feat(docker): add safe real-data preview environments - #1455
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughPreview deployments now use immutable images, staging infrastructure, strict database cloning, resource limits, and cleanup automation. Workspace administration now exposes owner account IDs and supports audited owner impersonation. Preview review automation displays its paused state. ChangesPreview deployments
Workspace owner impersonation
Documentation scanning
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The preview startup flow can expose unsanitized staging data because the database is marked ready before sanitization is performed, and the image workflow can associate a deployment with the wrong or unavailable build. These are concrete data-safety and deployment-correctness risks that should be fixed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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participant Docker
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PullRequest->>GitHubActions: open, reopen, or synchronize
GitHubActions->>Docker: build application-server image
Docker-->>GitHubActions: report build result
GitHubActions->>Coolify: update preview
Coolify->>PreviewStack: start per-PR stack
PreviewStack->>StagingPostgres: clone staging PostgreSQL data
StagingPostgres-->>PreviewStack: return database dump
PreviewStack->>PreviewStack: restore, sanitize, and silence review jobs
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In @.changeset/quiet-real-data-previews.md:
- Line 5: Rewrite the changeset summary in the operator’s or user’s voice by
addressing the reader directly, using phrasing such as “You can…” while
preserving the documented preview deployment capabilities and audited owner
impersonation behavior.
In @.github/workflows/cicd.yml:
- Around line 72-80: The Coolify deployment API step must not run when the
Docker job is skipped, while the status-link step remains available. Update the
deployment step’s condition in the pull-request workflow to require
needs.Docker.result == 'success', preserving the existing deployment behavior
only when the immutable image was built.
In `@docker/preview/compose.app.yaml`:
- Around line 105-145: The preview initialization flow must invoke the
maintained preview data sanitization procedure after pg_restore and before
creating .hephaestus-preview-seeded. Add the sanitizer call after the existing
silence-policy SQL, ensure sanitizer failures stop the flow, and leave the
success marker creation dependent on its successful completion.
In `@docker/preview/README.md`:
- Around line 51-53: Update the Docker socket security statement near the
preview application documentation to acknowledge that the socket is not mounted
read-only and grants control over the host Docker daemon. Document that this
privileged access is intentionally limited to the trusted preview application
and its pg_dump, restore, and sandbox execution use cases.
In
`@server/src/test/java/de/tum/cit/aet/hephaestus/workspace/WorkspaceAdminServiceTest.java`:
- Around line 31-32: Add `@Tag`("unit") to the test method
shouldListImpersonatableOwnerAccountWhenOwnerHasSignedIn, preserving its
existing `@Test` annotation and imports.
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| Preview deployments can reuse staging data and NATS while starting with practice reviews paused in every workspace, and instance administrators can enter a workspace directly through audited owner impersonation. |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Use the user's or operator's voice.
CHANGELOG.md will contain this sentence verbatim. Address the reader directly, for example with “You can use preview deployments…” and “Instance administrators can…”.
As per coding guidelines, .changeset/*.md: “The summary lands in CHANGELOG.md verbatim, in the operator's or user's voice.”
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In @.changeset/quiet-real-data-previews.md at line 5, Rewrite the changeset
summary in the operator’s or user’s voice by addressing the reader directly,
using phrasing such as “You can…” while preserving the documented preview
deployment capabilities and audited owner impersonation behavior.
Source: Coding guidelines
| # Wait for Docker so SOURCE_COMMIT always names an image that already exists in GHCR. `always` | ||
| # preserves the link/no-op behavior when the Docker workflow is legitimately skipped. | ||
| needs: [detect-changes, Docker] | ||
| if: >- | ||
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| github.event_name == 'pull_request' && | ||
| vars.COOLIFY_URL != '' && | ||
| vars.COOLIFY_APP_UUID != '' && | ||
| (needs.Docker.result == 'success' || needs.Docker.result == 'skipped') |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Do not update a preview when its immutable image build was skipped.
Lines 76-80 allow this job after Docker is skipped. The update step at Lines 108-129 still requests a Coolify deployment. For a pull request that changes only documentation, .github/workflows/cicd.yml skips Docker, so GHCR has no application-server image for the new SOURCE_COMMIT. Coolify can then deploy a missing image tag.
Keep the status-link step available, but require needs.Docker.result == 'success' for the deployment API step. Alternatively, pass an image tag that CI has confirmed exists.
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In @.github/workflows/cicd.yml around lines 72 - 80, The Coolify deployment API
step must not run when the Docker job is skipped, while the status-link step
remains available. Update the deployment step’s condition in the pull-request
workflow to require needs.Docker.result == 'success', preserving the existing
deployment behavior only when the immutable image was built.
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Add a unit-test tag.
Add @Tag("unit") to this test. Tag-filtered test runs can otherwise omit it.
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`@Test`
void shouldListImpersonatableOwnerAccountWhenOwnerHasSignedIn() {As per coding guidelines, tag every test (@Tag("unit"), @Tag("integration"), @Tag("live")).
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`@server/src/test/java/de/tum/cit/aet/hephaestus/workspace/WorkspaceAdminServiceTest.java`
around lines 31 - 32, Add `@Tag`("unit") to the test method
shouldListImpersonatableOwnerAccountWhenOwnerHasSignedIn, preserving its
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113-157: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftRun the sanitizer before writing the seed marker.
The shown flow restores the full staging dump, applies only review and job state updates, then writes
.hephaestus-preview-seeded. No shown step sanitizes restored records. The preview can therefore start with unsanitized staging data.Run the maintained sanitizer after
pg_restoreand before the marker. Fail the loader if that step fails.
docker/preview/compose.app.yaml#L113-L157: invoke the sanitizer after the silence policy and beforetouch.docker/preview/README.md#L3-L5: state that cloning is sanitized only after the implementation performs sanitization.docker/preview/README.md#L19-L22: keep the marker description conditional on successful sanitization.docker/preview/README.md#L60-L63: align fail-closed behavior with the implemented sanitizer step.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In @.github/workflows/ci-docker-build.yml:
- Around line 76-81: Update the image-tag and checkout flow in the CI Docker
workflow so the PR tag identifies the exact commit whose contents are built:
either tag PR builds with the synthetic merge SHA from github.sha, explicitly
check out the PR head before building, or build the PR head separately. Keep
immutable tags consistent with the checked-out source.
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In `@docker/preview/compose.app.yaml`:
- Around line 113-157: Run the maintained sanitizer after the silence-policy SQL
and before creating .hephaestus-preview-seeded in
docker/preview/compose.app.yaml lines 113-157, and fail the loader if
sanitization fails. Update docker/preview/README.md lines 3-5 to state cloning
is sanitized, lines 19-22 to make the marker description conditional on
successful sanitization, and lines 60-63 to document fail-closed behavior for
the sanitizer step.
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| # github.sha is a synthetic merge commit on pull_request. Coolify injects the checked-out PR | ||
| # head as SOURCE_COMMIT, so publish both immutable identifiers. | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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In GitHub Actions, the github.ref context property is always associated with the caller workflow, not the reusable workflow [1]. When you use actions/checkout without specifying a ref in a reusable workflow, it defaults to the caller workflow's ref or, if that is unavailable, the repository's default branch [2][3][4]. If your goal is to check out the repository that contains the reusable workflow itself (rather than the caller's repository), you should use the job.workflow_repository and job.workflow_sha context properties [5][2]. Example configuration to checkout the reusable workflow's own source code: - uses: actions/checkout@v7 with: repository: ${{ job.workflow_repository }} ref: ${{ job.workflow_sha }} If you need to checkout the code from the caller's repository (which is the default behavior when actions/checkout is used without repository or ref inputs), it will automatically target the ref that triggered the caller workflow [3][6]. If you specifically need to reference the pull request ref within a reusable workflow, you must rely on data passed from the caller, as the reusable workflow does not inherently "see" the caller's event-specific context beyond what is provided by default [1].
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- 2: when used as part of a reusable workflow the default behaviour is always to checkout "main" branch actions/checkout#1418
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Align the PR image tag with the checked-out commit.
actions/checkout uses the caller’s default PR ref, so the reusable workflow builds the synthetic merge commit. The github.event.pull_request.head.sha tag therefore points to merge-commit contents. Use the merge SHA consistently, check out the PR head explicitly, or build the PR head separately.
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image-tag and checkout flow in the CI Docker workflow so the PR tag identifies
the exact commit whose contents are built: either tag PR builds with the
synthetic merge SHA from github.sha, explicitly check out the PR head before
building, or build the PR head separately. Keep immutable tags consistent with
the checked-out source.
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Restores what #1455 built and #1557 dropped: a preview starts from a pg_dump of staging's database and consumes staging's JetStream, so it is worth looking at rather than an empty install. The seed loader runs before the application server may boot. It cancels queued work, disables every review trigger, and drops the instance identity, then verifies that against the database and refuses to mark the preview seeded if the policy did not take — a preview that cannot be silenced stays down. It holds the Docker socket read-only because pg_dump and psql run inside the two database containers; check-preview-stack.ts now refuses that mount on any other service, and refuses it writable on this one. The local broker is gone. The application server joins staging's shared-network for its broker, with a durable named per deploy so previews never compete for one consumer, and a 72h inactivity window because a preview is deleted rather than shut down. staging-shared is external and named, which the sandbox check now distinguishes from the project-scoped networks every preview would share. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017VKWqbmrPJFv8aKZBp36uD
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Description
Make pull-request previews realistic enough for end-to-end review testing without allowing a cloned workspace to publish feedback unexpectedly. Each preview now starts from a private, sanitized staging database clone, consumes staging's shared NATS stream with its own durable consumer, and can run one explicitly enabled agent sandbox at a time.
This also improves the testing workflow around the preview:
Preview seeding is deliberately fail-closed. A missing source database, failed restore, or failed sanitization prevents the application server from starting instead of exposing an empty or unsanitized environment. Fork previews remain disabled because these environments contain staging data and integration credentials.
How to test
Preview / Coolifycheck and confirm both generated hosts resolve through the Coolify proxy:pr<id>.hephaestus.felixdietrich.compr<id>.api.hephaestus.felixdietrich.comValidated locally and against the staging host:
pnpm run formatandpnpm run checkopenai/gpt-oss-120bhephaestustestworkspaceThe shared model is configured in staging's instance catalog rather than as a deployment environment variable. New previews therefore clone the model selection with the staging data, while the seed sanitizer turns the workspace binding and review triggers off. An authorized tester can explicitly enable that binding in one preview workspace without changing staging or another preview.
Checklist
.changeset/README.mdScreenshots
The UI changes are authenticated and contain cloned staging data, so this public PR does not embed a screenshot of that surface. The deployed review environment is available to authorized testers: