build(snap): package ecrou as a strictly confined snap

core26 base, strict confinement, the kvm interface for acceleration
with home and network auto-connected. The runtime needs nothing else:
the host process never mounts a filesystem and never creates or
enters a namespace, so it already lives inside snapd's default-deny
seccomp allowlist. The built .snap artifact is ignored.
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name: ecrou
base: core26
version: "0.1.0"
summary: The strictly confined microVM runtime
description: |
ecrou boots disposable Linux environments as one-shot microVMs on
libkrun: it resolves an image reference, boots one VM per command
with live stdio, propagates the exit code, and throws the machine
away. Persistence crosses an explicit `--share` or it does not
happen.
## Confinement
The host process never mounts a filesystem and never creates or
enters a namespace, so the whole runtime runs inside snapd's
default-deny seccomp allowlist. Working KVM is required; there is
no software fallback.
## First run
Connect the KVM interface (home and network connect on their own):
sudo snap connect ecrou:kvm
Then prove the machine:
ecrou run alpine -- uname -a
The guest kernel version differing from the host is the microVM
proof.
## Diagnostics
`ecrou probe` reports what a run would find: KVM, libkrun, the
cache directory.
## Where things live
- image cache: `~/snap/ecrou/common/cache/ecrou`
- config: `~/snap/ecrou/common/config/ecrou.yaml`
The home interface does not cover dotfiles, so the XDG
directories are redirected into the snap's common data area.
license: MIT
grade: stable
confinement: strict
platforms:
amd64:
arm64:
riscv64:
apps:
ecrou:
command: bin/ecrou
command-chain: [command-chain/ecrou-env]
plugs:
- home
- network
- kvm
parts:
ecrou:
plugin: rust
source: .
rust-channel: "1.98.1"
rust-path: [crates/ecrou-cli]
# aws-lc-sys (the rustls provider) drives cmake and perl at build
# time; the rust plugin already brings gcc, curl, git, pkg-config.
build-packages: [cmake, perl]
override-build: |
craftctl default
# The home interface stops at dotfiles, so ~/.cache and
# ~/.config are unreachable under strict confinement. Point the
# XDG lookups (the dirs crate honors these variables) into the
# snap's durable area, shared across refreshes.
mkdir -p "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/command-chain"
cat > "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/command-chain/ecrou-env" <<'EOF'
#!/bin/sh
XDG_CACHE_HOME="$SNAP_USER_COMMON/cache"
XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$SNAP_USER_COMMON/config"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME
mkdir -p "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"
exec "$@"
EOF
chmod 755 "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/command-chain/ecrou-env"
libkrun:
plugin: rust
source: https://github.com/containers/libkrun
source-type: git
source-tag: v1.19.7
source-depth: 1
rust-channel: "1.98.1"
override-build: |
# Build only the libkrun package; the rest of the workspace is
# the feature-gated device crates, not needed for the eleven
# stable-ABI calls ecrou makes. `net` is TSI, the guest
# networking.
cargo build --release -p libkrun --features net
# No distro the snap bases ship from publishes libkrun.so.1, so
# the soname layout is set up here the way `make install`
# would.
install -Dm755 target/release/libkrun.so \
"$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/lib/libkrun.so.1.19.7"
ln -s libkrun.so.1.19.7 "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/lib/libkrun.so.1"
libkrunfw:
plugin: nil
# libkrunfw5 ships only in the current series' universe today,
# not in any LTS base, so the .deb comes straight from the pool.
# The library embeds its kernel and has no external symbols, so
# it runs on the base's older glibc. The generic amd64 build, not
# the amd64v3 flavor: the snap should not require AVX2.
build-packages: [curl]
override-pull: |
curl -fL -o libkrunfw5.deb \
https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libk/libkrunfw/libkrunfw5_5.5.0+ds-1_amd64.deb
echo "924cd545080aaf5da66740d12a51b7a5cbd9a5c0b502d21cbef9bc82bf1c8b6b libkrunfw5.deb" | sha256sum -c
override-build: |
dpkg -x libkrunfw5.deb unpack
install -Dm755 unpack/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkrunfw.so.5.5.0 \
"$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/lib/libkrunfw.so.5.5.0"
ln -s libkrunfw.so.5.5.0 "$CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/lib/libkrunfw.so.5"