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☂️ Improve coder agent graceful shutdown #6180
Description
This is an epic to track improvements to coder agent graceful shutdown.
In no particular order:
- fix(agent): Allow signal propagation when running as PID 1 #6141
- feat(agent): Handle signals and shutdown gracefully #5914
- Research and document how to gracefully shut down agents using different terraform providers (update templates) #6174
- Graceful shutdowns for coder agents and shutdown scripts #6175
- Refactor coder agent SSH server for better process and connection control #6177
- Decide upon and document agent shutdown behavior and guarantees #6179
- Document best practices for safer shutdowns
Activity
bpmct commentedon Mar 6, 2023
Safe shutdowns seem important, but I don't think we should rely on them for Coder to determine whether a workspace is connected or not. For example, if I unplug a server that is running a Coder workspace, Coder should know about this (and report it via workspace state) within 10 seconds.
[-]Improve coder agent graceful shutdown[/-][+]☂️ Improve coder agent graceful shutdown[/+]Kira-Pilot commentedon Apr 23, 2025
@mafredri is this something we can close out?
mafredri commentedon Apr 23, 2025
@Kira-Pilot there still isn't a well documented solution for this outside of the referenced tickets, so I'd like to keep it open.
IMO a pre-requisite for closing this is to either:
Ideally, both.
bpmct commentedon Sep 26, 2025
Closing in favor of the other issues!