Auto-apply migrations on deploy (entrypoint + one-shot service)

So a deploy never needs a manual `alembic upgrade head`:

- Backend image gains an entrypoint that runs `alembic upgrade head` before
  uvicorn when RUN_MIGRATIONS=1 (set on the backend service). This self-migrates
  even on a Watchtower in-place image swap, which doesn't re-run one-shot jobs.
- A one-shot `migrate` service covers the `docker compose up` path; backend and
  worker depend on it completing, which also serializes it with the backend
  entrypoint so alembic never runs concurrently. `upgrade head` is idempotent.

Activating this needs the updated compose on the host once (Watchtower only
swaps images, not the compose file / env). After that, migrations are automatic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -40,12 +40,36 @@ services:
retries: 10
restart: unless-stopped
# One-shot schema migration: runs `alembic upgrade head` and exits. Backend
# and worker wait for it to finish, so on `docker compose up` the schema is
# always current before the app serves traffic — no manual migrate step.
# NOTE: a pure Watchtower image-swap recreates only the long-running
# containers, not this one-shot job, so Watchtower deploys should be paired
# with a `compose up` (see deploy docs) to re-run migrations.
migrate:
image: git.jpaul.io/justin/provenance-backend:${IMAGE_TAG:-test-main}
command: ["uv", "run", "--no-dev", "alembic", "upgrade", "head"]
labels:
com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable: "true"
environment:
APP_ENV: ${APP_ENV:-development}
DATABASE_URL: ${DATABASE_URL:-postgresql+asyncpg://provenance:provenance@postgres:5432/provenance}
depends_on:
postgres:
condition: service_healthy
restart: "no"
backend:
image: git.jpaul.io/justin/provenance-backend:${IMAGE_TAG:-test-main}
labels:
com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable: "true"
environment:
APP_ENV: ${APP_ENV:-development}
# Self-migrate on start so a Watchtower in-place image swap applies any new
# migrations (idempotent). The one-shot `migrate` service covers the same
# for `compose up`; the depends_on below serializes them so they never run
# alembic concurrently.
RUN_MIGRATIONS: "1"
DATABASE_URL: ${DATABASE_URL:-postgresql+asyncpg://provenance:provenance@postgres:5432/provenance}
S3_ENDPOINT_URL: ${S3_ENDPOINT_URL:-http://minio:9000}
S3_BUCKET: ${S3_BUCKET:-provenance}
@@ -57,6 +81,8 @@ services:
condition: service_healthy
minio:
condition: service_healthy
migrate:
condition: service_completed_successfully
healthcheck:
test:
- CMD-SHELL
@@ -89,6 +115,8 @@ services:
condition: service_healthy
minio:
condition: service_healthy
migrate:
condition: service_completed_successfully
restart: unless-stopped
frontend: