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fix(readiness): resolve container engine for legacy-cluster gateway inspection - #11067

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Before: observeManagedGateway()'s legacy-cluster check hardcoded "docker" for its three container-inspect calls, regardless of the active runtime provider. On a Podman-selected host with no Docker installed, every call failed with ENOENT, surfacing as an opaque gateway.reuse.ready/gateway.version.compatible/gateway.port.uncontested readiness failure. After: the container engine bound to the active provider's gateway-inspection operation is resolved and used instead, so the check runs against podman when Podman is selected.

Reason

This is the root cause behind #10984: native Podman onboarding (activated by #9923) fails at the gateway readiness step because this specific check never became runtime-aware. The registry needed to fix it already exists — PR #9923 built runtime-provider/registry.ts's gateway-inspection operation and registered it for both docker.ts and podman.tsgateway-production.ts just wasn't using it for these three calls.

Related issues

Fixes #10984

Changes

  • src/lib/readiness/gateway-production.ts: added resolveGatewayInspectionEngineId(), which resolves the current runtime provider bundle and asks it for the gateway-inspection engine identity ("docker" or "podman"). inspectLegacyCluster() now takes this resolved engine id and uses it for its three inspect calls instead of the literal "docker". Fails closed (skips the check entirely) when no engine or openshell binary can be resolved, rather than guessing a binary. Added containerEngineId as an injectable option on createProductionGatewayReadinessDependencies, matching the existing isLegacyClusterBound/gatewayName injection pattern. Exported inspectLegacyCluster for direct unit testing, matching this file's existing convention (classifyManagedGatewayPortConflict, gatewayProcessIdentityMatchesTrustedBinary, etc. are already exported the same way).
  • src/lib/readiness/gateway-production.test.ts: two new tests — one proving a Podman-selected engine reaches an active legacy-cluster result via podman inspect (not docker), one proving a null engine id skips inspection entirely with zero subprocess calls.

Verification

  • npx vitest run src/lib/readiness/gateway-production.test.ts src/lib/readiness/gateway.test.ts — 68 passed (66 existing + 2 new)
  • npm run typecheck:cli — clean
  • npm run test:changed — 161 passed, no regressions

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved production gateway readiness checks for environments using Podman or other configured container runtimes.
    • Legacy cluster inspection now uses the active container engine to verify container state, port bindings, and image details.
    • Skips legacy inspection when no container runtime is configured, avoiding incorrect Docker-based checks.
    • Explicitly disabling container-engine inspection now prevents fallback checks through other runtimes.

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observeManagedGateway()'s legacy-cluster check hardcoded "docker" for
its three container-inspect calls, regardless of the active runtime
provider. On a Podman-selected host with no Docker installed, every
call failed, and the failure surfaced as an opaque readiness capability
failure rather than an actionable error.

Resolve the container engine bound to the active provider's
gateway-inspection operation (the same registry PR NVIDIA#9923 built for
native Podman activation) and use it for these calls instead. Fail
closed to "no legacy cluster" when no engine or openshell binary can be
resolved, rather than guessing a binary.

Fixes NVIDIA#10984

Signed-off-by: politerealism <burdcat17@gmail.com>
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Production gateway readiness now resolves the active container engine and uses it for legacy cluster inspection. The inspection supports Podman, avoids Docker-specific commands, and skips subprocess calls when no engine is available.

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Runtime-aware gateway readiness

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Engine resolution and readiness wiring
src/lib/readiness/gateway-production.ts
Readiness resolves a configured or active-provider container engine and passes its identity to legacy cluster inspection. An explicit null override remains effective.
Runtime-aware legacy inspection and validation
src/lib/readiness/gateway-production.ts, src/lib/readiness/gateway-production.test.ts
inspectLegacyCluster uses the resolved engine for container state, port, and image queries. Tests cover injected Podman usage and explicit null suppression of inspection.

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Gateway readiness now uses the selected container runtime for legacy inspection and skips inspection when no engine is available, enabling Podman hosts without Docker to complete onboarding. No current merge-blocking risk remains.

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In `@src/lib/readiness/gateway-production.test.ts`:
- Line 506: Replace the direct inspectLegacyCluster test with coverage through
createProductionGatewayReadinessDependencies().observeManagedGateway(),
verifying an injected podman engine invokes Podman and never Docker. Add a
null-engine override case that performs no subprocess call, and ensure the
assertions prove the public readiness entrypoint uses the new path rather than
the removed legacy path.

In `@src/lib/readiness/gateway-production.ts`:
- Line 597: Update the containerEngineId selection in observeManagedGateway to
preserve an explicit null returned by options.containerEngineId, using an
override-presence check rather than nullish coalescing; only call
resolveGatewayInspectionEngineId when no resolver override is provided.

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commandResult(`Gateway endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:${gatewayPort}\n`, 0),
],
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["podman", "inspect", "--format", "{{.State.Running}}", containerName].join("\0"),

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I only briefly looked into the source, but removing hardcoded "docker" and adding a hardcoded "podman" at the same time looks weird to me.

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Fair to flag — happy to clarify. This isn't swapping one hardcoded engine for another. inspectLegacyCluster now takes containerEngineId as a parameter, and the caller resolves it dynamically via resolveGatewayInspectionEngineId(), which asks the active runtime provider bundle (resolveCurrentRuntimeProviderBundle() + runtimeProviderContainerEngineIdentity(bundle, "gateway-inspection")) which engine backs it — "docker" or "podman" depending on NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_RUNTIME/platform, or null if no engine is registered for that operation, in which case inspection is skipped entirely. The "podman" you see in the diff is a test fixture exercising that resolution path, not a new hardcoded default. Pushed a commit that also adds coverage through the public createProductionGatewayReadinessDependencies().observeManagedGateway() entrypoint so this is proven end-to-end rather than just at the inspectLegacyCluster unit level.

@wscurran wscurran added area: onboarding Onboarding FSM, provider setup, sandbox launch, or first-run flow area: sandbox OpenShell sandbox lifecycle, runtime, config, or recovery bug-fix PR fixes a bug or regression labels Sep 4, 2026
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✨ Thanks for the fix. This resolves the root cause of the Podman onboarding failure by making gateway inspection runtime-aware.


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Related open issues:

containerEngineId?.() ?? resolveGatewayInspectionEngineId() treated an
explicit null return (meaning "no engine, skip inspection") as absent
and silently fell back to the resolved default, running container
inspection anyway. Use an override-presence check so an explicit null
is honored. Add coverage that reaches the fix through the public
createProductionGatewayReadinessDependencies().observeManagedGateway()
entrypoint instead of only unit-testing inspectLegacyCluster directly.

Signed-off-by: politerealism <burdcat17@gmail.com>
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Thanks for digging into the Podman readiness path and adding focused coverage. #11014 now covers the same issue through the provider owned readiness flow and includes the broader public path tests we need. To keep one implementation moving, we are going to continue with #11014 and close this PR. We appreciate the contribution.

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