Dashboard's ACTIVE DECKIES (active_deckies in get_stats_summary) counts
TopologyDecky rows where state='running'. No code path was flipping
that state away from the default 'pending', so the count read 0/N
even when every container was running fine — the dashboard was lying.
Two complementary fixes:
1. deploy_topology — after the post-deploy compose ps verification,
reconcile each TopologyDecky.state from the corresponding base
container's docker state. running → 'running'; anything else →
'failed'. Reuses the ps_rows already gathered for the
ACTIVE-vs-DEGRADED status decision; no extra docker hit.
2. apply_add_decky — _materialise_decky_spawn now returns True/False;
on True the row is updated to state='running' before
_assert_valid_after. Catches the case where a decky added via the
live mutator queue stays at 'pending' indefinitely (the deployer's
reconcile only runs on a fresh deploy_topology pass).
Existing topology deckies in active topologies will still read as
'pending' until the next deploy_topology runs, since this is
forward-only. An operator-side fix is to teardown + redeploy or run
the (forthcoming) reconcile-on-startup pass.
apply_add_decky's compose-up was hard-failing whenever the operator's
~/.docker/buildx/activity/ landed on a read-only mount — the wedge
detection in _compose_with_retry correctly refuses to retry (would
just leak more mounts), but for live materialisation we don't want a
wedged buildx state to abort an admin's mutation. ANTI hit it on
adding decky-a977: 'failed to update builder last activity time: ...
read-only file system → buildx wedge detected → returned non-zero'.
_compose_up_with_buildkit_fallback wraps _compose_with_retry: on a
CalledProcessError whose stderr matches both wedge signatures
(_BUILDX_WEDGE_SIGNATURE + _BUILDX_EROFS_SIGNATURE), it logs a
warning with the manual recovery steps + retries once with
DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 set. The legacy non-buildx builder doesn't use
the activity dir and isn't affected.
Wired into the two paths that pass --build:
* _materialise_decky_spawn (apply_add_decky)
* _materialise_decky_services_diff (apply_update_decky service add)
_materialise_decky_recreate_base doesn't build — it just recreates a
container from an existing image — so it's not affected.
Operator-facing log message points at the manual fix
(rm -rf ~/.docker/buildx/activity + docker buildx create) so they
can recover at their leisure; we don't ATTEMPT the recovery because
the activity dir might be RO for a reason (zfs/btrfs snapshot, etc.)
that an automated rm would be wrong to fight.
apply_update_decky's flip path now refuses to promote a decky to
gateway unless its home LAN is a DMZ. The compose generator publishes
host ports for forwards_l3=True; a non-DMZ gateway would shadow the
host's port space without anything legitimately able to reach the
service. Same posture as the existing 'forwards_l3 flip on live
requires force=true' guard — refused before any DB write so a bad
mutation leaves zero side-effects.
The check is intentionally NOT a standing _RULES invariant — the
codebase uses forwards_l3 for two semantics:
1. Generic L3 forwarding (internal bridge deckies routing between
their multi-home LANs). The generator writes this on internal
bridges via bridge_forward_probability; legitimately non-DMZ.
2. DMZ gateway (host-port publisher). Only meaningful on DMZ.
Standing validation can't enforce DMZ-homing without breaking case 1.
The guard fires only on the explicit user-driven flip path where the
operator's intent is unambiguously case 2. Generator output and
internal-bridge attachments bypass the check.
check_gateway_homed_in_dmz lives in validate.py for callers that want
the explicit form (and for the test surface), but is not a standing
rule — comment in _RULES explains the asymmetry.
apply_update_decky now discriminates three sub-cases:
* services list changed → diff old vs new and call
_materialise_decky_services_diff (compose up -d for added,
stop + rm -f for removed). Mirrors services_live's pattern but
doesn't import it — mutator-routed mutations carry a different bus
surface (mutation.applied) than the direct API path
(decky.<name>.service_added).
* forwards_l3 flipped → port publishing changes, which docker can
only apply at container-create time. Gated on payload['force'] is
true; default raises MutationError so a half-thinking operator
can't stomp a live decky. When force=true,
_materialise_decky_recreate_base does compose up -d --no-deps
--force-recreate. Pre-checked BEFORE the DB write so a refused
mutation leaves zero side-effects.
* coord-only (x/y) → DB only, no docker work.
Ships tests/mutator/test_ops_materialisation.py with focused coverage
for every new helper: add_decky/remove_decky/attach_decky/
detach_decky/update_decky/update_lan paths against an active
topology, with compose primitives + docker SDK mocked at the source
modules so the helpers' lazy imports pick up the stubs. Also covers
the pending-topology skip and the force-flag gating.
