Let a project's container run a VPN client
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A VPN client installed in a container today starts, runs, and then hangs
until its connection times out. Nothing reports an error: a default
container has no /dev/net/tun to open and no CAP_NET_ADMIN to add an
interface or a route with, and clients surface that as a generic timeout
rather than a permissions failure.
Add an opt-in per-project "VPN support" switch granting the three things
a tunnel needs. They are useless individually, which is why
vpn_host_config() defines the set in one place and the tests assert all
of it:
* CAP_NET_ADMIN — Docker's default bounding set has net_raw but not
net_admin, so a client can ping but never connect.
* /dev/net/tun — passed through from the host so the kernel's tun
module backs it, rather than mknod-ed inside.
* net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark — WireGuard's wg-quick sets this and
cannot from inside a container, /proc/sys being read-only, so its
handshakes are dropped by reverse-path filtering.
Off by default and deliberately opt-in: NET_ADMIN lets anything in the
container reconfigure that container's network stack. It is namespaced —
no authority over the host's interfaces or any other container.
Capabilities and devices are fixed when a container is created, so this
is container state and takes the label-and-compare treatment.
triple-c.vpn-support is written unconditionally, false included, for the
usual docker commit reason: a true stamped once would ride the snapshot
image into every future container and make the switch impossible to turn
back off. A missing label reads as false and off is byte-identical to
today, so no existing project is churned.
Requesting the device fails at creation when the host kernel has no tun
module, which would otherwise surface as a project that simply refuses to
start. explain_create_failure() rewrites that one error to name the
switch and the Docker-Desktop-VM-versus-your-machine distinction, and
leaves every other failure untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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> Toggling this requires stopping and restarting the container to take effect.
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### VPN Support
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When enabled, the container is given the three things a VPN client needs to build a tunnel:
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the `NET_ADMIN` capability, the `/dev/net/tun` device, and the `net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark`
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sysctl that WireGuard requires. This is **off by default**.
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Without it, a client such as PIA, WireGuard, OpenVPN or Tailscale installs and its daemon starts
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normally, but the connection attempt **hangs until it times out** — a default container has no tun
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device to open and no permission to add an interface or a route, and most clients report that as a
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generic timeout rather than a permissions error.
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Things worth knowing:
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- `NET_ADMIN` applies to the container's **own** network namespace. It confers no authority over
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the host's interfaces or over any other container. It does mean anything running in the
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container can reconfigure that namespace, which is why it is opt-in.
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- The **Docker host's** kernel must have the `tun` module available. With Docker Desktop that is
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the Linux VM, not your own machine. If it is missing, the container fails to create with an
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error naming `/dev/net/tun` and pointing back at this setting.
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- A VPN client's kill switch applies to everything in the container, Claude Code included. If the
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tunnel drops, expect API calls to fail until it reconnects or the kill switch is turned off.
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> This setting can only be changed when the container is stopped. Capabilities and devices are
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> fixed when a container is created, so toggling it recreates the container on the next start.
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> Recreation preserves the home and `.claude` volumes — it is not a Reset.
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### Mission Control
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Toggle **Mission Control** to integrate Flight Control — an AI-first development methodology bundled with Triple-C — into the project. When enabled:
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