Parallel compose slots, swarm lab clusters and GUI lanes each kept their own pip, npm and pacman downloads, and a failed swarm run left its cluster (about 25 GB of node docker data plus the rescue bundle in the act container) on the root filesystem until someone ran make swarm-down. INFINITO_CACHE_SHARED_HOST_PATH (default <DIR_CACHE>/shared) is now mounted read-write at the same path into every compose slot and every swarm lab node, with PIP_CACHE_DIR and npm_config_cache below it; empty, the renders stay byte-identical to before. On a host whose os-release ID is exactly arch running an arch stack, INFINITO_CACHE_HOST_PACMAN_PATH mounts the host pacman cache read-only and scripts/docker/cache/pacman.sh makes it the first CacheDir with <shared>/pacman/ second, so new downloads land in the shared folder and the host cache stays untouched; on Manjaro and every other host pacman uses the shared folder alone. make swarm-zombie without keep=true now copies the act job's rescue diagnostics and Playwright artefacts to the host and then releases the lab nodes, the lab network, the NFS export volume and the act outer container, on success and on failure; when the copy fails the nodes still go, the act container stays and the run exits naming make swarm-down. make roundtrip passes keep to every swarm step, make clean-cache removes the shared folder, and the disc-space cleanup skips pacman cache directories it cannot write. apt and dnf keep their per-container caches behind the package-cache proxy, and no docker data root is shared between daemons. Requirement 065. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Swarm test routine 🔁
Sequenced steps of the swarm lab run. Bring-up and the chaos phase are
workflow steps; the per-round loop in between is driven by
utils.tests.swarm.matrix (one round per variant of the
primary app). Highlighted boxes (⚡) are the moments a backup-executing
systemd unit actually starts. See ../README.md for
topology, naming SPOTs and helpers; the DR drill's own steps are
documented in backup/README.md.
flowchart TB
boot["Bring up the simulated cluster:<br/>build + start the 5 node containers, wait for systemd,<br/>wire lab DNS + IPs, install the project on every node"]
subgraph matrix["Variant matrix - one round per variant of the primary app"]
purge["Remove the prior round's stacks<br/>(rounds after the first)"]
prov["Provision the round's inventory and deploy the app stack"]
t_pre["⚡ Service-loader preload (MODE_BACKUP):<br/>volume + secrets units instant-start on the manager,<br/>nfs unit on the export host - pre-state snapshot<br/>before the deploy mutates anything"]
conv["Wait until every stack service converges"]
reach["Probe the app is reachable in-cluster"]
bkphost["Deploy the backup host<br/>(round 1 only: pull + device roles on bkp-01)"]
t_term["Terminator at that play's end:<br/>the lab deploys with --skip-backup, so MODE_BACKUP is false<br/>and remote-2-local stays out of the final run list -<br/>the drill is the only caller that starts the pull"]
subgraph drill["Disaster-recovery drill (round 1 only)"]
d1["Seed markers on the live NFS volume<br/>and in the manager secrets"]
t_d2["⚡ Trigger the deployed backup units again:<br/>volume + secrets on the manager,<br/>nfs on the export host - markers get captured"]
d3["Locate the backup generation holding the marker;<br/>assert the volume repo is fresh and non-empty<br/>(its NFS-backed volumes are excluded by design)"]
t_d4["⚡ Install the ssh pull identity, then start<br/>the remote-2-local unit: bkp-01 pulls every provider"]
t_d5["⚡ Space gate (pulled tree + watchdog floor,<br/>du breakdown on failure), then plug a LUKS loop<br/>device as simulated USB: the .mount unit fires<br/>the local-2-device unit"]
d6["Recover device -> local backup root<br/>(full LUKS open; the pulled tree is wiped first,<br/>so the device holds the only copy)"]
d7["Remove the stack, wipe the live NFS export<br/>(marker proven gone), recover it from the local<br/>root, restore NFS coherence"]
d8["Delete the marker server-side, recover the docker<br/>volume through its NFS-mounted mountpoint and<br/>re-verify on the server; recover the host secrets"]
d9["Redeploy the stack, assert the marker<br/>is back on the live volume"]
d1 --> t_d2 --> d3 --> t_d4 --> t_d5 --> d6 --> d7 --> d8 --> d9
end
purge --> prov --> t_pre --> conv --> reach --> bkphost --> t_term --> drill
drill -.->|next variant round| purge
end
subgraph chaos["Chaos phase (against the last round's stack)"]
seed["Seed a marker file on the app's NFS volume"]
drain["Drain the worker running the app,<br/>forcing a reschedule to another node"]
assertion["Assert the marker and reachability<br/>survived the reschedule"]
seed --> drain --> assertion
end
teardown["Tear down: collect diagnostics + Playwright<br/>reports on failure, kill nodes, remove the lab network"]
boot --> matrix --> chaos --> teardown
classDef trigger fill:#f7e28b,stroke:#b8860b,color:#000
class t_pre,t_d2,t_d4,t_d5 trigger
The nightly timers (volume 01:00, nfs 01:30, secrets 01:45, device 02:00, remote pull 00:30) run independently of every step above and never fire during a lab run.
Scripts per step: bring-up 01_bootstrap.sh - provision 02_provision_inventory.sh - converge 03_wait_converge.sh - reachability 04_verify_reachable.sh - drill backup/base.sh - marker 05_seed_content.sh - drain 06_drain_worker.sh - assert 07_assert_state.sh - purge ../utils/clean/purge_stacks.sh.