feat(macos): run containers inside a bottle via guest-local podman
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Adds the `nested_containers` bottle flag. On the macOS backend it starts
a rootless podman service inside the bottle and exposes its
Docker-compatible API socket, so the agent still runs `docker` and
`docker compose`. No host daemon socket is mounted and the guest gains
no capabilities; backends that cannot run a guest-local engine reject
the flag in the shared prepare template rather than ignoring it.

Podman rather than rootless Docker because Apple Container's capability
bounding set omits CAP_SYS_ADMIN, which the kernel requires to write a
multi-range uid_map via newuidmap. With no subordinate UID range podman
falls back to a single-UID self-mapping an unprivileged process may
write itself, so the image build strips /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid
entries rather than adding them.

That mapping is also why nested containers are not an isolation layer:
root inside one is the agent user outside it. They are a build/test
convenience; the bottle remains the boundary.

Ports the spike branch onto main, renaming docker_access — it implied
Docker and granted access to nothing on the host — and drops podman
from the derived layer now that every built-in image ships it (#451).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-07-21 15:39:11 -04:00
parent ef89ed084f
commit ba25845886
20 changed files with 1219 additions and 9 deletions
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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from bot_bottle.backend.firecracker import FirecrackerBottleBackend
from bot_bottle.manifest import ManifestIndex
def _manifest() -> ManifestIndex:
def _manifest(*, nested_containers: bool = False) -> ManifestIndex:
return ManifestIndex.from_json_obj({
"bottles": {
"dev": {
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ def _manifest() -> ManifestIndex:
"LITERAL_ENV": "literal-value",
"FORWARDED_ENV": "${HOST_SECRET_ENV}",
},
"nested_containers": nested_containers,
},
},
"agents": {
@@ -41,9 +42,11 @@ def _manifest() -> ManifestIndex:
})
def _spec(tmp: Path, *, identity: str) -> BottleSpec:
def _spec(
tmp: Path, *, identity: str, nested_containers: bool = False,
) -> BottleSpec:
return BottleSpec(
manifest=_manifest(),
manifest=_manifest(nested_containers=nested_containers),
agent_name="demo",
copy_cwd=False,
user_cwd=str(tmp),
@@ -113,6 +116,42 @@ class TestFirecrackerPrepare(_FakeStateMixin, unittest.TestCase):
self.assertEqual({"FORWARDED_ENV": "secret-value"}, plan.forwarded_env)
class TestNestedContainersRejection(_FakeStateMixin, unittest.TestCase):
"""A backend with no guest-local engine must refuse the flag outright.
Ignoring it would leave the agent without `docker`, and the only ways to
fake it here (a host daemon socket, a privileged container) are what
issue #392 rules out.
"""
def test_docker_backend_refuses_the_flag(self) -> None:
backend = DockerBottleBackend()
spec = _spec(
Path(self.tmp.name), identity="demo-docker", nested_containers=True,
)
with (
patch(
"bot_bottle.backend.resolve_common.die", side_effect=RuntimeError,
) as die,
self.assertRaises(RuntimeError),
):
backend.prepare(spec, Path(self.tmp.name) / "stage")
self.assertIn("nested_containers", die.call_args.args[0])
self.assertIn("docker", die.call_args.args[0])
def test_firecracker_backend_refuses_the_flag(self) -> None:
backend = FirecrackerBottleBackend()
spec = _spec(Path(self.tmp.name), identity="demo-fc", nested_containers=True)
with (
patch(
"bot_bottle.backend.resolve_common.die", side_effect=RuntimeError,
) as die,
self.assertRaises(RuntimeError),
):
backend.prepare(spec, Path(self.tmp.name) / "stage")
self.assertIn("firecracker", die.call_args.args[0])
class TestMintSlug(unittest.TestCase):
def _spec(self, *, label: str = "", identity: str = "") -> BottleSpec:
manifest = _manifest()