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[fix] Improved Celery worker shutdown handling #694 - #698

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Fixes #694

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Run Celery workers under Supervisor so Docker stop signals trigger a graceful worker shutdown and allow sufficient time for in-progress tasks.

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1073-1073: Test active-task completion during Docker shutdown.

This test restarts the service and checks logs. It does not start an in-progress task or verify that Docker shutdown lets the task finish before the grace period ends.

This concern duplicates the previous review comment.

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Celery services now generate Supervisor worker configurations and run supervisord as PID 1. Docker Compose allows 120 seconds for shutdown. The runtime image includes the Supervisor configuration. celerybeat uses exec. Tests verify worker restarts, graceful shutdown logs, Supervisor settings, worker options, and feature-flag filtering.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DockerCompose
  participant init_command_sh
  participant supervisord
  participant CeleryWorker
  DockerCompose->>init_command_sh: start Celery service
  init_command_sh->>supervisord: generate worker configuration and exec supervisord --nodaemon
  supervisord->>CeleryWorker: start configured workers
  DockerCompose->>supervisord: send shutdown signal
  supervisord->>CeleryWorker: forward shutdown signal
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 340d8

Long-running tasks can be interrupted during a planned container stop and may require redelivery, so the shutdown budget should be resolved before merging.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The pull request adds docker-compose.override.yml to .gitignore. Issue #694 concerns Celery supervision, signal delivery, and graceful shutdown. The ignore rule has no demonstrated coding dependen… Remove the docker-compose.override.yml entry from .gitignore, or provide a direct coding dependency between that entry and the Issue #694 implementation.
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Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required checklist, issue reference, change summary, and screenshot. It marks documentation as not applicable and confirms manual testing and test coverage.
Title check ✅ Passed The title uses the required [fix] prefix and clearly describes the Celery worker shutdown change. It also references issue #694.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The pull request meets Issue #694. init_command.sh removes detached worker launches and runs supervisord --nodaemon as PID 1. The generated Supervisor entries use stopsignal=TERM, process-group …
Ui Changes, Regression Test, Docs ✅ Passed The PR changes Docker/Supervisor startup and shutdown handling, not the end-user UI. No UI-like paths changed, so before/after screenshots are not required. The PR adds regression coverage in `tests/r…
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The pull request adds docker-compose.override.yml to .gitignore. Issue #694 concerns Celery supervision, signal delivery, and graceful shutdown. The ignore rule has no demonstrated coding dependency on that implementation. The Supervisor files, startup changes, Compose grace period, and related tests are in scope.

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In `@images/common/celery_supervisor.sh`:
- Around line 1-20: Update add_celery_worker so generated Supervisor worker
configurations use stopwaitsecs=120 instead of 90, and update the focused
assertion that currently expects 90 to expect 120.

In `@images/common/celery_supervisord.conf`:
- Line 2: Align the Supervisor configuration entries with the contract asserted
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if the current layout is intended. Update the focused tests to cover the
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In `@tests/runtests.py`:
- Around line 1003-1005: Extend the tests in runtests.py with a worker-isolation
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[warning] 79-79: In POSIX sh, 'source' in place of '.' is undefined.

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[warning] 85-85: In POSIX sh, == in place of = is undefined.

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78-78: LGTM!

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pandafy force-pushed the issues/694-celery-containers branch from cfaa6c2 to b03416a Compare September 18, 2026 13:05
Run Celery workers under Supervisor so Docker stop signals trigger a
graceful worker shutdown and allow sufficient time for in-progress tasks.

Fixes #694
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In `@tests/runtests.py`:
- Around line 1026-1027: Update the worker-status polling loop around
status.exit_code so it breaks only when every required worker has reached
RUNNING, not merely when supervisorctl returns success; continue polling for
STARTING and retry until the existing terminal failure states are reported.
- Around line 1005-1010: Update the test around the supervisorctl invocation to
terminate workers:network rather than explicitly restarting it, then poll until
its PID differs from the original and its status is RUNNING. Preserve the
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[warning] 79-79: In POSIX sh, 'source' in place of '.' is undefined.

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[info] 96-96: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.

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images/common/celery_supervisor.sh

[warning] 4-4: In POSIX sh, 'local' is undefined.

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[info] 4-4: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.

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[warning] 5-5: In POSIX sh, 'local' is undefined.

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@nemesifier, yes. Three CodeRabbit threads remain unresolved:

  1. images/common/celery_supervisor.sh: Set stopwaitsecs=120 to match the Compose stop_grace_period: 120s. The current 90-second Supervisor timeout can send SIGKILL before Docker's grace period ends.

  2. tests/runtests.py: Add a test for the Docker stop path. It must start an in-progress task, stop the celery service through Docker Compose, and verify task completion plus warm shutdown.

  3. tests/runtests.py: Change the worker recovery test to terminate workers:network and verify that Supervisor automatically starts a replacement worker with a new PID and RUNNING status.

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@nemesifier Yes. The current test already handles item 3.

test_celery_workers_can_restart_individually terminates workers:network with supervisorctl signal TERM on Line 1031. It then polls for workers:network to return to RUNNING with a different PID on Lines 1001–1013. It also verifies that workers:celery keeps its original PID.

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Proposed change log entry:

[fix] Improved Celery worker shutdown handling #694

Run Celery workers under Supervisor so Docker stop signals trigger a
graceful worker shutdown and allow sufficient time for in-progress
tasks.

Fixes #694

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