Reduce the control plane's dependency on helper scripts while keeping the hard Linux integration points in the approved shell-out layer.
Replace the bash-driven image build path with a native Go builder that clones and optionally resizes the rootfs, boots a temporary Firecracker VM, provisions the guest over SSH, installs packages and modules, and preserves the package-manifest sidecar.
Also replace a few small convenience shell-outs with Go helpers: read process stats from /proc, use os.Truncate for ext4 image growth, add file-clone and normalized-line helpers, drop the sh -c work-disk flattening path, and launch Firecracker via a direct sudo command.
Add tests for the new SSH/archive and system helpers, plus a policy test that keeps os/exec imports confined to cli/firecracker/system. Update the docs to describe customize.sh as a manual helper rather than the daemon's image-build backend.
Validated with go mod tidy, go test ./..., and make build.
Make the Firecracker and bangerd processes outlive short-lived CLI request contexts so vm create no longer kills the VMM or daemon as soon as the RPC returns.
Fix fresh-VM SSH by flattening the seeded /root work disk when the copied home tree lands under a nested root/ directory, and write a guest sshd override to keep root pubkey auth explicit while debugging.
Harden teardown and smoke diagnostics: verify.sh now reports early Firecracker exit and delete failures directly, while dm snapshot cleanup tolerates already-gone handles and retries busy mapper removal long enough for Firecracker to release the device.
Validation: go test ./..., make build, bash -n verify.sh, direct SSH against a fresh VM, and a live ./verify.sh run that now completes with [verify] ok.
VM start, image build, and network/setup failures were hard to diagnose because bangerd emitted almost no lifecycle logs and the Firecracker SDK logger was discarded. This adds a daemon-wide JSON logger with configurable log level so failures leave breadcrumbs instead of only side effects.
Log the main daemon and VM lifecycle stages, preserve raw Firecracker and image-build helper output in dedicated files, and include those log paths in daemon status and returned errors. Bridge SDK logrus output into the daemon logger at debug level so low-level Firecracker diagnostics are available without making normal info logs unreadable.
Validation: go test ./... and make build. Left unrelated worktree changes out of this commit, including internal/api/types.go, the deleted shell scripts, and my-rootfs.ext4.
Replace the daemon's hand-rolled Firecracker process/socket client with the official firecracker-go-sdk while keeping the existing VM lifecycle and host-side disk and TAP setup intact.
Build machine configs through the SDK, launch Firecracker through a sudo process runner, resolve the real VM PID after startup, and use the SDK client for Ctrl-Alt-Del instead of raw REST calls. Drop the unused cached Firecracker state and add focused adapter tests for config and process-runner wiring.
Validated with go mod tidy, go test ./..., and make build. A live KVM/Firecracker smoke boot was not run in this environment.
