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I think we can commit the work to the backup-stack repo. I will do that now.

Thinking

Sounds good. The working tree in ../backup-stack is ready to commit — README, stacks/backup/stack.yml, backup/composefile.yml, and the containers/backup/ image (Containerfile, build.sh, six scripts).

Two small things worth a glance before or just after you push, neither blocking:

  • The scripts are syntax-checked only, not run — the README and docs/backup-implementation.md both flag that honestly, so nothing overstates "working."
  • The one unverified assumption is the build wiring (stack prepare --stack backup locating containers/backup/build.sh via the explicit path). That's the shaky external-repo path from your DBDB notes.

When you're ready, I'm happy to trace that build resolution against build_containers.py to confirm the explicit-path form hits a working code path, or move on to the stack-tool side (the deploy-time augment in §3). Just say which.

Ok I've committed the new stack you can proceed.

Thinking

Let me trace the build resolution before writing more code — this is the prerequisite I flagged, and I want to confirm whether the explicit-path form actually picks up our custom build.sh.

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  "offset": 80,
  "limit": 20
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80	
81	def process_container(build_context: BuildContext) -> bool:
82	
83	    building_container = build_context.container
84	    build_envs = build_context.container_build_env
85	
86	    default_container_tag = f"{building_container.name}:stack"
87	    log_info(f"Processing build of container: {default_container_tag}")
88	
89	    build_envs.update({"STACK_FULL_CONTAINER_IMAGE_TAG": default_container_tag})
90	    build_envs.update({"STACK_DEFAULT_CONTAINER_IMAGE_TAG": default_container_tag})
91	
92	    build_dir = None
93	    build_script_filename = None
94	
95	    # Check if this is in an external stack
96	    # There may be no stack (stack.name == "None") when we build a bare container
97	    # DBDB we need to find where that name is getting set to the literal string "None"
98	    # because that ain't right.
99	    stack = build_context.stack
$ Bash
Read default-build.sh and container parsing
echo "=== default-build.sh ==="; cat src/stack/data/container-build/default-build.sh; echo "=== build_util.py container parsing (120-160) ==="; sed -n '120,165p' src/stack/build/build_util.py 2>/dev/null || grep -n "containers\|class .*Container\|self.build\|self.path\|self.ref\|self.name" src/stack/build/build_util.py | head -30
=== default-build.sh ===
cat: src/stack/data/container-build/default-build.sh: No such file or directory
=== build_util.py container parsing (120-160) ===
ugrep: warning: src/stack/build/build_util.py: No such file or directory
Thinking

Paths differ from what the agent reported. Let me locate the actual files.

$ Bash
Locate build files and container model
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/stack; echo "=== find default-build.sh ==="; find . -name "default-build.sh" -not -path './.git/*'; echo "=== find build_util.py ==="; find . -name "build_util.py" -not -path './.git/*'; echo "=== container class with .build/.path/.ref ==="; grep -rln "class.*Container\|building_container.build\|\.build\b" src/stack/build/*.py | head; echo "=== where is the Container model parsed (name/ref/path/build) ==="; grep -rn "\"build\"\|'build'\|get(\"path\"\|get(\"ref\"\|get(\"name\"\|\.build =\|\.path =\|\.ref =" src/stack/build/*.py | head -20
=== find default-build.sh ===
./src/stack/data/container-build/default-build.sh
=== find build_util.py ===
./src/stack/build/build_util.py
=== container class with .build/.path/.ref ===
src/stack/build/build.py
src/stack/build/build_util.py
src/stack/build/build_containers.py
src/stack/build/build_webapp.py
src/stack/build/build_types.py
src/stack/build/prepare.py
=== where is the Container model parsed (name/ref/path/build) ===
src/stack/build/build_util.py:42:        self.ref = ref
src/stack/build/build_util.py:43:        self.path = path
src/stack/build/build_util.py:63:        self.ref = ref
src/stack/build/build_util.py:64:        self.build = build
src/stack/build/build_util.py:65:        self.path = path
src/stack/build/build_util.py:73:        ret = { "name": self.name, "ref": self.ref, "build": self.build, "path": self.path, "file_path": self.file_path }
src/stack/build/build_util.py:78:        self.path = Path(self.file_path).parent.as_posix()
src/stack/build/build_util.py:83:        self.name = y["container"].get("name", self.name)
src/stack/build/build_util.py:86:        self.ref = y["container"].get("ref")
src/stack/build/build_util.py:87:        self.build = y["container"].get("build")
src/stack/build/build_util.py:142:            containers_in_scope.append(StackContainer(container["name"], ref=container.get("ref"), path=container.get("path")))
src/stack/build/build_containers.py:47:    "build",
src/stack/build/build_containers.py:103:        # "build" is pulled from the container description yaml
src/stack/build/build_containers.py:231:            if (not stack_container.ref or stack_container.ref == ".") and stack.get_repo_ref():
src/stack/build/build_containers.py:232:                stack_container.ref = stack.get_repo_ref()
Thinking
$ Bash
Read default-build.sh and container scope/ref logic
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/stack; echo "=== default-build.sh ==="; cat src/stack/data/container-build/default-build.sh; echo; echo "=== build_util.py 125-160 (get_containers_in_scope) ==="; sed -n '125,160p' src/stack/build/build_util.py; echo "=== build_containers.py 225-245 (ref defaulting) ==="; sed -n '225,245p' src/stack/build/build_containers.py
=== default-build.sh ===
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Usage: default-build.sh <image-tag> [<repo-relative-path>]
# if <repo-relative-path> is not supplied, the context is the directory where the Containerfile lives

source ${STACK_CONTAINER_BASE_DIR}/build-base.sh

if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then
    echo "Illegal number of parameters" >&2
    exit 1
fi
image_tag=$1
build_dir=$2

STACK_CONTAINER_BUILD_CONTAINERFILE=${STACK_CONTAINER_BUILD_CONTAINERFILE}
if [[ -z ${STACK_CONTAINER_BUILD_CONTAINERFILE} ]]; then
    if [[ -f ${build_dir}/Containerfile ]]; then
        STACK_CONTAINER_BUILD_CONTAINERFILE=${build_dir}/Containerfile
    else
        STACK_CONTAINER_BUILD_CONTAINERFILE=${build_dir}/Dockerfile
    fi
fi

docker build -t ${image_tag} \
  --file $STACK_CONTAINER_BUILD_CONTAINERFILE \
  --build-arg STACK_HOST_UID=${STACK_HOST_UID} \
  --build-arg STACK_HOST_GID=${STACK_HOST_GID} \
  ${build_command_args} \
  ${build_dir}

=== build_util.py 125-160 (get_containers_in_scope) ===
            stack_config = stack_util.get_parsed_stack_config(stack)
        else:
            stack_config = stack
        raw_containers = stack_config.get("containers", [])
        if not raw_containers and not stack.is_super_stack():
            warn_exit(f"stack {stack} does not define any containers")
    else:
        # See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20885799/1701505
        from stack import data
        with importlib.resources.open_text(data, "container-image-list.txt") as container_list_file:
            raw_containers = container_list_file.read().splitlines()


    for container in raw_containers:
        if isinstance(container, str):
            containers_in_scope.append(StackContainer(container))
        else:
            containers_in_scope.append(StackContainer(container["name"], ref=container.get("ref"), path=container.get("path")))

    log_debug(f"Containers: {containers_in_scope}")
    if stack:
        log_debug(f"Stack: {stack}")

    return containers_in_scope


def container_exists_locally(tag):
    docker = DockerClient()
    try:
        return docker.image.exists(tag)
    except Exception as e:
        if "image not known" in str(e):
            return False
        raise e


=== build_containers.py 225-245 (ref defaulting) ===

        # check if we have any repos that specify the container targets / build info
        containers_in_scope = [c for c in get_containers_in_scope(stack) if include_exclude_check(c.name, include, exclude)]
        for stack_container in containers_in_scope:

            # No container ref means use the stack repo.
            if (not stack_container.ref or stack_container.ref == ".") and stack.get_repo_ref():
                stack_container.ref = stack.get_repo_ref()

            container_spec_yml_path = None
            container_lock_file_path = None
            target_hash = None
            container_needs_built = True
            container_was_built = False
            container_was_pulled = False
            container_needs_pulled = False
            container_tag = None
            container_spec = ContainerSpec(stack_container.name, stack_container.ref, path=stack_container.path)
            stack_local_tag = f"{container_spec.name}:stack"
            stack_legacy_tag = f"{container_spec.name}:local"
            image_registry_to_pull_this_container = image_registry
Thinking

I traced the resolution — and found something important. For our container (name: bozemanpass/backup, explicit path, no ref/container.yml):

  1. ref defaults to the backup-stack repo (build_containers.py:231).
  2. The external-branch inference looks for stack-files/containers/bozemanpass-backup/build.shwe don't have that, so it's skipped.
  3. Falls through to: default-build.sh <tag> <repo>/containers/backup (via the explicit path, line 145-151).
  4. default-build.sh checks for Containerfile first — we have it — and builds.

So the build works via the explicit path, but through default-build.sh + our Containerfile. Our hand-written build.sh is never invoked in this path — it's dead. Let me confirm get_repo_ref/stack_is_external don't change this, then clean up and proceed to the tool-side code.

$ Bash
Read constants and init-time proxy write
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/stack; echo "=== constants: relevant keys ==="; grep -n "http_proxy_key\|network_key\|services_key\|ports_key\|stack_annotation_marker\|volumes_key\|annotations_key\|host_name_key\|routes_key" src/stack/constants.py; echo "=== deployment_create init-time http_proxy write (260-330) ==="; sed -n '260,330p' src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py
=== constants: relevant keys ===
19:annotations_key = "annotations"
34:host_name_key = "host-name"
35:http_proxy_key = "http-proxy"
44:network_key = "network"
48:ports_key = "ports"
55:routes_key = "routes"
57:services_key = "services"
63:volumes_key = "volumes"
65:stack_annotation_marker = "@stack"
=== deployment_create init-time http_proxy write (260-330) ===
# call it from other commands, bypassing the click decoration stuff
def init_operation(  # noqa: C901
    deploy_command_context,
    stack,
    deployer_type,
    config_variables,
    config_file,
    kube_config,
    image_registry,
    http_proxy_fqdn,
    http_proxy_clusterissuer,
    http_proxy_targets,
    output,
    map_ports_to_host,
):
    spec_file_content = {"stack": stack, constants.deploy_to_key: deployer_type}
    if deployer_type in ["k8s", "k8s-kind"]:
        if kube_config:
            spec_file_content.update({constants.kube_config_key: kube_config})
        elif deployer_type == "k8s":
            error_exit("--kube-config must be supplied with --deploy-to k8s")
        if image_registry:
            spec_file_content.update({constants.image_registry_key: image_registry})
        elif deployer_type == "k8s":
            log_warn("WARN: --image-registry not specified, only default container registries (eg, Docker Hub) will be available")
        if http_proxy_targets:
            routes = []
            for target in http_proxy_targets:
                routes.append(
                    {
                        constants.path_key: target["path"],
                        constants.proxy_to_key: f"{target['service']}:{target['port']}",
                    }
                )
            http_proxy = {
                constants.host_name_key: http_proxy_fqdn,
                constants.cluster_issuer_key: http_proxy_clusterissuer,
                constants.routes_key: routes,
            }
            if constants.network_key not in spec_file_content:
                spec_file_content[constants.network_key] = {}
            spec_file_content[constants.network_key].update({constants.http_proxy_key: [http_proxy]})
    else:
        # Check for --kube-config supplied for non-relevant deployer types
        if kube_config is not None:
            error_exit(f"--kube-config is not allowed with a {deployer_type} deployment")

    if http_proxy_targets:
        routes = []
        for target in http_proxy_targets:
            routes.append(
                {
                    constants.path_key: target["path"],
                    constants.proxy_to_key: f"{target['service']}:{target['port']}",
                }
            )
        http_proxy = {
            constants.host_name_key: http_proxy_fqdn,
            constants.routes_key: routes,
        }
        if http_proxy_clusterissuer and deployer_type in ["k8s", "k8s-kind"]:
            http_proxy[constants.cluster_issuer_key] = http_proxy_clusterissuer
        else:
            log_info("NOTE: http-cluster-issuer is only used when deploying to Kubernetes")
        if constants.network_key not in spec_file_content:
            spec_file_content[constants.network_key] = {}
        spec_file_content[constants.network_key].update({constants.http_proxy_key: [http_proxy]})

    # Implement merge, since update() overwrites
    if config_variables:
        orig_config = spec_file_content.get("config", {})
Thinking

Confirmed — the build works via the explicit pathdefault-build.sh → our Containerfile; the hand-written build.sh is bypassed. I'll note that and proceed to the tool side.

Let me read the remaining spots I need to mirror, then make the edits.

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  "offset": 33,
  "limit": 10
}
33	deployment_file_name = "deployment.yml"
34	host_name_key = "host-name"
35	http_proxy_key = "http-proxy"
36	http_proxy_prefix_key = "http-proxy-prefix"
37	image_registry_key = "image-registry"
38	k8s_deploy_type = "k8s"
39	k8s_kind_deploy_type = "k8s-kind"
40	kind_config_filename = "kind-config.yml"
41	kube_config_filename = "kubeconfig.yml"
42	kube_config_key = "kube-config"
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  "offset": 183,
  "limit": 17
}
183	    def get_volumes(self):
184	        volumes = {}
185	        pods = self.get_pod_list()
186	        for pod in pods:
187	            parsed_pod_file = self.load_pod_file(pod)
188	            if constants.services_key in parsed_pod_file:
189	                for svc_name, svc in parsed_pod_file[constants.services_key].items():
190	                    if constants.volumes_key in svc:
191	                        volumes[svc_name] = svc[constants.volumes_key]
192	        return volumes
193	
194	    def get_http_proxy_targets(self, prefix=None):
195	        if prefix:
196	            if prefix == "/":
197	                prefix = None
198	            else:
199	                if not prefix.startswith("/"):
Thinking

Now I'll implement the foundational, low-risk pieces: constants, the get_backup() accessor, and the get_backup_targets() annotation parser (mirroring the proven port-annotation parser). I'm scoping the consistency-command parsing to a follow-up since it needs ruamel comment-index work plus a runtime test — the backup-exclude path mirrors existing working code exactly.

✏️ Edit constants.py
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/constants.py
deployment_file_name = "deployment.yml"
+
backup_key = "backup"
backup_service_name = "backup"
backup_exclude_annotation = "backup-exclude"
backup_command_annotation = "backup-command"
backup_file_extension_annotation = "backup-file-extension"
deployment_file_name = "deployment.yml"
The file /home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/constants.py has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)
✏️ Edit spec.py
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/spec.py
    def get_http_proxy(self):
        return self.obj.get(constants.network_key, {}).get(constants.http_proxy_key, [])
+
    def get_http_proxy(self):
        return self.obj.get(constants.network_key, {}).get(constants.http_proxy_key, [])

    def get_backup(self):
        return self.obj.get(constants.backup_key, {})
The file /home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/spec.py has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)
✏️ Edit stack.py
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/stack.py
    def get_http_proxy_targets(self, prefix=None):
+
    def get_backup_targets(self):
        """Parse @stack backup-* annotations from the stack's composefiles.

        Currently supports `backup-exclude` on a volume mount line, parsed the same way as the
        http-proxy port annotations (see get_http_proxy_targets). Returns:

            {"exclude": [volume_name, ...], "commands": {}}

        `commands` (per-service consistency dumps from `backup-command`) is reserved for a
        follow-up; see docs/backup-implementation.md.
        """
        exclude = []
        for pod in self.get_pod_list():
            parsed_pod_file = self.load_pod_file(pod)
            if constants.services_key not in parsed_pod_file:
                continue
            for svc_name, svc in parsed_pod_file[constants.services_key].items():
                if constants.volumes_key not in svc:
                    continue
                volumes_section = svc[constants.volumes_key]
                for i, mount in enumerate(volumes_section):
                    if len(volumes_section.ca.items) > 0 and i in volumes_section.ca.items:
                        comment = volumes_section.ca.items[i][0].value.strip()
                        if constants.stack_annotation_marker in comment \
                                and constants.backup_exclude_annotation in comment:
                            exclude.append(str(mount).split(":")[0])
        return {"exclude": exclude, "commands": {}}

    def get_http_proxy_targets(self, prefix=None):
The file /home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/stack.py has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)

Now remove the dead build.sh from backup-stack, and lint the three changed source files.

$ Bash
Remove redundant build.sh
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/backup-stack && git rm build.sh 2>/dev/null; rm -f containers/backup/build.sh; git -C /home/david/projects/bpi/backup-stack rm -q containers/backup/build.sh 2>/dev/null; echo "build.sh present? $(test -f containers/backup/build.sh && echo yes || echo no)"; echo "--- backup-stack git status ---"; git -C /home/david/projects/bpi/backup-stack status --short
$ Bash
Lint changed source files
uv run flake8 --config tox.ini src/stack/constants.py src/stack/deploy/spec.py src/stack/deploy/stack.py && echo "FLAKE8 CLEAN"
build.sh present? no
--- backup-stack git status ---
D  containers/backup/build.sh
Exit code 2
error: Failed to spawn: `flake8`
  Caused by: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Thinking

flake8 isn't on PATH in the env. Let me try the module form, and fall back to a compile check.

$ Bash
Lint via module, fallback compile
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/stack; uv run python -m flake8 --config tox.ini src/stack/constants.py src/stack/deploy/spec.py src/stack/deploy/stack.py 2>&1 | head -20 && echo "--- flake8 rc: ${PIPESTATUS[0]} ---" || true; echo "=== fallback: byte-compile ==="; uv run python -m py_compile src/stack/constants.py src/stack/deploy/spec.py src/stack/deploy/stack.py && echo "PY_COMPILE OK"
--- flake8 rc: 0 ---
=== fallback: byte-compile ===
PY_COMPILE OK
Thinking

Both pass (flake8 rc 0, py_compile OK). Let me runtime-verify the one piece of behavioral code — the ruamel comment parsing in get_backup_targets — against a synthetic composefile, since that's the only part with real parsing risk.

$ Bash
Runtime-verify backup-exclude parsing
uv run python - <<'PY'
from stack.util import get_yaml
import stack.constants as constants

sample = '''
services:
  db:
    image: bozemanpass/db:stack
    volumes:
      - "pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data"   # @stack backup-exclude
      - "shared:/shared:ro"
  backend:
    image: bozemanpass/backend:stack
    volumes:
      - "uploads:/app/uploads"
'''
doc = get_yaml().load(sample)

# Mirror Stack.get_backup_targets() volume-comment parsing exactly:
exclude = []
for svc_name, svc in doc[constants.services_key].items():
    if constants.volumes_key not in svc:
        continue
    vs = svc[constants.volumes_key]
    for i, mount in enumerate(vs):
        if len(vs.ca.items) > 0 and i in vs.ca.items:
            comment = vs.ca.items[i][0].value.strip()
            if constants.stack_annotation_marker in comment and constants.backup_exclude_annotation in comment:
                exclude.append(str(mount).split(":")[0])

print("exclude =", exclude)
assert exclude == ["pgdata"], f"FAIL: got {exclude}"
print("PARSE OK: backup-exclude correctly identified 'pgdata' only")
PY
exclude = ['pgdata']
PARSE OK: backup-exclude correctly identified 'pgdata' only
Thinking

Verified — the parser correctly picks out only pgdata (the annotated volume), ignoring the :ro shared mount and the plain uploads. The ruamel .ca.items[i][0].value access works for volume sequences just as it does for ports.

Progress this turn

Build resolution — traced and confirmed working (with a correction): - For name: bozemanpass/backup + explicit path: ./containers/backup (no ref/container.yml), the build falls through to default-build.sh <tag> <repo>/containers/backup, which finds our Containerfile and builds bozemanpass/backup:stack. So stack prepare --stack backup will build the image. - But the hand-written build.sh is never invoked in this path — it's dead. I removed it from backup-stack (staged as D containers/backup/build.sh); the Containerfile + default-build.sh is the verified-working path. You'll want to commit that deletion.

Tool-side foundation implemented in the stack repo (working tree on main, uncommitted): - constants.pybackup_key, backup_service_name, and the three annotation constants. - spec.pySpec.get_backup() accessor (next to get_http_proxy). - stack.pyStack.get_backup_targets(), the annotation parser, mirroring the proven port-annotation code.

All three: flake8 clean (rc 0), py_compile OK, and the parser is runtime-verified against a synthetic composefile.

Scope note (honest): I implemented backup-exclude parsing only. The backup-command consistency-dump parsing is deferred — it needs ruamel comment-index work for service-level (not volume-line) comments plus a real test, and I won't ship fragile untested comment-index code. The function returns {"exclude": [...], "commands": {}} so commands is a clean extension point. This still gives the full "back up all (non-excluded) volumes" MVP.

Remaining wiring (the behavioral part)

Two pieces left, both specified in docs/backup-implementation.md, both needing the bash deploy test + Docker to verify at runtime (which I can't do here):

  1. init-time write — call get_backup_targets() in the init path and write the result into a backup spec section (touches init_operation's signature, a # noqa: C901 function).
  2. deploy-time augment — the service_name == constants.backup_service_name block in deployment_create.py:~550 that appends :ro data-volume mounts + env.

I stopped at the foundation deliberately: it's additive and fully verified, whereas the wiring is behavioral and test-gated, so it's a cleaner reviewable boundary. Want me to continue into the wiring now (and you run the deploy test to verify), or pause here so you can review/commit the foundation first?

please proceed

Thinking

Proceeding with the wiring. Let me trace how get_http_proxy_targets() flows through the init command into init_operation, so I mirror it exactly for backup.

$ Bash
Trace http_proxy_targets flow in init
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/stack; echo "=== init.py: how http_proxy_targets is obtained & passed ==="; grep -rn "http_proxy_targets\|get_http_proxy_targets\|init_operation\|def command\|@click" src/stack/init/init.py | head -40
=== init.py: how http_proxy_targets is obtained & passed ===
src/stack/init/init.py:24:from stack.deploy.deployment_create import init_operation
src/stack/init/init.py:73:@click.command()
src/stack/init/init.py:74:@click.option("--stack", help="name or path of the stack", required=False)
src/stack/init/init.py:75:@click.option(
src/stack/init/init.py:78:@click.option("--config", help="Provide config variables for the deployment", multiple=True)
src/stack/init/init.py:79:@click.option("--config-file", help="Provide config variables in a file for the deployment")
src/stack/init/init.py:80:@click.option("--cluster", help="specify a non-default cluster name")
src/stack/init/init.py:81:@click.option(
src/stack/init/init.py:86:@click.option("--kube-config", help="Provide a config file for a k8s deployment", default=get_config_setting("kube-config"))
src/stack/init/init.py:87:@click.option(
src/stack/init/init.py:92:@click.option(
src/stack/init/init.py:98:@click.option(
src/stack/init/init.py:101:@click.option(
src/stack/init/init.py:107:@click.option("--output", required=True, help="Write yaml spec file here")
src/stack/init/init.py:108:@click.option(
src/stack/init/init.py:115:@click.pass_context
src/stack/init/init.py:116:def command(
src/stack/init/init.py:191:        http_proxy_targets = inner_stack_config.get_http_proxy_targets(http_prefix)
src/stack/init/init.py:194:            http_proxy_targets.extend(http_proxy_target)
src/stack/init/init.py:199:        spec = init_operation(
src/stack/init/init.py:209:            http_proxy_targets,
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  "file_path": "/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/init/init.py",
  "offset": 175,
  "limit": 45
}
175	        if not os.path.exists(rs):
176	            log_debug("Cloning required repos...")
177	            clone_all_repos_for_stack(top_stack_config, None, None, False, git_ssh)
178	
179	    specs = []
180	    warned_about_http_prefix = False
181	    for i, stack in enumerate(required_stacks):
182	        http_prefix = None
183	        if top_stack_config.is_super_stack():
184	            http_prefix = http_prefix_for(stack)
185	        if http_prefix:
186	            if not warned_about_http_prefix and deploy_to not in [constants.k8s_kind_deploy_type, constants.k8s_deploy_type]:
187	                log_info(f"NOTE: {constants.http_proxy_prefix_key} setting is only used when deploying to Kubernetes.")
188	                warned_about_http_prefix = True
189	
190	        inner_stack_config = get_parsed_stack_config(stack)
191	        http_proxy_targets = inner_stack_config.get_http_proxy_targets(http_prefix)
192	
193	        if i == len(required_stacks) - 1:
194	            http_proxy_targets.extend(http_proxy_target)
195	
196	        deployer_type = ctx.obj.deployer.type
197	        deploy_command_context = ctx.obj
198	        deploy_command_context.stack = stack
199	        spec = init_operation(
200	            deploy_command_context,
201	            str(stack),
202	            deployer_type,
203	            config_variables,
204	            config_file,
205	            kube_config,
206	            image_registry,
207	            http_proxy_fqdn,
208	            http_proxy_clusterissuer,
209	            http_proxy_targets,
210	            None,
211	            map_ports_to_host,
212	        )
213	        specs.append(spec)
214	
215	    _output_checks(specs, deploy_to)
216	
217	    if len(specs) == 1:
218	        specs[0].dump(output)
219	    else:
Thinking

Now let me find all callers of init_operation so the signature change doesn't break anyone, and read the augment insertion region in the deploy loop.

$ Bash
Find init_operation callers and add_env_var
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/stack; echo "=== callers of init_operation ==="; grep -rn "init_operation" src/stack/ ; echo "=== add_env_var defined/imported? ==="; grep -rn "def add_env_var\|add_env_var" src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py | head
=== callers of init_operation ===
src/stack/init/init.py:24:from stack.deploy.deployment_create import init_operation
src/stack/init/init.py:199:        spec = init_operation(
src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py:261:def init_operation(  # noqa: C901
src/stack/deploy/webapp/deploy_webapp.py:25:from stack.deploy.deployment_create import init_operation, create_operation
src/stack/deploy/webapp/deploy_webapp.py:92:    init_operation(
=== add_env_var defined/imported? ===
src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py:29:from stack.deploy.compose.helpers import add_env_var
src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py:571:                        add_env_var("VIRTUAL_HOST_MULTIPORTS", json.dumps(vhost), svc_env)
src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py:573:                            add_env_var("LETSENCRYPT_HOST", host, svc_env)
Thinking

Two callers. I'll add backup_targets=None as a trailing keyword param (default) so the webapp caller is unaffected. Let me read both the webapp caller and the deploy loop region to make precise edits.

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  "file_path": "/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/webapp/deploy_webapp.py",
  "offset": 92,
  "limit": 16
}
92	    init_operation(
93	        deploy_command_context,
94	        stack,
95	        deployment_type,
96	        None,
97	        env_file,
98	        kube_config,
99	        image_registry,
100	        None,
101	        None,
102	        None,
103	        spec_file_name,
104	        None,
105	    )
106	    # Add the TLS and DNS spec
107	    _fixup_url_spec(spec_file_name, url)
Thinking

The webapp caller uses 12 positional args, so a trailing backup_targets=None default keeps it safe. Before writing the augment, I must get the volume-mount relative-path depth right — let me read _fixup_pod_file to match how existing bind mounts are anchored.

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  "file_path": "/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py",
  "offset": 77,
  "limit": 98
}
77	def _fixup_pod_file(pod, spec, compose_dir):
78	    deployment_type = spec[constants.deploy_to_key]
79	    # Fix up volumes
80	    if "volumes" in spec:
81	        spec_volumes = spec["volumes"]
82	        if "volumes" in pod:
83	            pod_volumes = pod["volumes"]
84	            for volume in pod_volumes.keys():
85	                if volume in spec_volumes:
86	                    volume_spec = spec_volumes[volume]
87	                    if volume_spec:
88	                        volume_spec_fixedup = volume_spec if Path(volume_spec).is_absolute() else f".{volume_spec}"
89	                        _create_bind_dir_if_relative(volume, volume_spec, compose_dir)
90	                        # this is Docker specific
91	                        if spec.is_docker_deployment():
92	                            new_volume_spec = {
93	                                "driver": "local",
94	                                "driver_opts": {
95	                                    "type": "none",
96	                                    "device": volume_spec_fixedup,
97	                                    "o": "bind",
98	                                },
99	                            }
100	                            pod["volumes"][volume] = new_volume_spec
101	
102	    # Fix up configmaps
103	    if constants.configmaps_key in spec:
104	        if spec.is_kubernetes_deployment():
105	            spec_cfgmaps = spec[constants.configmaps_key]
106	            if "volumes" in pod:
107	                pod_volumes = pod[constants.volumes_key]
108	                for volume in pod_volumes.keys():
109	                    if volume in spec_cfgmaps:
110	                        volume_cfg = spec_cfgmaps[volume]
111	                        # Just make the dir (if necessary)
112	                        _create_bind_dir_if_relative(volume, volume_cfg, compose_dir)
113	        else:
114	            log_warn(f"Warning: ConfigMaps not supported for {deployment_type}")
115	
116	    # Fix up ports
117	    if "network" in spec and "ports" in spec["network"]:
118	        spec_ports = spec["network"]["ports"]
119	        for container_name, container_ports in spec_ports.items():
120	            if container_name in pod["services"]:
121	                pod["services"][container_name]["ports"] = container_ports
122	
123	
124	def _commands_plugin_paths(stack: str):
125	    plugin_paths = get_plugin_code_paths(stack)
126	    ret = [p.joinpath("deploy", "commands.py") for p in plugin_paths]
127	    return ret
128	
129	
130	# See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54625079/1701505
131	def _has_method(o, name):
132	    return callable(getattr(o, name, None))
133	
134	
135	def call_stack_config_init(deploy_command_context, config_spec: Spec):
136	    # Link with the python file in the stack
137	    # Call a function in it
138	    # If no function found, return None
139	    python_file_paths = _commands_plugin_paths(deploy_command_context.stack)
140	
141	    for python_file_path in python_file_paths:
142	        if python_file_path.exists():
143	            spec = util.spec_from_file_location("commands", python_file_path)
144	            imported_stack = util.module_from_spec(spec)
145	            spec.loader.exec_module(imported_stack)
146	            if _has_method(imported_stack, "init"):
147	                config_spec = imported_stack.init(deploy_command_context, config_spec)
148	    return config_spec
149	
150	
151	# TODO: fold this with function above
152	def call_stack_deploy_create(deploy_command_context, deployment_context):
153	    # Link with the python file in the stack
154	    # Call a function in it
155	    # If no function found, return None
156	    spec = deployment_context.spec
157	    if isinstance(spec, MergedSpec):
158	        stacks = spec.load_stacks()
159	    else:
160	        stacks = [spec.load_stack()]
161	
162	    for stack in stacks:
163	        python_file_paths = _commands_plugin_paths(stack)
164	        for python_file_path in python_file_paths:
165	            if python_file_path.exists():
166	                spec = util.spec_from_file_location("commands", python_file_path)
167	                imported_stack = util.module_from_spec(spec)
168	                spec.loader.exec_module(imported_stack)
169	                if _has_method(imported_stack, "create"):
170	                    imported_stack.create(deploy_command_context, deployment_context, stack)
171	
172	
173	# Inspect the pod yaml to find config files referenced in subdirectories
174	# other than the one associated with the pod
Thinking

Critical detail confirmed: named-volume bind devices are anchored one level up from the compose dir (_fixup_pod_file sets device = ".{volume_spec}", i.e. ../data/<name>), not two. My doc's ../../data was wrong. I'll mirror _fixup_pod_file's exact device computation so the backup mount points at the identical host path regardless of relative/absolute. Let me check the get_config_setting import, then write the edits.

$ Bash
Check imports in deployment_create.py
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/stack; grep -n "get_config_setting\|^from\|^import\|from pathlib\|import os" src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py | head -30
17:import click
18:import json
19:import os
20:import random
22:from importlib import util
23:from pathlib import Path
24:from secrets import token_hex
25:from shutil import copy, copyfile, copytree
26:from typing import List
28:from stack import constants
29:from stack.deploy.compose.helpers import add_env_var
30:from stack.log import log_debug, log_warn, log_info
31:from stack.util import (
38:from stack.deploy.deploy import create_deploy_context
39:from stack.deploy.spec import Spec, MergedSpec, load_spec
40:from stack.deploy.stack import Stack, get_plugin_code_paths, get_pod_script_paths, pod_has_scripts
41:from stack.deploy.deployer_factory import getDeployerConfigGenerator
42:from stack.deploy.deployment_context import DeploymentContext
43:from stack.util import global_options2
Thinking

Everything checks out — get_config_setting needs importing; os/Path are present. The device computation f".{vol_path}" produces ../data/<name>, matching the named volume's own bind exactly. Now making the five edits.

✏️ Edit deployment_create.py
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py
from stack.deploy.compose.helpers import add_env_var
+
from stack.deploy.compose.helpers import add_env_var
from stack.config.util import get_config_setting
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✏️ Edit deployment_create.py
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py
    http_proxy_targets,
    output,
    map_ports_to_host,
):
    spec_file_content = {"stack": stack, constants.deploy_to_key: deployer_type}
+
    http_proxy_targets,
    output,
    map_ports_to_host,
    backup_targets=None,
):
    spec_file_content = {"stack": stack, constants.deploy_to_key: deployer_type}
The file /home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)
✏️ Edit deployment_create.py
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py
        spec_file_content[constants.network_key].update({constants.http_proxy_key: [http_proxy]})

    # Implement merge, since update() overwrites
    if config_variables:
+
        spec_file_content[constants.network_key].update({constants.http_proxy_key: [http_proxy]})

    # Record backup annotations (e.g. excluded volumes) parsed from the stack's composefiles.
    if backup_targets and (backup_targets.get("exclude") or backup_targets.get("commands")):
        spec_file_content[constants.backup_key] = backup_targets

    # Implement merge, since update() overwrites
    if config_variables:
The file /home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)

Now the deploy-time augment in the service loop, and the init.py wiring:

✏️ Edit deployment_create.py
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py
                    if vhost[host]:
                        add_env_var("VIRTUAL_HOST_MULTIPORTS", json.dumps(vhost), svc_env)
                        if "localhost" != host and "." in host:
                            add_env_var("LETSENCRYPT_HOST", host, svc_env)
                        service_info["environment"] = svc_env
+
                    if vhost[host]:
                        add_env_var("VIRTUAL_HOST_MULTIPORTS", json.dumps(vhost), svc_env)
                        if "localhost" != host and "." in host:
                            add_env_var("LETSENCRYPT_HOST", host, svc_env)
                        service_info["environment"] = svc_env

                # When backup is enabled, augment the backup service (defined in the mixed-in
                # backup-stack) with read-only mounts of the deployment's data volumes plus the
                # backup engine configuration. Mirrors the VIRTUAL_HOST injection above.
                # See docs/backup-implementation.md.
                if get_config_setting("backup", False) and service_name == constants.backup_service_name:
                    backup_cfg = parsed_spec.get_backup()
                    exclude = set(backup_cfg.get("exclude", []))
                    mounts = service_info.setdefault("volumes", [])
                    for vol_name, vol_path in parsed_spec.get_volumes().items():
                        if vol_name in exclude or not vol_path:
                            continue
                        # Same host path the named volume binds to (see _fixup_pod_file).
                        device = vol_path if Path(vol_path).is_absolute() else f".{vol_path}"
                        mounts.append(f"{device}:/backup/{vol_name}:ro")
                    backup_env = service_info.get("environment", {})
                    add_env_var("BACKUP_S3_ENDPOINT", get_config_setting("backup-s3-endpoint", ""), backup_env)
                    add_env_var("BACKUP_S3_BUCKET", get_config_setting("backup-s3-bucket", ""), backup_env)
                    add_env_var("BACKUP_SCHEDULE", get_config_setting("backup-schedule", "0 3 * * *"), backup_env)
                    add_env_var(
                        "BACKUP_RETENTION",
                        get_config_setting("backup-retention", "--keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly 4 --keep-monthly 6"),
                        backup_env,
                    )
                    service_info["environment"] = backup_env
The file /home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)
✏️ Edit init.py
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/init/init.py
        inner_stack_config = get_parsed_stack_config(stack)
        http_proxy_targets = inner_stack_config.get_http_proxy_targets(http_prefix)
+
        inner_stack_config = get_parsed_stack_config(stack)
        http_proxy_targets = inner_stack_config.get_http_proxy_targets(http_prefix)
        backup_targets = inner_stack_config.get_backup_targets()
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✏️ Edit init.py
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/init/init.py
            http_proxy_targets,
            None,
            map_ports_to_host,
        )
        specs.append(spec)
+
            http_proxy_targets,
            None,
            map_ports_to_host,
            backup_targets,
        )
        specs.append(spec)
The file /home/david/projects/bpi/stack/src/stack/init/init.py has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)
Thinking

All edits in. Let me lint/compile the changed files and fix the ../../data../data error in the implementation doc.

$ Bash
Lint and compile changed files
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/stack; echo "=== flake8 ==="; uv run python -m flake8 --config tox.ini src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py src/stack/init/init.py src/stack/deploy/stack.py src/stack/deploy/spec.py src/stack/constants.py; echo "flake8 rc: $?"; echo "=== py_compile ==="; uv run python -m py_compile src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py src/stack/init/init.py && echo "PY_COMPILE OK"
=== flake8 ===
flake8 rc: 0
=== py_compile ===
PY_COMPILE OK
$ Bash
Find ../../data references to fix
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/stack; grep -rn "\.\./\.\./data" docs/backup-implementation.md docs/backup.md
docs/backup-implementation.md:123:            mounts.append(f"../../data/{v}:/backup/{v}:ro")
docs/backup-implementation.md:151:  simpler variant is a single `../../data:/backup:ro` mount with restic `--exclude` patterns; either works.
✏️ Edit backup-implementation.md
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/docs/backup-implementation.md
    mounts = service_info.setdefault("volumes", [])
    for v in parsed_spec.get_volumes():
        if v not in exclude:
            mounts.append(f"../../data/{v}:/backup/{v}:ro")
+
    mounts = service_info.setdefault("volumes", [])
    for v, vol_path in parsed_spec.get_volumes().items():
        if v in exclude or not vol_path:
            continue
        device = vol_path if Path(vol_path).is_absolute() else f".{vol_path}"  # same path the volume binds to
        mounts.append(f"{device}:/backup/{v}:ro")
The file /home/david/projects/bpi/stack/docs/backup-implementation.md has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)
✏️ Edit backup-implementation.md
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/docs/backup-implementation.md
  simpler variant is a single `../../data:/backup:ro` mount with restic `--exclude` patterns; either works.
+
  simpler variant is a single `../data:/backup:ro` mount with restic `--exclude` patterns; either works.
The file /home/david/projects/bpi/stack/docs/backup-implementation.md has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)
Thinking

Now let me verify the modules import cleanly (the new get_config_setting import in deployment_create could risk a circular import) and smoke-test the augment's path computation.

$ Bash
Smoke-test imports, signature, path computation
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/stack; uv run python - <<'PY'
# 1. Imports clean (circular-import check for the new get_config_setting import)
import stack.deploy.deployment_create as dc
import stack.init.init as initmod
import stack.deploy.stack as stackmod
import stack.deploy.spec as specmod
print("IMPORTS OK")

# 2. init_operation signature accepts backup_targets as trailing kwarg, webapp caller (12 positional) still valid
import inspect
sig = inspect.signature(dc.init_operation)
params = list(sig.parameters)
assert params[-1] == "backup_targets" and sig.parameters["backup_targets"].default is None, params
assert len([p for p in sig.parameters.values() if p.default is inspect._empty]) == 12, "12 required positionals (webapp caller safe)"
print("SIGNATURE OK:", params[-1], "=", sig.parameters["backup_targets"].default)

# 3. Augment path computation matches _fixup_pod_file device convention
from pathlib import Path
def device(vol_path):
    return vol_path if Path(vol_path).is_absolute() else f".{vol_path}"
assert device("./data/pgdata") == "../data/pgdata", device("./data/pgdata")
assert device("/srv/abs/vol") == "/srv/abs/vol"
print("DEVICE PATHS OK: ./data/pgdata ->", device("./data/pgdata"), "| /srv/abs/vol ->", device("/srv/abs/vol"))

# 4. Spec.get_backup default + accessor
s = specmod.Spec()
s.obj = {"backup": {"exclude": ["cache"], "commands": {}}}
assert s.get_backup() == {"exclude": ["cache"], "commands": {}}
assert specmod.Spec().get_backup() == {} if hasattr(specmod.Spec(), "obj") else True
print("get_backup OK")
PY
IMPORTS OK
SIGNATURE OK: backup_targets = None
DEVICE PATHS OK: ./data/pgdata -> ../data/pgdata | /srv/abs/vol -> /srv/abs/vol
get_backup OK
Thinking

All green: clean imports (no circular dependency), the signature keeps all 12 required positionals so the webapp caller is unaffected, device paths match the bind convention, and the accessor works. Let me capture the full change set.

$ Bash
Show stack repo change summary
git status --short && echo "--- diffstat ---" && git diff --stat
 M src/stack/constants.py
 M src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py
 M src/stack/deploy/spec.py
 M src/stack/deploy/stack.py
 M src/stack/init/init.py
?? docs/backup-implementation.md
?? docs/backup.md
--- diffstat ---
 src/stack/constants.py                |  5 +++++
 src/stack/deploy/deployment_create.py | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/stack/deploy/spec.py              |  3 +++
 src/stack/deploy/stack.py             | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/stack/init/init.py                |  2 ++
 5 files changed, 69 insertions(+)
Thinking

The Docker-side wiring is complete. Let me fix one honesty gap in the impl doc — it claims the backup pod is auto-included, which isn't built yet (currently it must be mixed in explicitly, like ingress).

✏️ Edit backup-implementation.md
/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/docs/backup-implementation.md
Enabling the `backup` master switch causes the `backup-stack` pod to be included in the deployment
automatically (resolved like an implicit extra spec, so the operator does not pass it by hand). The augment
then runs inside the **existing** per-pod service loop, right next to the `VIRTUAL_HOST_MULTIPORTS`
injection (`deployment_create.py:550-574`):
+
The augment runs inside the **existing** per-pod service loop, right next to the `VIRTUAL_HOST_MULTIPORTS`
injection (`deployment_create.py:550-574`), firing only for the `backup` service when the master switch is
on. **Current state:** the `backup-stack` must be mixed in explicitly (an extra `--spec-file`), exactly as
the ingress stack is today; auto-including it when the switch is on is a planned refinement, not yet built.
The implemented form:
The file /home/david/projects/bpi/stack/docs/backup-implementation.md has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)

The Docker-side feature is wired end to end. Here's where it landed.

Implemented this turn (stack tool, Docker target)

Five files, +69 lines, flake8 clean and import/signature/path smoke-tested:

File Change
constants.py backup keys + backup_service_name
deploy/stack.py get_backup_targets() — parses @stack backup-exclude (runtime-verified)
deploy/spec.py get_backup() accessor
init/init.py calls get_backup_targets(), passes to init_operation
deploy/deployment_create.py writes backup spec section at init; deploy-time augment of the backup service

The augment (gated on the backup master switch + service_name == "backup") appends :ro mounts of every non-excluded data volume and injects BACKUP_* env. I corrected a real bug from the design doc along the way: the mount path is ../data/<vol> (one level up), and I now compute it with the exact _fixup_pod_file device logic so it points at the identical host path as the named volume, relative or absolute.

Verified without Docker: clean imports (no circular dep from the new get_config_setting import), the new backup_targets=None is a trailing kwarg so the 12-positional webapp caller is unaffected, ./data/pgdata → ../data/pgdata and absolute paths pass through, and the exclude parser picks only the annotated volume.

Honest status — what's NOT done

  • No end-to-end runtime test. Needs the built image + the bash deploy test + Docker + an S3/MinIO target. I can't exercise that here.
  • Explicit mix-in required. The augment only fires if a backup service is in the deployment, which today means mixing in backup-stack via an extra --spec-file (parity with ingress). Auto-include-on-switch is not built. I corrected the impl doc to say so.
  • backup-command (DB consistency) parsing — deferred (needs ruamel service-comment work + a test). commands is a clean extension point.
  • K8up emission and the stack manage backup subcommands — untouched, separate steps.

Nothing is committed — all changes are in the stack working tree on main.

Suggested next step

The highest-value verification is now an end-to-end Docker run: build bozemanpass/backup, init a small stack + the backup stack with STACK_BACKUP=true and a MinIO target, deploy, and confirm a snapshot lands. That exercises the augment, the image scripts, and the restic round-trip together. Want me to write a self-contained test harness for that (mirroring tests/deploy/run-deploy-test.sh with a local MinIO), or move on to the stack manage backup subcommands?

Yes please proceed to work on the e2e test. I'd suggest something like the current database test that checks data written to the database is restored after restoring a previously taken backup. Using something like MinIO for testing seems like a good plan however I believe MinIO itself is no longer open source so it might be necessary to look for an alternative.

Thinking

Let me study the existing database test to mirror it, and research the current MinIO licensing situation plus alternatives in parallel.

$ Bash
Locate the database test
cd /home/david/projects/bpi/stack; echo "=== test dirs ==="; ls tests/; echo; echo "=== database test files ==="; find tests -iname "*database*" -o -path "*database*" | head; echo; echo "=== test-database workflow ==="; cat .github/workflows/test-database.yml 2>/dev/null | head -40
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Links: [{"title":"MinIO’s Community Edition: The End ? 🚨 - Pepitedata","url":"https://pepitedata.com/minio-community-edition-end-agpl/"},{"title":"MinIO Faces Fallout for Stripping Functions from Open Source Version - Futuriom","url":"https://www.futuriom.com/articles/news/minio-faces-fallout-for-stripping-features-from-web-gui/2025/06"},{"title":"MinIO Is Done With Open Source, What Are Your Options?","url":"https://itsfoss.com/news/minio-moves-away-from-open-source/"},{"title":"MinIO users complain after admin UI removed from Community Edition","url":"https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/06/19/minio-removes-management-features-from-basic-community-edition-object-storage-code/"},{"title":"MinIO Just Killed Its Open Source Edition (And Your Infrastructure Is Next)","url":"https://early-equity.ghost.io/minio-just-killed-its-open-source-edition-and-your-infrastructure-is-next/"},{"title":"How MinIO went from open source darling to cautionary tale","url":"https://news.reading.sh/2026/02/14/how-minio-went-from-open-source-darling-to-cautionary-tale/"},{"title":"MinIO's community edition is archived. What still runs in 2026 | The Dispatch | Storm Developments","url":"https://stormdevelopments.ca/blog/minio-s-community-edition-is-archived-what-still-runs-in-2026/"},{"title":"Is It Still Open Source? MinIO Steering Users Toward Paid Subscriptions","url":"https://linuxiac.com/minio-steering-users-toward-paid-subscriptions/"},{"title":"MinIO is Dead · Vonng","url":"https://blog.vonng.com/en/db/minio-is-dead/"}]

Based on the search results, here's what happened with MinIO in 2025:

## Overview of MinIO's Shift Away from Open Source

MinIO has been walking away from its open source community for well over a year, starting in May 2025 when MinIO shipped a breaking release that removed most management features from the community edition's web UI, along with external IDP logins via LDAP and OIDC, moving them to their enterprise product.

## Features Removed from Community Edition

MinIO co-founder Harshavardhana posted a pull request notifying the community that the Community Edition of MinIO's object store software, which carries an AGPLv3 license, would be "simplified," eliminating the web-based UI that made it easy to manage administrative functions such as policies, real-time monitoring, and replication controls.

While the command-line interface (CLI) can still be used to perform these functions, the administrative portions of the web UI are now restricted to the vendor's commercial MinIO AIStor Enterprise Edition product, which starts at $96,000 annually for an enterprise license supporting up to 400 terabytes of usable storage capacity.

## Further Restrictions

In October 2025, MinIO stopped publishing Docker images and pre-built binaries for the community edition entirely. Users who needed to patch a CVE that dropped the same month couldn't just pull an updated image and had to build from source instead.

In December 2025, MinIO declared its open-source repository in maintenance mode. In February 2026 it updated the README with language most readers took as end-of-life. On April 25, 2026 the repository was formally archived.

## S3 Alternatives

Some users on Reddit are talking about open-source alternatives to MinIO's object store, such as Ceph, Garage, or SeaweedFS. RustFS positions itself as a direct MinIO successor, claims 2.3x faster performance than MinIO for small object payloads, includes a management console out of the box, and supports migration from existing MinIO deployments.


REMINDER: You MUST include the sources above in your response to the user using markdown hyperlinks.
=== test dirs ===
database
deploy
k8s-deploy
k8s-deployment-control
scripts
smoke-test
webapp-test

=== database test files ===
tests/database
tests/database/run-test.sh

=== test-database workflow ===
name: Database Stack Test

on:
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - '*'
  push:
    branches:
      - '*'

# Note: this test depends on having kind installed in the runner environment.
# It turns out that kind is pre-installed in the ubuntu-latest. It may be worthwhile
# checking which version is installed in the event that unexplained test failures occur.

jobs:
  test:
    name: "Run database test on k8s"
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
    steps:
      - name: "Clone project repository"
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: "Install uv"
        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.12'
      - name: "Print kind version"
        run: kind version
      - name: "Generate build version file"
        run: ./scripts/create_build_tag_file.sh
      - name: "Build local shiv package"
        run: ./scripts/build_shiv_package.sh
      - name: "Run k8s deploy tests"
        run: ./tests/database/run-test.sh
Thinking

Your concern is well-founded — MinIO community edition is effectively dead: no Docker images since Oct 2025, repo archived April 2026, treated as EOL. I won't use it. Let me read the existing test harnesses to mirror their conventions before choosing the S3 backend.

Read
{
  "file_path": "/home/david/projects/bpi/stack/tests/database/run-test.sh"
}
1	#!/usr/bin/env bash
2	set -e
3	if [ -n "$STACK_SCRIPT_DEBUG" ]; then
4	    set -x
5	    # Dump environment variables for debugging
6	    echo "Environment variables:"
7	    env
8	fi
9	
10	if ! command -v kind &> /dev/null; then
11	    echo "Error: 'kind' is not installed or not available on the PATH"
12	    exit 1
13	fi
14	
15	if [ "$1" == "from-path" ]; then
16	    TEST_TARGET_STACK="stack"
17	else
18	    TEST_TARGET_STACK=$( ls -t1 ./package/stack* | head -1 )
19	fi
20	
21	stack="test-database-stack"
22	spec_file=${stack}-spec.yml
23	deployment_dir=${stack}-deployment
24	
25	# Helper functions: TODO move into a separate file
26	wait_for_pods_started () {
27	    for i in {1..50}
28	    do
29	        local ps_output=$( $TEST_TARGET_STACK manage --dir $test_deployment_dir ps )
30	
31	        if [[ "$ps_output" == *"id:"* ]]; then
32	            # if ready, return
33	            return
34	        else
35	            # if not ready, wait
36	            sleep 5
37	        fi
38	    done
39	    # Timed out, error exit
40	    echo "waiting for pods to start: FAILED"
41	    delete_cluster_exit
42	}
43	
44	wait_for_test_complete () {
45	    for i in {1..50}
46	    do
47	
48	        local log_output=$( $TEST_TARGET_STACK manage --dir $test_deployment_dir logs )
49	
50	    if [[ "${log_output}" == *"Database test client: test complete"* ]]; then
51	            # if ready, return
52	            return
53	        else
54	            # if not ready, wait
55	            sleep 5
56	        fi
57	    done
58	    # Timed out, error exit
59	    echo "waiting for test complete: FAILED"
60	    delete_cluster_exit
61	}
62	
63	
64	delete_cluster_exit () {
65	    $TEST_TARGET_STACK manage --dir $test_deployment_dir stop --delete-volumes
66	    exit 1
67	}
68	
69	# We make a directory within which our test will create files
70	STACK_TEST_DIR=~/stack-test/database-test-dir
71	# Set a non-default repo dir
72	export STACK_REPO_BASE_DIR=${STACK_TEST_DIR}/repo-base-dir
73	echo "Testing this package: $TEST_TARGET_STACK"
74	echo "Test version command"
75	reported_version_string=$( $TEST_TARGET_STACK version )
76	echo "Version reported is: ${reported_version_string}"
77	echo "Using test directory: $STACK_TEST_DIR"
78	rm -rf $STACK_TEST_DIR
79	mkdir -p $STACK_TEST_DIR
80	mkdir -p $STACK_REPO_BASE_DIR
81	# We must delete any instances of the test-container in the local registory
82	# otherwise we'll skip building it below
83	existing_test_images=$(docker image ls -q --filter=reference=bozemanpass/test-database-client | uniq)
84	if [ -n "$existing_test_images" ]; then
85	  docker image rm -f ${existing_test_images}
86	fi
87	existing_test_images=$(docker image ls -q --filter=reference=bozemanpass/test-database-container | uniq)
88	if [ -n "$existing_test_images" ]; then
89	  docker image rm -f ${existing_test_images}
90	fi
91	# Fetch the test stacks
92	echo "Fetching test stack repo into: $STACK_REPO_BASE_DIR"
93	$TEST_TARGET_STACK fetch repo github.com/bozemanpass/stack-test-stacks
94	$TEST_TARGET_STACK prepare --stack ${stack}
95	# Test basic stack deploy to k8s
96	test_deployment_dir=$STACK_TEST_DIR/${deployment_dir}
97	test_deployment_spec=$STACK_TEST_DIR/${spec_file}
98	
99	$TEST_TARGET_STACK init --stack ${stack} --deploy-to k8s-kind --output $test_deployment_spec
100	# Check the file now exists
101	if [ ! -f "$test_deployment_spec" ]; then
102	    echo "deploy init test: spec file not present"
103	    echo "deploy init test: FAILED"
104	    exit 1
105	fi
106	echo "deploy init test: passed"
107	
108	# Switch to a full path for the data dir so it gets provisioned as a host bind mounted volume and preserved beyond cluster lifetime
109	sed -i "s|^\(\s*db-data:$\)$|\1 ${test_deployment_dir}/data/db-data|" $test_deployment_spec
110	
111	$TEST_TARGET_STACK deploy --spec-file $test_deployment_spec --deployment-dir $test_deployment_dir
112	# Check the deployment dir exists
113	if [ ! -d "$test_deployment_dir" ]; then
114	    echo "deploy create test: deployment directory not present"
115	    echo "deploy create test: FAILED"
116	    exit 1
117	fi
118	echo "deploy create test: passed"
119	
120	# Try to start the deployment
121	$TEST_TARGET_STACK manage --dir $test_deployment_dir start
122	wait_for_pods_started
123	# Check logs command works
124	wait_for_test_complete
125	log_output_1=$( $TEST_TARGET_STACK manage --dir $test_deployment_dir logs )
126	if [[ "$log_output_1" == *"Database test client: test data does not exist"* ]]; then
127	    echo "Create database content test: passed"
128	else
129	    echo "Create database content test: FAILED"
130	    delete_cluster_exit
131	fi
132	
133	# Stop then start again and check the volume was preserved
134	$TEST_TARGET_STACK manage --dir $test_deployment_dir stop
135	# Sleep a bit just in case
136	sleep 20
137	$TEST_TARGET_STACK manage --dir $test_deployment_dir start
138	wait_for_pods_started
139	wait_for_test_complete
140	
141	log_output_2=$( $TEST_TARGET_STACK manage --dir $test_deployment_dir logs )
142	if [[ "$log_output_2" == *"Database test client: test data already exists"* ]]; then
143	    echo "Retain database content test: passed"
144	else
145	    echo "Retain database content test: FAILED"
146	    delete_cluster_exit
147	fi
148	
149	# Stop and clean up
150	$TEST_TARGET_STACK manage --dir $test_deployment_dir stop --delete-volumes
151	echo "Test passed"
152	
Thinking

This is the validated reality on MinIO (archived, no images, EOL). For the test backend I'll use SeaweedFS (Apache-2.0, single container, restic-compatible) rather than MinIO.

The database test is a great template, but it's k8s and pulls stacks from an external repo I can't edit. Our backup feature is Docker-only, so I'll write a self-contained Docker test with an inline test stack. First, a key question: is Docker actually usable here? If so I can validate the riskiest mechanics (restic ↔ SeaweedFS round-trip, bucket creation, http scheme) for real instead of shipping an unrun script.

$ Bash
Check Docker and restic availability
echo "=== docker ==="; docker version --format '{{.Server.Version}}' 2>&1 | head -3; docker ps >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "docker: USABLE" || echo "docker: NOT usable"; echo "=== restic on host? ==="; command -v restic && restic version 2>/dev/null || echo "no host restic"
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