DevPod will re-initialize the container at the first stop/up cycle #1925
Description
What happened?
The very first stop/up cycle of a new workspace sees DevPod re-initializing the container. This wipes out any work inside the container immediately after the workspace was created. It does not matter whether the stop was triggered by inactivity timeout, or by an explicit devpod stop command.
Once the workspace is restarted once, all subsequent restart cycles work as expected -- ie, the container isn't re-initialized. States of the container are preserved in restarts.
Our team workaround this by running a stop/up cycle right after a new workspace is created, before we do anything inside the container.
What did you expect to happen instead?
The first devpod stop should preserve the state of the container. Or the immediate subsequent devpod up should not re-initialize the container.
How can we reproduce the bug? (as minimally and precisely as possible)
- Create an AWS provider
devpod upa workspace off of a GitHub repodevpod stopthe workspace- Run this in the container: echo `date` > ~/i-was-here.txt.
devpod upthe workspace
a. Here, observe from the logs that the container got reinstalled.
b. Once the container is up, observe that the ~/i-was-here.txt file is not there.
My devcontainer.json:
{
"name": "Chariot Devpod Container",
"image": "ghcr.io/praetorian-inc/chariot-devpod:latest",
"features": {
"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/desktop-lite:1": {}
},
"runArgs": ["--shm-size=2gb"],
"forwardPorts": [9222],
"postCreateCommand": "sudo chsh -s $(which zsh) $(whoami)"
}
Local Environment:
- DevPod Version: v0.6.15
- Operating System: mac
- ARCH of the OS: ARM64
DevPod Provider:
- Cloud Provider: aws
Anything else we need to know?
Here is the first few lines of the stdout logs of:
- the first
devpod up(correctly created the workspace) - the second
devpod up(incorrectly re-initialized the container, wiping out work) - the third
devpod up(correctly latched on to the existing container)
First logs of the first devpod up (correctly created the workspace):
❯ devpod up --provider aws github.com/praetorian-inc/chariot-development-platform@peter/smoother-devpod-17th --ide cursor --id zsh6
19:39:46 info Create machine 'zsh6-bece2' with provider 'aws'...
19:39:49 done Successfully created machine 'zsh6-bece2' with provider 'aws'
19:39:51 info Creating devcontainer...
19:40:03 info Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
19:40:12 info # Executing docker install script, commit: 1d97565eca92bb523082b7d4f530c74104e05d35
19:40:12 info Download binary AWS_PROVIDER from https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod-provider-aws/releases/download/v0.0.17/devpod-provider-aws-linux-amd64
19:40:12 info + sh -c apt-get update -qq >/dev/null
19:40:13 info Clone repository
19:40:13 info URL: https://github.com/praetorian-inc/chariot-development-platform
19:40:13 info Branch: peter/smoother-devpod-17th
19:40:16 done Successfully cloned repository
19:40:16 info Successfully installed DevPod daemon into server
19:40:22 info + sh -c DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y -qq apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl >/dev/null
19:40:25 info
19:40:25 info Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.
First logs of the second devpod up (incorrectly re-initialized the container, wiping out work)
❯ devpod up zsh6
19:43:44 info Workspace zsh6 already exists
19:43:44 info Starting machine 'zsh6-bece2'...
19:43:45 done Successfully started 'zsh6-bece2'
19:43:45 info Creating devcontainer...
19:43:56 info Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
19:44:00 info Configuring docker daemon ...
19:44:03 info Build with docker buildx...
19:44:03 info #0 building with "default" instance using docker driver
19:44:03 info
19:44:03 info #1 [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile-with-features
19:44:03 info #1 transferring dockerfile: 783B done
19:44:03 info #1 DONE 0.1s
19:44:03 info
First logs of the third devpod up (correctly latched on to the existing container)
❯ devpod up zsh6
20:11:07 info Workspace zsh6 already exists
20:11:07 info Starting machine 'zsh6-bece2'...
20:11:08 done Successfully started 'zsh6-bece2'
20:11:08 info Creating devcontainer...
20:11:19 info Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
20:11:24 info Configuring docker daemon ...
20:11:26 info Setup container...
20:11:26 info Run 'ssh zsh6.devpod' to ssh into the devcontainer
20:11:26 info Starting Cursor...