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136 changes: 119 additions & 17 deletions .github/workflows/deploy-dev.yml
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Expand Up @@ -111,7 +111,11 @@ jobs:
needs: require_staging_smoke
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
environment: dev
timeout-minutes: 30
# 45, not 30: a bad image makes `kubectl rollout status` wait its full 8m per
# stuck workload before the rollout step fails, and the rollback step then needs
# its own window. 30m could see GitHub cancel the job mid-rollback (cancellation
# does not satisfy failure(), so the rollback would not re-run). 45m reserves room.
timeout-minutes: 45

steps:
- name: Checkout (with submodules for _external/clawdbot)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -261,6 +265,20 @@ jobs:
cluster_name: ${{ env.CLUSTER }}
location: ${{ env.REGION }}

# Record the revision Helm currently has as `deployed` — the last known-good
# release — BEFORE the upgrade, so the rollback step can return to exactly this
# revision instead of inferring one by arithmetic after a failed upgrade (a
# failed retry can leave a bad image at CUR-1). 0 == no prior deploy (first
# install): nothing to roll back to.
- name: Record the current good revision (for rollback)
id: prerev
run: |
set -uo pipefail
HIST=$(helm history commonly-dev -n "$NAMESPACE" -o json 2>/dev/null || echo '[]')
PRE=$(printf '%s' "$HIST" | jq -r '[.[] | select(.status=="deployed")] | (sort_by(.revision) | last | .revision) // 0')
echo "prerev=$PRE" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "Pre-upgrade good (deployed) revision: $PRE"

# `--wait` is deliberately NOT used here. It waits for EVERY resource in
# the release, so any long-unhealthy auxiliary workload fails a deploy
# that actually succeeded. On 2026-08-04 that produced five consecutive
Expand All @@ -282,6 +300,7 @@ jobs:
# incident silently reverts every deploy since, which by then included
# two auth fixes. Rollback safety depends on this job telling the truth.
- name: Helm upgrade commonly-dev
id: helm
env:
TAG: ${{ steps.tag.outputs.tag }}
GATEWAY_ENABLED: ${{ steps.gateway.outputs.enabled }}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -323,31 +342,67 @@ jobs:
# moment it is disabled — the gate follows the release, not a memory of
# it. A deployment scaled to zero passes instantly (0 of 0 updated),
# which is correct: parked is not stuck.
- name: Verify rollout of the deployed workloads
id: rollout
# The deployment LOOKUP is its own step, deliberately BEFORE the rollout check and
# NOT referenced by the rollback gate. A transient `kubectl get deploy` failure
# after a good helm upgrade must not be read as a stuck rollout: if it were in the
# rollout step, the empty result would fail that step and the gate would demote a
# healthy release over an API blip. Here a lookup error (or a confirmed-empty
# managed set) fails the JOB for a human, while the rollout step stays skipped
# (outcome != 'failure'), so no rollback fires. Retry rides out a blip.
- name: List the workloads to verify (lookup, not a rollout check)
id: deploylist
run: |
set -uo pipefail
FAILED=""
DEPLOYS=$(kubectl get deploy -n "$NAMESPACE" -o name)
if [ -z "$DEPLOYS" ]; then
echo "::error title=Rollout failed::no deployments found in $NAMESPACE — nothing to verify is itself a failure"
MANAGED=" backend backend-worker frontend clawdbot-gateway commonly-bot "
ALL=""
for attempt in 1 2 3; do
if ALL=$(kubectl get deploy -n "$NAMESPACE" -o name) && [ -n "$ALL" ]; then break; fi
echo "deploy lookup attempt $attempt returned nothing/failed; retrying in 5s"; ALL=""; sleep 5
done
if [ -z "$ALL" ]; then
echo "::error title=Deploy lookup failed::could not list deployments in $NAMESPACE after retries — cluster/API unreachable. NOT a rollout failure; the running release is left in place (no rollback)."
exit 1
fi
for d in $DEPLOYS; do
# Intersect the cluster's deployments with the workloads this job image-tags —
# backend (+ worker), frontend, clawdbot-gateway, commonly-bot. A parked workload
# (enabled:false removes the Deployment, as #1051 did to the gateway) drops out;
# an unrelated unhealthy workload (litellm, redis, cloud-codex, ops-runner,
# cloudflared) is never this job's failure. A scaled-to-zero managed workload
# passes rollout instantly (0 of 0 updated) — parked is not stuck.
TARGETS=""
for d in $ALL; do
n=${d##*/}
case "$MANAGED" in *" $n "*) TARGETS="$TARGETS $d" ;; esac
done
if [ -z "$TARGETS" ]; then
echo "::error title=No managed workloads::none of backend/frontend/clawdbot-gateway/commonly-bot present in $NAMESPACE (cluster reachable). A human should look; not auto-rolling back."
exit 1
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fi
echo "targets=$TARGETS" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "will verify:$TARGETS"

- name: Verify rollout of the deployed workloads
id: rollout
env:
TARGETS: ${{ steps.deploylist.outputs.targets }}
run: |
set -uo pipefail
# Short-circuit on the FIRST stuck workload. Each kubectl rollout status waits up
# to 8m; a bad image tag fails ALL managed workloads, so continuing would burn
# ~8m x N (~40m for 5) and could hit the 45m job cap before the rollback step
# runs. One failure already means the deploy is bad — stop and let failure()
# rollback fire. Only THIS step's failure is eligible for rollback.
for d in $TARGETS; do
echo "::group::rollout status $d"
if kubectl rollout status "$d" -n "$NAMESPACE" --timeout=8m; then
echo "$d: rolled out"
echo "$d: rolled out"; echo "::endgroup::"
else
echo "::error title=Rollout failed::$d did not become ready within 8m"
FAILED="$FAILED $d"
echo "::endgroup::"
echo "::error title=Rollout failed::$d did not become ready within 8m — stopping verification; the deploy is failing and the rollback step will run"
exit 1
fi
echo "::endgroup::"
done
if [ -n "$FAILED" ]; then
echo "Deploy failed for:$FAILED"
exit 1
fi
echo "All four deployed workloads are live."
echo "Deployed workloads live:$TARGETS"

# A pod can be Ready and still unable to serve chat. The backend decides
# once at boot whether Postgres is available, and /ready answers 200 in
Expand All @@ -357,6 +412,7 @@ jobs:
# (TASK-168), ask the newest backend pod from the inside. Unauthenticated,
# a mounted /api/pg/messages answers 401 and an unmounted one 404.
- name: Verify the new backend serves chat
id: chat
# Deliberately not `always()` / `!cancelled()`: if an earlier step failed
# (image push, helm upgrade, GKE credentials) the cluster is unreachable
# or unchanged, and this step would then report "Chat unavailable on the
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -393,6 +449,52 @@ jobs:
echo "::error title=Chat unavailable on the new backend::$POD has pg/status=$STATUS and pg/messages=$ROUTE (401 means mounted, 404 unmounted). Chat history fails until the pod restarts: kubectl rollout restart deploy/backend -n $NAMESPACE"
exit 1

# D227 (Sam via Cofounder, 2026-11-01): the heavy test matrix is leaving the merge
# path, so a bad image can reach prod and this post-deploy verify is the net. If any
# deploy/verify step above failed, undo this release in-cluster by rolling back to the
# previous helm revision, so prod self-heals without waiting for a human. The job still
# ends red, which makes the auto-deploy dispatcher write auto-deploy.hold and stop
# re-dispatching (Mac-side). Rolls back to the revision recorded as good before this
# upgrade (steps.prerev); a no-op at first install, if the cluster is unreachable, or
# if the upgrade created no new revision (live release unchanged). Gated on the helm
# upgrade or a verify step failing (not bare failure()), so a pre-deploy failure (checkout,
# auth, build/push) never demotes a healthy release.
- name: Roll back on a failed deploy
if: ${{ failure() && (steps.helm.outcome == 'failure' || steps.rollout.outcome == 'failure' || steps.chat.outcome == 'failure') }}

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Major · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

rg -n -C 3 --hidden -g '!.git/**' \
  'deploy-dev\.yml|steps\.helm\.outcome|steps\.rollout\.outcome|steps\.chat\.outcome|Roll back on a failed deploy' .

Repository: Team-Commonly/commonly

Length of output: 25758

Script executed:

set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- diff name/status ---'
git diff --name-status 87518301c3c005433c4e0945da0544c4a0e5854f 33e62f84b78f9bc506edb90f49189edf97b21e3d
printf '%s\n' '--- workflow diff ---'
git diff --unified=40 87518301c3c005433c4e0945da0544c4a0e5854f 33e62f84b78f9bc506edb90f49189edf97b21e3d -- .github/workflows/deploy-dev.yml .github/workflows/deploy-staging.yml
printf '%s\n' '--- candidate test and workflow-validation files ---'
rg --files -g '!node_modules' -g '!dist' -g '!build' | rg '(^|/)(test|tests|spec|scripts|\\.github)(/|$)|actionlint|workflow' | head -300
printf '%s\n' '--- references to workflow parsing/evaluation ---'
rg -n -F --hidden -g '!.git/**' -g '!node_modules/**' -e 'actionlint' -e 'workflow.*test' -e 'yaml' -e 'steps.helm.outcome' -e 'steps.rollout.outcome' -e 'steps.chat.outcome' . || test "$?" -eq 1

Repository: Team-Commonly/commonly

Length of output: 42011

Add tests for the rollback gate.

The existing history-selection coverage does not exercise this GitHub Actions condition. Add coverage for Helm, rollout, and chat failures, plus a pre-deploy failure that must not trigger rollback. The tests must fail if this gate is reverted.

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Add tests for the rollback gate condition using the Helm, rollout, and chat step
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Not adding a GitHub Actions expression-evaluation test harness in this PR. There is no such harness in the repo today, and building the first one is out of scope for a rollback-net change. Coverage is instead:

  • the force_bad_tag staging rehearsal, which exercises the real rollout-failure → rollback path live against the cluster, and is the gate before the heavy test matrix leaves the merge path;
  • the revision-selection logic, which is now a direct "roll back to the recorded pre-upgrade deployed revision, skip if unchanged" rather than arithmetic, so the class of bug a unit test would guard (picking a failed revision) is removed structurally.
    If a GHA-condition test tier is stood up later, this gate is a natural first case.

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@lilyshen0722 Understood. I won’t press for a new GitHub Actions expression-evaluation harness in this PR.

Recording the pre-upgrade deployed revision addresses rollback target selection. It does not verify the rollback condition. The planned force_bad_tag rehearsal will exercise the rollout-failure path, but the reported run stopped during image push, before Helm.

Before removing the heavy test matrix from the merge path, attach a rehearsal run that shows rollback to the recorded revision, managed-workload recovery, and a failed job result. The Helm-failure, chat-failure, and pre-deploy-failure branches remain unverified, not confirmed defects.

Would you like a follow-up issue for rollback-condition coverage?

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env:
PRE: ${{ steps.prerev.outputs.prerev }}
run: |
set -uo pipefail
HIST=$(helm history commonly-dev -n "$NAMESPACE" -o json 2>/dev/null || echo '[]')
CUR=$(printf '%s' "$HIST" | jq -r '.[-1].revision // 0')
# Roll back only to the revision recorded as `deployed` BEFORE this upgrade
# (steps.prerev). Two no-ops, each a release we must NOT demote:
# - no recorded good revision (first install) -> nothing to roll back to;
# - CUR == PRE -> the upgrade failed before Helm created a revision (chart
# load / values parse): the live release is unchanged, so leave it.
if [ "${CUR:-0}" = "0" ] || [ "${PRE:-0}" = "0" ] || [ -z "${PRE:-}" ]; then
echo "::warning title=No rollback target::commonly-dev has no pre-upgrade good revision (CUR=${CUR:-0} PRE=${PRE:-0}); nothing to roll back to."
exit 0
fi
if [ "$CUR" = "$PRE" ]; then
echo "::warning title=No rollback needed::the upgrade created no new revision (CUR==PRE==$PRE); the live release is unchanged."
exit 0
fi
echo "Rolling commonly-dev back: revision $CUR -> $PRE (last successfully-deployed)"
# No `--wait`: like the upgrade above, a release-wide wait can be blocked by an
# unrelated unhealthy workload and would then record the rollback itself as
# failed, leaving the bad revision marked deployed. Apply, then verify only the
# workloads this job manages.
helm rollback commonly-dev "$PRE" -n "$NAMESPACE" --timeout 8m
MANAGED=" backend backend-worker frontend clawdbot-gateway commonly-bot "
for d in $(kubectl get deploy -n "$NAMESPACE" -o name); do
n=${d##*/}
case "$MANAGED" in *" $n "*) : ;; *) continue ;; esac
kubectl rollout status "$d" -n "$NAMESPACE" --timeout=8m \
|| echo "::warning title=Rollback not yet ready::$d did not report ready within 8m after rollback to $PRE; check the cluster."
done
echo "::error title=Deploy rolled back::commonly-dev rolled back to revision $PRE after a failed deploy. Investigate the bad image before the next deploy."

# The stranger journey walks signup -> Scout's welcome -> a real question
# -> the connect card against the release just deployed
# (docs/runbooks/alerting.md#stranger-journey). It runs as a Job from the
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