspectVolumes to filter
entries using volumeNames before parsing and appending them to the result.
Preserve alignVolumes behavior while ensuring unrelated Docker system volumes
are excluded.
In `@internal/engine/engine_integration_test.go`:
- Around line 559-561: Update the image archive setup around cmd.Run in the
integration test to flush the bufio.Writer before passing imgBuffer to
eng.LoadImage. Handle any flush error with the test’s existing assertion style,
while preserving the current command execution and image-loading flow.
- Around line 254-256: The second InspectContainers call currently discards its
fresh result and asserts the stale info slice. Capture the returned inspection
result, then assert that both containers have engine.StatusExited while
preserving the existing no-error check.
- Line 408: Update the deferred image cleanup in TestEngineImagePull to invoke
the selected engine binary from tC.binary instead of hardcoding docker, while
preserving the existing image rm -f ref arguments.
In `@internal/engine/engine.go`:
- Around line 118-127: Update the result-matching logic around the IndexFunc
callbacks and infos assignments to preserve the 1:1 result contract for
duplicate requests: populate every matching request slot or track assigned slots
so repeated names or IDs do not overwrite one result and leave another missing.
Apply the same handling to the matching logic referenced in the other affected
sections.
- Around line 215-220: Update the normalized reference matching logic in the
surrounding engine comparison flow so registry ports are not mistaken for tag
separators. Compare normalized references directly while allowing either side to
match the other with a trailing :latest suffix, preserving existing matching
behavior for explicit tags.
In `@internal/engine/podman.go`:
- Line 208: In the parsing flow around the output slice, validate the index
returned by strings.Index before using output.String()[idx:]. When the Podman
volume-section marker is absent and idx is negative, return a parsing error
instead of slicing; preserve the existing parsing behavior for valid indices.
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In `@internal/engine/engine_integration_test.go`:
- Line 486: Update the assertions in the InspectImages integration test to
validate the two zero-value Image entries returned for the removed references,
rather than asserting the entire result is empty. Preserve the expected result
length and verify each missing-image entry is aligned with its requested
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🟠 Major · Do not restart after an image inspection failure.
buildkitd/buildkitd.go:364
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDo not restart after an image inspection failure.
engine.Client.InspectImagereturns an emptyImageand the inspection error for non-not-found driver failures.maybeRestartdiscards that error, soavailableImageIDis empty. The default image-mismatch branch then stops the running container and starts a replacement. Return the inspection error before comparing image IDs. Not-found results are already converted to an empty result without an error by the engine drivers.Proposed fix
- availableImage, _ := eng.InspectImage(ctx, image) + availableImage, err := eng.InspectImage(ctx, image) + if err != nil { + return nil, nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("inspect available image %q: %w", image, err) + } availableImageID := availableImage.ID🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@buildkitd/buildkitd.go`:
- Line 1187: Update the inspection loop around eng.InspectContainer to check
ctx.Err() before each select iteration, returning the cancellation error
immediately when the context is already canceled; preserve the existing
inspection and timer behavior otherwise.
- Around line 1525-1526: Update prepareServerCertsDir so an empty TLSCA or
ServerTLSKey removes the corresponding destination file before validation,
rather than merely adding its name to allowedNames. Preserve the existing
allowlist behavior for non-empty sources and ensure stale ca_cert.pem or
buildkit_key.pem files cannot remain in the staged directory.
In `@cmd/earth/base/init_buildkit.go`:
- Around line 99-100: Update the TLS existence check in the init flow around
buildkitd.GenCerts to require all five runtime files: TLSCACert, ClientTLSCert,
ClientTLSKey, ServerTLSCert, and ServerTLSKey. Keep TLSCAKey excluded as
generation-only input, and preserve certificate generation when any required
runtime file is missing.
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In `@buildkitd/buildkitd.go`:
- Line 364: Update the image inspection flow in maybeRestart to retain the error
returned by eng.InspectImage and return it immediately when inspection fails,
before comparing image IDs or restarting the container. Preserve the existing
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Walkthrough: Complete 210-Run Benchmark & Telemetry Analysis Across Container BackendsWe completed the comprehensive benchmark suite across all three container backends on macOS Apple Silicon (darwin-arm64) for 10 successful iterations across 7 distinct target workloads (210 total runs) with OpenTelemetry tracing enabled:
All metrics were captured with complete cache isolation (purging 1. Executive Summary & Headline Comparisons
2. Complete Benchmark Target Results (10 Iterations per Target)Summary Matrix (210 Runs)
3. OpenTelemetry Span Telemetry DecompositionThe OpenTelemetry telemetry collected across all 210 runs pinpoints precisely why and where performance differences arise between backends: sequenceDiagram
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participant CLI as earth (CLI Client)
participant BK as buildkitd (Daemon)
Note over CLI: Phase 1: Client Pre-Flight (Config & Handshake)
CLI->>BK: moby.buildkit.v1.Control/ListWorkers
CLI->>BK: moby.buildkit.v1.Control/Info
Note over CLI,BK: Apple Container: ~270ms | Docker: ~580ms | Podman: ~660ms
Note over CLI,BK: Phase 2: BuildKit Execution (moby.buildkit.v1.Control/Solve)
CLI->>BK: Control/Session (Streaming filesync & auth)
CLI->>BK: Control/Solve (Execute LLB DAG)
Note over CLI,BK: DinD: AC 7587ms | Docker 7405ms | Podman 7317ms
Note over CLI: Phase 3: Client Post-Execution & Exit
CLI-->>CLI: Close session & exit
Note over CLI: Apple Container: ~1ms | Docker: ~180ms | Podman: ~1ms
Granular Phase Breakdown (Mean Milliseconds per Run)
4. Key Engineering Takeaways1. Docker-in-Docker (
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NOTE! GitHub Actions will be completed in a separate PR to reduce clutter and size. The workflows to test Apple Container require a self-hosted runner in a non-virtualised environment.
This change adds support for Apple Container on macOS (
darwin/arm64) and rewrites the container execution layer into a cleaner, cohesive package.Background & Rationale
Until now, running
earthlocally on macOS required Docker Desktop or Podman. Apple now provides a native, daemonless container system tool (container) utilizing the macOS Virtualization framework. On Apple Silicon, this offers a lighter, faster way to run Linux containers with kernel-level integration and native Rosetta 2 binary translation.Integrating Apple Container revealed that the existing
util/containerutilpackage had grown too complex: it mixed CLI orchestration, string parsing, ad-hoc maps, and broad interfaces. Rather than grafting another backend onto a fragile abstraction, this change replacesutil/containerutilwith a simpler, better-structuredinternal/enginepackage.Key Changes
internal/engine/apple_container.go)containerCLI.--rosettato allow seamless multi-architecture execution (linux/amd64andlinux/arm64).internal/engine/engine.go)ContainerFrontendinterface with a concrete*engine.Clientwrapping a small, unexportedengineDriverinterface.InspectContainers,InspectImages,InspectVolumes) now return 1:1 aligned slices with the requested inputs, simplifying callers and eliminating lookup errors.errors.Joinand%wwrapping.buildkitd/buildkitd.go)prepareServerCertsDirisolatesca_cert.pem,buildkit_cert.pem, andbuildkit_key.pemin a dedicated directory with strict permissions (0700directory,0600key), preventing host certificate leaks.config/config.go)apple-containeras an explicit option forglobal.container_frontend.docs/guides/apple-container.md.Verification
internal/engine/engine_test.go,internal/engine/apple_container_test.go, andbuildkitd/buildkitd_test.go..github/workflows/ci-apple-container-mac.yml) to test Apple Container on self-hosted macOS runners.Summary by CodeRabbit
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