chore(reach): bake net + debug tools into the sandbox image#7
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Add iproute2, net-tools, dnsutils, iputils-ping, jq, procps, less, and wget to the runtime image. The original layer 1 only had curl, which made debugging "is service X actually listening?" inside the sandbox require an apt-get install at exec time — slow, ugly, and impossible when the container is offline. These are baseline troubleshooting tools every Linux box has. Total image size delta is ~12 MB compressed; the convenience cost of NOT having ss/dig/ping at the ready is much higher than that. Driven by a session where I had to apt-install iproute2 + net-tools inside a running sandbox just to verify Chrome's remote debugging port was bound on 0.0.0.0:9222. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Add `iproute2`, `net-tools`, `dnsutils`, `iputils-ping`, `jq`, `procps`, `less`, and `wget` to the runtime layer of the reach Docker image.
Why
Original layer 1 only had `curl`. Debugging "is service X actually listening?" inside the sandbox required `apt-get install` at exec time — slow, ugly, and impossible when the container is offline.
These are baseline Linux troubleshooting tools (`ss`, `dig`, `ping`, `netstat`, `jq`, `ps`). Image size delta is ~12 MB compressed; the convenience cost of NOT having them at the ready is much higher than that.
Discovered while
Wiring Chrome's remote debugging port through reach to a host process — had to apt-install iproute2 + net-tools inside the running sandbox just to verify the port was bound on `0.0.0.0:9222`.
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