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fix(proxy): fail verify on a crash-looping or unreachable proxy instead of "not started" - #1736

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What changed?

project proxy verify decides "not started yet" from the state of the shared DNS and proxy containers instead of from the layer that failed. A container that does not exist or has stopped cleanly still counts as idle, and the command exits 0 with the calm message. Three cases that used to pass as idle are now real failures and exit 1:

  • a crash-looping container (status restarting, or running with restarts already counted by its restart policy)
  • a running proxy container whose port 443 is not reachable, for example because another local web server holds the port
  • a DNS container that answers without the expected record

Each container layer now has two hints: how to start it when it is idle, and where to look when it is broken. The state comes from docker inspect, and only when a check has failed. The final step of project proxy setup shares this code and inherits the change.

Before, with the DNS container in a restart loop:

  ✓ Docker is running
  ○ DNS server answers *.shopware.local  (not started yet)
    Hint: Run "shopware-cli project proxy setup" (or "proxy up" in a shop) to start it

  The shared proxy isn't running yet — nothing is wrong.
exit=0

After:

  ✓ Docker is running
  ✗ DNS server answers *.shopware.local
    cannot reach the DNS server, its container keeps restarting
    Hint: Check "docker logs shopware-cli-proxy-dns", then run "shopware-cli project proxy setup" to recreate it
exit=1

On a machine where the containers are simply absent or stopped, the output is unchanged.

Why?

verify and setup reported success while the proxy was broken, so a crash-looping container went unnoticed and telemetry recorded those runs as successes. The "not started yet" bucket was a fixed property of the two container checks, so any failure of those layers landed in it.

How was this tested?

  • Unit tests for the state classification, the crash-loop rule and the check runner: idle failures stay pending and get the start hint, broken failures are real and keep the diagnostic hint, layers without an idle rule never go pending.
  • End to end on a real machine, the main build against this branch, each scenario swapped in under the real container name and the original container restored afterwards:
    • DNS container absent or stopped: both builds print "nothing is wrong" and exit 0.
    • DNS container crash-looping: main exits 0 with "not started yet"; this branch exits 1 with the output above. The message was stable over three consecutive runs; a first version that read the status only was racy, because a crash-looping container briefly shows as running between restarts.
    • DNS container running but not serving DNS: main exits 0; this branch exits 1 with the diagnostic hint.
    • DNS container answering with the wrong address: main exits 0; this branch exits 1.
    • A stray argument still exits 1 with the usage error.
  • The proxy container layer could not be reached end to end on this machine, because the chain stops at the OS resolution check there. Its idle and crash-loop handling uses the same helpers and is covered by the unit tests.
  • go test ./... passes except TestEnsureDNSContainerRunningIntegration, which fails on main as well.

Docker clients that cannot report a container state fall back to the previous behaviour, never to a false failure.

Related issue or discussion

  • Completes a telemetry quality item from the DX tools telemetry review: proxy teardown should exit non-zero after a failed deregistration, and proxy verify should treat a crash-looping container as a failure rather than "not started". The teardown half shipped in fix: report failures and exit codes correctly #1638 with 0.19.0, where deregistration errors are collected and returned; this PR covers the verify half.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Startup checks now distinguish idle containers from services that are unreachable, returning incorrect DNS answers, or repeatedly restarting.
    • Checks report when DNS or the shared proxy is repeatedly restarting, making startup failures clearer.
    • Failed checks are marked pending only when the service is idle and the check permits it; other failures remain visible as errors.

…ad of "not started"

"Not started yet" was a fixed property of the DNS and proxy checks, so any failure of those layers exited 0, including a crash-looping container, an unreachable port behind a running container and a DNS server answering wrongly. The idle verdict now comes from the container's status: absent or stopped cleanly is idle, everything else is a real failure with its own hint.
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Proxy verification now uses Docker container status and restart counts to classify idle and crash-looping containers. Failed checks can be marked pending based on idle state. DNS and shared-proxy checks report specific errors for crash-looping containers.

Changes: Proxy verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Container state classification
internal/proxy/docker.go
New helpers inspect container status and restart count. Empty, created, and exited states are idle. restarting containers and running containers with prior restarts are crash-looping.
Verification results and tests
internal/proxy/verify.go, internal/proxy/verify_test.go
Failed checks determine pending status from an idle predicate and can use a separate idle hint. DNS and shared-proxy checks report specific errors for crash-looping containers. Tests cover state classification, pending-result behavior, and wrong DNS answers.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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Verification can show inconsistent guidance if a container changes state during a failed check. Resolve the duplicate inspections or accept this bounded risk before merging.

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145-148: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Use testify/assert for these assertions.

Replace the require assertions with assert assertions. Guard the results[len(results)-1] access when assert.Len fails. As per coding guidelines, “Use testify assert for test assertions (github.com/stretchr/testify/assert).”

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- Line 112: In runChecks, wrong DNS answers from checkDNSContainer must not be
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LGTM 👍

A DNS answer without the expected record means something else answers on the port, so the check is a real failure even while the container is not running. The idle rule now receives the failure and the DNS rule excludes the wrong-answer error.

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Lena Forlin (moshimorschi) merged commit a7776fe into main Oct 27, 2026
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