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claude-hdb 8deaeac07b feat: place a resource on a destination — and a state file that can say which (#21)
A destination is the Docker network a resource is created on. cast never sent
one, so everything landed on the server's default — invisible and harmless while
each server hosts one project, and neither the moment a server hosts two.

The state file had nowhere to say otherwise, either. A destination is scoped
project × environment, and `environments.<env>` is scoped by environment alone:
a `destination:` key there would mean "one network shared by every project in
this environment", which is the isolation it is meant to provide, inverted.

So:

- `environments.<env>.projects.<repo>` — per-project state, keyed by repo, full
  `<org>/<repo>` slug first with a bare-`<repo>` fallback, exactly like
  `github_apps`. It carries `destination_uuid` and `smoke_target`.
- `smoke_target` moves there. It was state-file-scoped: it named ONE project's
  app (`core`) from a key that could not tell two projects apart — or even prod's
  app from staging's. The old key is still read (with a warning), so an unmigrated
  state file keeps smoking, and `cast smoke` now takes an optional `<org>/<repo>`.
- `apply` sends `destination_uuid` on create, for applications, databases and
  services alike — Coolify runs identical destination logic in all three.

The API turns out to be worse than the issue assumed, in a way that changes what
"diff should compare the destination" can honestly mean. Verified against
coollabsio/coolify v4.1.2 (routes/api.php + the three Api controllers), and
written up in reference/README.md:

- There is NO destinations API. Zero routes. A destination cannot be listed, read
  or resolved by name — only a raw UUID from the UI identifies one, exactly as
  with `s3_destination`. Hence `destination_uuid:` and not `destination:`.
- The field is WRITE-ONLY. Coolify takes `destination_uuid` on write and returns
  `destination_id` (an integer PK) on read, with nothing mapping between them.
- On a server with >1 destination, a create that OMITS it is a hard 400. So cast
  could not deploy onto a shared box at all — it did not silently misplace there,
  it simply failed. On a single-destination server the uuid is ignored entirely
  and never validated, so a wrong one is invisible until a second one exists.

A declared UUID therefore cannot be verified against the resource it was sent
for — by cast or by anything else. Diffing it as a field would compare a UUID to
an int and report drift that never clears, so it is reported rather than compared,
and the limit is stated out loud: every diff that declares a destination says it
did not verify it. Silence would make an unverified setting read as a verified
one, which is the failure shape #12/#14/#17/#18 are all about.

What IS comparable is the live side to itself. `diff` groups live resources by the
`destination_id` Coolify does report, and a project whose resources do not all
share one network is drift — non-clean, both sides named, and never repaired
(apply moves nothing between networks). That catches the thing actually worth
catching, including on a box whose destinations were made by hand.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 19:31:02 +00:00
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