Live gate on the local OrbStack docker-dev rig (branch tip images, fresh
down -v + up -d --build).
404: did NOT reproduce through deploy.sh on a fresh boot — the readiness
gate passed on its first poll, and compose's depends_on: service_healthy
serialization means up -d returns ~30 s after Traefik starts, so the window
is already closed. Reproduced it directly instead, by rapid-polling :9200
across a traefik container restart: connection-refused -> 404 for ~65-160 ms
-> 200. Body is exactly Go's "404 page not found" (19 bytes) and the access
log records it with an EMPTY RouterName/ServiceName at 0ms, so no router
matched and no backend was dialled. Mechanism: the entrypoint binds before
the dynamic file-provider config is loaded. The competing candidate (health-
checked service with no healthy server) is excluded — that is a matched
router answering 503, and there are zero 503s in the log. Caveat recorded:
the earliest 404s predate the accesslog handler itself and are not logged,
so an empty access log does not prove absence.
No-body POST: verified, not 400. The minimal-API DeployRequest? binds both
a missing body and a Content-Length: 0 body as null; the handler falls back
to createdBy = "rest-api". A bare ./docker-dev/deploy.sh answered 202
Accepted and the Deployment row carried CreatedBy = rest-api.
deploy.sh's header NOTE goes from "unverified" to the observed truth.
Joseph Doherty