Roll back a bad deploy instead of leaving it live (server-26#65)
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deploy.yml ran `compose up -d` before the health check and never reverted
on failure. A build that passes tests, returns 200 on /health with the
right git_sha, but has a live logic bug (exactly the class of bug the
correlator instrumentation exists to catch) would stay live indefinitely
- notify-failure would even claim production was "still running the
previous build", which is false in that scenario.

Deploy step now reads /opt/drb/.last_good_tag (written only after a prior
deploy's own health check confirmed its SHA) to capture the previously-
verified tag before switching, and emits it as a step output. Health
check is unchanged in shape (bounded 20x5s retry, still requires the
polled git_sha to match) but now persists the new SHA as the rollback
target only once confirmed live. A new Rollback step runs on any failure
above, re-deploys the previous tag, and re-verifies via the same git_sha
check rather than trusting mere liveness - then fails the job loudly
either way, since the push itself was still bad. notify-failure now
reports what actually happened (rollback succeeded/failed/skipped and to
which SHA) instead of the old unconditional claim.

This unblocks #62 decision 9: autonomous pushes to incident_correlator.py,
llm_correlator.py, intelligence.py and routers/upload.py were frozen until
this rollback path landed.

Refs #65, #62, #60, #57.
This commit is contained in:
Logan Cusano
2026-08-25 21:34:10 -04:00
parent a1bdccff45
commit 5fc4e2c57b
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@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ jobs:
name: Deploy to VM
needs: build
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
outputs:
prev_sha: ${{ steps.deploy.outputs.prev_sha }}
rollback_status: ${{ steps.rollback.outputs.status }}
rollback_sha: ${{ steps.rollback.outputs.rolled_back_to }}
steps:
- name: Check runner outbound IP
@@ -80,19 +84,33 @@ jobs:
ssh-keygen -l -f /tmp/deploy_key
- name: Deploy
id: deploy
run: |
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no \
set -o pipefail
OUTPUT=$(ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no \
-o HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512 \
-o ConnectTimeout=15 \
-v \
-i /tmp/deploy_key \
drb@${{ secrets.SERVER_IP }} << 'ENDSSH'
drb@${{ secrets.SERVER_IP }} << 'ENDSSH' | tee /dev/stderr
set -e
cd /opt/drb
# Update compose files + mosquitto config
git pull origin main
# server-26#65: capture what is actually live BEFORE switching, so
# a bad deploy has something concrete to fall back to. This reads
# from a state file rather than re-deriving it from git log,
# because a PRIOR deploy could itself have failed and already
# rolled back to something older than HEAD~1 -- the file is only
# ever written by the Health check step below, after that step
# has confirmed the tag it names actually answered /health. A
# fresh VM with no file yet falls back to :latest, same escape
# hatch as a manual `up -d` with no TAG set.
PREV_TAG=$(cat /opt/drb/.last_good_tag 2>/dev/null || echo latest)
echo "PREV_TAG=$PREV_TAG"
# Deploy THIS commit's images, not :latest. Overlapping runs are
# normal here, and with :latest whichever finishes last wins for
# both -- run 544 asserted its own SHA and found run 545's build
@@ -120,8 +138,17 @@ jobs:
$COMPOSE up -d --remove-orphans
docker image prune -f
ENDSSH
)
echo "$OUTPUT"
PREV_TAG=$(printf '%s\n' "$OUTPUT" | grep '^PREV_TAG=' | tail -n1 | cut -d'=' -f2)
if [ -z "$PREV_TAG" ]; then
echo "Could not determine the previous tag from deploy output - rollback target unknown."
exit 1
fi
echo "prev_sha=$PREV_TAG" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
- name: Health check
id: health
run: |
# Poll rather than sleep-once: the container has to finish starting,
# and a fixed sleep is either too short (flaky red) or wastes time on
@@ -149,6 +176,78 @@ jobs:
exit 1
fi
# server-26#65: only now -- confirmed by /health, not by "up -d
# returned 0" -- record this as the rollback target for the NEXT
# deploy. A failure to write this is a bookkeeping problem, not a
# deploy problem, so it warns instead of failing the job (a hard
# failure here would trigger the Rollback step below against a
# perfectly good deploy).
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no \
-o HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512 \
-o ConnectTimeout=15 \
-i /tmp/deploy_key \
drb@${{ secrets.SERVER_IP }} \
"echo '${{ gitea.sha }}' > /opt/drb/.last_good_tag" \
|| echo "warning: failed to persist .last_good_tag - next deploy's rollback target may be stale"
- name: Rollback on failed health check
id: rollback
if: failure()
run: |
# server-26#65 decision 3 / board minutes #62: up -d used to be the
# last word -- a build that passes tests, returns 200, and still
# corrupts incidents on live traffic would stay live for 12+ hours
# before a human noticed. This step is what makes that impossible:
# any failure above (pull, restart, or the health/SHA check) lands
# here and puts the previously-verified tag back.
PREV_TAG="${{ steps.deploy.outputs.prev_sha }}"
if [ -z "$PREV_TAG" ]; then
echo "No previous tag was captured (Deploy step itself failed before recording one) - cannot roll back automatically."
echo "status=skipped" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
exit 0
fi
echo "Rolling back to $PREV_TAG"
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no \
-o HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512 \
-o ConnectTimeout=15 \
-i /tmp/deploy_key \
drb@${{ secrets.SERVER_IP }} << ENDSSH
set -e
cd /opt/drb
export TAG=$PREV_TAG
COMPOSE="docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.prod.yml"
if ! \$COMPOSE pull; then
echo "rollback image pull failed - pruning and retrying once"
docker image prune -af
\$COMPOSE pull
fi
\$COMPOSE up -d --remove-orphans
ENDSSH
# Re-verify exactly like the forward health check does: liveness
# alone doesn't prove the rollback took, the SHA has to match the
# tag we just switched back to.
BODY=""
for _ in $(seq 1 12); do
sleep 5
BODY=$(curl -fsS https://api.${{ secrets.DRB_DOMAIN }}/health) || continue
case "$BODY" in *"$PREV_TAG"*) break ;; esac
done
RUNNING=$(printf '%s' "$BODY" | tr ',' '\n' | grep git_sha | cut -d'"' -f4)
if [ "$RUNNING" != "$PREV_TAG" ]; then
echo "ROLLBACK FAILED: expected git_sha '$PREV_TAG', got '$RUNNING'."
echo "Production state is UNKNOWN - check the VM by hand immediately."
echo "status=failed" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "rolled_back_to=$PREV_TAG" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
exit 1
fi
echo "Rolled back successfully to $PREV_TAG"
echo "status=success" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "rolled_back_to=$PREV_TAG" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
notify-failure:
name: Report a failed deploy
needs: [build, deploy]
@@ -166,6 +265,8 @@ jobs:
WEBHOOK: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_ALERT_WEBHOOK }}
RUN_URL: ${{ gitea.server_url }}/${{ gitea.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ gitea.run_number }}
SHA: ${{ gitea.sha }}
ROLLBACK_STATUS: ${{ needs.deploy.outputs.rollback_status }}
ROLLBACK_SHA: ${{ needs.deploy.outputs.rollback_sha }}
run: |
if [ -z "$WEBHOOK" ]; then
echo "DEPLOY_ALERT_WEBHOOK is not set - skipping notification."
@@ -173,9 +274,30 @@ jobs:
fi
python3 - <<'PY' > /tmp/payload.json
import json, os
sha = os.environ["SHA"][:8]
run_url = os.environ["RUN_URL"]
status = os.environ.get("ROLLBACK_STATUS", "")
rollback_sha = os.environ.get("ROLLBACK_SHA", "")
# server-26#65: the old text here unconditionally claimed
# "production is still running the previous build" -- true only
# when the pull/restart itself failed. It's false the moment a
# build passes the SHA check but has a live logic bug (exactly the
# class of bug the correlator instrumentation exists to catch), or
# once the deploy job's own rollback path has run. Say what
# actually happened instead.
if status == "success":
detail = "Automatic rollback to `%s` succeeded. Production is back on the previous good build." % rollback_sha[:8]
elif status == "failed":
detail = ("Automatic rollback to `%s` FAILED. Production state is UNKNOWN -- "
"check the VM by hand immediately.") % rollback_sha[:8]
elif status == "skipped":
detail = "No rollback was attempted (no previous tag captured, or build/push failed before any deploy). Check the VM by hand."
else:
detail = "Build failed before any deploy was attempted. Production is unchanged."
print(json.dumps({"content":
"**DRB deploy failed** on `%s`\n%s\nProduction is still running the previous build."
% (os.environ["SHA"][:8], os.environ["RUN_URL"])}))
"**DRB deploy failed** on `%s`\n%s\n%s" % (sha, run_url, detail)}))
PY
curl -sS -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data @/tmp/payload.json "$WEBHOOK" || echo "notification POST failed"