Unable to run Aspire apps and RabbitMQ containers with Podman on Windows 11

[rkttu]

I'm testing my code to use .NET Aspire out of the box, but it's not working as well as I thought it would, so I'm creating an issue.

Symptoms

• I'm basically experiencing the same symptoms as issue #2922. Every time I start debugging through Visual Studio, I get a message box saying that Docker Desktop cannot start.
• When I run it, the App Host itself runs fine, but the RabbitMQ container fails to run, and the log message shows the following:

fail: Aspire.Hosting.Dcp.dcpctrl.ContainerReconciler[0]
      could not inspect the container   {"Container": {"name":"messaging"}, "Reconciliation": 2, "error": "json: cannot unmarshal array into Go struct field podmanInspectedContainerConfig.Config.Entrypoint of type string"}
fail: Aspire.Hosting.Dcp.dcpctrl.ContainerReconciler[0]
      container has failed to start     {"Container": {"name":"messaging"}, "Reconciliation": 4, "error": "json: cannot unmarshal array into Go struct field podmanInspectedContainerConfig.Config.Entrypoint of type string"}

Reproducing Steps

• I created my .NET Aspire project on top of a ReFS partition.
• To explicitly use Podman as the runtime, I set the per-user environment variable 'DOTNET_ASPIRE_CONTAINER_RUNTIME' to 'podman'. After changing the settings, I also restarted my instance of Visual Studio.
• I created an empty dotnet solution and only one App Host project.
• I wrote App Host Program.cs code as follows:

var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

// Add Rabbit MQ
builder.AddRabbitMQ("messaging");

builder.Build().Run();

Environment

• Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) amd64, Korean (ko-KR)
  • I'm not using Unicode UTF-8 encoding support (beta feature) on this system.
• Podman was installed using Podman Desktop, version 5.0.1
  • During the installation, I verified that the podman machine was created and started fine on top of the WSL 2 environment.
  • I enabled Kubernetes support using kind.
• .NET: 8.0.202
• Visual Studio: 17.10.0 Preview 2.0, Korean (ko-KR)

[davidfowl]

There are a couple of issues:

1. podman 5 is incompatbile with aspire preview 4, it'll be fixed in preview 6 unfortunately. Preview 5 has this same issue (https://github.com/dotnet/aspire/issues/3249)
2. A newer version of visual studio won't have the popup problem.

[davidfowl]

If you want to live on the edge you can install the latest daily build

[AndreKfm]

Does the problem still exist?

I'm on

Aspire 8.0.1/8.0.100
Visual Studio 17.10.0 or Visual Studio 17.11.0 Preview 1.0

Followed the documentation for RabbitMQ:

Server. builder.AddRabbitMQClient("messaging");

Client: var messaging = builder.AddRabbitMQ("messaging");

But get then autenthication issues, because it's using the default client creds and is not connecting over localhost. But configuring the container to use another dedicated port failed too. I could startup manually but then the advantage of Aspire would be missing.

[davidfowl]

I don't think this problem still exists no. The original problem with a podman 5.0 specific problem.

[AndreKfm]

Thx, I will try to reproduce on another machine and create a new one if it still exists

[AndreKfm]

Approved, seems to be a misconfiguration on my other PC. Retried on another PC and it worked out of the box. Thx again.