This is required by (among others) Podman to run containers in rootless mode.
Other distributions such as Fedora and Ubuntu already set up these mappings.
The scheme with a start UID/GID offset starting at 100000 and increasing in 65536 increments is copied from Fedora.
What's happening now is that both cri-o and podman are creating
/etc/containers/policy.json.
By splitting out the creation of configuration files we can make the
podman module leaner & compose better with other container software.
Many options define their example to be a Nix value without using
literalExample. This sometimes gets rendered incorrectly in the manual,
causing confusion like in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/25516
This fixes it by using literalExample for such options. The list of
option to fix was determined with this expression:
let
nixos = import ./nixos { configuration = {}; };
lib = import ./lib;
valid = d: {
# escapeNixIdentifier from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82461
set = lib.all (n: lib.strings.escapeNixIdentifier n == n) (lib.attrNames d) && lib.all (v: valid v) (lib.attrValues d);
list = lib.all (v: valid v) d;
}.${builtins.typeOf d} or true;
optionList = lib.optionAttrSetToDocList nixos.options;
in map (opt: {
file = lib.elemAt opt.declarations 0;
loc = lib.options.showOption opt.loc;
}) (lib.filter (opt: if opt ? example then ! valid opt.example else false) optionList)
which when evaluated will output all options that use a Nix identifier
that would need escaping as an attribute name.
Previously, we were storing the leader pid in a runtime file and
signalled SIGRTMIN+4 manually.
In systemd 219, the `machinectl poweroff` command was introduced, which
does that for us.
List all modules that *may* be required depending on individual container
configurations; don't expect that further modules can be loaded after boot.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/38676
See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/15747. Previously this module was called `<unknown-file>`
in error messages, now it is called a bit more close to real:
```
module at /home/danbst/dev/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/virtualisation/containers.nix:470
```
According to systemd-nspawn(1), --network-bridge implies --network-veth,
and --port option is supported only when private networking is enabled.
Fixes#52417.
When privateNetwork is enabled, currently the container's interface name
is derived from the container name. However, there's a hard limit
on the size of interface names. To avoid conflicts and other issues,
we set a limit on the container name when privateNetwork is enabled.
Fixes#38509
Previously, setting "privateNetwork = true" without specifying host and
local addresses would create unconfigured interfaces: ve-$INSTANCE on the host
and eth0 inside the container.
These changes is rebased part of the original PR #3021.
