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Fix FastAPI worker crash and improve container stability#17

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Fix FastAPI worker crash and improve container stability#17
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@nmagee nmagee commented Mar 25, 2026

The FastAPI application was crashing when run with multiple workers in a containerized environment (Alpine Linux). This was primarily due to the MongoDB client being initialized at the module level (before process forking) and potential compatibility issues between Alpine's musl libc and Python C extensions.

I have:

  • Switched the Docker base image to python:3.11-slim.
  • Moved MongoClient initialization into a FastAPI lifespan handler to ensure it happens after process forking.
  • Added build-essential to the Docker build process for robust dependency installation.

Verified that the application starts successfully with 4 workers and each worker correctly initializes its own MongoDB client.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 8611624801302620715 started by @nmagee

This commit addresses the issue where worker processes would die upon
startup in a containerized environment (e.g., Kubernetes).

1. Switched from Alpine-based to Debian-based slim Python image to
   improve compatibility with C extensions and provide a more stable
   runtime environment.
2. Refactored app/main.py to use FastAPI's lifespan event handler for
   initializing the MongoClient. This ensures each worker process creates
   its own connection pool after forking, preventing issues with shared
   file descriptors.
3. Added build-essential to the Dockerfile to ensure that dependencies
   can be compiled if necessary.

Co-authored-by: nmagee <699798+nmagee@users.noreply.github.com>
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