ci(docker): publish a sortable main-<commit UTC>-<sha7> relay tag (#8240)

## Summary

Each push to main adds one more tag to the relay image manifest that
`docker.yml` already publishes:

- `:main-<YYYYMMDDHHmmss>-<sha7>` (UTC commit time)
- `:debug-main-<YYYYMMDDHHmmss>-<sha7>` on the debug manifest

`:main`, `:sha-<7>`, and the release tags don't change.

**Why:** `:sha-<7>` has no ordering, so a deploy tool that wants "the
newest main build" has to fetch metadata for every tag before it can
sort. Our staging promotion warehouse (Kargo, `NewestBuild`) does that
on every discovery cycle, against about 1,700 `sha-*` tags (4,800 total)
in `ghcr.io/block/buzz`. That's slow, it hits registry rate limits, and
one failed fetch aborts the whole cycle. The timestamp prefix makes the
tag sort lexically in build order. A `Lexical` selector with
`^main-\d{14}-[0-9a-f]{7}$` can then pick the newest build from the tag
list alone and fetch only the tags it keeps.

Details, checked against the pinned `docker/metadata-action` v6.1.0
(`80c7e94d`):

- `{{sha}}` is the 7-char short sha (`defaultShortShaLength = 7`), the
same value as `:sha-<7>`.
- `{{commit_date}}` formats in UTC by default. On a push it uses the
event's `commits[].timestamp`, so rerunning a commit produces the same
tag.
- `type=raw` inherits the flavor prefix, so the merge job's debug leg
emits `debug-main-…`. That's the same mechanism that produces
`debug-main` today.
- `enable=` limits the tag to `push` on `refs/heads/main`. Release tags,
rescue dispatches, and PRs never get it.

On main's last 40 commits, author time and committer time are the same
instant, and both increase monotonically. A commit pushed with a
backdated timestamp would sort below newer builds and just wouldn't be
auto-picked; the next push supersedes it.

**What got simpler:** this adds one tag line in each of the two places
that already mirror the tag matrix, plus header docs. In return,
downstream tooling no longer needs per-tag metadata fetches to find the
newest build.

### Related issue

N/A (staging rollout tooling). The downstream warehouse and tag-guard
changes land separately and don't switch over until this tag has been
published.

### Testing

- `scripts/test-relay-image-eligibility-workflow.sh` and
`scripts/test-release-ref-contract.sh` pass at `9ba1d8b7f`.
- PR runs don't push images (`push: false`), so the first real tag
appears on the first main push after merge. I'll check the registry for
`main-<14 digits>-<sha7>` and `debug-main-…` on that manifest.

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Signed-off-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
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Luke Tornquist
2026-10-13 15:47:53 -04:00
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parent 40c1c474e7
commit d6dc813290
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@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ fi
grep -q 'verify-release-ref\.sh' "$repo_root/.github/workflows/release.yml"
grep -q 'verify-release-ref\.sh' "$repo_root/.github/workflows/docker.yml"
# Kargo's buzz-image warehouse selects Lexical over ^main-[0-9]{14}-[0-9a-f]{7}$;
# a drifted format stops Freight discovery silently, so pin both image legs.
sortable_main_tag=" type=raw,value=main-{{commit_date 'YYYYMMDDHHmmss'}}-{{sha}},enable=\${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}"
sortable_count="$(grep -Fxc "$sortable_main_tag" "$repo_root/.github/workflows/docker.yml" || true)"
if [ "$sortable_count" != 2 ]; then
echo "docker.yml must publish the sortable main-<UTC>-<sha7> tag on both image legs (found $sortable_count)" >&2
exit 1
fi
grep -q 'test-release-ref-contract\.sh' "$repo_root/.github/workflows/ci.yml"
"$repo_root/scripts/test-signed-canary-contract.sh"
"$repo_root/scripts/test-desktop-release-cache-key.sh"