feat(core): detect WSL Containers (wslc) as a Docker environment - #11988
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a deprecated Windows-only Docker client strategy for WSL Containers. The strategy probes ChangesWSLC Docker strategy
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change adds automatic Windows detection for WSL containers, but the declared docker-java version does not yet support the resulting wslc:// endpoint, so WSLc-only machines may still fail to start; merge should wait for a compatible released dependency or defer registration. The executable selection path also requires explicit owner awareness because it runs with the application user's privileges. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DockerClientProviderStrategy
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DockerClientProviderStrategy->>WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy: Check Windows applicability
WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy->>wslc.exe: Run wslc version
wslc.exe-->>WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy: Return exit status
WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy-->>DockerClientProviderStrategy: Provide wslc://localhost transport
DockerClientProviderStrategy->>DockerClientConfigUtils: Resolve wslc host address
DockerClientConfigUtils-->>DockerClientProviderStrategy: Return localhost
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In `@core/build.gradle`:
- Around line 83-88: Prevent WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy from being
registered while docker-java 3.7.1 lacks runtime wslc:// transport support.
Either update both docker-java-bom coordinates used by api and shaded to a
compatible release, or gate the strategy so it is not discovered or applicable
until that support is available; preserve normal registration once compatibility
exists.
In
`@core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/dockerclient/DockerClientProviderStrategy.java`:
- Around line 203-208: Update resolveDockerHostIpAddress() to return localhost
when the Docker transport is wslc and TESTCONTAINERS_HOST_OVERRIDE is unset,
preserving existing override behavior for other transports. Add a regression
test covering wslc host resolution and the resulting ContainerState.getHost()
value.
In
`@core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/dockerclient/WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy.java`:
- Around line 52-55: Override isPersistable() in
WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy to return false, preventing persisted selection
from bypassing the strategy priority ordering and allowing available Docker
Desktop or Podman named-pipe strategies to win.
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| // TODO(wslc): bump both coordinates below to the first docker-java release that carries the | ||
| // wslc:// transport (docker-java/docker-java#2658, implemented in docker-java/docker-java#2659). | ||
| // Until then WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy compiles and is discovered, but the URI it | ||
| // resolves to cannot be opened at runtime -- which is why the pull request adding it is a draft. | ||
| api platform('com.github.docker-java:docker-java-bom:3.7.1') | ||
| shaded platform('com.github.docker-java:docker-java-bom:3.7.1') |
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Do not merge while docker-java 3.7.1 lacks the wslc:// transport.
On Windows, a successful wslc.exe version probe makes WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy applicable. Its test() path then reaches infoCmd().exec(), where docker-java 3.7.1 cannot open wslc://localhost. Update both BOM coordinates when a compatible release is available. Otherwise, do not register the strategy.
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In `@core/build.gradle` around lines 83 - 88, Prevent
WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy from being registered while docker-java 3.7.1
lacks runtime wslc:// transport support. Either update both docker-java-bom
coordinates used by api and shaded to a compatible release, or gate the strategy
so it is not discovered or applicable until that support is available; preserve
normal registration once compatibility exists.
WSL 2.9+ ships Microsoft's own container runtime, driven by the wslc CLI. It runs dockerd in a lightweight VM and publishes neither a Windows named pipe nor a TCP port, so none of the existing strategies can find an endpoint and startup fails with "Could not find a valid Docker environment" on a machine that has a working daemon. Add WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy, resolving to wslc://localhost on Windows when the wslc CLI is present. Priority sits below the named-pipe strategy, so an existing Docker Desktop or Podman pipe always wins and wslc is only ever a fallback. Availability is probed with 'wslc version', a metadata call that does not start the container VM, with the executable overridable through WSLC_EXECUTABLE. The strategy is not persistable: a remembered strategy is loaded ahead of the priority-sorted ones, which would let wslc keep winning once a named pipe becomes available. Teach the two scheme switches in DockerClientProviderStrategy about wslc as well. test() skips the socket probe deliberately, because a stdio bridge has no socket file and no port to connect() to, leaving reachability to the infoCmd() ping in tryOutStrategy; without it the default branch warns that wslc is an unknown DOCKER_HOST scheme on every startup. resolveDockerHostIpAddress() returns localhost, since the wslc control plane relays published ports onto 127.0.0.1 on the Windows host; without it the default branch returns null and ContainerState.getHost() has no address to give. Requires a docker-java release carrying the wslc:// transport (docker-java/docker-java#2658) before it can resolve at runtime; core/build.gradle carries a TODO at the coordinates to bump. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WCQ8B2RchzdWf7xbhkaXQr Signed-off-by: David Tavoularis <david.tavoularis@mycom-osi.com>
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`@core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/dockerclient/WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy.java`:
- Around line 38-40: Defer registration of WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy
until the project uses a released docker-java version supporting the wslc
transport; update the strategy’s availability/test flow so tryOutStrategy cannot
invoke infoCmd() with wslc:// while support is absent. If upgrading to a
supported release, add an end-to-end infoCmd() verification before enabling
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Draft — deliberately. This cannot be merged until docker-java ships a release containing the
wslc://transport. Raised now so the Testcontainers-side design can be reviewed in parallel ratherthan after the fact, and so the ordering between the two projects is visible.
Closes #11987 once the dependency below lands.
Why
WSL 2.9+ ships Microsoft's own container runtime, driven by the
wslcCLI. It runsdockerdin alightweight VM and publishes no Windows named pipe and no TCP port — the only host-visible
channel is a stdio bridge,
wslc system session run docker system dial-stdio. None of the existingstrategies can find an endpoint there, so Testcontainers fails with
Could not find a valid Docker environmenton a machine that has a perfectly good daemon.What this adds
WslcSocketClientProviderStrategy— resolves towslc://localhoston Windows when thewslcCLI is present.
META-INF/services/…DockerClientProviderStrategy).wslccases inDockerClientProviderStrategy— intest()and inresolveDockerHostIpAddress(), see below.WslcSocketClientProviderStrategyTest— 18 tests, no Docker required.TODOincore/build.gradlemarking the coordinates to bump once docker-java releases.The strategy is modelled closely on
NpipeSocketClientProviderStrategy: samefinal class, same@Deprecated-for-SPI javadoc, samepublic static final int PRIORITYexpressed relative to aneighbour, same four overrides.
Nothing changes for existing users
Priority sits below the named-pipe strategy, so a Docker Desktop or Podman pipe always wins.
wslcis reached only when that pipe is absent, and only on Windows.The strategy also overrides
isPersistable()to returnfalse. A remembered strategy is loadedahead of the priority-sorted ones by
getFirstValidStrategy, so persisting this one would letwslckeep winning on later runs even once a named pipe became available — quietly defeating the priority
above.
Discovery is also lazy:
getFirstValidStrategyfilters aStreamterminated byfindFirst(), so ona machine where the named pipe works,
isApplicable()is never called here and no process isspawned. The probe costs something only on machines that would otherwise have failed outright.
Detection is a probe, not a guess
The probe runs
wslc version— metadata only, and unlike most subcommands it does not start thecontainer VM — and requires exit code 0. If
wslcis absent,ProcessBuilder.start()failsimmediately. The executable is overridable with
WSLC_EXECUTABLE(a blank value is treated asunset), the process is bounded by a timeout and reaped in a
finally, both streams are merged anddiscarded so the child can never block on an undrained pipe, and an interrupt restores the interrupt
flag rather than swallowing it. Every declining path logs at debug, so a half-installed
wslcdoesnot fail silently.
Redirect.DISCARDwould express the discard more directly but is Java 9+, and core main sourcescompile at
release 8; the null device is selected per platform rather than hardcoding Windows'NUL.Why
test()needed a case tooDockerClientProviderStrategy.test()switches on the scheme, and itsdefaultbranch logsUnknown DOCKER_HOST scheme {}, skipping the strategy test...at warn. Without awslccase,every user of this feature would see that warning on every startup, for a scheme Testcontainers now
supports. The added case skips the socket probe deliberately and says so at debug:
Reachability is still verified —
tryOutStrategyrunsinfoCmd().exec()immediately afterwards andfalls through to the next strategy if it throws.
resolveDockerHostIpAddress()needed the same treatment, and for a more visible reason: itsdefaultbranch returns
null, which would leaveContainerState.getHost()with no address for every wslcuser. It now returns
localhost, since the wslc control plane relays published container ports onto127.0.0.1 on the Windows host.
Testing
WslcSocketClientProviderStrategyTest— 18 tests, no Docker and nowslcneeded. The probe wassplit into
applies(boolean),resolveExecutable(String),probeCommand(String, boolean)andprobe(ProcessBuilder, long)so each is reachable from any platform; the Windows gate cannototherwise be varied at runtime.
Covered: both sides of the Windows gate; all three
resolveExecutablecases including blank; bothplatforms' null device; and all five outcomes of
probe— exit 0, non-zero exit, timeout,unrunnable executable, and interruption with the flag restored.
isPersistable()and the newtest()case are covered too, andresolveDockerHostIpAddress()gains awslccase alongside itssibling schemes in
DockerClientConfigUtilsTest. Processes are driven through the JVM running thebuild, so the tests are platform-neutral.
One test is
assumeThat-guarded to off-Windows only (asserting the strategy declines there), so 18run on CI and 17 on a Windows workstation.
Verified by hand on Windows 11 / WSL 2.9.4 against a locally built docker-java carrying the
wslc://transport: with no
DOCKER_HOSTset and no Docker Desktop or Podman pipe present, Testcontainersresolves the wslc strategy and containers start, stop and expose ports normally.
Build checks
Run against this branch on current
main:The strategy compiles and passes every check against the released docker-java (
3.7.1, ascore/build.gradlepins today) — it only constructs aURI, so nothing here needs thewslc://transport at compile time. The only
core/build.gradlechange is a comment. On Linux CIisApplicable()short-circuits on the OS check, so the rest of the suite is unaffected.Before merge
wslc://transport(Feature: add a wslc:// transport for WSL Containers (Microsoft WSL 2.9+) docker-java/docker-java#2658, implemented in feat(wslc): add WSL Containers (wslc://) transport, lifecycle integra… docker-java/docker-java#2659)
docker-java-bomplatform incore/build.gradleto that release — aTODO(wslc)comment sits directly above both coordinates
Open questions
wslcbe reached only by anexplicit
DOCKER_HOST=wslc://localhost? Auto-detection is what makes it work out of the box, andthe lazy discovery above means it costs nothing when another endpoint is available. I can gate it
behind an opt-in property instead if you prefer a more conservative default.
RootlessDockerClientProviderStrategyorDockerDesktopClientProviderStrategy. Say if you wouldrather it sat elsewhere in the order.
wslc.exe, and only ever paid on thefallback path. Lower if you would rather fail fast.
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New Features
wslccommand-line tool.Bug Fixes
wslc://Docker hosts.localhost.