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Change Summary

Follow-up to #2241, continuing to chip away at the coverage gap one sub-area at a time.

The container page documented 44 of the 53 nodes in interface-definitions/container.xml.in. This adds the eight that were missing, each placed next to the option it belongs with rather than in a block at the end:

Command Default
set container name <name> allow-host-cgroups
set container name <name> shared-memory <MB> 64 MB, 0 = unlimited, max 8192
set container name <name> stop-timeout <seconds> 10 s, max 60
set container name <name> network <net> mac <address> auto
set container name <name> volume <vol> propagation <mode> rprivate
set container network <name> type bridge this is the default
set container network <name> type macvlan mode <mode>
set container network <name> type macvlan parent <interface>

The network type is the notable one: MACVLAN was entirely undocumented, even though it is how you put containers directly on a parent network with their own MAC address instead of behind the host bridge and NAT.

Three constraints on MACVLAN networks are now stated on the page, and all three are enforced by verify() in src/conf_mode/container.py:

  • parent is required, and the interface must already exist
  • mode is required
  • a MACVLAN network cannot be assigned to a VRF

Defaults and value ranges are taken from container.xml.in. The --cgroupns host note matches what the quadlet generator actually emits (PodmanArgs=--cgroupns host), in the same style the page already uses for --pid host and --net host.

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Backport

Please do not auto-backport this one as a whole — it is a mixed bag:

  • type macvlan / type bridge, allow-host-cgroups, stop-timeout and
    network <net> mac do not exist in circinus or sagitta, so those parts
    would document commands that are not there.
  • shared-memory and volume <vol> propagation do exist in both LTS
    branches, and are currently undocumented on the circinus page.

Happy to open a separate PR against circinus with just those two options if
that is wanted.

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Verification

  • Every added command was cross-checked against interface-definitions/container.xml.in in the vyos-1x rolling tree, and the behavioural claims against src/conf_mode/container.py — not against coverage.html, which mis-reported several nodes in this area in both directions.
  • scripts/doc-linter.py reports no new findings for the changed file. The one warning it emits on docs/configuration/container/index.md is a pre-existing over-length URL that my insertions merely shifted from line 441 to 543.
  • Branch availability for the backport note was checked per option against interface-definitions/container.xml.in on circinus-public-unmaintained and sagitta-public-unmaintained via the API, and against the circinus doc page.
  • MyST fences and ::: directives verified balanced. I could not run a local Sphinx build (no sphinx/myst in my environment), so the Read the Docs preview on this PR is the first real render — please shout if anything looks off there.

The container page covered 44 of the 53 nodes in container.xml.in. Add
the eight that were missing, grouped where they belong on the page:

- allow-host-cgroups, next to allow-host-pid
- network <net> mac, next to the network address option
- volume <vol> propagation, with all six modes
- stop-timeout, next to restart
- shared-memory, next to memory
- network <net> type bridge / type macvlan mode / type macvlan parent

The network type is the notable gap: MACVLAN was entirely undocumented,
although it is the way to put containers directly on a parent network
instead of behind the host bridge and NAT. The page now states that
parent and mode are both required, that the parent must exist, and that
MACVLAN networks cannot be assigned to a VRF - all three are enforced
by verify() in src/conf_mode/container.py.

Defaults and ranges are taken from container.xml.in; the "--cgroupns
host" note matches what the quadlet generator emits.
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  • Documentation
    • Added configuration guidance for sharing the host cgroup namespace.
    • Documented custom network MAC addresses, including automatic assignment.
    • Documented bridge and macvlan network modes and their requirements.
    • Added mount propagation options and supported modes, including the default.
    • Documented container shutdown timeout settings, defaults, and limits.
    • Added /dev/shm sizing options, including the default, supported limits, and unlimited mode.
    • Included corresponding Podman configuration guidance and relevant constraints for each option.

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The container configuration documentation adds six options and documents bridge and macvlan network types. It includes defaults, limits, valid values, Podman translations, examples, and configuration constraints.

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Container configuration documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Container runtime and resource options
docs/configuration/container/index.md
Lines 65–75 document allow-host-cgroups. Lines 189–210 document volume propagation modes. Lines 241–248 document stop-timeout. Lines 268–277 document shared-memory, including defaults and limits.
Container network options
docs/configuration/container/index.md
Lines 108–120 document interface MAC address configuration. Lines 375–416 document bridge and macvlan network types, required parameters, examples, and VRF restrictions.

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The page can lead users to configure an invalid zero-second timeout. Document the full supported range before merge.

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  • Podman defaults to a bridge network; macvlan requires a host parent interface, and macvlan networks are root-only.
  • Static MAC addresses are supported through network configuration (mac= or --mac-address).
  • Bind-mount propagation defaults to private. Shared propagation is bidirectional, while slave propagation is host-to-container only; shared/slave modes also require compatible source mount propagation.
  • Podman’s stop-timeout default is 10 seconds. /dev/shm defaults to 64 MiB, and size 0 means unlimited IPC memory.
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The six propagation modes were described in terms of sub-mount
visibility, taken from the <description> text in container.xml.in. That
is not what the modes do - mount(2)/umount(2) event propagation is.
Per mount_namespaces(7):

- MS_SHARED propagates events *both ways* between members of the peer
  group, not only from the original mount to the replica
- MS_PRIVATE propagates no events out of or into the mount; it does not
  hide sub-mounts within it

Also note the constraint the host side imposes, which is easy to trip
over: per docker-run(1)/podman, shared propagation requires the source
mount to be shared and slave requires it to be shared or slave, or the
requested mode silently does not take effect. Added the findmnt
invocation to check it.

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@coderabbitai Both findings were correct — fixed in 3c892f3.

Propagation semantics. You are right that the wording described sub-mount visibility rather than mount(2)/umount(2) event propagation. Worth recording where the bad wording came from: I lifted it verbatim from the <description> fields in interface-definitions/container.xml.in, which are themselves imprecise. Checked against mount_namespaces(7):

  • MS_SHARED — "mount(2) and umount(2) events immediately under this mount will propagate to the other mounts that are members of this peer group", i.e. in both directions, not only original → replica.
  • MS_PRIVATE — "mount(2) and umount(2) events do not propagate into or out of this mount". Nothing about hiding sub-mounts.
  • MS_SLAVE — events propagate from the master peer group into this mount but not back out, which matches what was already there, so I left that one as you suggested.

All six modes are now phrased consistently in terms of event propagation, with rshared/rslave/rprivate collapsed into one bullet as the recursive variants.

Source-mount requirement. Also correct, and a genuinely easy trap since the requested mode just silently fails to take effect. Verbatim from docker-run(1), which Podman follows:

For mount propagation to work source mount point (mount point where source dir is mounted on) has to have right propagation properties. For shared volumes, source mount point has to be shared. And for slave volumes, source mount has to be either shared or slave.

Added as a note next to the mode list, together with the findmnt -o TARGET,PROPAGATION <directory> invocation from the same man page so readers can check the host side themselves.

Flagging one consequence for reviewers: the page now deliberately diverges from the CLI help text of set container name <name> volume <vol> propagation. The help strings in container.xml.in have the same visibility-based wording and would be worth correcting separately in vyos-1x — happy to file that if you think it is worth a task.

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Document the full stop-timeout range.

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  • Podman creates bridge networking by default; MACVLAN requires a parent host interface and is root-only. Static MAC addresses are supported via network options.
  • Podman supports shared, slave, and private bind-mount propagation modes, including recursive variants.
  • --cgroupns=host makes the host cgroup namespace available inside the container; defaults differ between cgroups v1 and v2.
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@ruben-herold Verified in 3c892f38.

docs/configuration/container/index.md Lines 189-209 now correctly describe propagation as mount and unmount event propagation. The source-mount constraint and the findmnt -o TARGET,PROPAGATION <directory> verification command are also present.

Both findings are addressed.

A separate task for vyos-1x is worthwhile. The propagation descriptions in interface-definitions/container.xml.in affect CLI help and currently teach incorrect semantics. The task should update the shared, slave, private, and recursive-mode descriptions to match mount_namespaces(7).


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Learning: In VyOS container configuration, `volume <name> propagation <mode>` controls `mount(2)` and `umount(2)` event propagation, not sub-mount visibility. `shared` propagates events bidirectionally, `slave` propagates events from the host source mount into the container only, and `private` propagates no events. The `rshared`, `rslave`, and `rprivate` modes apply the respective behavior recursively.

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Timestamp: 2026-09-15T14:47:32.836Z
Learning: For VyOS container volume propagation, the host source mount must have compatible propagation properties: `shared` requires a shared source mount, and `slave` requires a shared or slave source mount. Users can inspect this with `findmnt -o TARGET,PROPAGATION <directory>`.

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