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feat(meta-14308): skip Hasura apply on start when nothing changed - #3932
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The cli-migrations entrypoint applies metadata, migrations and a metadata reload on every pod start. Each one bumps the metadata resource version, so every running replica rebuilds its schema cache and keeps the memory. With frequent pod moves (spot, Karpenter) pods climb to 1.1-1.6Gi. The image now records a checksum of its baked metadata and migrations in sequent_ops.hasura_apply_state after a successful apply, and skips all three steps when a start finds the same checksum. A changed image, a missing state row or an unreadable database falls back to the full apply. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ArH43djcQirMmTtSf8XJDE
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: skipping Hasura apply during startup when metadata and migrations are unchanged. Linked Issues check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Out of Scope Changes check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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5-5: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.Preserve a pre-existing
sequent_opsschema.
up.sqlusesCREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS, so this migration may not own the schema. If the schema contains another object, thisDROP SCHEMAblocks rollback. If it was already empty, rollback removes a schema that existed before the migration. Remove this statement, or drop the schema only when the migration can establish that it created it.hasura/docker/sequent-entrypoint.sh-22-22: 1
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Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.Include symlinked input files in the checksum.
If a metadata or migration file is a symlink to a target outside the directory,
find . -type fomits it. The upstream entrypoint preserves the symlink when it copies the directory for application. A changed target can therefore leaveCHECKSUMunchanged and cause startup to skip changed content. Hash the content used through supported symlinks, or reject symlinked inputs rather than recording an incomplete checksum. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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- Around line 12-13: Update the `METADATA_DIR` and `MIGRATIONS_DIR` default
expansions to apply fallback paths only when their corresponding environment
variables are unset, preserving empty values so startup matches the upstream
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| METADATA_DIR=${HASURA_GRAPHQL_METADATA_DIR:-/hasura-metadata} | ||
| MIGRATIONS_DIR=${HASURA_GRAPHQL_MIGRATIONS_DIR:-/hasura-migrations} |
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Match the upstream handling of empty directory variables.
When HASURA_GRAPHQL_MIGRATIONS_DIR is set to an empty string, :- hashes /hasura-migrations, but the pinned upstream entrypoint treats the variable as set and skips migration application. The recorder can then save a checksum for migrations it did not apply. If the variable is later unset, the checksum still matches and startup skips those migrations. The metadata variable has the same mismatch. Use defaults only when the variables are unset, not when they are empty. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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--- "a/hasura/docker/sequent-entrypoint.sh"
+++ "b/hasura/docker/sequent-entrypoint.sh"
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
set -uo pipefail
APPLY_STATE=sequent_ops.hasura_apply_state
-METADATA_DIR=${HASURA_GRAPHQL_METADATA_DIR:-/hasura-metadata}
-MIGRATIONS_DIR=${HASURA_GRAPHQL_MIGRATIONS_DIR:-/hasura-migrations}
+METADATA_DIR=${HASURA_GRAPHQL_METADATA_DIR-/hasura-metadata}
+MIGRATIONS_DIR=${HASURA_GRAPHQL_MIGRATIONS_DIR-/hasura-migrations}
log() {
printf '{"timestamp":"%s","level":"info","type":"startup","detail":{"kind":"sequent-apply-state","info":"%s"}}\n' \📝 Committable suggestion
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| METADATA_DIR=${HASURA_GRAPHQL_METADATA_DIR:-/hasura-metadata} | |
| MIGRATIONS_DIR=${HASURA_GRAPHQL_MIGRATIONS_DIR:-/hasura-migrations} | |
| METADATA_DIR=${HASURA_GRAPHQL_METADATA_DIR-/hasura-metadata} | |
| MIGRATIONS_DIR=${HASURA_GRAPHQL_MIGRATIONS_DIR-/hasura-migrations} |
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Review comment at @hasura/docker/sequent-entrypoint.sh around lines 12 - 13:
Update the `METADATA_DIR` and `MIGRATIONS_DIR` default expansions to apply
fallback paths only when their corresponding environment variables are unset,
preserving empty values so startup matches the upstream entrypoint behavior.
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Closing: we're keeping the native Hasura cli-migrations entrypoint and not adding custom code on top. Memory savings are small (~15 GiB of requests on prod4); the bigger cost item is the CPU request, which goes through gitops values instead. See https://github.com/sequentech/meta/issues/14308. |
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Parent issue: https://github.com/sequentech/meta/issues/14308
Problem
The Hasura image's cli-migrations entrypoint runs
metadata apply,migrate applyandmetadata reloadon every pod start. Each one bumps the metadata resource version, and every running replica then rebuilds its schema cache throughschema-syncand keeps that memory. On prod4, envs get 13–30 Hasura pod starts a day (spot reclaims, Karpenter consolidation), so pods climb to 1.1–1.6Gi of their 2Gi limit.The staging2 test on 2026-10-18 compared 10 restarts with the apply on and with it skipped (results):
Change
create_sequent_ops_hasura_apply_state: a one-row tablesequent_ops.hasura_apply_state(checksum, applied_at). It isn't tracked in Hasura metadata, so it isn't exposed through GraphQL.hasura/docker/sequent-entrypoint.sh(the new imageENTRYPOINT) hashes/hasura-metadata+/hasura-migrations:sequent-record-apply.shstores the checksum and starts the server.CMDand the gitopsargs(timestampedtee /tmp/hasura.logfor the liveness probe) are unchanged.hasura-cli metadata diffcan't be used for the "unchanged" check: right after a successful apply it still prints about 2,800 lines, because the server normalizes the metadata.migrate statusis reliable, but it only covers migrations.Behaviour change to be aware of: a metadata change made directly in a running env (console or API) is no longer reset by the next pod restart. It stays until the next image with different metadata is applied. Step metadata changes go through
hasura consoleinto git anyway.Tests
hasura/tests/entrypoint.test.sh(Docker, run from the repo root) builds the image, runs it against Postgres 15 and checks:Before the change, 5 of these failed (the resource version went 3 → 5 → 7 on plain restarts). I also ran it with the gitops
argson both paths: healthz OK, running as userhasura,/tmp/hasura.logwritten with the timestamp prefix.Cherry-picks: release/10.1, release/10.0, release/9.0 (linked PRs).
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