Needs Docker and Podman files

[dabockster]

Having both Docker and Podman support would help both users and yourselves as devs a TON. It would let someone like me install and run your program inside either of those two container platforms, and it would give you almost full control over how the code executes on other computers. No more random bugs cropping up because someone installed this on an old version of Node or something - Docker/Podman handles that.

Podman

Red Hat's Docker competitor. It's versioning is sort of tied to each RHEL release, so it's more "enterprise stable" (more predictable) but not as widely used yet.

https://podman.io/

Docker is really rolling release these days and usually updates independent of the OS. I've hit some breaking changes myself recently with some other apps I was running from GitHub. So it would be really awesome to have install files for both container platforms.

[alexngai]

thanks for the suggestion! adding Docker support is definitely on our roadmap for the near future, and we'll prioritize this request. what's your intended usage pattern of containerized sudocode with your dev environment? do you usually containerize when running locally? remote dev environments?

do you intend on running the sudocode server and interacting through the UI? or are you mainly a CLI/MCP user?

speaking of containers, we're also planning on supporting container-isolated sandboxes (most likely through devcontainers) for agents. Is that a common part of your flow? do you usually run docker-in-docker or docker outside docker?

[dabockster]

do you usually containerize when running locally?

Locally and on servers. Having some kind of containerization (or just virtualization) support out of the box is a bare minimum item for me. Think of it as sort of like a Python venv (if you're familiar with Python), but for literally anything. Fixes way too many issues to count, way before they happen.

In fact, I really haven't even been able to try sudocode yet. As it currently stands, I'd have to create a full virtual machine in VMware (or something similar), install a whole guest OS, and then clone your repo/run your code. Or try writing my own docker/podman compose file. Either way, though, that single npm install -g sudocode command dumps a ton of stuff into the global node install that would be effectively impossible to remove completely. This is where some kind of containerization is absolutely needed - installation, at least some dependency management parts, and uninstallation are clear as day and leaves a lot fewer traces behind.