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It needed a hand-started stack and an opt-in flag, so it ran on one machine and never in CI. It now brings up PostgreSQL, Keycloak and an OpenSSH server itself, applies the committed migrations and starts the API as a child process, which makes it part of the ordinary test run at ~25s. The API runs as a process rather than through WebApplicationFactory. The client builds its own HttpClient for a URL the user typed, so there is no seam to hand a test handler through without inventing one that exists only for tests — and a test host would replace the entry point, Kestrel and the content root, so it would never prove that Program.cs composes or that the committed appsettings is found and layered in the documented order. Running out of the API's own output directory is what makes its configuration real. The suite still consumes what ships: the realm file from deploy/keycloak, the EF migrations, the API's own appsettings. Only Oidc:Authority is overridden, because the container's port is assigned at start. Falsified by reintroducing the wildcard-port redirect URI the realm once had — Keycloak rejects the authorization request and the suite fails at sign-in, which is what proves the committed file is the one imported. Skipping the migration step likewise fails, and the failure names the pending migration. A fresh Keycloak per run also sidesteps the --import-realm trap: editing the realm file and rerunning now always tests the edit. DodoDbContextFactory gains a Create(connectionString) so the fixture and dotnet ef place the migrations history table in exactly one place. If they disagreed the API would report every migration pending, which is how the readiness gate catches it.