Homebrew services show status stopped for apple container

[zouchengli]

Initially, I used the brew services start command to start the container service, but I found that its status remained in a stopped state.

However, the container system status command showed it as running. I then tried stopping the container service using brew services stop, but that didn't work, and the brew services command showed the relevant container service status as "none".

❯ brew services start container
==> Successfully started `container` (label: homebrew.mxcl.container)
❯ brew services|grep container
container             stopped         chengli.zou ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.container.plist
❯ container s status
apiserver is running
application data root: /Users/chengli.zou/Library/Application Support/com.apple.container/
application install root: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/container/0.8.0_1/
container-apiserver version: container-apiserver version 0.8.0 (build: release, commit: unspeci)
container-apiserver commit: unspecified
❯ brew services stop container
Stopping `container`... (might take a while)
==> Successfully stopped `container` (label: homebrew.mxcl.container)
❯ brew services|grep container
container             none                        
❯ container s status
apiserver is running
application data root: /Users/chengli.zou/Library/Application Support/com.apple.container/
application install root: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/container/0.8.0_1/
container-apiserver version: container-apiserver version 0.8.0 (build: release, commit: unspeci)
container-apiserver commit: unspecified

Therefore, I believe there are some issues with using Homebrew to manage container services.

[jglogan]

@zouchengli Have you tried reaching out to the maintainer of the brew package?

container has its own service lifecycle commands that work with a different launch agent than the one Homebrew manages via brew services. I have no idea whether there's a way to set up a homebrew package such that brew services using the application's lifecycle management instead of Homebrew's.