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Phase 4 slice 2: the queue and the runner
b44cbfaf873fda01a458b527e5684b2386266117 · Keenan Nemetz · 18d ago · parent 8fe238d4
Phase 4 slice 2: the queue and the runner A push now runs a pipeline. post-receive spools one file per accepted ref update — the hook must never write to a database or fail a commit — and the server ingests those into data/runs.db, pinning each run to the commit and to the workflow blob it was queued from. The unique index on (repo, ref, sha, workflow, job) is what makes ingestion idempotent, so a spool file read twice after a crash does not run twice. vole runner connects over SSH with the key it would push with: no token, no stored secret, and the same identity the rest of the system uses. It may only run jobs for repositories where its account is an admin, because running a job executes that repository's code — a bigger power than writing to it. Delivery is at-least-once by construction: - A lease hands out a job for a fixed window; the runner heartbeats while it works. - An expired lease means the runner died, and the janitor returns the job to the queue for somebody else. - A runner whose lease is gone stops rather than reporting a result nobody will record, and a job that kills five runners in a row is failed instead of cycling. Three bugs found while building it, each worth the test that now covers it: - Background loops lived in Run(), so the tests — which serve the SSH listener themselves — never had ingestion or lease expiry. They start in New() now. - post-receive derived the repository name from GIT_DIR, which git sets to "." for hooks, so every event was queued for a repository called ".". The same trap had already appeared in a pre-receive message; both now resolve the absolute path. - Leases ordered only by creation time, so two pushes in the same second could be handed out in any order; the id breaks the tie, and ULIDs sort by time. Verified end to end on a live instance: a push queues a job, a runner leases it, clones the commit, prints "hi", and the run closes success with the log attached. The integration tests cover the two exit criteria that matter — a push runs a pipeline, and killing a runner mid-job requeues the work onto a second runner (attempts=2, success) — plus the property that editing a workflow after a push does not change what the already-queued run executes. Not built yet: statuses on change requests and required-check gating (slice 3), and signed run records (Phase 7). Runs live in data/runs.db and are visible there, not on the web.
internal/repo/repo.go +11−4
| @@ -263,10 +263,17 @@ func (s *Store) InstallHooks(dir string) error { | |||
| 263 | 263 | if err := os.MkdirAll(hookDir, 0o755); err != nil { | |
| 264 | 264 | return err | |
| 265 | 265 | } | |
| 266 | body := "#!/bin/sh\n# Generated by Vole. Do not edit: rewritten on startup.\nexec " + | ||
| 267 | shellQuote(s.BinPath) + " hook pre-receive\n" | ||
| 268 | p := filepath.Join(hookDir, "pre-receive") | ||
| 269 | return os.WriteFile(p, []byte(body), 0o755) | ||
| 266 | // pre-receive is the policy gate; post-receive only queues CI, so it runs after | ||
| 267 | // the refs have moved and can never reject a push. | ||
| 268 | for _, hook := range []string{"pre-receive", "post-receive"} { | ||
| 269 | body := "#!/bin/sh\n# Generated by Vole. Do not edit: rewritten on startup.\nexec " + | ||
| 270 | shellQuote(s.BinPath) + " hook " + hook + "\n" | ||
| 271 | p := filepath.Join(hookDir, hook) | ||
| 272 | if err := os.WriteFile(p, []byte(body), 0o755); err != nil { | ||
| 273 | return err | ||
| 274 | } | ||
| 275 | } | ||
| 276 | return nil | ||
| 270 | 277 | } | |
| 271 | 278 | ||
| 272 | 279 | func (s *Store) InstallAllHooks() (int, error) { | |