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Summary

Prevents independent local lifecycle commands from changing a live Intake ClickHouse data directory and leaving the service degraded hours later. Intake now holds a process-lifetime, cross-platform lease, functionally probes the spans table for every deployment mode, safely recovers stopped or permission-damaged managed containers, and never reports a completed probe ready after shutdown has begun. The Authentik compose test stack now supplies Intake with a network-reachable ClickHouse sidecar instead of relying on nested-Docker loopback.

Related Issue

Follow-up to #1386.

Changes

  • Hold a platform-native, data-directory-scoped filelock.FileLock lease for the lifetime of local Intake ClickHouse ownership; this uses OS-backed locks on POSIX and Windows without importing fcntl directly.
  • Reject competing reconcile, stop, remove, and repair operations that cannot safely acquire or prove ownership of the lease.
  • Retain both the lifecycle lease and the service's owning handle when container stop fails; release them only after a confirmed successful stop.
  • Reject reused handles whose lifecycle lease has already been released before any stop operation reaches Docker.
  • Stop ClickHouse before restoring host ownership and perform restoration in a disposable helper container.
  • Probe the real intake.spans read path with FINAL, serialize repair attempts, restart a stopped managed container, and repair permission-specific failures without restarting the platform.
  • Serialize managed ClickHouse recovery with Intake shutdown, revalidate lifecycle state after acquiring the shared lock, and recheck state before every successful readiness return.
  • Connect health probes through ClickHouse's built-in default database so a fresh, lazily created Intake schema reports ready without hiding failures once the table exists.
  • Require externally managed ClickHouse to pass the same functional readiness probe and report unready when inaccessible, without attempting lifecycle recovery that Intake does not own.
  • Add a healthy ClickHouse 26.3 sidecar to the Authentik compose stack and explicitly connect Intake through the internal compose network.
  • Add unit and Docker integration coverage for lease contention, cross-thread release, stopped-container recovery, permission repair, helper failure safety, readiness/shutdown overlaps, cold-start readiness, and schema-bootstrap isolation.

Type of Change

  • Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
  • Code change with documentation updates
  • Documentation only
  • Contributor tooling or automation
  • CI, build, or test infrastructure

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Documentation updated for user-visible behavior
  • Documentation not applicable — justification: the change hardens internal local lifecycle and readiness behavior without changing configuration or documented commands.

Verification

  • Pull request title follows the repository's Conventional Commit format
  • Every commit includes an appropriate Signed-off-by: trailer
  • uv run pre-commit run -a passes, or any blocked checks are identified below
  • Targeted tests pass, or tests are marked not applicable above
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials are included

Targeted validation:

  • flox activate -- uv run --frozen pytest services/intake/tests/test_local_clickhouse.py services/intake/tests/test_clickhouse_startup.py -q — 53 passed, including failed-stop lease retention, released-handle rejection, shutdown/recovery serialization, and successful-probe/shutdown overlap.
  • flox activate -- uv run --frozen pytest services/intake/tests --ignore=services/intake/tests/integration -q — 384 passed.
  • flox activate -- uv run --frozen pytest services/intake/tests/integration/test_local_clickhouse_provisioning.py services/intake/tests/integration/spans/test_clickhouse_bootstrap.py::test_intake_service_readiness_does_not_bootstrap_service_owned_clickhouse -q — 2 passed.
  • docker compose -f contrib/auth/authentik/compose/docker-compose.yml config --quiet — passed.
  • flox activate -- uv run --frozen pytest tests/auth_idp/static -q — 100 passed; 2 optional Envoy binary validations skipped because the corresponding local images were not installed.
  • contrib/auth/authentik/run.sh compose --image ghcr.io/nvidia-nemo/nemo-platform/nmp-api:9a2d64a503b297cb5c41e5dc67959b6f05330bfa — all 21 live Authentik compose contracts passed in 181.47 seconds with gateway readiness and no ClickHouse reconciliation/readiness failures.
  • flox activate -- uv run pre-commit run -a — all repository hooks passed, including Ruff, formatting, type checks, lock checks, UI lint-staged, and merge-conflict detection.
  • Real local fault injection: active-lease removal was rejected; forced root:root data ownership caused the expected ingest failure; the next readiness probe restored clickhouse:clickhouse ownership and HTTP 200 readiness; ingest then returned HTTP 201.
  • Real hard-kill recovery: ClickHouse remained running, the restarted platform reused the exact container ID, readiness returned HTTP 200, and the original canary remained readable.
  • Fresh-data regression: readiness returned HTTP 200 before the lazy Intake database existed, first ingest returned HTTP 201, and subsequent functional readiness remained HTTP 200.
  • Earlier-head soaks reached 40 passing five-minute probes over about 3 hours 15 minutes, 3 passing probes on fcb41dc1956ebded3c3228f0cc4c48ff77bba60a, and 7 passing probes on 9a2d64a503b297cb5c41e5dc67959b6f05330bfa, with 0 failures, restarts, repairs, or permission errors. Those exact-SHA results were invalidated by subsequent changes; a fresh 24-hour readiness, ingest, read-back, process, and container soak is running from current head da1977a2dcbeec20f90ba0707000d34afee5e2a3, with cycle 0 passing and 0 failures, restarts, repairs, or permission errors.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved local ClickHouse lifecycle management to prevent conflicting operations and protect active data.
    • Intake readiness now verifies functional database queries and reports unavailable instances accurately.
    • Automatically recovers managed local ClickHouse instances when they become unavailable.
    • Improved connection retargeting after local instance recovery.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for recovery, readiness checks, lifecycle protection, cleanup, and connection behavior.

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Local ClickHouse provisioning now returns leased handles. Intake readiness performs functional probes, recovers managed local containers, retargets clients, and preserves handles after failed shutdown. Package metadata updates dependencies and safe synthesizer entry points.

Changes

Local ClickHouse lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Leased provisioning and lifecycle APIs
services/intake/src/nmp/intake/local_clickhouse.py, services/intake/pyproject.toml
Provisioning returns LocalClickHouseHandle objects with exclusive data-directory leases. Stop, repair, recovery, and CLI flows use the handles.
Safe removal and ownership restoration
services/intake/src/nmp/intake/local_clickhouse.py, services/intake/tests/test_local_clickhouse.py
Removal stops containers before ownership restoration. Restoration uses a temporary root chown container. Tests cover lease contention, cleanup, recovery, repair, and failure handling.
Service readiness and recovery
services/intake/src/nmp/intake/service.py, services/intake/src/nmp/intake/spans/clickhouse_client.py, services/intake/tests/*
Readiness executes functional spans-table queries and distinguishes external failures from missing lazy schemas. Managed local recovery is serialized, refreshes mapped URLs, and retargets clients. Tests cover readiness, recovery, transient clients, and retargeting.

Package dependencies and entry points

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dependency and entry-point metadata
services/intake/pyproject.toml, packages/nemo_platform/pyproject.toml
The package metadata adds filelock, removes the safe-synthesizer CLI entry point, and adds the safe-synthesizer.generate jobs entry point.

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services/intake/tests/conftest.py (1)

25-26: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add a concrete return type hint to the client fixture.

The fixture yields a TestClient. Annotate it as Iterator[TestClient] with a regular import.

♻️ Type hint
+from collections.abc import Iterator
+
 `@pytest.fixture`
-def client(healthy_clickhouse_readiness: AsyncMock):
+def client(healthy_clickhouse_readiness: AsyncMock) -> Iterator[TestClient]:

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165-168: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider a cheaper readiness query and connection reuse.

Each probe opens a new ClickHouse connection (query_without_bootstrap creates a transient client) and runs FINAL against spans. FINAL triggers merge-on-read; on a large ReplacingMergeTree this cost grows with part count, and probes run on a fixed interval. SELECT 1 FROM {table} LIMIT 1 proves table readability without the merge path.

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In `@services/intake/src/nmp/intake/service.py` around lines 165 - 168, Update the
readiness probe around query_without_bootstrap to use SELECT 1 FROM the
qualified spans table with LIMIT 1, removing FINAL. Reuse the existing
ClickHouse connection or client path for this probe instead of creating a
transient connection on each check.
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Inline comments:
In `@services/intake/src/nmp/intake/local_clickhouse.py`:
- Around line 194-212: Update stop_local_clickhouse so handle.release() runs
only after _stop_local_clickhouse completes successfully; preserve the lease
when that stop operation raises, while retaining the existing handle/data_dir
validation and return behavior.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@services/intake/src/nmp/intake/service.py`:
- Around line 165-168: Update the readiness probe around query_without_bootstrap
to use SELECT 1 FROM the qualified spans table with LIMIT 1, removing FINAL.
Reuse the existing ClickHouse connection or client path for this probe instead
of creating a transient connection on each check.

In `@services/intake/tests/conftest.py`:
- Around line 25-26: Update the client fixture to declare an
Iterator[TestClient] return type, adding a regular runtime import for Iterator
and TestClient as needed; do not use string annotations or TYPE_CHECKING-only
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services/intake/src/nmp/intake/service.py (1)

180-190: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Serialize ClickHouse recovery with shutdown.

is_ready() captures self._local_clickhouse before waiting on _recovery_lock, but on_shutdown() does not use that lock. A probe can call recover_local_clickhouse() while shutdown is closing the client or stopping the same container. Use one lifecycle lock for shutdown and recovery. Recheck _ready and handle is self._local_clickhouse after acquiring the lock. Add a regression test for this overlap.

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In `@services/intake/src/nmp/intake/service.py` around lines 180 - 190, The
ClickHouse recovery path in is_ready must be serialized with shutdown. Make
on_shutdown use the same _recovery_lock, then recheck _ready and confirm the
captured handle is still self._local_clickhouse after acquiring the lock before
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In `@services/intake/src/nmp/intake/local_clickhouse.py`:
- Around line 205-209: Validate that the handle’s lease is active before
invoking _stop_local_clickhouse in the stopping flow, and reject released
handles without attempting the stop. Preserve lease ownership checks for active
handles and the existing data_dir and lease arguments.

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In `@services/intake/src/nmp/intake/service.py`:
- Around line 180-190: The ClickHouse recovery path in is_ready must be
serialized with shutdown. Make on_shutdown use the same _recovery_lock, then
recheck _ready and confirm the captured handle is still self._local_clickhouse
after acquiring the lock before querying or calling recover_local_clickhouse;
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- Around line 169-170: Update the successful probe path in the readiness check
around client.query_without_bootstrap and its return at line 201 to revalidate
lifecycle state before returning true: require _ready to remain true and the
probed client to still be self.clickhouse_client. Add a test covering shutdown
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