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Summary

spin-up.yml was the only lifecycle workflow without a concurrency group, so two spin-ups, or a spin-up and a teardown, could work on the same server at once. A double click in the Control Plane was enough.

A dispatched spin-up now queues in the infrastructure group with cancel-in-progress: false, like the other six lifecycle workflows.

The deadlock it avoids

initial-setup.yaml and spin-up-snapshot.yml call spin-up.yml while they already hold infrastructure. A called workflow that joins its caller's group deadlocks, and GitHub cancels the run. So the group is chosen by an input that exists only under workflow_call:

caller_holds_infrastructure_lock:   # workflow_call only, default false
concurrency:
  group: ${{ inputs.caller_holds_infrastructure_lock && format('spin-up-called-{0}', github.run_id) || 'infrastructure' }}
  cancel-in-progress: false
  • Both callers pass true, so a call gets a per-run group and relies on its caller's lock.
  • A caller that omits the input fails closed: it queues in infrastructure, or deadlocks visibly if it holds the group itself. (Changed from default true after Sourcery's review.)
  • On a dispatch the input does not exist, so a dispatch always takes the lock.

Changes

  • .github/workflows/spin-up.yml: the input and the concurrency block.
  • initial-setup.yaml, spin-up-snapshot.yml: pass caller_holds_infrastructure_lock: true.
  • tests/unit/test_lifecycle_concurrency.py (new):
    • pins the group of all seven lifecycle workflows;
    • evaluates the spin-up expression for a dispatch and for a call;
    • checks that every caller holds infrastructure and passes the input as true.
  • Comments that said spin-up.yml has no lock now say it had none before fix(ci): spin-up.yml has no concurrency group #801. The race defences they explain stay. Affected files:
    • services.py, test_services.py
    • the Control Plane's dispatch-marker.js, StacksShared.astro and index.astro
    • update-from-upstream.yml
    • docs/stacks/neo4j.md
  • docs/concepts/lifecycle.md: a new section, "One lifecycle run at a time". It also states GitHub's rule that a group keeps at most one waiting run, so a third dispatch cancels the waiting one.

Tests

  • 4043 unit tests pass, and all pre-commit hooks including actionlint are green.
  • Six mutations each fail a test:
    • a static group
    • the input defaulting to true
    • cancel-in-progress: true
    • the input added to the dispatch form
    • a caller omitting the input
    • a caller passing false
  • Not run on GitHub yet. To check the dispatch path, dispatch twice in a row; the second run must show Waiting until the first finishes:
    gh workflow run spin-up.yml --ref fix/spin-up-concurrency
  • The called path (Initial Setup, snapshot spin-up) is covered only by the unit tests. If it were wrong, GitHub would cancel the run with a deadlock message rather than leave it hanging.

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Closes #801

Summary by Sourcery

Serialize dispatched spin-ups with the infrastructure lifecycle workflows while preserving deadlock-free nested workflow calls and correctly tracking waiting runs.

Bug Fixes:

  • Serialize dispatched spin-up runs with all other infrastructure lifecycle workflows to prevent overlapping server changes.
  • Treat pending concurrency-blocked workflow runs as active in the Control Plane and scheduled infrastructure checks.

Enhancements:

  • Support safe workflow-call reuse by assigning called spin-ups a per-run concurrency group when the caller already holds the infrastructure lock.
  • Document lifecycle concurrency behavior, including replacement of waiting runs, and add coverage validating workflow groups, caller configuration, and pending-run handling.

Documentation:

  • Document that server-changing lifecycle workflows run one at a time and explain the exception for nested spin-up calls.

Tests:

  • Add unit tests covering lifecycle concurrency configuration, dispatch and workflow-call group selection, caller lock requirements, and pending-run detection.

Chores:

  • Update stale concurrency-related comments and operational explanations to reflect serialized spin-ups.

spin-up.yml was the only lifecycle workflow without a concurrency group,
so two spin-ups, or a spin-up and a teardown, could work on the same
server at once (#801).

A dispatched spin-up now joins the `infrastructure` group with
cancel-in-progress false, like the other six. It cannot simply declare
that group: initial-setup.yaml and spin-up-snapshot.yml call it while
holding the same group, and a called workflow joining its caller's group
is a deadlock. A new workflow_call-only input,
caller_holds_infrastructure_lock (default true), picks a per-run group
for calls instead. Callers pass nothing; a dispatch, where the input does
not exist, always takes the lock.

tests/unit/test_lifecycle_concurrency.py pins the group of all seven
workflows, evaluates the spin-up expression for both a dispatch and a
call, and checks that every caller holds the lock and does not override
the input. Five mutations (static group, default false, cancel true,
input on the dispatch form, a caller passing false) each fail a test.

Comments in services.py, the Control Plane and update-from-upstream.yml
that said spin-up.yml has no lock now say it had none before #801; the
race defences they explain stay. docs/concepts/lifecycle.md explains the
queue, including GitHub's rule that a third dispatch cancels the waiting
run.

Closes #801
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This PR closes the spin-up concurrency gap by queueing dispatched spin-ups behind every other lifecycle run, while using a per-run group for reusable calls whose parent workflows already hold the infrastructure lock. Documentation, explanatory comments, and regression tests are updated to preserve the intended serialization and prevent deadlock-prone configuration changes.

Sequence diagram for serialized lifecycle dispatch

sequenceDiagram
    actor Operator
    participant GitHub as GitHub Actions
    participant Infrastructure as infrastructure group
    participant SpinUp as spin-up.yml
    participant Server

    Operator->>GitHub: workflow_dispatch spin-up.yml
    GitHub->>Infrastructure: Request concurrency slot
    alt slot available
        Infrastructure->>SpinUp: Start run
        SpinUp->>Server: Provision server
    else another lifecycle run active
        Infrastructure-->>GitHub: Queue run
        Infrastructure->>SpinUp: Start after active run finishes
        SpinUp->>Server: Provision server
    end
    Note over Infrastructure: cancel-in-progress: false
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Sequence diagram for reusable spin-up workflow call

sequenceDiagram
    participant Caller as Initial Setup or snapshot spin-up
    participant Infrastructure as infrastructure group
    participant SpinUp as spin-up.yml
    participant Server

    Caller->>Infrastructure: Acquire infrastructure lock
    Caller->>SpinUp: workflow_call
    SpinUp->>SpinUp: Select per-run group using caller_holds_infrastructure_lock
    SpinUp->>Server: Provision server
    SpinUp-->>Caller: Return result
    Caller->>Infrastructure: Release infrastructure lock
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File-Level Changes

Change Details Files
Serialize dispatched spin-ups with all other server-mutating lifecycle workflows while avoiding concurrency deadlocks for reusable workflow callers.
  • Added a workflow-call-only boolean input to distinguish called and dispatched executions.
  • Assigned dispatched runs to the non-cancelling infrastructure group and called runs to a per-run group.
  • Documented the lock behavior, GitHub’s single-waiting-run limitation, and updated stale race-condition comments.
.github/workflows/spin-up.yml
docs/concepts/lifecycle.md
docs/stacks/neo4j.md
src/nexus_deploy/services.py
control-plane/functions/api/_utils/dispatch-marker.js
control-plane/src/components/StacksShared.astro
control-plane/src/pages/index.astro
tests/unit/test_services.py
Added regression tests that pin lifecycle concurrency configuration and validate both reusable-workflow and dispatch paths.
  • Verified all seven lifecycle workflows use the infrastructure group with cancel-in-progress: false.
  • Evaluated the spin-up concurrency expression for dispatches and calls, including its default input behavior.
  • Verified both callers hold the infrastructure lock and do not pass the deadlock-inducing input.
tests/unit/test_lifecycle_concurrency.py

Assessment against linked issues

Issue Objective Addressed Explanation
#801 Prevent dispatched spin-up runs from overlapping with other infrastructure lifecycle workflows by placing them in the shared infrastructure concurrency group. ✅
#801 Avoid deadlocks when spin-up.yml is called by workflows that already hold the infrastructure group, while still ensuring those called spin-ups are serialized by their callers. ✅
#801 Queue rather than cancel an in-progress spin-up by setting cancel-in-progress: false. ✅

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Walkthrough

The spin-up workflow now uses the shared infrastructure concurrency group for dispatched runs and a run-specific group for called runs. Tests validate the workflow configuration and its callers. Documentation and comments describe the concurrency behavior.

Changes: Lifecycle concurrency

Layer / File(s) Summary
Spin-up concurrency configuration
.github/workflows/spin-up.yml, .github/workflows/update-from-upstream.yml
Dispatched spin-up.yml runs use the infrastructure group. Called runs default to a run-specific group. The upstream workflow comment now includes dispatched spin-ups among workflows using the shared group.
Concurrency tests
tests/unit/test_lifecycle_concurrency.py
New tests check lifecycle workflow groups, dispatch and call behavior, and whether the two callers hold the shared lock.
Concurrency documentation and comments
docs/concepts/lifecycle.md, docs/stacks/neo4j.md, control-plane/..., src/nexus_deploy/services.py, tests/unit/test_services.py
Lifecycle documentation describes shared-group queue behavior. Comments in the control plane, services, and tests now describe concurrent spin-ups as possible before the concurrency group was added. Runtime code in these comment-only changes is unchanged.

Priority: Pending latest changes

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 82cd1

Serializing spin-ups is the right change, but queued spin-ups interact badly with the Control Plane status display, the upstream update's state check, and waiting teardowns. A pending spin-up can be missed in the UI, an update can fail unnecessarily, and a requested teardown can be dropped. Resolve or explicitly accept these before merging.

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Title check Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: dispatched spin-up runs now queue behind other lifecycle runs through CI concurrency handling.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #801 requires serialized spin-up operations, the infrastructure group, and cancel-in-progress: false. .github/workflows/spin-up.yml uses infrastructure when dispatched and sets `cancel-i…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed comments, lifecycle documentation, and service-test descriptions update behavior statements that became obsolete after issue #801. The new concurrency tests verify the implementation and c…
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Issue #801 requires serialized spin-up operations, the infrastructure group, and cancel-in-progress: false. .github/workflows/spin-up.yml uses infrastructure when dispatched and sets cancel-in-progress: false. Its workflow_call path uses a run-specific group because initial-setup.yaml and spin-up-snapshot.yml already hold infrastructure; this preserves serialization without a reusable-workflow deadlock. tests/unit/test_lifecycle_concurrency.py verifies both paths, all seven lifecycle groups, and both callers.

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The changed comments, lifecycle documentation, and service-test descriptions update behavior statements that became obsolete after issue #801. The new concurrency tests verify the implementation and caller safety. No unrelated executable behavior is changed.

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## Individual Comments

### Comment 1
<location path=".github/workflows/spin-up.yml" line_range="127" />
<code_context>
+# passing anything, and a dispatch, where it is absent, always takes the
+# lock.
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ inputs.caller_holds_infrastructure_lock && format('spin-up-called-{0}', github.run_id) || 'infrastructure' }}
+  cancel-in-progress: false

</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Old runs bypass the lock**

When the change is deployed while a pre-change lifecycle run is still active, an already-running spin-up started from the pre-change workflow has no concurrency group, so a newly dispatched run enters `infrastructure` without waiting for it and both can modify the server at once.

Drain or cancel existing lifecycle runs before enabling the new lock, and document that cutover step for operators.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 2
<location path=".github/workflows/spin-up.yml" line_range="110" />
<code_context>
+        description: 'The calling workflow already holds the infrastructure concurrency group. Leave at the default; see the concurrency block.'
+        required: false
+        default: true
+        type: boolean

 permissions:
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Reusable calls bypass the shared lock**

When a workflow calls `spin-up.yml` through `workflow_call` without holding the `infrastructure` group and omits this input, `caller_holds_infrastructure_lock` defaults to true, so the concurrency expression selects a per-run group instead of `infrastructure`; an uncoordinated reusable-workflow caller can then provision alongside a teardown or dispatched spin-up, and both mutate the same server.

Default the input to false and have the two callers that already hold `infrastructure` explicitly pass true.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 3
<location path=".github/workflows/spin-up.yml" line_range="127-128" />
<code_context>
+# passing anything, and a dispatch, where it is absent, always takes the
+# lock.
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ inputs.caller_holds_infrastructure_lock && format('spin-up-called-{0}', github.run_id) || 'infrastructure' }}
+  cancel-in-progress: false

 jobs:
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Pending teardown gets canceled**

When a lifecycle run is active, a teardown is waiting, and another spin-up is dispatched before the teardown starts, gitHub replaces or cancels the pending teardown when the spin-up enters the `infrastructure` group, so the teardown never runs and the server remains up.

Use a concurrency strategy that preserves the pending teardown or rejects a new run instead of replacing it.

Also at `docs/concepts/lifecycle.md:143-144`.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 4
<location path="docs/concepts/lifecycle.md" line_range="137-139" />
<code_context>

+## One lifecycle run at a time
+
+Every workflow that changes the server — Initial Setup, both spin-ups, both
+teardowns, Destroy All and the upstream update — shares one GitHub Actions
+concurrency group, `infrastructure`. A run dispatched while another is in progress
+waits for it instead of working on the same server at the same time.
+
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Called spin-up misstates its concurrency group**

When the section describes the concurrency group used by a called spin-up workflow, the section says both spin-ups share the `infrastructure` group, but a called `spin-up.yml` run uses `spin-up-called-{run_id}`; its caller holds `infrastructure` instead. The documentation therefore misstates the called workflow’s concurrency behavior.

Clarify that dispatched spin-ups use `infrastructure`, while called spin-ups use a per-run group and rely on their caller’s `infrastructure` lock.
</issue_to_address>

Sourcery assessment

Needs a human reviewer. 4 findings to address first, and a later dispatched spin-up can replace a teardown that is waiting in the shared concurrency group, so the teardown may never run and the server can remain up. Reverting cannot restore that canceled run, but the teardown can be dispatched again.

Blocking findings: .github/workflows/spin-up.yml:127, .github/workflows/spin-up.yml:110, .github/workflows/spin-up.yml:128, docs/concepts/lifecycle.md:139


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Comment thread .github/workflows/spin-up.yml
Comment thread docs/concepts/lifecycle.md
From Sourcery's review of #935.

Fixed: caller_holds_infrastructure_lock defaulted to true, so a future
workflow that called spin-up.yml without holding `infrastructure` and
without passing the input would have run unlocked beside a teardown. It
now defaults to false and both callers, initial-setup.yaml and
spin-up-snapshot.yml, pass true. A caller that forgets it fails closed:
it queues in `infrastructure`, or deadlocks visibly if it holds the
group itself. Tests follow; six mutations (static group, default true,
cancel true, input on the dispatch form, a caller omitting it, a caller
passing false) each fail one.

Fixed: lifecycle.md said both spin-ups share `infrastructure`. A called
spin-up uses a per-run group and relies on its caller; the section now
says so.

Not changed: runs started before this lands have no group and are not
waited for. That is a one-time window that only exists while a
lifecycle run is in flight during the merge; merging while nothing runs
closes it, and no code can lock a run that is already executing.

Not changed: GitHub cancels a waiting run when a newer one enters the
same group. No concurrency setting keeps two pending runs, and the
alternative to queueing is the overlap #801 is about. The Control Plane
already refuses new dispatches and toggles while a run is in progress
(runLocked in StacksShared.astro), and lifecycle.md documents the rule.

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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control-plane/functions/api/_utils/dispatch-marker.js-10-12: 1

10-12: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

⚠️ Unverified finding
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Correct the #801 attribution.

Issue #801 identified the missing lock and requested this change. It did not add the concurrency group; PR #935 adds it. Replace #801 gave... with this concurrency change or PR #935. Apply the same correction to the matching comments and test docstrings in this cohort.

docs/concepts/lifecycle.md-137-140: 1

137-140: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

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Document the reusable-workflow lock exception.

spin-up.yml uses infrastructure for dispatches, but workflow calls use a run-specific group and rely on initial-setup.yaml or spin-up-snapshot.yml holding infrastructure. The current sentence says that every spin-up joins infrastructure. State both paths so maintainers do not add a caller without the required lock.


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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/workflows/spin-up.yml:
- Line 127: Update the concurrency group expression in `spin-up.yml` so runs
waiting behind an active update can be distinguished from spin-up runs that may
overlap it. Preserve the infrastructure lock for runs that can overlap, and
ensure a queued run is not treated as active by the update’s busy check.
- Around line 127-128: Update the active-run status checks in the Control Plane
status handler and the worker’s `runningWorkflow` lookup to also recognize
`pending`, alongside `in_progress` and `queued`. Ensure both paths treat a
pending spin-up run as active and do not dispatch teardown while it is waiting.
- Around line 127-128: Update the concurrency block using the infrastructure
group to set queue to max while keeping cancel-in-progress false, and apply this
to each workflow using that group. Revise the lifecycle documentation note so it
no longer describes queued teardown cancellation as expected behavior.

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From CodeRabbit's review of #935.

Fixed: a run waiting on the `infrastructure` group has status `pending`,
which neither status.js nor the scheduled-teardown worker counted as
active; both checked only `in_progress` and `queued`. With the lock this
PR adds, a spin-up waiting behind a teardown would have re-enabled the
dashboard's Spin Up button (and a second click cancels the waiting run),
and the worker would have taken its state from the older completed
teardown and skipped the scheduled teardown as "not deployed". Both now
treat every status other than `completed` as active, which is what
lifecycle-state.sh already does. Pinned in test_lifecycle_concurrency.py.

Corrected: lifecycle.md and an earlier review reply said no setting keeps
more than one waiting run. GitHub's `queue: max` does. It is not used
here because the pinned actionlint rejects the key, and the Forgejo
runner's support for it is unchecked; lifecycle.md now says so.

Not changed: update-from-upstream refusing while a spin-up waits behind
it. lifecycle-state.sh counts any non-completed run as busy. That waiting
spin-up was dispatched against the old main and would deploy the old
commit after the update, so refusing is the safer answer.

Not changed: comments saying "before #801" for the lock this PR adds.
#801 is the issue the lock closes; the shorthand points a reader at the
discussion, which a PR number would not.
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#938)

## Summary

A rebuild teardown's snapshot runs in this order:

1. dump the databases;
2. stop the stacks in the stop list;
3. upload and verify;
4. point `latest` at the new snapshot.

A run that failed between steps 2 and 3 left those stacks stopped. The
retry then went wrong at each step:
- The dump step skipped every stopped database as "stack not deployed".
- The upload still verified, and `latest` moved to a snapshot without
those dumps.
- The server was destroyed.

The next spin-up restored empty databases. A retry comes either from an
operator pressing Teardown again, or from the scheduled-teardown worker,
which reads a failed teardown as `deployed`.

This nearly happened during #936's rehearsal: a runner's SSH session
dropped mid-upload. Details are in #937.

## Change

`render_snapshot_script` (`src/nexus_deploy/s3_persistence.py`) gains
two phases before the dumps:

1. **Start what an earlier attempt stopped.** Every stop-list stack
whose compose file is on disk and that has containers is started with
`docker compose start`. A stack that was never deployed has no
containers and stays absent.
2. **Wait for the databases.** Each running database gets up to 60s to
pass `pg_isready`.

Two cases fail the snapshot instead of continuing:
- A failing `docker compose ps`. Read as "no containers", it would bring
back exactly the silent skip this fixes. Status and output are kept
apart, as in the existing stop step.
- A database that never becomes ready.

`docs/admin-guides/troubleshooting.md` gains a section, "A rebuild
teardown fails during the snapshot".

## Tests

- 4068 unit tests pass.
- The phase-order test now places start and readiness before the dump.
- The new phase is executed against a stub `docker` in four cases:
  - a stopped stack is started and waited for;
  - an undeployed stack is left alone;
  - a failing listing fails the run;
  - a database that never becomes ready fails the run.
- Four mutations each fail a test: no start, `ps` failure ignored, no
wait, unready ignored.

**Run on the server.** The state a dropped connection leaves was
reproduced:
1. Forgejo (with `forgejo-db`) and Marimo were stopped by hand with
`docker compose stop`. Forgejo held 2 repositories.
2. Teardown run 40719502700 logged `starting stacks an earlier attempt
stopped`, then `waiting for running databases`, with no `skip` line for
`forgejo-db` or `kestra-postgres`. It verified the workdir, Forgejo,
Marimo and Kestra storage, and set snapshot `20261028T154802Z`.
3. Spin-up run 40721064483 restored that snapshot. Forgejo's database
has its 2 repositories, and `probe_marimo.py` is back.

The teardown ran at `be16043d`, before the review fixes in `9a651972`
(stopped-database refusal, snapshot lock, probe bound). Those are
covered by executed unit tests, not by this run.

## Local CodeRabbit round

Reviewed `5da923f1`: 1 finding, fixed in `dea67bc7`. The troubleshooting
section named Kestra as a stopped stack before #936 had added it to the
stop list. It now points at `_STANDARD_STOP_COMPOSE_FILES` instead of
restating the list.

The branch carries a merge commit from `main`, because #935 and #936
changed the same test file. The merge resolution was not locally
reviewed.

Closes #937

## Summary by Sourcery

Make failed teardown snapshot retries restore stopped stacks safely and
refuse to publish incomplete snapshots.

Bug Fixes:
- Ensure retries of failed teardown snapshots restart previously stopped
stacks and capture their databases instead of silently omitting them.
- Fail snapshots when container discovery fails, databases remain
unready, or an existing database container is stopped.
- Prevent concurrent snapshot attempts from racing over shared state and
the latest snapshot pointer.

Enhancements:
- Add readiness checks for running PostgreSQL databases before dumping
persistent state.

Documentation:
- Document recovery steps for rebuild teardowns that fail during
snapshot creation.

Tests:
- Expand snapshot tests to cover restart, readiness, failure handling,
database dumping, and snapshot locking scenarios.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Rebuild snapshots now restart previously stopped stacks and wait for
their databases to become ready before dumping data. Snapshot creation
stops with an error if a stack cannot be listed or a database does not
become ready.
* Added troubleshooting guidance for recovering from a failed snapshot
teardown.

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##
[0.86.0](v0.85.0...v0.86.0)
(2026-10-29)


### 🚀 Features

* **stacks:** Add DuckDB 2.0 as a server over the Quack protocol
([#925](#925))
([edec321](edec321))
* **stacks:** Introduce stack tiers (core / proven / best-effort) and
pin every core and proven image
([#940](#940))
([4590a46](4590a46))


### 🐛 Bug Fixes

* **ci:** Queue a dispatched spin-up behind every other lifecycle run
([#935](#935))
([ad80987](ad80987))
* **deploy:** Back up Kestra's database and storage across a rebuild
teardown ([#936](#936))
([7231f73](7231f73))
* **deploy:** Back up notebook work and never restore over a live host
([#930](#930))
([5ca38da](5ca38da))
* **deploy:** Restore a database whose stack is enabled on a running
server ([#939](#939))
([8ecaebb](8ecaebb))
* **deploy:** Start what a failed teardown stopped before dumping again
([#938](#938))
([2bbc33c](2bbc33c))
* **scripts:** Skip rclone's post-upload HEAD that R2 answers with 501
([#929](#929))
([83dfc7f](83dfc7f))

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