[WIP] 🔧(dev) make the dev stack work with rootless podman

Rootless podman maps container UID 0 to the host user and every other
container UID to a subuid that owns nothing in the worktree, so the usual
DOCKER_USER=$(id -u):$(id -g) makes every bind mount effectively
read-only.

Pin the LiveKit rtc section: the browser reaches the server through
podman's published ports on loopback while egress and the agents reach
it over the podman network, and those two have no address in common.
`advertise_internal_ip` keeps the container's own interface address as a
host candidate alongside the node_ip one, so LiveKit offers both and ICE
picks whichever works. Without it egress only ever sees 127.0.0.1, which
is the egress container itself, and its peer connection timeouts

Prerequisite on the host: systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket

Makefile

@@ -36,9 +36,14 @@ DB_PORT            = 5432
 
 # -- Docker
 # Get the current user ID to use for docker run and docker exec commands
+ifneq ($(findstring podman,$(DOCKER_HOST)),)
+DOCKER_UID          = 0
+DOCKER_GID          = 0
+else
 DOCKER_UID          = $(shell id -u)
 DOCKER_GID          = $(shell id -g)
-DOCKER_USER         = $(DOCKER_UID):$(DOCKER_GID)
+endif
+DOCKER_USER        ?= $(DOCKER_UID):$(DOCKER_GID)
 COMPOSE                  = DOCKER_USER=$(DOCKER_USER) docker compose
 COMPOSE_EXEC             = $(COMPOSE) exec
 COMPOSE_EXEC_APP         = $(COMPOSE_EXEC) app-dev
@@ -292,7 +297,7 @@ shell: ## connect to database shell
 # -- Database
 
 dbshell: ## connect to database shell
-	docker compose exec app-dev python manage.py dbshell
+	@$(COMPOSE_EXEC_APP) python manage.py dbshell
 .PHONY: dbshell
 
 resetdb: FLUSH_ARGS ?=

bin/_config.sh

@@ -25,8 +25,11 @@ function _set_user() {
         return
     fi
 
-    # USER_ID = USER_ID or `id -u` if USER_ID is not set
-    USER_ID=${USER_ID:-$(id -u)}
+    # USER_ID = USER_ID or the engine-appropriate default if USER_ID is not set.
+    case "${DOCKER_HOST:-}" in
+        *podman*) USER_ID=${USER_ID:-0} ;;
+        *)        USER_ID=${USER_ID:-$(id -u)} ;;
+    esac
 
     echo "🙋(user) ID: ${USER_ID}"
 }

docker/livekit/config/livekit-server.yaml

@@ -21,3 +21,10 @@ turn:
     - 192.168.0.0/16
     - 172.16.0.0/12
 
+rtc:
+  node_ip: 127.0.0.1
+  advertise_internal_ip: true
+  udp_port: 7882
+  tcp_port: 7881
+  use_external_ip: false
+

src/frontend/Dockerfile

@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ USER node
 
 WORKDIR /home/frontend/
 
-COPY ./src/frontend/package.json ./package.json
-COPY ./src/frontend/package-lock.json ./package-lock.json
+COPY --chown=node:node ./src/frontend/package.json ./package.json
+COPY --chown=node:node ./src/frontend/package-lock.json ./package-lock.json
 
 RUN npm ci
 
-COPY .dockerignore ./.dockerignore
+COPY --chown=node:node .dockerignore ./.dockerignore
 COPY --chown=node:node ./src/frontend/ .
 
 ### ---- Front-end builder image ----