feat(docker-compose): Add an optional resource-group-dedicated worker pool.

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Description

This PR adds resource-group-aware scheduling to the Docker Compose deployment. It introduces an optional dedicated worker pool (spider-worker-dedicated) that registers under a resource group and runs only that group's tasks, alongside the existing general spider-worker pool. Shared worker config is factored into an x-worker-defaults anchor.

The dedicated pool is disabled by default (0 replicas), so existing deployments are unchanged. This is not a breaking change.

To enable a dedicated pool, set its replica count and the credentials of an already-registered resource group in .env, and set SPIDER_SCHEDULER_POLICY to a resource-group-aware policy such as resource_group_round_robin:

SPIDER_SCHEDULER_POLICY=resource_group_round_robin
SPIDER_DEDICATED_WORKER_REPLICAS=2
SPIDER_DEDICATED_RESOURCE_GROUP_ID=clp-search
SPIDER_DEDICATED_RESOURCE_GROUP_PASSWORD=s3cr3t-search-pw

Compose has no loops or key interpolation, so a pool is a literal service reusing the x-worker-defaults anchor. Additional dedicated pools can be added the same way (CLP does this for two dedicated pools — see the CLP integration comment).

Checklist

• The PR satisfies the [contribution guidelines][yscope-contrib-guidelines].
• This is a breaking change and that has been indicated in the PR title, OR this isn't a breaking change.
• Necessary docs have been updated, OR no docs need to be updated.

Validation performed

1. E2E: a dedicated pool registers under its group with an independent credential

Deployment: 2 general workers + 2 workers dedicated to group clp-search, SPIDER_SCHEDULER_POLICY=resource_group_round_robin, SPIDER_DEDICATED_RESOURCE_GROUP_PASSWORD=s3cr3t-search-pw.

0. The deployment does not create resource groups (the owning application does); a standalone deployment creates it by hand. The resource_groups table is provisioned by the storage service, so bring storage up first, then insert the group:

docker compose up --detach --wait spider-storage
docker compose exec -T spider-database mariadb -uspider-user -pspider-password spider-db \
  -e "INSERT INTO resource_groups (external_id, password) VALUES ('clp-search', 's3cr3t-search-pw');"

1. Start the rest of the stack, then read back the pool layout and the stored credential:

docker compose up --detach --wait
docker compose exec -T spider-database mariadb --table -uspider-user -pspider-password spider-db \
  -e "SELECT e.id, e.resource_group_id, CAST(r.external_id AS CHAR) AS ext_id,
             CAST(r.password AS CHAR) AS password
      FROM execution_managers e LEFT JOIN resource_groups r ON e.resource_group_id = r.id ORDER BY e.id;"

Expected — the 2 dedicated EMs bind to clp-search, the 2 general EMs are unbound, and the stored password differs from the id (the credential pair is verified at registration, not fused):

id	resource_group_id	ext_id	password
1	1	clp-search	s3cr3t-search-pw
2	NULL	NULL	NULL
3	1	clp-search	s3cr3t-search-pw
4	NULL	NULL	NULL

2. E2E: a dedicated worker runs only its own resource group's tasks

Deployment: 2 general workers + 1 worker dedicated to group e2e-dedicated, SPIDER_SCHEDULER_POLICY=resource_group_round_robin, SPIDER_WORKER_INHERITED_ENV=["SPIDER_EXTERNAL_RESOURCE_GROUP_ID"]. Two groups exist: e2e-dedicated (has the dedicated pool, EM id 3) and e2e-general (no dedicated pool).

1. With the dedicated worker up and idle, submit 40 jobs under e2e-general (no dedicated pool) and tally each job's output by the pool that ran it. Expected — none landed on the dedicated worker, which refused another group's work even while those tasks were backlogged onto the busy general pool:

group e2e-general, 40 jobs: 40 on general, 0 on dedicated

2. Submit 40 jobs under e2e-dedicated and tally by pool. Expected — the dedicated worker runs its own group's tasks (general workers also serve the group via the scheduler's dispatch hints, so the dedicated pool participates in rather than monopolizes its group):

group e2e-dedicated, 40 jobs: 15 on dedicated, 25 on general

The 0-of-40 in step 1 is the guarantee: the resource-group-round-robin scheduler serves a pinned execution manager from its own group's queue alone, so a dedicated worker cannot pick up another group's task.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added optional support for running dedicated worker replicas in deployment configurations.
  • Dedicated workers can be connected to a registered resource group using its external ID and password.
  • Added configuration guidance for enabling dedicated workers and selecting a resource-group-aware scheduling policy.
  • Local deployments now include the required package directory mount for dedicated workers.

• Refactor

  • Standardized shared worker deployment settings to simplify configuration of regular and dedicated workers.

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Walkthrough

Docker Compose now supports a dedicated worker service. Shared worker settings are centralized. Environment variables configure dedicated replicas and resource-group credentials. The local Compose file adds the dedicated worker package mount.

Changes

Dedicated worker pool

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared worker defaults tools/deployment/spider-compose/compose.yaml	A YAML anchor centralizes the worker image, networks, command, configuration mount, health dependencies, and restart handling. The standard worker now uses these defaults.
Dedicated worker configuration tools/deployment/spider-compose/.env.example, tools/deployment/spider-compose/compose.yaml, tools/deployment/spider-compose/compose.local.yaml	The dedicated worker service uses resource-group environment variables and defaults to zero replicas. The environment example documents the required settings. The local Compose file adds the read-only worker package mount.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Compose
  participant spider-scheduler
  participant spider-storage
  participant spider-worker-dedicated
  Compose->>spider-scheduler: Check healthy dependency
  Compose->>spider-storage: Check healthy dependency
  Compose->>spider-worker-dedicated: Start configured replicas
  spider-worker-dedicated->>Compose: Use resource-group environment variables

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Enabling the optional dedicated pool without credentials can prevent its workers from registering; the default zero-replica setting limits this to explicitly enabled misconfigurations.

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# Inspect the credential parser and its registration call sites.
sed -n '1,140p' components/spider-core/src/types/resource_group.rs
rg -n -C 6 'ExternalResourceGroupCredentials::from_env|external_resource_group_id|password\.is_empty|is_empty\(\)|register' components

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#!/bin/bash
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printf '%s\n' '--- resource_group.rs ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- credential parser and registration bindings ---'
rg -n -C 12 'ExternalResourceGroupCredentials::from_env|fn from_env|ResourceGroupManagement for|async fn verify|register_execution_manager' \
  components/spider-core components/spider-execution-manager components/spider-storage

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printf '%s\n' '--- registration and password verification ---'
sed -n '463,491p' components/spider-storage/src/db/mariadb.rs
sed -n '517,533p' components/spider-storage/src/db/mariadb.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- execution-manager runtime config ---'
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Require non-empty dedicated resource-group credentials.

When SPIDER_DEDICATED_WORKER_REPLICAS is non-zero without credential overrides, Compose sets both environment variables to empty strings. ExternalResourceGroupCredentials::from_env() accepts them as present, and registration queries the empty external ID. The dedicated worker can then fail registration with DbError::ExternalResourceGroupNotFound. Reject empty credentials before starting dedicated workers, or omit these variables when dedicated workers are disabled and require both values when replicas are enabled.

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In `@tools/deployment/spider-compose/compose.yaml` around lines 146 - 147, Update
the dedicated-worker configuration around SPIDER_DEDICATED_WORKER_REPLICAS and
the SPIDER_DEDICATED_RESOURCE_GROUP_ID/PASSWORD variables so empty credential
values cannot be accepted when replicas are enabled. Require both non-empty
credentials before starting dedicated workers, while omitting or disabling these
variables when dedicated workers are disabled, preserving valid override
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CLP integration (downstream — not part of this PR)

How CLP uses the dedicated pool in its own compose deployment. CLP runs three pools: a general pool plus dedicated pools for its compression and search resource groups. Two things are involved: the compose overrides (workers) and the coordinator (group creation).

1. Worker pools — compose.clp-spider.yaml

CLP overrides Spider workers by name (it already does this for spider-worker to swap in the clp-spider-worker image). A CLP-side anchor carries the shared image + clp-config mount, since Spider's x-worker-defaults anchor isn't visible across the include boundary:

x-clp-worker: &clp-worker
  image: "${CLP_SPIDER_WORKER_CONTAINER_IMAGE_REF:-ghcr.io/y-scope/clp/clp-spider-worker:main}"
  volumes: [ ...clp-config bind mount... ]

services:
  spider-worker:              # general — merges onto Spider's base spider-worker
    <<: *clp-worker

  spider-worker-dedicated:    # compression — reuses Spider's shipped dedicated pool
    <<: *clp-worker
    environment:              # shallow merge replaces the env map, so repeat the CLP keys
      CLP_CONFIG_PATH: "/etc/clp-config.yaml"
      CLP_DB_PASS: "${CLP_DB_PASS:?Please set a value.}"
      SPIDER_EXTERNAL_RESOURCE_GROUP_ID: "${SPIDER_COMPRESSION_RESOURCE_GROUP_ID}"
      SPIDER_RESOURCE_GROUP_PASSWORD: "${SPIDER_COMPRESSION_RESOURCE_GROUP_PASSWORD}"
    deploy:
      replicas: "${SPIDER_COMPRESSION_WORKER_REPLICAS:-0}"

  spider-worker-search:       # search — a second dedicated pool, declared in full
    <<: *clp-worker           # (no Spider base of this name to merge onto)
    command: ["spider-execution-manager", "--config", "/etc/spider/worker.yaml"]
    networks: ["default", "spider-internal"]
    configs: [{ source: "spider-worker-config", target: "/etc/spider/worker.yaml" }]
    depends_on:
      spider-scheduler: { condition: "service_healthy", restart: true }
      spider-storage: { condition: "service_healthy", restart: true }
    environment:
      CLP_CONFIG_PATH: "/etc/clp-config.yaml"
      CLP_DB_PASS: "${CLP_DB_PASS:?Please set a value.}"
      SPIDER_EXTERNAL_RESOURCE_GROUP_ID: "${SPIDER_SEARCH_RESOURCE_GROUP_ID}"
      SPIDER_RESOURCE_GROUP_PASSWORD: "${SPIDER_SEARCH_RESOURCE_GROUP_PASSWORD}"
    deploy:
      replicas: "${SPIDER_SEARCH_WORKER_REPLICAS:-0}"

Spider ships one dedicated pool, so compression reuses it by name while search is a new service declared in full. Enumerating many pools this way is CLP packaging's job.

2. Deployment env — .env

SPIDER_SCHEDULER_POLICY=resource_group_round_robin
SPIDER_WORKER_REPLICAS=2                                 # general pool (runs any group)

SPIDER_COMPRESSION_RESOURCE_GROUP_ID=clp-compression
SPIDER_COMPRESSION_RESOURCE_GROUP_PASSWORD=<secret>     # must match what the coordinator creates
SPIDER_COMPRESSION_WORKER_REPLICAS=6

SPIDER_SEARCH_RESOURCE_GROUP_ID=clp-search
SPIDER_SEARCH_RESOURCE_GROUP_PASSWORD=<secret>         # must match what the coordinator creates
SPIDER_SEARCH_WORKER_REPLICAS=2

3. Group creation — the coordinator (not the deployment)

A dedicated worker fails fast and restarts until its group exists (design §10), so the groups must be created first. That's the owning application's job, not the deployment's. Today CLP creates a single group with password == name:

• components/clp-py-utils/clp_py_utils/clp_config.py — SpiderResourceGroup is name-only; CompressionCoordinator.resource_group defaults to one group named compression-coordinator.
• components/compression-coordinator/src/coordination.rs — get_or_create_resource_group_id calls add_resource_group(name, name.as_bytes()) (its own NOTE flags the hardcoding).

For two dedicated pools with real credentials, CLP needs to:

1. Model both groups (compression, search) each with a password sourced from a CLP secret/config (not password == name), in clp_config.py.
2. Create both at coordinator startup with those passwords (coordination.rs), and have whatever owns search-job submission create the search group the same way.
3. Feed the same passwords to the matching dedicated pool's SPIDER_*_RESOURCE_GROUP_PASSWORD env (§2 above) — the worker's credential is verified by storage at registration, so id + password must match the created group.

Verification (CLP side)

SELECT id, resource_group_id FROM execution_managers; — the compression and search EMs carry their group ids; general EMs are NULL. Then jobs submitted under each group are isolated per the dedication proof in the PR description's Validation §2.