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Replace deploy.sh's forced restart with idempotent up.sh (pull+up), drop Watchtower-style label thinking #100

Description

@ineedjet

Problem

deploy.sh currently calls restart.sh for every app in APPS (except
Watchtower-labeled ones):

forappin"${apps[@]}";do
...
"$(dirname "$0")/restart.sh""$app"done

restart.sh is down.sh + up.sh — an unconditional, forced stop+start
regardless of whether anything about that app actually changed. So every
deploy (core release, config change, or in principle a scheduled check)
restarts every non-Watchtower app, whether or not it needed to. There's no
way today to do a predictable, targeted update of one service without
bypassing the pipeline and SSHing in by hand.

Discussion summary

Explored several designs for distinguishing "full stack redeploy" from
"point update of one service," roughly in this order:

  1. A dedicated label (Watchtower-style) marking which apps auto-update vs
    need explicit control.
  2. No label — infer predictability from pin depth (floating tag vs exact
    patch vs digest pin).
  3. A per-app state file recording {core_version, config_version, digest},
    compared on every run to decide what to restart.
  4. Realized this state file is unnecessary: docker compose pull +
    docker compose up -d is already idempotent per service — it compares
    the freshly pulled image digest and the full resolved service config
    (env vars, volumes, labels, etc.) against what the running container was
    created from, and only recreates what actually changed. This also
    naturally handles multi-container apps (compose files with 2-3 services)
    at the right granularity, for free.

Proposed change

Swap deploy.sh's per-app step from restart.sh (forced down.sh +
up.sh) to plain up.sh (docker compose pull + docker compose up -d,
no forced down.sh). This alone makes the per-app step safe to call
unconditionally on any trigger — cron, PR merge, core release — without
deciding in advance whether it's a "full reload" or a "point update."
Docker Compose's own reconciliation decides per container/service.

The only remaining decision that isn't already handled by Compose is at the
whole-server level, not per-app: whether to re-fetch a new release bundle
at all (i.e. has flightdeck_app_ref / the config repo's version actually
changed since last run) — worth gating since it's comparatively expensive
I/O (download, extract, new timestamped release dir, symlink switch), unlike
the cheap/idempotent up.sh step.

Follow-ups considered, not required for this change

  • A scheduled (cron) shared workflow reusing deploy-shared.yml's
    Tailscale/SSH plumbing to run up.sh periodically across all apps —
    effectively replaces Watchtower without introducing a separate service,
    container, or label, since pin depth/digest pinning alone already governs
    predictability (an app pinned by @sha256:... digest never drifts; a
    floating tag does, on whatever cadence the cron runs).
  • No separate mechanism needed for "my own app republished a new version" —
    it's the same floating-tag-drift case, caught by the same cron.
  • No separate mechanism needed for a Dependabot/Renovate-style PR bumping a
    pinned tag in the config repo — the env/image pin change flows through
    generate-env.sh + up.sh like any other config change, and Compose's
    config-hash comparison picks it up automatically.

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      Replace deploy.sh's forced restart with idempotent up.sh (pull+up), drop Watchtower-style label thinking · Issue #100 · rubykatzen/flightdeck · GitHub
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      Replace deploy.sh's forced restart with idempotent up.sh (pull+up), drop Watchtower-style label thinking #100

      Description

      @ineedjet

      Problem

      deploy.sh currently calls restart.sh for every app in APPS (except
      Watchtower-labeled ones):

      forappin"${apps[@]}";do
      ...
      "$(dirname "$0")/restart.sh""$app"done

      restart.sh is down.sh + up.sh — an unconditional, forced stop+start
      regardless of whether anything about that app actually changed. So every
      deploy (core release, config change, or in principle a scheduled check)
      restarts every non-Watchtower app, whether or not it needed to. There's no
      way today to do a predictable, targeted update of one service without
      bypassing the pipeline and SSHing in by hand.

      Discussion summary

      Explored several designs for distinguishing "full stack redeploy" from
      "point update of one service," roughly in this order:

      1. A dedicated label (Watchtower-style) marking which apps auto-update vs
        need explicit control.
      2. No label — infer predictability from pin depth (floating tag vs exact
        patch vs digest pin).
      3. A per-app state file recording {core_version, config_version, digest},
        compared on every run to decide what to restart.
      4. Realized this state file is unnecessary: docker compose pull +
        docker compose up -d is already idempotent per service — it compares
        the freshly pulled image digest and the full resolved service config
        (env vars, volumes, labels, etc.) against what the running container was
        created from, and only recreates what actually changed. This also
        naturally handles multi-container apps (compose files with 2-3 services)
        at the right granularity, for free.

      Proposed change

      Swap deploy.sh's per-app step from restart.sh (forced down.sh +
      up.sh) to plain up.sh (docker compose pull + docker compose up -d,
      no forced down.sh). This alone makes the per-app step safe to call
      unconditionally on any trigger — cron, PR merge, core release — without
      deciding in advance whether it's a "full reload" or a "point update."
      Docker Compose's own reconciliation decides per container/service.

      The only remaining decision that isn't already handled by Compose is at the
      whole-server level, not per-app: whether to re-fetch a new release bundle
      at all (i.e. has flightdeck_app_ref / the config repo's version actually
      changed since last run) — worth gating since it's comparatively expensive
      I/O (download, extract, new timestamped release dir, symlink switch), unlike
      the cheap/idempotent up.sh step.

      Follow-ups considered, not required for this change

      • A scheduled (cron) shared workflow reusing deploy-shared.yml's
        Tailscale/SSH plumbing to run up.sh periodically across all apps —
        effectively replaces Watchtower without introducing a separate service,
        container, or label, since pin depth/digest pinning alone already governs
        predictability (an app pinned by @sha256:... digest never drifts; a
        floating tag does, on whatever cadence the cron runs).
      • No separate mechanism needed for "my own app republished a new version" —
        it's the same floating-tag-drift case, caught by the same cron.
      • No separate mechanism needed for a Dependabot/Renovate-style PR bumping a
        pinned tag in the config repo — the env/image pin change flows through
        generate-env.sh + up.sh like any other config change, and Compose's
        config-hash comparison picks it up automatically.

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          Replace deploy.sh's forced restart with idempotent up.sh (pull+up), drop Watchtower-style label thinking #100

          Description

          @ineedjet

          Problem

          deploy.sh currently calls restart.sh for every app in APPS (except
          Watchtower-labeled ones):

          forappin"${apps[@]}";do
          ...
          "$(dirname "$0")/restart.sh""$app"done

          restart.sh is down.sh + up.sh — an unconditional, forced stop+start
          regardless of whether anything about that app actually changed. So every
          deploy (core release, config change, or in principle a scheduled check)
          restarts every non-Watchtower app, whether or not it needed to. There's no
          way today to do a predictable, targeted update of one service without
          bypassing the pipeline and SSHing in by hand.

          Discussion summary

          Explored several designs for distinguishing "full stack redeploy" from
          "point update of one service," roughly in this order:

          1. A dedicated label (Watchtower-style) marking which apps auto-update vs
            need explicit control.
          2. No label — infer predictability from pin depth (floating tag vs exact
            patch vs digest pin).
          3. A per-app state file recording {core_version, config_version, digest},
            compared on every run to decide what to restart.
          4. Realized this state file is unnecessary: docker compose pull +
            docker compose up -d is already idempotent per service — it compares
            the freshly pulled image digest and the full resolved service config
            (env vars, volumes, labels, etc.) against what the running container was
            created from, and only recreates what actually changed. This also
            naturally handles multi-container apps (compose files with 2-3 services)
            at the right granularity, for free.

          Proposed change

          Swap deploy.sh's per-app step from restart.sh (forced down.sh +
          up.sh) to plain up.sh (docker compose pull + docker compose up -d,
          no forced down.sh). This alone makes the per-app step safe to call
          unconditionally on any trigger — cron, PR merge, core release — without
          deciding in advance whether it's a "full reload" or a "point update."
          Docker Compose's own reconciliation decides per container/service.

          The only remaining decision that isn't already handled by Compose is at the
          whole-server level, not per-app: whether to re-fetch a new release bundle
          at all (i.e. has flightdeck_app_ref / the config repo's version actually
          changed since last run) — worth gating since it's comparatively expensive
          I/O (download, extract, new timestamped release dir, symlink switch), unlike
          the cheap/idempotent up.sh step.

          Follow-ups considered, not required for this change

          • A scheduled (cron) shared workflow reusing deploy-shared.yml's
            Tailscale/SSH plumbing to run up.sh periodically across all apps —
            effectively replaces Watchtower without introducing a separate service,
            container, or label, since pin depth/digest pinning alone already governs
            predictability (an app pinned by @sha256:... digest never drifts; a
            floating tag does, on whatever cadence the cron runs).
          • No separate mechanism needed for "my own app republished a new version" —
            it's the same floating-tag-drift case, caught by the same cron.
          • No separate mechanism needed for a Dependabot/Renovate-style PR bumping a
            pinned tag in the config repo — the env/image pin change flows through
            generate-env.sh + up.sh like any other config change, and Compose's
            config-hash comparison picks it up automatically.

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              Replace deploy.sh's forced restart with idempotent up.sh (pull+up), drop Watchtower-style label thinking #100

              Description

              @ineedjet

              Problem

              deploy.sh currently calls restart.sh for every app in APPS (except
              Watchtower-labeled ones):

              forappin"${apps[@]}";do
              ...
              "$(dirname "$0")/restart.sh""$app"done

              restart.sh is down.sh + up.sh — an unconditional, forced stop+start
              regardless of whether anything about that app actually changed. So every
              deploy (core release, config change, or in principle a scheduled check)
              restarts every non-Watchtower app, whether or not it needed to. There's no
              way today to do a predictable, targeted update of one service without
              bypassing the pipeline and SSHing in by hand.

              Discussion summary

              Explored several designs for distinguishing "full stack redeploy" from
              "point update of one service," roughly in this order:

              1. A dedicated label (Watchtower-style) marking which apps auto-update vs
                need explicit control.
              2. No label — infer predictability from pin depth (floating tag vs exact
                patch vs digest pin).
              3. A per-app state file recording {core_version, config_version, digest},
                compared on every run to decide what to restart.
              4. Realized this state file is unnecessary: docker compose pull +
                docker compose up -d is already idempotent per service — it compares
                the freshly pulled image digest and the full resolved service config
                (env vars, volumes, labels, etc.) against what the running container was
                created from, and only recreates what actually changed. This also
                naturally handles multi-container apps (compose files with 2-3 services)
                at the right granularity, for free.

              Proposed change

              Swap deploy.sh's per-app step from restart.sh (forced down.sh +
              up.sh) to plain up.sh (docker compose pull + docker compose up -d,
              no forced down.sh). This alone makes the per-app step safe to call
              unconditionally on any trigger — cron, PR merge, core release — without
              deciding in advance whether it's a "full reload" or a "point update."
              Docker Compose's own reconciliation decides per container/service.

              The only remaining decision that isn't already handled by Compose is at the
              whole-server level, not per-app: whether to re-fetch a new release bundle
              at all (i.e. has flightdeck_app_ref / the config repo's version actually
              changed since last run) — worth gating since it's comparatively expensive
              I/O (download, extract, new timestamped release dir, symlink switch), unlike
              the cheap/idempotent up.sh step.

              Follow-ups considered, not required for this change

              • A scheduled (cron) shared workflow reusing deploy-shared.yml's
                Tailscale/SSH plumbing to run up.sh periodically across all apps —
                effectively replaces Watchtower without introducing a separate service,
                container, or label, since pin depth/digest pinning alone already governs
                predictability (an app pinned by @sha256:... digest never drifts; a
                floating tag does, on whatever cadence the cron runs).
              • No separate mechanism needed for "my own app republished a new version" —
                it's the same floating-tag-drift case, caught by the same cron.
              • No separate mechanism needed for a Dependabot/Renovate-style PR bumping a
                pinned tag in the config repo — the env/image pin change flows through
                generate-env.sh + up.sh like any other config change, and Compose's
                config-hash comparison picks it up automatically.

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                  Replace deploy.sh's forced restart with idempotent up.sh (pull+up), drop Watchtower-style label thinking #100

                  Description

                  @ineedjet

                  Problem

                  deploy.sh currently calls restart.sh for every app in APPS (except
                  Watchtower-labeled ones):

                  forappin"${apps[@]}";do
                  ...
                  "$(dirname "$0")/restart.sh""$app"done

                  restart.sh is down.sh + up.sh — an unconditional, forced stop+start
                  regardless of whether anything about that app actually changed. So every
                  deploy (core release, config change, or in principle a scheduled check)
                  restarts every non-Watchtower app, whether or not it needed to. There's no
                  way today to do a predictable, targeted update of one service without
                  bypassing the pipeline and SSHing in by hand.

                  Discussion summary

                  Explored several designs for distinguishing "full stack redeploy" from
                  "point update of one service," roughly in this order:

                  1. A dedicated label (Watchtower-style) marking which apps auto-update vs
                    need explicit control.
                  2. No label — infer predictability from pin depth (floating tag vs exact
                    patch vs digest pin).
                  3. A per-app state file recording {core_version, config_version, digest},
                    compared on every run to decide what to restart.
                  4. Realized this state file is unnecessary: docker compose pull +
                    docker compose up -d is already idempotent per service — it compares
                    the freshly pulled image digest and the full resolved service config
                    (env vars, volumes, labels, etc.) against what the running container was
                    created from, and only recreates what actually changed. This also
                    naturally handles multi-container apps (compose files with 2-3 services)
                    at the right granularity, for free.

                  Proposed change

                  Swap deploy.sh's per-app step from restart.sh (forced down.sh +
                  up.sh) to plain up.sh (docker compose pull + docker compose up -d,
                  no forced down.sh). This alone makes the per-app step safe to call
                  unconditionally on any trigger — cron, PR merge, core release — without
                  deciding in advance whether it's a "full reload" or a "point update."
                  Docker Compose's own reconciliation decides per container/service.

                  The only remaining decision that isn't already handled by Compose is at the
                  whole-server level, not per-app: whether to re-fetch a new release bundle
                  at all (i.e. has flightdeck_app_ref / the config repo's version actually
                  changed since last run) — worth gating since it's comparatively expensive
                  I/O (download, extract, new timestamped release dir, symlink switch), unlike
                  the cheap/idempotent up.sh step.

                  Follow-ups considered, not required for this change

                  • A scheduled (cron) shared workflow reusing deploy-shared.yml's
                    Tailscale/SSH plumbing to run up.sh periodically across all apps —
                    effectively replaces Watchtower without introducing a separate service,
                    container, or label, since pin depth/digest pinning alone already governs
                    predictability (an app pinned by @sha256:... digest never drifts; a
                    floating tag does, on whatever cadence the cron runs).
                  • No separate mechanism needed for "my own app republished a new version" —
                    it's the same floating-tag-drift case, caught by the same cron.
                  • No separate mechanism needed for a Dependabot/Renovate-style PR bumping a
                    pinned tag in the config repo — the env/image pin change flows through
                    generate-env.sh + up.sh like any other config change, and Compose's
                    config-hash comparison picks it up automatically.

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                      Replace deploy.sh's forced restart with idempotent up.sh (pull+up), drop Watchtower-style label thinking #100

                      Description

                      @ineedjet

                      Problem

                      deploy.sh currently calls restart.sh for every app in APPS (except
                      Watchtower-labeled ones):

                      forappin"${apps[@]}";do
                      ...
                      "$(dirname "$0")/restart.sh""$app"done

                      restart.sh is down.sh + up.sh — an unconditional, forced stop+start
                      regardless of whether anything about that app actually changed. So every
                      deploy (core release, config change, or in principle a scheduled check)
                      restarts every non-Watchtower app, whether or not it needed to. There's no
                      way today to do a predictable, targeted update of one service without
                      bypassing the pipeline and SSHing in by hand.

                      Discussion summary

                      Explored several designs for distinguishing "full stack redeploy" from
                      "point update of one service," roughly in this order:

                      1. A dedicated label (Watchtower-style) marking which apps auto-update vs
                        need explicit control.
                      2. No label — infer predictability from pin depth (floating tag vs exact
                        patch vs digest pin).
                      3. A per-app state file recording {core_version, config_version, digest},
                        compared on every run to decide what to restart.
                      4. Realized this state file is unnecessary: docker compose pull +
                        docker compose up -d is already idempotent per service — it compares
                        the freshly pulled image digest and the full resolved service config
                        (env vars, volumes, labels, etc.) against what the running container was
                        created from, and only recreates what actually changed. This also
                        naturally handles multi-container apps (compose files with 2-3 services)
                        at the right granularity, for free.

                      Proposed change

                      Swap deploy.sh's per-app step from restart.sh (forced down.sh +
                      up.sh) to plain up.sh (docker compose pull + docker compose up -d,
                      no forced down.sh). This alone makes the per-app step safe to call
                      unconditionally on any trigger — cron, PR merge, core release — without
                      deciding in advance whether it's a "full reload" or a "point update."
                      Docker Compose's own reconciliation decides per container/service.

                      The only remaining decision that isn't already handled by Compose is at the
                      whole-server level, not per-app: whether to re-fetch a new release bundle
                      at all (i.e. has flightdeck_app_ref / the config repo's version actually
                      changed since last run) — worth gating since it's comparatively expensive
                      I/O (download, extract, new timestamped release dir, symlink switch), unlike
                      the cheap/idempotent up.sh step.

                      Follow-ups considered, not required for this change

                      • A scheduled (cron) shared workflow reusing deploy-shared.yml's
                        Tailscale/SSH plumbing to run up.sh periodically across all apps —
                        effectively replaces Watchtower without introducing a separate service,
                        container, or label, since pin depth/digest pinning alone already governs
                        predictability (an app pinned by @sha256:... digest never drifts; a
                        floating tag does, on whatever cadence the cron runs).
                      • No separate mechanism needed for "my own app republished a new version" —
                        it's the same floating-tag-drift case, caught by the same cron.
                      • No separate mechanism needed for a Dependabot/Renovate-style PR bumping a
                        pinned tag in the config repo — the env/image pin change flows through
                        generate-env.sh + up.sh like any other config change, and Compose's
                        config-hash comparison picks it up automatically.

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                          Replace deploy.sh's forced restart with idempotent up.sh (pull+up), drop Watchtower-style label thinking #100

                          Description

                          @ineedjet

                          Problem

                          deploy.sh currently calls restart.sh for every app in APPS (except
                          Watchtower-labeled ones):

                          forappin"${apps[@]}";do
                          ...
                          "$(dirname "$0")/restart.sh""$app"done

                          restart.sh is down.sh + up.sh — an unconditional, forced stop+start
                          regardless of whether anything about that app actually changed. So every
                          deploy (core release, config change, or in principle a scheduled check)
                          restarts every non-Watchtower app, whether or not it needed to. There's no
                          way today to do a predictable, targeted update of one service without
                          bypassing the pipeline and SSHing in by hand.

                          Discussion summary

                          Explored several designs for distinguishing "full stack redeploy" from
                          "point update of one service," roughly in this order:

                          1. A dedicated label (Watchtower-style) marking which apps auto-update vs
                            need explicit control.
                          2. No label — infer predictability from pin depth (floating tag vs exact
                            patch vs digest pin).
                          3. A per-app state file recording {core_version, config_version, digest},
                            compared on every run to decide what to restart.
                          4. Realized this state file is unnecessary: docker compose pull +
                            docker compose up -d is already idempotent per service — it compares
                            the freshly pulled image digest and the full resolved service config
                            (env vars, volumes, labels, etc.) against what the running container was
                            created from, and only recreates what actually changed. This also
                            naturally handles multi-container apps (compose files with 2-3 services)
                            at the right granularity, for free.

                          Proposed change

                          Swap deploy.sh's per-app step from restart.sh (forced down.sh +
                          up.sh) to plain up.sh (docker compose pull + docker compose up -d,
                          no forced down.sh). This alone makes the per-app step safe to call
                          unconditionally on any trigger — cron, PR merge, core release — without
                          deciding in advance whether it's a "full reload" or a "point update."
                          Docker Compose's own reconciliation decides per container/service.

                          The only remaining decision that isn't already handled by Compose is at the
                          whole-server level, not per-app: whether to re-fetch a new release bundle
                          at all (i.e. has flightdeck_app_ref / the config repo's version actually
                          changed since last run) — worth gating since it's comparatively expensive
                          I/O (download, extract, new timestamped release dir, symlink switch), unlike
                          the cheap/idempotent up.sh step.

                          Follow-ups considered, not required for this change

                          • A scheduled (cron) shared workflow reusing deploy-shared.yml's
                            Tailscale/SSH plumbing to run up.sh periodically across all apps —
                            effectively replaces Watchtower without introducing a separate service,
                            container, or label, since pin depth/digest pinning alone already governs
                            predictability (an app pinned by @sha256:... digest never drifts; a
                            floating tag does, on whatever cadence the cron runs).
                          • No separate mechanism needed for "my own app republished a new version" —
                            it's the same floating-tag-drift case, caught by the same cron.
                          • No separate mechanism needed for a Dependabot/Renovate-style PR bumping a
                            pinned tag in the config repo — the env/image pin change flows through
                            generate-env.sh + up.sh like any other config change, and Compose's
                            config-hash comparison picks it up automatically.

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                              Replace deploy.sh's forced restart with idempotent up.sh (pull+up), drop Watchtower-style label thinking #100

                              Description

                              @ineedjet

                              Problem

                              deploy.sh currently calls restart.sh for every app in APPS (except
                              Watchtower-labeled ones):

                              forappin"${apps[@]}";do
                              ...
                              "$(dirname "$0")/restart.sh""$app"done

                              restart.sh is down.sh + up.sh — an unconditional, forced stop+start
                              regardless of whether anything about that app actually changed. So every
                              deploy (core release, config change, or in principle a scheduled check)
                              restarts every non-Watchtower app, whether or not it needed to. There's no
                              way today to do a predictable, targeted update of one service without
                              bypassing the pipeline and SSHing in by hand.

                              Discussion summary

                              Explored several designs for distinguishing "full stack redeploy" from
                              "point update of one service," roughly in this order:

                              1. A dedicated label (Watchtower-style) marking which apps auto-update vs
                                need explicit control.
                              2. No label — infer predictability from pin depth (floating tag vs exact
                                patch vs digest pin).
                              3. A per-app state file recording {core_version, config_version, digest},
                                compared on every run to decide what to restart.
                              4. Realized this state file is unnecessary: docker compose pull +
                                docker compose up -d is already idempotent per service — it compares
                                the freshly pulled image digest and the full resolved service config
                                (env vars, volumes, labels, etc.) against what the running container was
                                created from, and only recreates what actually changed. This also
                                naturally handles multi-container apps (compose files with 2-3 services)
                                at the right granularity, for free.

                              Proposed change

                              Swap deploy.sh's per-app step from restart.sh (forced down.sh +
                              up.sh) to plain up.sh (docker compose pull + docker compose up -d,
                              no forced down.sh). This alone makes the per-app step safe to call
                              unconditionally on any trigger — cron, PR merge, core release — without
                              deciding in advance whether it's a "full reload" or a "point update."
                              Docker Compose's own reconciliation decides per container/service.

                              The only remaining decision that isn't already handled by Compose is at the
                              whole-server level, not per-app: whether to re-fetch a new release bundle
                              at all (i.e. has flightdeck_app_ref / the config repo's version actually
                              changed since last run) — worth gating since it's comparatively expensive
                              I/O (download, extract, new timestamped release dir, symlink switch), unlike
                              the cheap/idempotent up.sh step.

                              Follow-ups considered, not required for this change

                              • A scheduled (cron) shared workflow reusing deploy-shared.yml's
                                Tailscale/SSH plumbing to run up.sh periodically across all apps —
                                effectively replaces Watchtower without introducing a separate service,
                                container, or label, since pin depth/digest pinning alone already governs
                                predictability (an app pinned by @sha256:... digest never drifts; a
                                floating tag does, on whatever cadence the cron runs).
                              • No separate mechanism needed for "my own app republished a new version" —
                                it's the same floating-tag-drift case, caught by the same cron.
                              • No separate mechanism needed for a Dependabot/Renovate-style PR bumping a
                                pinned tag in the config repo — the env/image pin change flows through
                                generate-env.sh + up.sh like any other config change, and Compose's
                                config-hash comparison picks it up automatically.

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