The deploy pipeline had two critical bugs:
1. Health check used /api/vehicles/ZZZ999 with curl -f. This endpoint
returns HTTP 404 for unknown plates (correct behavior), which curl -f
treated as a failure. The backend was actually healthy.
Fix: use /api/vehicles/ABC123 (seeded in V6 migration, always 200)
and remove -f flag from curl.
2. No rollback on failure. If health checks failed, containers stayed
running forever because the pipeline exited 1 without stopping them.
Fix: combine health checks into one step. If either fails, run
'docker compose down' (without -v, so DB volume is preserved) before
exiting with failure.
The production deploy failed because port 3000 was already bound by the
dev frontend container (bilhej-frontend). The prod frontend doesn't need
a host port at all — nginx talks to it via the external 'web' network.
Changes:
- Remove host port binding (3000:80) from prod frontend
- Remove unused 'certs' volume from prod compose
- Use --project-name bilhej-prod in deploy workflow to isolate prod
containers/networks from dev and e2e environments
- Add 'docker compose down' before 'up' for clean deploys
- Update health check network names to bilhej-prod_default
The deploy workflow failed when re-running with the same version tag
because Git rejects pushing a tag that already exists on the remote.
- Delete local tag first (ignore if missing)
- Delete remote tag first (ignore if missing)
- Create and push the tag fresh
This makes deploys idempotent: retrying a failed deploy with the same
version (e.g., v0.1.0) will succeed by moving the tag to the current
commit. For a new deploy, the delete commands silently do nothing.
Add a manually-triggered deploy workflow that builds production Docker
images and starts the stack on the srvr.nu server.
- : workflow_dispatch with version input,
writes production .env from Forgejo secrets, builds and starts the
docker-compose.prod.yml stack, runs health checks via temporary curl
containers on the bilhej_default Docker network, tags the git commit.
- : nginx server block for bilhej.se.
Handles HTTP→HTTPS redirect, SSL termination with Let's Encrypt certs,
and proxies all traffic to the bilhej-frontend-prod container on the
Docker 'web' network. The frontend container handles /api/ proxying
to the backend internally.
To deploy:
1. Add production secrets to Forgejo (Settings → Actions → Secrets)
2. Trigger deploy from Actions → Deploy to Production
3. Run certbot for bilhej.se SSL (one-time setup)
4. Add docker/bilhej.nginx.conf to srvr.nu nginx container
5. Point bilhej.se DNS A record to srvr.nu IP
