Pipeline: upload an environment-only page and desktop descriptor per version, then flag it as latest (OPE-433)

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Roadmap item 4 of Server list v2 (docs/MultiServer.md, designed in #5365): the deploy pipeline starts producing the objects the static Worker will serve, and tells the API which commit new players of a site should get.

Nothing reads any of this yet — the Worker does not exist and the API has no registry — so the uploads are additive and prod is unaffected. This lands before the cut because it touches CI.

What a deploy now publishes

Per site and per version, alongside the hashed assets and the existing index-<short>.html:

game_assets/sites/<site>/v/<short>/index.html
game_assets/sites/<site>/v/<short>/desktop/release.json
game_assets/sites/<site>/v/<short>/desktop/version.json

Site is SITE_HOST when the deployment sits behind a load balancer, else <subdomain>.<domain>; version is the 7-char prefix of static/commit.txt. All three go through the existing PUT $R2_ENDPOINT/game_assets/upload/<urlencoded key>, which prefixes game_assets/ itself — the key layout settled with the infra registry PR.

Both renderers run inside the freshly built image with the live container's env file, exactly as the replay shell already does, so what is published is what that build's server would itself have produced.

The page carries no server

renderHtmlContent(path, { perServer: false }) omits cluster, instanceLetter, instanceId, serverHost and siteHost. A page served to every player of a version must not name one server — the client asks the API for the server list instead.

index.html's three unconditional lines are now guarded exactly like serverHost and siteHost already were, so a render that supplies the locals is byte-for-byte what it always produced. I verified that directly: a throwaway test rendered origin/main's template and this one side by side under identical env and compared, for both a set and an empty INSTANCE_ID. The committed test asserts the exact rendered block instead — order, eight-space indentation, trailing commas.

No new placeholder was added. openfront-desktop renders this same template itself and a missing local is a ReferenceError, i.e. a blank window; guarding an existing one is safe, because the shell supplies a value and the line still emits. vendorTemplate.test.ts over there keeps passing.

The legacy index-<short>.html upload deliberately keeps the server values, until OPE-431 lands — today's client throws without a worker-count source.

The descriptors move earlier, not elsewhere

src/server/RenderDesktopDescriptor.ts builds the descriptor the game server already serves at /desktop/*.json, from the same buildDescriptor with the same env-derived opts (clientVersion = GIT_COMMIT, requireCdnBase iff prod), one deploy earlier. Publishing it per version lets the Worker answer for a site with no game server reachable, and makes a rollback a pointer flip rather than a redeploy. release.json's template.html stays the raw EJS template by design — the Steam shell renders it itself.

Worth a look: the CLI redirects stdout-bound logging to stderr before loading DesktopRelease. DesktopRelease imports Logger, and dotenv's "injected env" banner, Logger.ts's OTEL line and winston's Console transport (stdout for every level, including buildDescriptor's empty-cdnBase warning) all write to stdout. Any one of them would have prefixed release.json with prose that no Steam client can parse. That is why the module imports are dynamic — a static import is hoisted above the rebind, and prettier-plugin-organize-imports would reorder it anyway. There is a test asserting stdout is pure JSON while the noise is still readable on stderr.

Flagging latest

update.sh ends by POSTing { site, version } to ${R2_ENDPOINT}/cluster/latest. It runs last, after the new container is up, because the API refuses a version no server has checked in for — and that refusal is the interlock that stops a deploy pointing every player at a build that cannot serve them. There is no separate health wait in update.sh; this retry loop is the closest thing to one, and CI's own "Wait for deployment to start" polls /commit.txt afterwards.

Response	Outcome
200 / 204	Logged, done.
404	The API predates the registry. Warn and continue, never retried, never strict — the expected answer everywhere today.
409, 000, 5xx	Retried every 5s for up to 90s; servers register within ~10s of boot.
4xx	A bad key or malformed request. Decided immediately — retrying cannot fix it.

Past the retries it warns and continues, because the page and its servers still come from BOOTSTRAP_CONFIG and nothing a player sees has changed — unless CLUSTER_STATE_SOURCE=api is in the site's env file, which says its clients take the server list from the API. An unflagged version then means no server is open and nobody can start a game, so the deploy fails rather than reporting a success it did not achieve. The passthrough for that variable comes from #5366, so it is absent on every site today and the lenient path is what runs.

Two deliberate extensions to the spec: an unreachable or 500-ing API is treated like a 409 (the deploy is equally unfinished either way), and in strict mode any non-200/404 fails, not only 409. Silently succeeding on a 500 when clients read the API is the same failure 409-strict exists to prevent.

Tests

• tests/server/RenderHtml.test.ts — the environment-only and full renders of the real index.html. There was no test rendering it before; every existing case used a one-line stub. Also pins that instanceId survives a full render when it is empty (the guard keys off the rendered local, the JSON string "", which is truthy).
• tests/RenderDesktopDescriptor.test.ts — the CLI's output shape, the --version-pointer form, the production CDN requirement, and stdout purity. It stages the shipped file at the same relative depth against a fixture build rather than paraphrasing it, so the real argument handling and the real BuildOpts are what run.
• tests/UpdateFlagLatest.test.ts — flag_latest's decision table, extracted from update.sh between markers and driven by a scripted curl on PATH, the way tests/UpdateRestartPolicy.test.ts tests the restart policy.

npx tsc --noEmit, npm run lint, prettier --check and bash -n update.sh deploy.sh all clean; full npx vitest run green (451 files, 5539 tests).

Closes OPE-433.

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Walkthrough

The deployment flow publishes environment-only HTML and desktop descriptors by site and version. It adds descriptor generation, R2 uploads, latest-version flagging, guarded bootstrap fields, CLI validation, and integration-focused tests.

Changes

Static publishing and deployment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Environment-only rendering contracts src/server/RenderHtml.ts, src/server/RenderStaticIndex.ts, index.html, tests/server/RenderHtml.test.ts	Rendering can omit per-server values while preserving environment values. The static index CLI exposes this mode. Bootstrap fields remain guarded.
Desktop descriptor generation src/server/RenderDesktopDescriptor.ts, tests/RenderDesktopDescriptor.test.ts, .gitignore	The new CLI emits full or pointer-only descriptors as clean JSON. Tests cover arguments, logging, CDN validation, build failures, and staging cleanup.
Versioned upload and latest flagging update.sh, docs/MultiServer.md, tests/UpdateFlagLatest.test.ts	update.sh publishes three site/version objects to R2 and flags the deployed commit through the cluster API. Tests cover retries, accepted statuses, and API-state failure behavior.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant update.sh
  participant RenderStaticIndex
  participant RenderDesktopDescriptor
  participant R2
  participant ClusterAPI
  update.sh->>RenderStaticIndex: Render environment-only index
  update.sh->>RenderDesktopDescriptor: Render release and version descriptors
  update.sh->>R2: Upload site/version objects
  update.sh->>ClusterAPI: Flag deployed version as latest
  ClusterAPI-->>update.sh: Return status

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/MultiServer.md`:
- Around line 380-382: Update the outcome list in MultiServer.md to include 204
as a successful flag_latest response and 401/403-style client errors as
immediate failures that stop retries and fail deployment when
CLUSTER_STATE_SOURCE=api, matching the behavior covered by
UpdateFlagLatest.test.ts.

In `@src/server/RenderHtml.ts`:
- Line 73: Update RenderHtml and the client bootstrap flow so RenderStaticIndex
--environment-only does not produce a shell that ClientEnv.get() cannot
initialize from; either implement the environment-only bootstrap path before
server discovery or retain cluster, instanceLetter, and instanceId in the
rendered server locals. Add an integration test using the real client that
verifies this mode bootstraps successfully.

In `@tests/UpdateFlagLatest.test.ts`:
- Around line 86-87: Update the fake curl script in the test setup so the 000
response case exits with status 7 after printing its response, while leaving
other response cases unchanged and keeping this as a test-only change separate
from update.sh.

In `@update.sh`:
- Around line 439-444: Prevent the curl failure fallback in the update retry
logic from appending a second “000”: revise the command handling around the
cluster/latest request so a non-zero curl exit assigns a single fallback status
while preserving any captured output. Add a scripted non-zero exit case to
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Reviewed the deploy-pipeline changes that add per-version environment-only HTML rendering, a desktop descriptor upload, and a flag_latest API call (update.sh, src/server/RenderDesktopDescriptor.ts, src/server/RenderHtml.ts, src/server/RenderStaticIndex.ts, index.html, and associated tests/docs), covering:

• CLAUDE.md compliance (two independent passes)
• Obvious bugs / compile-time or logic errors (diff-only pass)
• Security and correctness issues in the newly introduced code (shell quoting/injection in update.sh, stdout/secret isolation in RenderDesktopDescriptor.ts, per-server data leakage in RenderHtml.ts's perServer option, EJS template guard correctness in index.html)

No clear, unambiguous CLAUDE.md violations were found, and no significant bugs or security issues were identified in the introduced code. The flag_latest retry/status-code logic, stdout-purity trick in the new CLI, and the perServer:false EJS guards were all traced through and hold up correctly.

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