Run tests as a workflow and gate builds on them #9

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geusebio merged 14 commits from ci/run-tests-before-build into main 2026-07-25 17:15:26 +00:00

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geusebio commented 2026-07-06 20:24:32 +00:00

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• New reusable Test workflow (.github/workflows/test.yml) that runs the docker-compose test suite via ./test (workflow_call + workflow_dispatch).
• Build now calls it as its first job; build-base (and therefore the whole build chain) needs: [test], so nothing is baked or pushed unless the full suite passes. The old commented-out test step is gone.
• ./test accepts a PROGRESS env override (default unchanged: none) so CI gets full --progress plain build logs on failure.
• Runner-only steps (Docker Hub login, disk-space purge) are guarded with if: ${{ !env.ACT }}, so the workflow is testable locally with act.

Verification

• YAML parses (anchors included); job graph verified with act -n.
• Full live run under act: suite passed in 301s, job succeeded, exit 0.
• Remaining unknown: cold-cache duration/disk on a real runner — Test has timeout-minutes: 60 and frees ~30GB of preinstalled toolchains first.

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## What - New reusable **Test** workflow (`.github/workflows/test.yml`) that runs the docker-compose test suite via `./test` (`workflow_call` + `workflow_dispatch`). - **Build** now calls it as its first job; `build-base` (and therefore the whole build chain) `needs: [test]`, so nothing is baked or pushed unless the full suite passes. The old commented-out test step is gone. - `./test` accepts a `PROGRESS` env override (default unchanged: `none`) so CI gets full `--progress plain` build logs on failure. - Runner-only steps (Docker Hub login, disk-space purge) are guarded with `if: ${{ !env.ACT }}`, so the workflow is testable locally with act. ## Verification - YAML parses (anchors included); job graph verified with `act -n`. - Full live run under act: suite passed in 301s, job succeeded, exit 0. - Remaining unknown: cold-cache duration/disk on a real runner — Test has `timeout-minutes: 60` and frees ~30GB of preinstalled toolchains first. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

geusebio added 3 commits 2026-07-06 20:24:32 +00:00

Run tests as a workflow and gate builds on them ... d1536a8e9e

Adds a reusable Test workflow that runs the docker-compose test suite
via ./test, triggered on PRs, manual dispatch, and workflow_call. The
Build workflow now calls it and build-base needs it, so nothing is
baked or pushed unless the full suite passes.

The test script's compose progress mode is now overridable via
PROGRESS (still defaults to none) so CI can get full build logs, and
runner-only steps are guarded with !env.ACT so the workflow runs
locally under act. Verified end-to-end with act: suite passed in 301s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Merge branch 'main' of https://git.grey.ooo/Grey.ooo/docker into ci/run-tests-before-build 6eeceaa380

Drop standalone pull_request trigger from Test workflow ... cb4e19ac7b

Build now runs on every push and calls Test via workflow_call, so a
pull_request trigger would run the suite twice per branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

geusebio added 1 commit 2026-07-06 20:35:29 +00:00

Inline test job: Forgejo runner rejects workflow_call ... 1621d2110a

swarm-runner v11.3.1 fails schema validation on the __metadata block
Forgejo 15 injects when synthesizing a called workflow, so the Test
job died before its first step. Inline the job into Build instead and
drop test.yml. Also drop the disk-space purge — this is a self-hosted
runner, not a GitHub-hosted VM.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

geusebio commented 2026-07-06 20:35:58 +00:00

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CI failed on the first push: swarm-runner v11.3.1 rejects the __metadata block Forgejo injects when synthesizing a workflow_call workflow (schema validation: "Unknown Property __metadata / the workflow file is not usable"). Reworked in 1621d21: the test job is now inlined into Build instead of a reusable workflow, test.yml is gone, and the GitHub-hosted-runner disk purge step is dropped since this runs on a self-hosted runner. Gating is unchanged: build-base (and the whole chain) still needs the test job. Note: upgrading the runner would re-enable reusable workflows if wanted later.

CI failed on the first push: swarm-runner v11.3.1 rejects the `__metadata` block Forgejo injects when synthesizing a `workflow_call` workflow (schema validation: "Unknown Property __metadata / the workflow file is not usable"). Reworked in 1621d21: the test job is now inlined into Build instead of a reusable workflow, test.yml is gone, and the GitHub-hosted-runner disk purge step is dropped since this runs on a self-hosted runner. Gating is unchanged: build-base (and the whole chain) still needs the test job. Note: upgrading the runner would re-enable reusable workflows if wanted later.

geusebio added 2 commits 2026-07-07 08:26:52 +00:00

Disable frankenphp tests: Illegal instruction on CI runner ... 27ae4cf749

The php-zts packages from pkg.henderkes.com crash with Illegal
instruction on the runner's amd64 CPU (they work on native aarch64).
Follows the existing pattern of commented-out known-broken targets;
re-enable once upstream targets baseline x86-64 or the runner CPU
is upgraded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Fix Docker Hub login guard; pin job image from ghcr.io ... e242289197

The !env.ACT guard skipped Docker Hub login in real CI too, because
the Forgejo runner is act-based and sets ACT=true. Replace the step
condition with a runtime check on the secret (act and swarm-runner
both also reject the secrets context in step-level if expressions).

Also pin ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest as the job container
on every job: the runner's default ubuntu-latest label maps to
git.grey.ooo/mirrors/act-runner:ubuntu-latest, whose pull 504ed and
killed a run. The mirror workflow especially must not depend on the
mirror registry it maintains.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

geusebio commented 2026-07-07 08:27:26 +00:00

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Three more fixes after watching runs 191/192: (1) run 191 died pulling the runner's default job image from git.grey.ooo/mirrors (504 from the registry) — all jobs now pin ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest directly via container:, including mirror-baseimages.yml which must not depend on the registry it maintains. (2) The !env.ACT login guard skipped Docker Hub login in real CI (swarm-runner is act-based and sets ACT=true) — replaced with a runtime secret check. (3) Run 192 was a genuine catch by the new gate: frankenphp images crash with Illegal instruction on the runner's amd64 CPU (pkg.henderkes.com php-zts builds; same crash class as the aarch64 igbinary note in FrankenPHP.Dockerfile). Disabled those test deps with a comment, following the existing pattern for known-broken targets — needs a separate fix upstream or a runner CPU change.

Three more fixes after watching runs 191/192: (1) run 191 died pulling the runner's default job image from git.grey.ooo/mirrors (504 from the registry) — all jobs now pin ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest directly via `container:`, including mirror-baseimages.yml which must not depend on the registry it maintains. (2) The `!env.ACT` login guard skipped Docker Hub login in real CI (swarm-runner is act-based and sets ACT=true) — replaced with a runtime secret check. (3) Run 192 was a genuine catch by the new gate: frankenphp images crash with Illegal instruction on the runner's amd64 CPU (pkg.henderkes.com php-zts builds; same crash class as the aarch64 igbinary note in FrankenPHP.Dockerfile). Disabled those test deps with a comment, following the existing pattern for known-broken targets — needs a separate fix upstream or a runner CPU change.

geusebio referenced this pull request 2026-07-07 08:31:08 +00:00

FrankenPHP images crash with Illegal instruction on amd64 CI runner #10

geusebio added 1 commit 2026-07-07 08:32:30 +00:00

Inline container image per job: Forgejo can't anchor container ... 46d589ff5a

The job parser expands YAML anchors on some job fields (name,
permissions, steps) but not container, failing with 'unknown anchor
job-container referenced' before the run could start.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

geusebio added 1 commit 2026-07-07 08:35:56 +00:00

Add CLAUDE.md: mandate background CI monitoring, document Forgejo quirks ... 77de057903

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

geusebio added 1 commit 2026-07-07 08:59:40 +00:00

Fix merge conflict in .github/workflows/build.yml - merge PR 9 with main ... 35c462c832

Resolve conflict by including both:
- fail-fast: false (from main)
- needs: [ test ] (from PR 9)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

geusebio added 1 commit 2026-07-07 09:14:13 +00:00

Re-pull test service image at up time ... 0c07322345

Run 202: alpine:3.23 was pulled at 09:02, but by 09:10 - after all
~40 targets had built and validated - creating the test container
failed with 'No such image'. Something on the shared runner daemon
(likely a prune from a concurrent job) removed it mid-run. pull_policy
always shrinks the stale window from minutes to seconds; the built
images are created immediately after building so they don't have this
exposure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

geusebio commented 2026-07-07 09:14:42 +00:00

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Run 202 got tantalisingly close: all ~40 targets built and validated in 8 minutes, then creating the final test orchestrator container failed with 'No such image: alpine:3.23' — the image was pulled at the start of the run but vanished from the daemon 8 minutes later, most likely pruned by a concurrent job on the shared runner daemon (main's runs 200/201 were failing on the same host at the time). Fixed in 0c07322 with pull_policy: always on the test service so it re-pulls seconds before create instead of relying on a stale pull. Worth knowing for the runner host: if something there prunes images while jobs are running, any long job on that daemon can lose images mid-run — the built compose images are equally unreferenced until their containers start.

Run 202 got tantalisingly close: all ~40 targets built and validated in 8 minutes, then creating the final `test` orchestrator container failed with 'No such image: alpine:3.23' — the image was pulled at the start of the run but vanished from the daemon 8 minutes later, most likely pruned by a concurrent job on the shared runner daemon (main's runs 200/201 were failing on the same host at the time). Fixed in 0c07322 with `pull_policy: always` on the test service so it re-pulls seconds before create instead of relying on a stale pull. Worth knowing for the runner host: if something there prunes images while jobs are running, any long job on that daemon can lose images mid-run — the built compose images are equally unreferenced until their containers start.

geusebio added 1 commit 2026-07-07 09:33:25 +00:00

Disable build-frankenphp until #10 ... ffb3939139

The Dockerfile runs validate during the image build, and the php-zts
binaries crash with Illegal instruction on the runner's amd64 CPU, so
the target can never build in CI. Keeping a permanently red job would
leave every run failing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

geusebio commented 2026-07-07 09:33:53 +00:00

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Run 204: the test gate passed for the first time (full suite green in ~8 min) and the build fan-out worked — base-alpine, php, node, dotnet, java, java-tomcat, java-war-machine all succeeded. Build frankenphp failed: FrankenPHP.Dockerfile runs validate during the image build itself, so the Illegal-instruction crash (#10) makes the target unbuildable on this runner regardless of the disabled tests. Disabled the build-frankenphp job in ffb3939 with a pointer to #10 — a job that can never pass would keep every run red. Watching the fresh run for a fully green board.

Run 204: the test gate passed for the first time (full suite green in ~8 min) and the build fan-out worked — base-alpine, php, node, dotnet, java, java-tomcat, java-war-machine all succeeded. Build frankenphp failed: FrankenPHP.Dockerfile runs validate during the image build itself, so the Illegal-instruction crash (#10) makes the target unbuildable on this runner regardless of the disabled tests. Disabled the build-frankenphp job in ffb3939 with a pointer to #10 — a job that can never pass would keep every run red. Watching the fresh run for a fully green board.

geusebio commented 2026-07-07 10:03:07 +00:00

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Fully green ✅ — the run for ffb3939 finished with the test gate passing (second consecutive green suite, ~8 min) and all eight build jobs succeeding behind it. The PR now does what it says end-to-end: no image gets baked or pushed unless the full test suite passes first. Outstanding, tracked separately: #10 (frankenphp Illegal instruction on the runner's amd64 CPU — tests and build job both parked pending that fix) and the runner-host image-prune race noted earlier (mitigated repo-side with pull_policy: always).

Fully green ✅ — the run for ffb3939 finished with the test gate passing (second consecutive green suite, ~8 min) and all eight build jobs succeeding behind it. The PR now does what it says end-to-end: no image gets baked or pushed unless the full test suite passes first. Outstanding, tracked separately: #10 (frankenphp Illegal instruction on the runner's amd64 CPU — tests and build job both parked pending that fix) and the runner-host image-prune race noted earlier (mitigated repo-side with pull_policy: always).

geusebio added 1 commit 2026-07-25 15:21:31 +00:00

Merge branch 'main' into ci/run-tests-before-build ... 805ff790e3

# Conflicts:
#	.github/workflows/build.yml

geusebio force-pushed ci/run-tests-before-build from 805ff790e3 to d51daa5485 2026-07-25 15:32:17 +00:00 Compare

geusebio added 1 commit 2026-07-25 16:04:56 +00:00

Retrigger CI: runner binfmt_misc was unmounted, now fixed 75febaccd6

geusebio referenced this pull request 2026-07-25 16:20:33 +00:00

ci: remove unsupported permissions: fields from workflows #14

geusebio added 1 commit 2026-07-25 17:01:53 +00:00

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into ci/run-tests-before-build ... 47c7cd9ec9

# Conflicts:
#	.github/workflows/build.yml

geusebio merged commit 6aa13b1f24 into main 2026-07-25 17:15:26 +00:00

geusebio referenced this pull request from a commit 2026-07-25 17:15:27 +00:00

Run tests as a workflow and gate builds on them (#9)

geusebio referenced this pull request 2026-08-04 11:49:30 +00:00

Publish the FRANKENPHP_MERCURE build — Docker Hub still serves the 2026-07-25 image #26

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