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v0.189.0 — desired state + the app-stop crash marker (R-166 / D-b)
The box stops inferring the customer's intent from a container count and reads
what they actually asked for.

Part 1 — desired state. AppConfig gains a tri-state `desired_state`
(""/running/stopped), written ONLY by the customer's own action: the API action
switch, DeployStack, UpdateOptionalConfig's redeploy branch, and the .fab
import. Intent is written BEFORE the act and a failed write REFUSES the act.
StartStack/StopStack are deliberately not writers — 14 callers, only 2 are the
customer. bootrecon.isBootOrphan now reads intent instead of len(Containers)>0,
which closes R-157 mechanism B (a power cut or interrupted deploy left an app
with zero containers, read as a deliberate stop, and stranded silently).

ABSENT MEANS UNKNOWN, NEVER "running": every pre-v0.189.0 app.yaml reads absent,
so the legacy fallback is byte-identical to the old rule. A running-only startup
backfill converges the unambiguous cases; `stopped` is never inferred.

Part 2 — backup.AppStopGuard, a persisted marker over every stop→work→start
window (volume dump, offbox reconstitute, .fab export). Its own file, never
quiesce's. Written before the stop, cleared only after a restart that succeeded,
kept when one fails. Recover() completes before the boot reconciler is launched
and returns its outcome, which main.go reports on the existing backup_failed
event once the notifier exists. A defer is not the mechanism — a SIGKILL runs
none (Campaign 8 fault 10).

Also: SaveAppConfig rebuilt AppConfig field-by-field (the R-100 shape) and would
have dropped desired_state on every save across nine call sites. Replaced with
copy-and-overlay. Measured: app.yaml does not round-trip unknown YAML keys.

No hub change, no agent coupling, no user-visible string. 27/27 packages green;
7 red-proofs observed FAIL then restored.
2026-08-02 18:40:17 +02:00

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Go

package backup
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"sort"
"time"
)
// ── The app-stop marker (R-166 part 2, decision D-b "in-flight operations") ───────────────────────
//
// Several operations stop a customer's app, do something to its data, and start it again. Between
// the stop and the start, NOTHING ON DISK RECORDED THAT AN APP WAS OWED A RESTART. A controller that
// died in that window left the app down with no explanation anywhere — and because a stopped app has
// zero containers, the boot reconciler read it as a deliberate customer stop and deliberately left
// it alone. Silently, indefinitely.
//
// A `defer` is NOT the fix and must never be described as one. Campaign 8 fault 10 established this
// on live hardware: a SIGKILL runs no deferred function, and what brought the quiesce loop's stacks
// back was its persisted marker read by Recover() one second after restart. The defer covers the
// graceful exits; the marker covers the hard crash and the power cut. This file is that marker for
// the app-data path, modelled directly on internal/quiesce's.
//
// WHY ITS OWN FILE, not quiesce's: one file, one writer. Quiesce's marker records a whole-guest
// backup window and is written by the quiesce loop; this one records an app-data operation and is
// written by the backup manager and the exporter. Sharing the file would give it two writers with
// two lifetimes, and one clearing the other's record is a stranded app by a different route.
//
// SAFETY (D-b's binding rule): losing this file must never be worse than not having it. A lost or
// corrupt marker means the app is not auto-restarted by THIS mechanism — which is precisely the
// pre-v0.189.0 position, not a new hazard. It never deletes, restores, or touches a backup artifact.
// AppStopReason names WHY an app was stopped, so the recovery log tells an operator which operation
// was interrupted rather than merely that something was.
type AppStopReason string
const (
// ReasonVolumeDump — DumpAppVolumesSafe: stop, tar the volumes consistently, start.
ReasonVolumeDump AppStopReason = "volume_dump"
// ReasonOffboxReconstitute — a full offsite restore overwriting the app's files.
ReasonOffboxReconstitute AppStopReason = "offbox_reconstitute"
// ReasonAppExport — a .fab export taken with "stop the app first".
ReasonAppExport AppStopReason = "app_export"
)
// humanReason is the operator-facing phrasing for each reason.
func (r AppStopReason) humanReason() string {
switch r {
case ReasonVolumeDump:
return "an app-data backup (volume dump)"
case ReasonOffboxReconstitute:
return "an off-site restore"
case ReasonAppExport:
return "an app export"
default:
return string(r)
}
}
// AppStopMarker is the persisted "these apps were stopped by an operation that has not reported
// finishing — they are owed a restart" note.
type AppStopMarker struct {
Active bool `json:"active"`
OpID string `json:"op_id"`
Reason AppStopReason `json:"reason"`
Stacks []string `json:"stacks"`
StartedAt time.Time `json:"started_at"`
}
// AppStopStarter is the one thing recovery needs: the ability to start a stack. StartStack must be
// idempotent (it is — `compose up -d` on a running stack is a no-op).
type AppStopStarter interface {
StartStack(name string) error
}
// AppStopGuard owns one marker file. Construct with NewAppStopGuard; the zero value is inert (every
// method is a no-op on a nil guard), so a caller that was never wired degrades to pre-v0.189.0
// behaviour instead of panicking.
type AppStopGuard struct {
path string
logger *log.Logger
now func() time.Time
// starter is only needed by Recover; Begin/End work without one.
starter AppStopStarter
}
// AppStopRecovery is what Recover found and did. Returned rather than pushed through a notifier
// seam, because of a hard ordering constraint: Recover must COMPLETE before the boot reconciler is
// launched (§8.4, main.go:236) and the hub notifier is not constructed until main.go:307. A seam
// wired after the fact would be a seam that never fires — the "built but never wired" shape this
// project has now hit four times. Returning the outcome lets main.go report it the moment the
// notifier exists, and makes the reporting decision visible at the call site instead of buried here.
type AppStopRecovery struct {
Reason AppStopReason
OpID string
StartedAt time.Time
Restarted []string // apps started again by this recovery
Failed []string // apps that could NOT be restarted (the marker was kept for these)
}
// Message is the operator-facing headline for an interrupted operation.
func (r *AppStopRecovery) Message() string {
if r == nil {
return ""
}
if len(r.Failed) > 0 {
return fmt.Sprintf("%s was interrupted by a controller restart and %d of %d app(s) could NOT be restarted",
r.Reason.humanReason(), len(r.Failed), len(r.Restarted)+len(r.Failed))
}
return fmt.Sprintf("%s was interrupted by a controller restart — %d app(s) were left stopped and have been restarted",
r.Reason.humanReason(), len(r.Restarted))
}
// Detail is the machine-readable tail. App/stack NAMES only — never env values (§9.5).
func (r *AppStopRecovery) Detail() string {
if r == nil {
return ""
}
d := fmt.Sprintf("op=%s reason=%s started_at=%s restarted=%v", r.OpID, r.Reason,
r.StartedAt.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339), r.Restarted)
if len(r.Failed) > 0 {
d += fmt.Sprintf(" restart_failed=%v", r.Failed)
}
return d
}
// NewAppStopGuard builds a guard over the given marker path.
func NewAppStopGuard(path string, logger *log.Logger) *AppStopGuard {
if logger == nil {
logger = log.Default()
}
return &AppStopGuard{path: path, logger: logger, now: time.Now}
}
// SetStarter wires the stack-start seam used by Recover. INIT-ONLY — call once at startup, before
// Recover. Separate from the constructor because the guard is built alongside the backup manager,
// which learns its stack provider later (the same shape as SetStackProvider).
func (g *AppStopGuard) SetStarter(s AppStopStarter) {
if g == nil {
return
}
g.starter = s
}
// Begin records that `stacks` are about to be stopped by `reason`. It MUST be called BEFORE the
// first stop — an error here means the marker could not be written, and the caller must not proceed
// to stop an app it cannot promise to restart.
func (g *AppStopGuard) Begin(opID string, reason AppStopReason, stackNames []string) error {
if g == nil || g.path == "" {
return nil // not wired — pre-v0.189.0 behaviour, never a hard failure
}
if len(stackNames) == 0 {
return nil
}
return g.write(AppStopMarker{
Active: true,
OpID: opID,
Reason: reason,
Stacks: append([]string(nil), stackNames...),
StartedAt: g.now(),
})
}
// End clears the marker after a successful restart. Best-effort by contract: a failure to clear is
// logged, never returned as the operation's error — a stale marker costs one idempotent StartStack
// on the next boot, which is exactly D-b's "worst acceptable outcome" and far cheaper than failing
// a backup that actually succeeded.
func (g *AppStopGuard) End() {
if g == nil || g.path == "" {
return
}
if err := os.Remove(g.path); err != nil && !os.IsNotExist(err) {
g.logger.Printf("[ERROR] [appstop] could not clear the app-stop marker at %s: %v (a stale marker costs one idempotent restart at next startup)", g.path, err)
}
}
// Recover restarts any apps left stopped by an operation that died before restarting them, then
// clears the marker. Call ONCE at startup, and — critically — call it to COMPLETION before the boot
// reconciler is launched, so an app this marker explains is not also reported as an unexplained boot
// orphan (§8.4).
//
// Idempotent: StartStack on a running stack is tolerated, and an absent or inactive marker is a
// no-op. On a restart FAILURE the marker is deliberately LEFT IN PLACE — the next startup retries,
// and in the meantime the app is down with desired_state:running, so the boot reconciler sees it as
// an orphan and the dead-app alarm owns it. Clearing a marker whose restart failed would erase the
// only durable record that an app is owed one.
//
// Returns nil when there was nothing to recover — so "no interrupted operation" and "the recovery
// never ran" are distinguishable to the caller, not only in a log (standing rule 3).
func (g *AppStopGuard) Recover() *AppStopRecovery {
if g == nil || g.path == "" {
return nil
}
m, ok := g.read()
if !ok || !m.Active || len(m.Stacks) == 0 {
return nil
}
if g.starter == nil {
g.logger.Printf("[ERROR] [appstop] crash recovery: %d app(s) were stopped by %s and are owed a restart, but no stack starter is wired — leaving the marker for the next startup: %v",
len(m.Stacks), m.Reason.humanReason(), m.Stacks)
return nil
}
g.logger.Printf("[WARN] [appstop] crash recovery: %s (op %q) was interrupted and left %d app(s) stopped — restarting them: %v",
m.Reason.humanReason(), m.OpID, len(m.Stacks), m.Stacks)
res := &AppStopRecovery{Reason: m.Reason, OpID: m.OpID, StartedAt: m.StartedAt}
for _, name := range m.Stacks {
if err := g.starter.StartStack(name); err != nil {
g.logger.Printf("[ERROR] [appstop] crash recovery: restart %s failed: %v", name, err)
res.Failed = append(res.Failed, name)
continue
}
g.logger.Printf("[INFO] [appstop] crash recovery: restarted %s after the interrupted %s", name, m.Reason.humanReason())
res.Restarted = append(res.Restarted, name)
}
sort.Strings(res.Failed)
sort.Strings(res.Restarted)
if len(res.Failed) > 0 {
g.logger.Printf("[ERROR] [appstop] crash recovery: %d app(s) could not be restarted — KEEPING the marker so the next startup retries; the dead-app alarm owns them meanwhile: %v",
len(res.Failed), res.Failed)
return res
}
g.End()
return res
}
// ---- marker persistence (atomic, 0600) — the quiesce shape ------------------------------------
func (g *AppStopGuard) write(m AppStopMarker) error {
data, err := json.MarshalIndent(m, "", " ")
if err != nil {
return err
}
if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(g.path), 0o755); err != nil {
return err
}
tmp := g.path + ".tmp"
f, err := os.OpenFile(tmp, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE|os.O_TRUNC, 0o600)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if _, err := f.Write(data); err != nil {
f.Close()
os.Remove(tmp)
return err
}
// fsync before rename: the whole point is surviving a power cut, and a rename that lands ahead
// of the bytes it points at is a marker that reads as corrupt at exactly the wrong moment.
if err := f.Sync(); err != nil {
f.Close()
os.Remove(tmp)
return err
}
if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
os.Remove(tmp)
return err
}
return os.Rename(tmp, g.path)
}
func (g *AppStopGuard) read() (AppStopMarker, bool) {
data, err := os.ReadFile(g.path)
if err != nil {
return AppStopMarker{}, false
}
var m AppStopMarker
if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &m); err != nil {
// Never a silent skip (§9.4): a corrupt marker is LOUD and the bad file is quarantined, so a
// genuinely interrupted operation leaves a trace instead of vanishing. Still returns false —
// "no usable marker ⇒ no recovery" is the correct contract, and matches quiesce's.
g.logger.Printf("[WARN] [appstop] the app-stop marker at %s is corrupt (%v) — quarantining; apps are NOT auto-restarted from it", g.path, err)
_ = os.Rename(g.path, fmt.Sprintf("%s.corrupt-%d", g.path, g.now().Unix()))
return AppStopMarker{}, false
}
return m, true
}