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Closes #1156

Summary

In this PR, made the deploy pipeline safer and self-verifying - broken code can no longer reach staging/production, and the outcomes of each deploy(healthy/failed) is surfaced instantly in discord.

1. Staging related updates

  • Staging CD now runs after Kaapi CI succeeds instead of racing it.
  • Deploys the exact commit CI passed on (checks out that SHA) and bakes it into the image as GIT_SHA.
  • fixed the SSM wait, the native waiter ~100s cap falsely failing longer deploys, it now waits reliably until a terminal state.
  • On EC2, docker compose up -d --wait waits until containers are healthy, not just "started".

2. Production related updates

  • before building, confirms the tagged commit passed CI, otherwise the release aborts.
  • Each service has its own deploy step + timeout.
  • deploy call turns on the ECS deployment circuit breaker (with rollback) and polls rolloutState, a bad rollout reports FAILED and auto-rolls back, instead of fire-and-forget.

3. Deploy verification

  • bake the build-time GIT_SHA into the image and expose it at /health, so we can confirm the new code is the one serving, not an old task. Added a test for the /health sha field.

4. Notifications (both workflows)

  • Discord alert on the deploy result, green "healthy" / red "failed", with Release + SHA.
  • production alert also states when CI blocked the release.

5. Refactor

  • shared composite actions: ecs-deploy and discord-notify (green/red embed), used across the workflows.
  • manual deploy-staging-ecs.yml reuses the ecs-deploy action too.

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Deployment workflows now use a secret IAM role, pass commit SHAs into Docker images, verify ECS rollout states, rehearse staging ECS services, expose the SHA through /health, and send Discord deployment notifications.

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Deployment verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Image commit provenance
.github/workflows/create-release.yml, .github/workflows/deploy-staging-ecs.yml, backend/Dockerfile, backend/app/core/config.py, backend/app/main.py
Docker builds pass GIT_SHA. The application stores the value and returns it from /health.
Release rollout verification
.github/workflows/create-release.yml
The release workflow uses AWS_DEPLOY_ROLE_ARN, waits for main and Celery ECS rollouts, and sends Discord status details.
Staging ECS rehearsal
.github/workflows/deploy-staging.yml, .github/workflows/deploy-staging-ecs.yml
The staging workflow builds and pushes an image, verifies two ECS services, scales them back to zero, and sends Discord status details.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubActions
  participant Docker
  participant ECS
  participant Discord
  GitHubActions->>Docker: Build image with GIT_SHA
  GitHubActions->>ECS: Deploy image and force rollout
  ECS-->>GitHubActions: Return rolloutState
  GitHubActions->>Discord: Send deployment result
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5a029

The deployment checks can report a failed rollout as healthy, and staging can deploy a commit that did not pass CI. A failed cleanup can also leave staging services scaled up. Resolve these before relying on the new deployment verification.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5a029

The deployment workflow is materially safer because it waits for ECS rollout outcomes and cleans up rehearsal services, but it does not yet verify that the running service reports the commit requested for deployment. This leaves release provenance only partially verified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Deployment success is based on ECS rollout completion without comparing the health endpoint's served SHA to the requested commit, so a successful workflow does not establish end-to-end release provenance.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • observed — The changed automation can assume an AWS deployment role, build and push backend images, force ECS deployments, and scale staging services, making workflow integrity and cleanup behavior security-relevant control points.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Because workflow success checks ECS rollout state rather than the SHA served by the backend, an image-selection, deployment-target, or stale-serving discrepancy could be reported as a healthy release without end-to-end provenance validation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — AWS role selection is delegated to a repository secret, while the configured role's trust policy, permissions, and environment-specific constraints are outside the available evidence.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The rehearsal's explicit terminal-state polling and always-run scale-down reduce the chance that an ordinary rollout failure leaves staging tasks running, although behavior under runner interruption or external infrastructure failure is not evidenced.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make deployment success depend on retrieving the intended service health response through the deployment's trusted access path and comparing its sha value with the requested commit, while retaining terminal-state checks and cleanup.
🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1 | ❓ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning, 1 inconclusive)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1 … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check ❓ Inconclusive Issue #1156 requirements are implemented for CI-gated staging deployment, tagged-commit CI verification, Discord failure reporting, SHA propagation to /health, SSM completion, Compose health waiting… Provide reviewable evidence that the production and staging ECS services have the deployment circuit breaker enabled with rollback, or add that configuration to the service definitions or deployment commands.
✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed deployment workflows, Docker GIT_SHA support, health response, credential configuration, CI Docker build, Compose validation, rollout polling, notifications, and rehearsal cleanup suppor…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the continuous deployment changes and matches the primary workflow updates.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the deployment hardening, ECS verification, Git SHA tracking, and Discord notifications included in the changeset.
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Issue #1156 requirements are implemented for CI-gated staging deployment, tagged-commit CI verification, Discord failure reporting, SHA propagation to /health, SSM completion, Compose health waiting, CI Docker and Compose checks, and ECS rehearsal with cleanup. The production workflow polls rolloutState, and the staging rehearsal polls it for both services. However, the reviewed workflows do not configure deploymentCircuitBreaker={enable=true,rollback=true}. The available repository evidence does not establish whether the ECS services already have this setting. Branch protection is administrative and does not apply to this coding assessment.

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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@github-actions github-actions Bot changed the title feat(*): Continuos Deployment script updates feat(continuous-deployment): Update deployment scripts Sep 8, 2026
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OpenAPI changes   ⚪ No API surface changes

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uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v6
with:
role-to-assume: arn:aws:iam::024209611402:role/github-action-role
role-to-assume: ${{ secrets.AWS_DEPLOY_ROLE_ARN }}

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when this script was initially written, this value was hardcoded, which isn’t ideal. It should be picked from secrets instead, so if it changes in the future, we can update it easily without having to make changes to the workflow every time.

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.github/workflows/deploy-staging.yml (1)

44-44: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Deploy the commit that passed the triggering CI run.

For workflow_run, github.sha identifies the default-branch tip, not github.event.workflow_run.head_sha. actions/checkout@v7, the ECS GIT_SHA build argument, and the EC2 git pull origin main can therefore use an untested commit. Derive one DEPLOY_SHA, check out that SHA in the ECS job, check out that SHA on EC2 instead of pulling main, and use it for GIT_SHA. Use github.sha only for workflow_dispatch.

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In @.github/workflows/deploy-staging.yml at line 44, The staging deployment must
use the commit that triggered the successful workflow run rather than the
default-branch tip. Define a single DEPLOY_SHA using workflow_run.head_sha for
workflow_run events and github.sha only for workflow_dispatch, then use it for
actions/checkout, the ECS GIT_SHA build argument, and the EC2 deployment
command; replace git pull origin main with fetching and checking out DEPLOY_SHA.
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/create-release.yml:
- Around line 118-122: Update the aws ecs update-service invocation in the
rollout loop to include deploymentCircuitBreaker configuration with both enable
and rollback set to true, ensuring ECS reports terminal failures and
automatically rolls back deployments.
- Around line 125-127: Update the service deployment tracking in
.github/workflows/create-release.yml at lines 125-127 and
.github/workflows/deploy-staging.yml at lines 137-139: capture each
update-service response, extract and store its deployment.id per service, and
change the describe-services query to select that stored ID instead of the
PRIMARY deployment status.

In @.github/workflows/deploy-staging.yml:
- Around line 157-158: Update the cleanup loop containing the aws ecs
update-service command so one failed scale-down does not terminate the loop;
record a failure status while continuing to attempt every service, then exit
with failure after the loop if any update failed.

---

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In @.github/workflows/deploy-staging.yml:
- Line 44: The staging deployment must use the commit that triggered the
successful workflow run rather than the default-branch tip. Define a single
DEPLOY_SHA using workflow_run.head_sha for workflow_run events and github.sha
only for workflow_dispatch, then use it for actions/checkout, the ECS GIT_SHA
build argument, and the EC2 deployment command; replace git pull origin main
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🟡 Minor · Assert the configured SHA in the health test.

backend/app/main.py:112
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the configured SHA in the health test. The test fixture does not set GIT_SHA, and the current test compares the two health responses with each other. Both responses can therefore omit or misreport sha and still pass. The deployment workflows provide github.sha as GIT_SHA.

    assert canonical.json()["sha"] == settings.GIT_SHA
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In `@backend/app/main.py` at line 112, Update the health test assertion to compare
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provides GIT_SHA from the deployment workflow’s github.sha value.
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see doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTqyrPj1SfwMVv3zRjEWEKktsYdad1opyrOSa9O5Xzs/edit?tab=t.0

tldr: i had initially proposed doing the ecs rehearsal, but feel we shouldn't do it now - have given the reasons in the doc; that, and a couple of other changes requested

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- uses: actions/checkout@v7
- uses: ./.github/actions/discord-notify
with:
webhook-url: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL }}

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need to set this discord webhook url in the GitHub action secrets..

POLL_INTERVAL: ${{ inputs.poll-interval }}
run: |
args=(--cluster "$CLUSTER" --service "$SERVICE" --force-new-deployment
--deployment-configuration '{"deploymentCircuitBreaker":{"enable":true,"rollback":true},"maximumPercent":200,"minimumHealthyPercent":100}')

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here, so we have enabled the deployment circuit breaker, so if any new task fails during deployment, it will automatically roll back to the previous healthy version, ensuring that the service remains available.

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so in this configuration, I have set maximumPercent to 200%, which means ECS can run the old and new tasks in parallel during deployment. with 2 desired tasks, this allows up to 4 tasks to run simultaneously.

I have set minimumHealthyPercent to 100%, which means at least 100% of the desired capacity (2 tasks) must remain healthy and running at all times.

so, ECS will only stop the old tasks after the new tasks are healthy, ensuring zero downtime and that the service never drops below its required capacity.

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