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Add a multi-stage Docker deployment for NutWatch: the React SPA is built in a Node stage and bundled with the backend into an Ubuntu runtime that runs NUT under supervisord (tini as PID 1). A systemctl shim translates backend service calls to supervisorctl, propagating failures and reporting real service states, and an entrypoint generates first-boot NUT configs from environment variables using alphanumeric-only random passwords (NUT treats # as a comment start and would silently truncate them) and sets 640 permissions on upsd.users. An upsmon wrapper handles upsmon fork behavior: the unprivileged child escapes the process group via setsid, so plain supervisorctl restarts orphaned the child and put the program into FATAL on the first UI config save; the wrapper traps the stop signal and brings the whole pair down. The compose file offers USB access options and persistent volumes for config and data. The README documents Docker usage including the Wake-on-LAN broadcast limitation on bridge networks, and the CI shell-lint job now covers the same file set as the Makefile.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis PR adds Docker deployment for NutWatch, including a multi-stage image, NUT initialization, supervised services, container service controls, Compose configuration, syslog fallback, driver-unit discovery, tests, and deployment documentation. ChangesDocker deployment and runtime support
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The Docker deployment currently exposes unauthenticated first-boot configuration on the host network, grants broader USB access than necessary, and retains root privileges for the HTTP application; service restart logic can also skip named drivers or hide stop failures. These issues could enable unauthorized configuration or device access and cause unreliable service control, so the PR is not ready to merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Docker
participant Entrypoint
participant Supervisord
participant NUT
participant NutWatch
Docker->>Entrypoint: start container
Entrypoint->>NUT: generate configuration and start drivers
Entrypoint->>Supervisord: launch supervised processes
Supervisord->>NUT: start upsd and upsmon
Supervisord->>NutWatch: start application
NutWatch->>NUT: resolve driver units and retrieve logs
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In `@docker-compose.yml`:
- Around line 5-11: Make USB access restrictive by default in
docker-compose.yml: enable the devices mapping and remove the default privileged
setting, documenting privileged mode only as the hotplug fallback. Update
README.md lines 440-442 and 453-468 to use --device by default and clearly
document --privileged/privileged: true only when hotplug support is required.
- Around line 24-29: Replace the default NUT_ADMIN_PASS, NUT_MONITOR_PASS, and
NUTWATCH_SECRET_KEY values with required deployment-provided variables in
docker-compose.yml at lines 24-29 and README.md at lines 434-451, ensuring
startup fails when they are unset. Document how to rotate NUT credentials for
existing nutwatch-config volumes because /etc/nut/upsd.users is initialized only
on first start.
In `@README.md`:
- Around line 486-490: Update the Wake on LAN host-networking documentation to
state that Compose configurations using network_mode: host must remove the
ports: block, while docker run commands using --network host must omit both -p
options because port mappings are incompatible with host networking.
In `@scripts/docker/entrypoint.sh`:
- Around line 24-31: Remove the generated password values from the echo
statements in the NUT_ADMIN_PASS and NUT_MONITOR_PASS initialization blocks,
while retaining concise messages that indicate each credential was generated.
In `@scripts/docker/supervisord.conf`:
- Around line 1-4: Update the supervisord configuration so program:nutwatch runs
under a dedicated unprivileged account instead of inheriting user=root. Add
narrowly scoped privileged helpers for the required /etc/nut writes, driver and
service control, and Supervisor socket operations, granting only the permissions
needed for those operations.
In `@scripts/docker/systemctl-shim.sh`:
- Around line 55-64: Update the restart/start/stop dispatch loop around
map_service so an empty target produces a nonzero return status instead of
silently succeeding; preserve supervisorctl handling for mapped services and
ensure unsupported names, including nut-driver, cannot report success without
performing an action.
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The container NUT driver dropped to user "nut", which cannot open host USB device nodes (typically root-owned with mode 660/664), so the generated ups.conf now runs the driver as root. Since the driver then creates its control socket as root:root, upsd also runs as root (-u root) so it can connect to the driver socket and serve UPS data.
The container has no journald, so the Logs tab (which read NUT service logs via journalctl) was empty, and NUT daemon syslog() output was silently dropped with no syslog daemon running. The image now installs busybox-syslogd and the entrypoint starts it early, capturing all NUT logs to /var/log/messages (the packaged /etc/syslog.conf is removed so the -O path is honored). The logs API probes journalctl and, when no journal is available, falls back to tailing that file for both the recent and stream endpoints; host installs with journald keep the exact same journalctl commands.
The container previously ran on the default Docker bridge network, where the ARP-based LAN host scan returned nothing: the bridge namespace has no L2 access to the physical LAN, and the image lacked the tools the scan needs. The compose service now uses network_mode: host so the container shares the host network stack (LAN route and ARP table) and magic-packet broadcasts can reach the physical network; the ports: mapping is removed since it is ignored under host networking. The image additionally installs iproute2, iputils-arping, and iputils-ping, which the WOL scan uses to detect the LAN subnet, probe neighbors, and read the ARP cache.
Docker deployments no longer need privileged mode: the compose file and README now mount the host USB bus with a device cgroup rule (c 189:* rwm), which is evaluated when devices appear, so UPS hotplug keeps working. Hardcoded changeme NUT passwords and the fixed Flask secret are gone; the entrypoint generates random credentials on first start (persisted in the nutwatch-config volume), the backend generates its session key in nutwatch-data, and generated passwords are no longer logged. The systemctl shim now dispatches nut-driver and nut-driver@<name> actions through upsdrvctl, mirroring systemctl semantics (stopping an inactive driver succeeds), and exits 4 for unmapped service names instead of reporting success without doing anything. NUT 2.8.x ships no bare nut-driver.service on most distros: drivers run as nut-driver@<name> instances, so host installs showed the driver as inactive and dropped its journal lines. Driver unit names are now resolved from ups.conf for status, restart, and journalctl, with pid-file and upsdrvctl fallbacks. The lint workflow also pins token permissions to contents: read.
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In `@docker-compose.yml`:
- Around line 14-18: Adjust the Docker Compose networking configuration around
network_mode so host networking is not enabled by default during unauthenticated
bootstrap. Make host networking opt-in or bind NutWatch to a trusted, non-public
address, while preserving the required WOL and magic-packet functionality and
ensuring setup and require_auth/require_admin routes cannot be reached by
untrusted clients before accounts exist.
- Around line 5-11: Restrict the default Docker Compose USB permissions to the
specific UPS device by replacing the broad /dev/bus/usb mapping and c 189:* rwm
rule with device-specific values. Preserve broad USB access only through an
explicit hotplug profile or clearly document its trust boundary.
In `@scripts/docker/systemctl-shim.sh`:
- Around line 38-41: Update name_pid_alive to locate NUT PID files matching the
driver prefix format, such as /var/run/nut/usbhid-ups-${1}.pid, rather than only
/var/run/nut/${1}.pid. Preserve the existing PID parsing and kill -0 validation,
and ensure named drivers like nut-driver@myups are detected so their stop
command runs.
In `@src/backend/services/system.py`:
- Around line 32-38: Update the unit-selection logic around _ups_names and the
systemctl list-unit-files call to parse stdout rows and return nut-driver only
when a row’s first field is exactly nut-driver.service; otherwise retain the
templated nut-driver@ names from _ups_names. Add a regression test covering
return values (0, “0 unit files listed.”) and ensuring the fallback is selected.
- Around line 70-72: Update the return logic in the run_cmd sequence to
propagate failure from either the stop or start operation by returning rc1 or
rc2, while still executing the upsdrvctl start attempt and preserving the
combined output and error streams.
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The systemctl shim name_pid_alive only checked /var/run/nut/<ups>.pid, but drivers name their pid file <driver>-<ups>.pid (e.g. usbhid-ups-ups.pid), so stopping or restarting a named driver like nut-driver@ups found no live pid and silently skipped the stop; it now also matches the suffixed form. On hosts, _driver_status_units treated any non-empty list-unit-files output as proof of a bare nut-driver.service, so a row listing only the nut-driver@.service template could send restarts to the wrong unit; it now requires the row first field to be exactly nut-driver.service, otherwise falling back to nut-driver@<name> units derived from ups.conf. The upsdrvctl fallback in restart_driver also propagates the stop rc instead of masking it with the start rc. Regression tests cover the template-row fallback and stop-failure propagation. The compose file documents the trust boundary of mounting the whole USB bus and that the UI stays open on the host network until the first admin account is created.
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Adds a multi-stage Docker deployment for NutWatch (Dockerfile, compose file, runtime scripts).
What is included
Multi-stage Dockerfile: Node stage builds the React SPA; Ubuntu runtime runs NUT under supervisord with tini as PID 1.
Entrypoint generates first-boot NUT configs from env vars, uses alphanumeric-only generated passwords (NUT treats
#as a comment start and silently truncates them), and enforces640 root:nutonupsd.users.systemctl shim maps backend service calls to supervisorctl, propagates failure exit codes, and reports real service states (driver state via PID files).
upsmon wrapper fixes the fork-model problem: plain supervisorctl restarts orphaned the unprivileged child (which escapes the process group via setsid) and drove the program into FATAL on the first UI config save. The wrapper traps the stop signal and kills the whole pair; startup cleans orphans and stale PID files.
docker-compose with USB access options and persistent volumes; MIT LICENSE; README Docker section including the Wake-on-LAN bridge-network caveat.
Verification
Image built and booted cleanly; all three supervisor programs RUNNING.
Repeated
supervisorctl restart upsmon+ the shim path +POST /api/service/restart-allall succeed with no orphans; forced broken config propagates a non-zero rc from the shim.make lintandmake fmtpass on the expanded CI file set; backend pytest suite passes (357 tests).CI shell-lint job now lints
vm/,src/backend/, andscripts/(same set as the Makefile); AGENTS.md updated to match.Summary by CodeRabbit
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