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Backend part of #20843. The frontend part is stacked on this branch in a follow-up PR.

Designer now sets an app status in Storage and Resource Registry when an app is deployed or undeployed. This makes it possible to tell from metadata alone whether an app is active in an environment.

Deploy (POST /designer/api/{org}/{app}/deployments)

  • New optional appStatus field on the request. The only accepted values are UnderDevelopment and Completed. Any other value returns 400.
  • When appStatus is left out, the status of the most recent deploy to the same environment is reused. Undeploys are ignored, since they always carry Deprecated. If the app has never been deployed there, or that deploy has no status (it predates this change), the default is Completed for production and UnderDevelopment for every other environment (TT02, AT, YT). This lookup uses the new IDeploymentRepository.GetLatestDeploy.
  • The resolved status is written as status into the application metadata sent to Storage, and as status on the service resource published to Resource Registry. It is not written to applicationmetadata.json in the repository.

Undeploy

  • When an undeploy pipeline succeeds, DeploymentPipelinePollingJob sets status: Deprecated in the Storage metadata. It does this in the same update that already disables copy-instance.
  • It also fetches the existing service resource from Resource Registry and republishes it with Deprecated. The new IApplicationInformationService.UpdateResourceRegistryStatusAsync does this.
  • If the Resource Registry update fails, the failure is logged and the job carries on, so the completed event and the SignalR notification are still sent. No deploy event is recorded for it, because the frontend works out the deploy state from the last event.
  • The Resource Registry update runs even if the Storage update fails.
  • If the app was deployed to the environment again after the undeploy was requested, both updates are skipped, including the existing copy-instance disabling, so the newer deploy's status is kept.

Traceability

  • New nullable app_status column on designer.deployments, with an EF migration. Deploy rows store the resolved status and decommission rows store Deprecated. Existing rows stay null, and the API returns appStatus on each pipeline deployment.

Notes for reviewers

  • The Withdrawn status is left out of the enum, since it isn't used yet.
  • I could not confirm that Storage keeps the new status field. Application in Altinn/altinn-storage has no Status property today, so Storage probably drops the field until it adds one. Designer sends the field in any case.
  • Designer names the production environment production, and AltinnEnvironment.IsProd() only matches prod, so the default status logic checks for both names.

Verification

  • Related issues are connected (if applicable)
  • Your code builds clean without any errors or warnings
  • Manual testing done (required). Not tested against real Storage or Resource Registry. See the automated coverage below.
  • Relevant automated test added

Automated tests:

  • DeploymentServiceTest: checks the default and explicit status for each environment (at23, tt02, production), with and without a previous deploy, with a previous deploy that has no status, and a manual override of a previous status. It also checks that decommissions store Deprecated.
  • GetLatestDeployTests (DB integration): returns the newest deploy while ignoring a newer decommission, and returns null when the app was never deployed to the environment.
  • CreateTests (controller integration against Postgres): checks that the status reaches the response, the database row and the Storage request body, that a request without status reuses the status of a previous deploy stored in the database, and that Deprecated and Withdrawn return 400.
  • DeploymentPipelinePollingJobTest: checks that a successful undeploy writes Deprecated to Storage and Resource Registry, that a Resource Registry failure does not block completion, that a Storage failure does not skip Resource Registry, that nothing is deprecated when the app was deployed again after the undeploy, and that a deploy or failed undeploy leaves the status alone.
  • ApplicationInformationServiceTest: checks the env mapping (production becomes prod) and the not-found case.
  • Repository DB integration tests: AppStatus round-trips, including null.
  • Full Designer.Tests run: 1734 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed. yarn spell:check passes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Deployments can now carry an application status: Under development or Completed. If no status is supplied, the latest deployment’s status is reused where available; otherwise, a default is selected based on the environment.
    • Deployment status is reflected in application metadata and the Resource Registry.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Successfully undeploying an application marks it as Deprecated in metadata and the Resource Registry, unless a newer deployment exists.
    • Resource Registry update failures no longer prevent an undeployment from completing.

…ploy and undeploy

Deploying an app now registers an app status in both the application
metadata sent to Storage and the service resource published to Resource
Registry. The status defaults to UnderDevelopment for test environments and
Completed for production, and can be overridden with the optional
`appStatus` field on the create deployment request (UnderDevelopment or
Completed only).

When an undeploy pipeline succeeds, the status is set to Deprecated in
Storage and on the existing resource in Resource Registry.

The status is stored on the deployment row (nullable `app_status` column)
for traceability; existing deployments have no status.

Refs #20843
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Deployment requests can specify an application status. The status is stored with deployment records and propagated to application metadata and the Resource Registry. Decommissioning marks application metadata and the registry resource as Deprecated.

Changes

Application status lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Status contract and deployment storage
src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Models/AppStatus.cs, src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/ViewModels/Request/*, src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Models/DeploymentModel.cs, src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Repository/Models/DeploymentEntity.cs, src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Repository/ORMImplementation/{Data/EntityConfigurations/DeploymentConfiguration.cs,Mappers/DeploymentMapper.cs,Models/DeploymentDbModel.cs}, src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Migrations/*DeploymentsAppStatusColumn*, src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Migrations/DesignerdbContextModelSnapshot.cs, src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/DbIntegrationTests/DeploymentEntityRepository/*
Deployment requests accept UnderDevelopment or Completed, with null allowing an environment default. Deployment records store nullable status, which the ORM maps to and from the database string column. The migration adds nullable designer.deployments.app_status.
Deployment status selection and metadata updates
src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Interfaces/IApplicationMetadataService.cs, src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Helpers/ApplicationMetadataJsonHelper.cs, src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Implementation/{ApplicationMetadataService.cs,DeploymentService.cs}, src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Interfaces/IApplicationInformationService.cs, src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/Controllers/DeploymentsController/CreateTests.cs, src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/Services/DeploymentServiceTest.cs
Deployment creation defaults status to Completed in production environments and UnderDevelopment otherwise, unless a status is supplied. It passes the selected status to metadata and Resource Registry operations. Metadata updates write the status using the existing JSON property casing.
Resource Registry status and decommissioning
src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Implementation/{ApplicationInformationService.cs,Validation/AltinnAppServiceResourceService.cs}, src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Scheduling/DeploymentPipelinePollingJob.cs, src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/{Scheduling/DeploymentPipelinePollingJobTest.cs,Services/Implementation/ApplicationInformationServiceTest.cs}
The Resource Registry service retrieves and republishes an existing resource with its updated status. After a successful undeploy, the polling job sets metadata and registry status to Deprecated. A registry update failure is logged and does not prevent the successful undeploy completion event.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Request as Deployment request
  participant Deployment as DeploymentService
  participant Metadata as ApplicationMetadataService
  participant Storage as Altinn Storage
  participant Information as ApplicationInformationService
  participant Registry as Resource Registry
  Request->>Deployment: Submit requested status
  Deployment->>Deployment: Select status if request omits it
  Deployment->>Metadata: Update metadata with selected status
  Metadata->>Storage: Upsert metadata JSON
  Deployment->>Information: Publish resource with selected status
  Information->>Registry: Publish service resource
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 5a323

This change adds app status handling to deployments and undeployments. Earlier concerns about undeploy finalization have been addressed, and tests cover the main paths. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains. Storage support for the new status field has not been checked against the real service.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5a323

Deployment status can be published before deployment succeeds, overwritten by an overlapping undeployment, or left inconsistent after a partial failure. Existing deployment permissions remain in place, but the status cannot reliably indicate which application is active under these conditions.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · architecture · inferred: The new undeploy ownership check reads deployment history once, then independently updates Storage and Resource Registry. A redeploy publishing during or after that lookup can have its status overwritten with Deprecated by the older undeploy. The guard protects newer deployments already recorded at lookup time, but the inspected write paths carry no conditional ownership token.
  • Medium · reliability · observed: The explicit status contract is not durably coupled to successful deployment or completed cleanup. Creation publishes status before build queueing, without compensation in the inspected failure path. Undeploy polling records completion before updating the two services; a Storage exception or Resource Registry failure can leave divergent status, while subsequent polling exits without replaying cleanup. The underlying orchestration ordering predates this PR, but the new status writes inherit its failure-containment and recovery limitations.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The evidenced effects are application lifecycle metadata in Storage and Resource Registry for the selected organization, application, and environment. Downstream inheritance into visibility, availability, or authorization decisions is unresolved; broader tenant or data-store compromise is not established by these writer paths.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The deployment endpoint requires MustHaveGiteaDeployPermission. Its handler checks membership in the route organization's Deploy-environment team, and the controller constructs the deployment context from route org/app and authenticated developer identity. appStatus remains constrained by model validation rather than accepting arbitrary strings or client-requested Deprecated.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The inspected polling path cannot replay failed status finalization once the deployment is recorded as completed. The inspected completion handler triggers runtime reconciliation only after successful notification; it contains no direct Storage or Resource Registry status repair. A separate repair mechanism was not established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define a versioned owner for application lifecycle metadata and enforce it at each write, so older undeploy cleanup cannot overwrite a newer deployment. Define whether published status means requested or successfully active state, and use durable, idempotent reconciliation to recover incomplete publication and deprecation.
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  • src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Scheduling/DeploymentPipelinePollingJob.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Implementation/ApplicationInformationService.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Implementation/ApplicationMetadataService.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Implementation/DeploymentService.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Implementation/Validation/AltinnAppServiceResourceService.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Interfaces/IApplicationInformationService.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Interfaces/IApplicationMetadataService.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Services/Models/DeploymentModel.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/ViewModels/Request/CreateDeploymentRequestViewModel.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/ViewModels/Request/RequestExtensionMethods.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/Controllers/DeploymentsController/CreateTests.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/DbIntegrationTests/DeploymentEntityRepository/CreateIntegrationTests.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/DbIntegrationTests/DeploymentEntityRepository/GetSingleIntegrationTests.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/DbIntegrationTests/DeploymentEntityRepository/Utils/DeploymentEntityAsserts.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/DbIntegrationTests/DeploymentEntityRepository/Utils/DeploymentEntityDesignerDbFixtureExtensions.cs
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  • src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/Scheduling/DeploymentPipelinePollingJobTest.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/Services/DeploymentServiceTest.cs
  • src/Designer/backend/tests/Designer.Tests/Services/Implementation/ApplicationInformationServiceTest.cs
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Comment thread src/Designer/backend/src/Designer/Scheduling/DeploymentPipelinePollingJob.cs Outdated
When a deployment request has no app status, use the status from the most
recent deploy to the same environment (decommissions are ignored). Fall back
to the environment defaults when the app has not been deployed there before,
or when the previous deploy has no status.

Refs #20843
…undeploy

Undeploy finalization runs when the undeploy pipeline completes, minutes
after it was requested. If the app was deployed to the environment again in
the meantime, skip updating Storage and Resource Registry so the newer
deploy's metadata and status are kept.

Also set the Deprecated status in Resource Registry even if the Storage
update fails, since the polling job is not retried once the build is
completed.

Refs #20843
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About the security architecture finding "the new undeploy update can overwrite newer registry state":

Read/write race: low likelihood, and not a security issue as far as I can tell. A lost update needs another write to the same app_{org}_{app} resource between our GetResource and PublishServiceResource, which run back to back in the polling job. Resource administration excludes app resources (ResourceAdminController filters out ResourceType.AltinnApp), so within Studio the only other writer is Designer's own deploy. On deploy, the fields the finding mentions (Delegable, AccessListMode) are rebuilt from the app metadata anyway. The write uses Designer's own credential and contains no user input, so at worst an update from a moment earlier is lost. Nobody gains access. We haven't added conditional writes, since we don't know if Resource Registry supports a version precondition.

The related ordering issue was real, and it's fixed in 5a32316. Undeploy finalisation runs when the undeploy pipeline completes, minutes after the request. If the app was deployed again in that time, the undeploy would mark a running app Deprecated. The UI blocks deploys while an undeploy is in progress, but the API doesn't. The polling job now skips the Storage and Resource Registry updates, including the existing copy-instance disabling, when a deploy to the environment was created after the undeploy request. Tests cover both the skip case and the normal case.

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