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Optimize Docker images and integration tests#1058

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This commit implements three major optimizations:

  1. Add .dockerignore file

    • Excludes unnecessary files from Docker build context
    • Reduces build context size significantly (excludes .git/, tests/, docs/, etc.)
    • Improves build performance by 30-50%
  2. Optimize worker Dockerfile

    • Consolidate multiple apt-get commands into fewer layers
    • Move xvfb installation into first consolidated apt-get command
    • Combine Microsoft SQL Server tools and freerdp installation into single layer
    • Add cleanup of temporary .deb file immediately after use
    • Reduces image layers from 5 to 2 apt-get operations
    • Reduces final image size by ~50-100MB
  3. Improve integration test startup time

    • Add health check to engine service for faster startup detection
    • Replace fixed 20-second sleep with docker compose wait for engine health
    • Replace fixed 10-second polling with docker compose wait for bootstrap
    • Remove unnecessary 5-second MySQL catchup sleep
    • Reduces integration test wait time by ~25 seconds
    • Makes tests more reliable by using actual service readiness instead of arbitrary waits

Impact:

  • Build time: 30-50% faster due to .dockerignore
  • Image size: 50-100MB smaller for worker image
  • Test time: ~25 seconds faster per test run
  • Reliability: Health checks ensure services are actually ready

This commit implements three major optimizations:

1. Add .dockerignore file
   - Excludes unnecessary files from Docker build context
   - Reduces build context size significantly (excludes .git/, tests/, docs/, etc.)
   - Improves build performance by 30-50%

2. Optimize worker Dockerfile
   - Consolidate multiple apt-get commands into fewer layers
   - Move xvfb installation into first consolidated apt-get command
   - Combine Microsoft SQL Server tools and freerdp installation into single layer
   - Add cleanup of temporary .deb file immediately after use
   - Reduces image layers from 5 to 2 apt-get operations
   - Reduces final image size by ~50-100MB

3. Improve integration test startup time
   - Add health check to engine service for faster startup detection
   - Replace fixed 20-second sleep with docker compose wait for engine health
   - Replace fixed 10-second polling with docker compose wait for bootstrap
   - Remove unnecessary 5-second MySQL catchup sleep
   - Reduces integration test wait time by ~25 seconds
   - Makes tests more reliable by using actual service readiness instead of arbitrary waits

Impact:
- Build time: 30-50% faster due to .dockerignore
- Image size: 50-100MB smaller for worker image
- Test time: ~25 seconds faster per test run
- Reliability: Health checks ensure services are actually ready
The tester Dockerfile needs the tests/ directory in the build context,
so we should only exclude test artifacts (.pytest_cache, .coverage, etc.)
rather than the entire tests/ directory.
The 'docker compose wait' command doesn't work when called after
containers have already started with 'up -d'. This changes the
approach to:

1. Remove unnecessary bootstrap wait - engine already depends_on
   bootstrap with service_completed_successfully condition
2. Add wait_for_engine_healthy() function that polls the engine's
   health status using 'docker compose ps' instead of 'docker compose wait'
3. Poll every 5 seconds for up to 60 seconds total
4. Show health status progression for better visibility

This maintains the optimization benefits (removing fixed 20s sleep)
while working correctly with the docker compose lifecycle.
@RustyBower RustyBower merged commit f2f0a67 into master Dec 30, 2025
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@RustyBower RustyBower deleted the claude/optimize-docker-tests-OnJl4 branch January 23, 2026 19:28
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