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The desktop firmware ships as a container image, so a full projectMM runs on anything that runs Docker: the same effect pipeline, web UI and network drivers as a board, without an ESP32. Every release publishes one. Instances generate and store their own identity, so a network of them no longer appears as a row of identical MM-CAFE devices.

Closes #97.

The image

It installs the released .deb rather than building from source. The release already produces that package, and building here would be a second build path to keep working, so the image is packaging rather than a build.

Two choices are load-bearing and would otherwise look arbitrary:

  • distroless cc-debian13, not a Debian base: the binary plus its four shared libraries, no shell and no package manager. 45 MB against 140 MB.
  • debian13, not debian12. The release is built on ubuntu-24.04 (glibc 2.39) so the binary needs >= 2.38. Bookworm ships 2.36, where it installs cleanly and then dies at startup with GLIBC_2.38 not found. Verified both ways on the bench.

docker-compose.yml maps 8081 on the host so a container never fights a projectMM already on the machine, and sets platform: linux/amd64 because the release ships no arm64 Linux binary. Without that line an Apple-silicon host dies with rosetta error: failed to open elf.

Identity

A desktop build had a hardcoded MAC (DE:AD:BE:EF:CA:FE), which was invisible until instances could be multiplied: every container announced itself as MM-CAFE, so MQTT topics and device-sync peers collided.

Each instance now generates a random locally-administered MAC on first start and persists it to .config/identity, following the systemd machine-id pattern. It is reused on every later start, so an identity survives a restart and an image upgrade, which is what keeps established MQTT and sync connections working. An install that already exists keeps the identity it had.

Done for the desktop platform generally, not just the container, since the same bug applies to two desktop builds on one network.

Release plumbing

release.yml grows a publish-container job that builds from the run's own .deb and pushes version plus latest tags to ghcr.io.

container-test.yml is temporary: release.yml cannot be rehearsed from a branch, because when its tag resolves to latest it force-pushes that tag and deletes the latest release, which the installer and the OTA badge both read. So this runs the whole path under a container-test tag, pulls the image back to prove it serves, and attaches a prerelease. It is workflow_dispatch only and touches no v* tag. Delete it once publish-container has run for real on main.

A prerelease rather than a draft, so the person who asked for this can test it: a draft is invisible without write access. Safe because of what the update checks read: the stable channel fetches /releases/latest (newest non-prerelease) and the dev channel fetches /releases/tags/latest (a specific tag), so neither reaches it.

Also

moonlive_lower.h zero-initialises fnExit, which GCC 14 rejects under -Werror=maybe-uninitialized.

Three backlog entries found while testing the container: desktop mDNS is a stub, the desktop render loop is unpaced (83,000 fps, a core per instance), and the update card reads navigator.platform so it reports the browser's OS as the device's.

Verification

The image was built locally, run, and checked serving on :8081 with a generated identity; an upgrade over an existing volume preserved config. Repo health was skipped on the commit by PO decision: the diff is docs, CI and a desktop-only change, and moves no firmware target.

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  • New Features

    • Added Docker support for running projectMM without dedicated hardware, with persistent data storage and configurable lighting output.
    • Published versioned and latest container images for amd64 systems.
    • Added Docker Compose support for local deployments.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Desktop installations now retain a stable device identity across restarts, improving integrations and device naming.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance for Docker usage, networking, persistence, output protocols, and ARM-host limitations.
    • Documented known desktop discovery, rendering, and platform-detection limitations.

The desktop firmware now ships as a container image, so a full projectMM runs
on anything that runs Docker: the same effect pipeline, web UI and network
drivers as a board, without an ESP32. Every release publishes one. Instances
generate and store their own MAC and device name on first start, so a network
of them no longer shows up as a row of identical MM-CAFE devices.

Performance: not measured. Repo health was skipped on this commit by PO
decision; the diff is docs, CI and a desktop-only identity change, and moves
no firmware target.

**Core**
- Desktop instances derive a stored identity on first start: a random
  locally-administered MAC persisted to `.config/identity`, with the device
  name following from it. Reused on every later start, so MQTT topics and
  device-sync peers survive a restart and an image upgrade. An existing
  install keeps the identity it already had.
- `moonlive_lower.h`: zero-initialise `fnExit`, which GCC 14 rejects under
  `-Werror=maybe-uninitialized`.

**Docs/CI**
- `Dockerfile`: two-stage, installing the release `.deb` rather than building
  from source, onto distroless `cc-debian13`. 45 MB against 140 MB for a full
  Debian base. debian13 is load-bearing: the release is built on glibc 2.39
  and bookworm's 2.36 dies at startup.
- `docker-compose.yml`: 8081 on the host so a container never fights a local
  install, a named volume for all state, `platform: linux/amd64` because the
  release ships no arm64 Linux binary.
- `release.yml` grows a `publish-container` job pushing version and `latest`
  tags to ghcr.io from the run's own `.deb`.
- `container-test.yml`, TEMPORARY: rehearses the whole release path under a
  `container-test` tag, pulls the image back and proves it serves before
  attaching a prerelease. Delete once `publish-container` has run on main.
- Backlog: desktop mDNS, the unpaced desktop render loop, and the update card
  reading `navigator.platform` instead of the device it is talking to.

**Tests**
- MQTT and SystemModule tests derive their expectations from the running MAC
  rather than a hardcoded `efcafe`/`MM-CAFE`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds amd64 Docker packaging for the desktop build, publishes versioned and latest GHCR images, adds container documentation and Compose support, persists desktop identities, updates related tests, and records desktop backlog items.

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Containerized desktop release

Layer / File(s) Summary
Desktop runtime identity and build compatibility
src/platform/desktop/platform_desktop.cpp, src/core/moonlive/moonlive_lower.h, test/unit/core/unit_MqttModule.cpp, test/unit/core/unit_SystemModule.cpp
Desktop instances now persist a generated identity. Tests derive MQTT topics and device names from that identity. fnExit is explicitly initialized.
Container image and local runtime
Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml
The multi-stage Dockerfile builds an amd64 image with a Debian 13 distroless runtime. The Compose setup maps port 8081, persists /data, and documents host networking.
Release and container publication
.github/workflows/release.yml, .github/workflows/container-test.yml
Release workflows build and publish versioned and latest GHCR images. The manual workflow builds, pushes, pulls, and verifies a prerelease container.
Container operation and desktop backlog
README.md, docs/building.md, docs/backlog/backlog-core.md
Documentation covers container usage, storage, networking, ports, capabilities, tags, and amd64 limits. The backlog records desktop discovery, render pacing, and firmware identification gaps.

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  participant DesktopArtifact
  participant GHCR
  participant Container
  ReleaseWorkflow->>DesktopArtifact: download desktop-linux artifact
  ReleaseWorkflow->>GHCR: build and push versioned and latest images
  GHCR->>Container: pull published image
  Container->>ReleaseWorkflow: serve HTTP and persist identity
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The PR adds containerized desktop releases and persistent identity, but concurrent rehearsals can validate or publish the wrong image, while unresolved runtime, workflow-security, identity, and upgrade-path issues can affect deployments and device behavior. These material risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR provides an amd64 OCI image with a distroless runtime, network-driven fixture support, persistence documentation, and network guidance [#97]. However, it does not provide an arm64 image and doe… Add an arm64 image when an arm64 Linux binary is available, or document the limitation in the issue and image documentation. Document supported environment variables, or explicitly state that the image has none.
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In @.github/workflows/container-test.yml:
- Line 123: Update the container test around the identity-read command to
capture the initial identity, restart projectMM using the existing t-data
volume, read the identity again, and assert both values are non-empty and
identical, preserving the cleanup behavior.

In @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Line 613: Pin all GitHub Actions references to reviewed full commit SHAs
instead of mutable version tags: update the five references in
.github/workflows/release.yml at lines 613-613, 618-618, 623-623, 625-625, and
668-668, plus the six references in .github/workflows/container-test.yml at
lines 31-31, 37-37, 50-50, 52-52, 87-87, and 136-136.

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to the reviewed immutable digest for the official
gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian13:nonroot variant. Add the runtime USER
configuration and grant that UID write access to /data in each template so
projectMM runs non-root while retaining data persistence.

In `@docs/building.md`:
- Around line 119-121: Update the direct container commands to pass the
--no-browser argument after the published image name so headless containers
serve the UI without attempting to launch a browser. Apply this change in
docs/building.md lines 119-121 and README.md line 11; both sites require the
same direct command update.
- Around line 128-129: Update the documented upgrade command in the relevant
section of building.md so it actually refreshes the deployed image: either
enable the published image configuration in docker-compose.yml for release
usage, or replace the pull-based command with docker compose build --pull &&
docker compose up -d for source builds.

In `@src/platform/desktop/platform_desktop.cpp`:
- Around line 1116-1121: Update the identity persistence logic around the
std::ofstream write to use the platform’s existing atomic-write mechanism,
preserving the configured root and replacing the direct truncate-and-rewrite
path for the completed identity record. Add a regression test that verifies a
truncated identity file is handled without changing the persisted device or MQTT
identity.

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echo "identity=$name" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
# The identity must have been generated and stored: that is what makes an instance
# distinguishable and what survives an upgrade.
docker run --rm -v t-data:/data alpine cat /data/projectMM/.config/identity

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert identity persistence after a restart.

Line 123 only verifies that the identity file can be read once. An empty file, or an identity regenerated on every start, passes this check. Capture and validate the first identity, restart projectMM with t-data, then compare the persisted value.

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contents: read
packages: write # push to ghcr.io; GITHUB_TOKEN carries it, no secret to manage
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4

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rg -n '^[[:space:]-]*uses:|^[[:space:]]+uses:' .github/workflows/release.yml .github/workflows/container-test.yml
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Pin the listed GitHub Actions to reviewed full commit SHAs.

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# (glibc 2.39), so the binary requires glibc >= 2.38. The debian12/bookworm images ship 2.36, where
# it installs cleanly and then dies at startup with "GLIBC_2.38 not found" from libc and libm.
# Verified both ways on the bench. If the release ever moves to an older builder, this can too.
FROM gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian13

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The official Distroless container image for C/C++ applications based on Debian 13 is identified by the repository gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian13 [1][2][3]. To use the version configured for a non-root user, you should use the nonroot tag: gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian13:nonroot [1][2][3]. Because container image tags are mutable and point to different digests as updates are pushed to the registry, there is no single static digest for the nonroot tag. To obtain the current, immutable digest for this image, you must query the Google Container Registry directly using the crane tool or Docker CLI [4]. You can retrieve it by running the following command: docker buildx imagetools inspect gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian13:nonroot --format '{{json.Manifest.Digest}}' Alternatively, if you have crane installed, you can use: crane digest gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian13:nonroot These commands will return the specific SHA256 digest currently associated with that tag in the registry [1][3].

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Use a pinned non-root runtime image in all three templates.

The three runtime stages use the mutable gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian13 tag and set no USER, so projectMM runs as root. Use a reviewed digest for the official gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian13:nonroot variant, and ensure that the runtime UID can write /data, which stores projectMM data.

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to the reviewed immutable digest for the official
gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian13:nonroot variant. Add the runtime USER
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docker run -d --name projectmm -p 8081:8080 -v projectmm:/data \
ghcr.io/moonmodules/projectmm:latest
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Pass --no-browser to every direct container command.

The Compose service uses --no-browser because the container has no browser. The direct commands in both documents omit it and can attempt an unavailable browser instead of serving the UI.

  • docs/building.md#L119-L121: append --no-browser after the published image name.
  • README.md#L11-L11: append --no-browser after the published image name.
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volume, so `docker compose pull && docker compose up -d` keeps settings, presets, scripts and the
device's identity. Only `docker compose down -v` wipes it, and only a mounted volume is preserved

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make the upgrade command pull the published image.

docker-compose.yml uses build: . and leaves image: commented out. Therefore docker compose pull does not fetch the GHCR release, and docker compose up -d rebuilds from the local checkout. Either activate the published image: for release usage, or document docker compose build --pull && docker compose up -d for source builds.

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In `@docs/building.md` around lines 128 - 129, Update the documented upgrade
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if (std::ofstream out(file); out) {
char line[24];
std::snprintf(line, sizeof(line), "%02X %02X %02X %02X %02X %02X",
cached[0], cached[1], cached[2], cached[3], cached[4], cached[5]);
out << line << "\n";
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Write the identity atomically.

Lines 1116-1121 truncate and rewrite /.config/identity directly. If the process stops during this write, the next start cannot parse the file and generates a different MAC, or reverts to the legacy MAC when JSON configuration exists. This changes the device name and MQTT identity.

Use the platform atomic-write path for the completed identity record. Add a regression test for a truncated identity file.

Proposed fix
-            std::filesystem::create_directories(file.parent_path(), ec);
-            if (std::ofstream out(file); out) {
-                char line[24];
-                std::snprintf(line, sizeof(line), "%02X %02X %02X %02X %02X %02X",
-                              cached[0], cached[1], cached[2], cached[3], cached[4], cached[5]);
-                out << line << "\n";
-            }
+            char line[24];
+            std::snprintf(line, sizeof(line), "%02X %02X %02X %02X %02X %02X\n",
+                          cached[0], cached[1], cached[2], cached[3], cached[4], cached[5]);
+            std::filesystem::create_directories(file.parent_path(), ec);
+            (void)fsWriteAtomic("/.config/identity", line, std::strlen(line));

As per path instructions, identity data under /.config “must persist with the configured root.”

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if (std::ofstream out(file); out) {
char line[24];
std::snprintf(line, sizeof(line), "%02X %02X %02X %02X %02X %02X",
cached[0], cached[1], cached[2], cached[3], cached[4], cached[5]);
out << line << "\n";
}
char line[24];
std::snprintf(line, sizeof(line), "%02X %02X %02X %02X %02X %02X\n",
cached[0], cached[1], cached[2], cached[3], cached[4], cached[5]);
std::filesystem::create_directories(file.parent_path(), ec);
(void)fsWriteAtomic("/.config/identity", line, std::strlen(line));
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In `@src/platform/desktop/platform_desktop.cpp` around lines 1116 - 1121, Update
the identity persistence logic around the std::ofstream write to use the
platform’s existing atomic-write mechanism, preserving the configured root and
replacing the direct truncate-and-rewrite path for the completed identity
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ewowi and others added 2 commits September 6, 2026 22:16
The rehearsal failed in packaging: dpkg-deb rejected the version
`container~test` because a Debian version must start with a digit. It passed
its own release tag to compute_version, which maps only `latest` to the
rolling prerelease channel and carries any other tag through as the version
verbatim, so a made-up tag became a made-up version.

It now builds at `--tag latest`, the same `<core>-dev.<N>` a rolling release
produces, which is also the truer rehearsal. What isolates the run is the
image tag and the release tag, both `container-test` and both unchanged.

**Docs/CI**
- `container-test.yml`: build at `--tag latest` rather than the release tag,
  with the reason recorded at the step.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The verify step failed with "Invalid container name (t)": Docker requires at
least two characters, since its pattern demands a leading character and a
trailing class. Everything before it passed, so the image built, pushed to
ghcr.io and pulled back cleanly.

**Docs/CI**
- `container-test.yml`: name the verify container `mmtest` rather than `t`,
  and its volume to match.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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1. Commit 3727e63:
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       compute_version.py --tag latest
   - This follows the rolling-release package path.
   - It produces a numeric Debian package version after the package script converts
     `-dev.<N>` to `~dev.<N>`.
   - The workflow still isolates the rehearsal through the `container-test` image
     tag and prerelease tag. It does not publish `latest` or a `vX.Y.Z` tag.

2. Commit b8bbf95:
   - The Docker verification container name changed from `t` to `mmtest`.
   - The Docker verification volume changed from `t-data` to `mmtest-data`.
   - Docker Engine name validation requires at least two characters for this API
     pattern. `mmtest` satisfies the requirement.
   - All related commands use the new names consistently:
       docker run
       docker logs
       docker run ... -v <volume>:/data
       docker rm

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- The two requested commits modify only `.github/workflows/container-test.yml`.
- The workflow still builds the package, pushes the rehearsal image, removes the
  local image, pulls the registry image, checks the System endpoint, verifies the
  persisted identity file, and publishes the prerelease artifacts.

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Serialize runs that use the shared container-test tag.

A push run and a manual run can overlap. Both runs push :container-test, then pull that same mutable tag. One run can validate the other run’s image and publish conflicting assets to the same prerelease tag.

Add workflow-level concurrency with cancel-in-progress: false so each rehearsal completes before the next run changes the shared tags.

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+  group: container-test-rehearsal
+  cancel-in-progress: false
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Brings main into the container branch and processes the review findings on it.
The desktop identity now survives a crash mid-write, the container base is
pinned to a digest so two builds of one commit cannot ship different runtimes,
and the temporary release-rehearsal workflow is gone now that the real one
publishes the image.

**Core**
- The stored desktop identity is written atomically (`fsWriteAtomic`: temp file,
  fsync, rename) rather than through a bare `ofstream`. A crash mid-write left a
  half-line that the parser rejects, and the next start took a DIFFERENT
  identity, renaming the device and moving its MQTT topics.
- Corrected the comment claiming a read-only mount "behaves like the old
  constant did". True only for an install that already holds config; a FRESH
  install on a read-only mount regenerates its address every start.

**Docs/CI**
- `container-test.yml` deleted. `release.yml`'s `publish-container` job fires on
  main, builds from that run's own `.deb`, and pushes `:version` and `:latest`,
  so merging publishes the image and the rehearsal has no more work to do.
- The distroless base is pinned by digest in both the repo Dockerfile and the
  release heredoc, with the re-pin command in the comment.
- `--no-browser` on both direct `docker run` commands: a container has no
  browser, and without it the start prints a line saying so.
- The upgrade instructions now distinguish `compose pull` (a published `image:`)
  from `compose build --pull` (the shipped `build: .`), where `pull` alone
  fetches nothing.

**Reviews**
- 🐇 identity write not atomic -> done.
- 🐇 `--no-browser` missing from the docs -> done, downgraded from Major: the
  browser call is best effort and a failure only prints a line.
- 🐇 `compose pull` fetches nothing with `build: .` -> done.
- 🐇 unpinned distroless base -> done, digest pinned.
- 🐇 container runs as root, use `:nonroot` -> ACCEPTED, not applied. Existing
  `/data` volumes are root-owned, so a nonroot UID could not write the identity
  file or config on any deployed container. Needs its own change.
- 🐇 container-test concurrency, and its identity assertion -> moot, file deleted.
- 👾 Reviewer stalled before reporting; its one confirmed finding (the read-only
  comment) was verified by hand and fixed.

Gates: spec drift, prose, taglines, devices, firmwares, platform boundary,
hot path, host tests (Python 149, JS 136), desktop build, unit tests (1904
cases, 123,251 assertions), scenarios (23), no-backend build. All pass. ESP32
builds skipped by PO decision: the diff is desktop and container only. Repo
health not run. Scenario observations were reverted rather than recorded, by PO
decision, to keep the diff minimal; the run itself passed.

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