The 2026-09-12 homepage outage slipped through because the live-fleet
Playwright suite was a manual 'MUST invoke' that deploys skipped. Wire it
into deploy.sh as the [3/3] gate: after a behavior-affecting deploy,
run tests/e2e/run.sh against the live fleet; a failure exits DEPLOY
INCOMPLETE. Add --skip-e2e as an emergency escape hatch. Update the
AGENTS.md deployment-completeness contract and flow diagram to match.
Verified: bash -n clean, --skip-e2e parsed, unknown flags rejected,
seam suite green (only the pre-existing comfyui test 73 fails).
The scoped runner (deploy-remote.sh) already knew marreta; the top-level
deploy.sh valid_service() gate did not, so --service marreta was rejected
before reaching the planner.
frank-default-large -> frank-large (Dankclaw :7770), frank-default-small ->
frank-small (Dankserver :7770), frank-default-sightsound -> frank-npu
(Dankclaw :7771). Units, env files, serve scripts, deploy-plan mappings,
deploy-remote dispatch (stop/disable old units + relink + enable new), and the
test seams move together. Retired frank-default-npu.* artifacts moved to
scripts/.AGENTTRASH/ (tracked-in-history; ignored on disk).
Served aliases become frank-large / frank-small via --alias; the NPU endpoint
serves the whole FLM registry, so its rename changes no served tags.
- deploy_plex(): install unit, stop+mask native plexmediaserver.service on
first cutover (mask, never disable), gate on /identity for 180s
- deploy_tautulli(): install unit, stop+disable snap on first cutover,
seed config.ini with PMS_Web_Host=plex only if absent
- allow-lists (deploy.sh valid_service, deploy-remote.sh service_is_allowed),
planner routing (SERVICE_ORDER, DANKSERVER_SERVICES, quadlet_services),
test-changed cutover case, quadlet seam enumeration + new
userns/PUID=997/PGID=984 ownership-contract test
Seven units installed INSIDE the Mac VM (/home/core/.config/containers/
systemd) by a new deploy_frankbook_stack handler: gluetun (ProtonVPN
WireGuard, env-file credentials, publishes qbit's 8080/6881), qbittorrent
(Network=gluetun.container, verbatim /Volumes data roots, first-boot
config seed with fresh machine-local WebUI password and the Finished
Torrents category), and prowlarr/sonarr/radarr/lidarr/readarr (grab-only,
config migrated from dankserver at provisioning, readarr pinned to
amd64-1.0.980). deploy.sh routes the new target through the ssh-config
alias with REMOTE_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash (macOS bash 3.2 lacks
associative arrays); the planner learns FRANKBOOK_SERVICES and the
gluetun->qbittorrent netns pairing; new seam test pins the contract.
Cutover of the six surviving dankserver services from compose-era bare
containers to boot-persistent Quadlet units (WantedBy=default.target; podman
5.x v1 generator honors it at user-manager start).
Units are faithful to live inspect ground truth (image pins = running tags,
not compose inventory):
- romm trio shares one data root: /home/dank/Containers/romm mounted whole at
/romm; mariadb datadir and redis data dir live inside it. Aliases mariadb/
redis preserved on dankserver_appnet via Network=...:alias=. Secrets stay in
the host-local env file (EnvironmentFile + ${VAR} expansion in the generated
ExecStart, gitea precedent). copyparty passes its admin account via
Exec=-a ${COPAY_ACCOUNT}:${COPAY_PASSWORD} (Exec= not Command=: the v1
generator hard-fails on Command=); entropy stays rw only there.
- jellyfin keeps every creation-time env as Environment= lines (zero drift);
Device=/dev/dri + GroupAdd=keep-groups preserve hardware transcoding.
- calibre-web pins the exact running image tag (id 986277563e76 =
0.6.27-ls397), pasta network preserved.
Deployer: first-cutover handlers retire the old container, rescue unshadowed
anonymous-volume content (podman volume export + tar --skip-old-files), mv
data roots on the same fs, then start units in dependency order with health
gates. Re-deploys restart only the selected unit. deploy-plan.py maps compose
keys mariadb/redis to the new unit names; allowlists updated. New seam test
tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats pins boot-persistence + v1-generator contract;
test-changed.sh maps the new dirs to it. Full suite green (209 tests).
New Dankclaw service frank-default-sightsound: FLM 1.0.1 serving the
Gemma4-E4B-IT-NPU2 pack (vision+audio+reasoning, 131072 ctx) on the XDNA2
NPU at port 52626. Model choice rationale: gemma4-it is the only NPU2 model
family with BOTH image and audio towers; the uncensored candidate qwythos:9b
is text-only, so sight+sound wins over uncensored here.
Deployer wiring: planner maps env/unit/serve files to the new service name;
deploy-remote gains deploy_llm_sightsound (relink + daemon-reload + enable +
restart + health gate on /v1/version — FLM has no /health route). Unlike the
retired frank-default-npu relink-only path, this unit is boot-enabled.
Bots and AI scrapers hit the SSO-fronted vhosts and eat Authentik auth
work for 403s. Anubis verifies clients first: DENY for known AI scraper
UAs, JS challenge for everyone else; verified traffic resumes the normal
Authentik forward_auth chain on Caddy's internal listener (:8016).
Chain: client -> Caddy (TLS) -> Anubis :8923 (verify) -> Caddy :8016
(auth + routing resumes; Host survives both hops) -> app. Reverse-proxy
through Anubis, not forward_auth: at the pinned tag a CHALLENGE answers
HTTP 200 + HTML, and forward_auth treats 200 as "authenticated" — the
page would pass through unchallenged. Exempt by construction (never
routed through Anubis): plex (plain HTTP legacy), auth.* (IdP login
must be reachable ungated), gitea (git smart-HTTP clients cannot solve
JS challenges), and every app with its own login.
Pinned ghcr.io/TecharoHQ/anubis:v1.13.0 — the tag was source-verified
before pinning: at this tag the policy parser is JSON-only with a
minimal bots[] schema (no imports, no CEL expressions), flags are the
config surface via flagenv (TARGET/POLICY_FNAME map to --target/
--policy-fname), and the image's exec-form HEALTHCHECK is inherited by
the quadlet unit (dodges the v1 generator's HealthCmd space-split quirk).
Rollback nuance: stopping anubis 502s everything behind the chain (the
public listeners proxy through it); a true rollback is reverting the
Caddyfile and redeploying, not just systemctl --user stop anubis.
The homepage user page + shared data now use a dedicated CADDY_HOMEPAGE_HASH
(username dankuser), separate from the shared family password (CADDY_BASICAUTH_HASH,
username dank, still used by the other vhosts) and the operator password
(CADDY_ADMIN_HASH, username frank, the /admin/ page). This lets the homepage be
re-logged independently without touching the other sites. deploy.sh renders the
new placeholder; the .env.example documents all three hashes.
The homepage deploy's mkdir/cp/write of /srv/homepage ran as the deploy user
and hit 'Permission denied' (/srv is root-owned). Prefix them with the sudo
wrapper, write deployed.js via a temp file + sudo cp, and chmod the tree
a+rX so Caddy can serve it. Run the one-off checker as root too (it writes
status.json into /srv/homepage).
A missing CADDY_*_HASH in the .env made the 'grep | tail | cut' pipeline
return non-zero, which aborted the deploy under 'set -e' before it could warn
and keep the placeholder. Add '|| true' so an absent hash warns instead of
aborting. (The homepage deploy aborted here because CADDY_ADMIN_HASH was not
in the repo-root .env the deploy reads.)
Red tests first.
- tests/homepage_deploy.bats: the deploy ships the homepage (assets to
/srv/homepage, the checker timer, both Caddy hashes, deployed.js) and is
git-driven (pulls main); the checker runs as a systemd timer.
- scripts/homepage-status.service / .timer: the checker as a oneshot service
+ a 3-minute timer (Q2/Q35).
- scripts/deploy.sh: the Caddyfile render now substitutes BOTH hashes
(REPLACE_WITH_HASH <- CADDY_BASICAUTH_HASH, REPLACE_WITH_ADMIN_HASH <-
CADDY_ADMIN_HASH). A new homepage step copies the assets to /srv/homepage,
generates deployed.js from the deployed commit's datetime (Q43), installs
the checker timer, and runs the checker once so status.json exists at once.
- tests/llm_units.bats: scoped the three LLM-unit tests to
frank-default-*.service (the homepage unit is a different pattern: it
installs to /usr/local/bin and runs from /srv at deploy time).
The explanatory comment contained an unescaped loop-variable token, which
the local shell (set -u) tried to expand while building the double-quoted
remote script ('unit: unbound variable'). Reword the comment.
The relink loop wrapped the source path in single quotes, which shipped a
literal ${unit} to the remote and created a dangling symlink
(/etc/systemd/system/frank-default-large.service -> .../${unit}.service),
so 'systemctl enable' failed with 'unit does not exist'. The path has no
spaces; unquoting lets ${unit} expand on the remote for both source and
destination.
Operator request (2026-08-22): the primary inference server
(frank-default-large, the 27B CIRU model on Dankclaw) moves to the
standard llama.cpp port 7770. Both LLM services now listen on :7770,
distinguished by host (dankserver vs dankclaw).
Functional changes:
- scripts/frank-default-large.env: LISTEN_PORT 52625 -> 7770
- scripts/serve-frank-large.sh: default LISTEN_PORT 52625 -> 7770
- scripts/deploy.sh: LLM_HEALTH[dankclaw] -> :7770
- open-webui quadlet: OPENAI_API_BASE_URL -> 192.168.0.143:7770
(re-pointed so chat keeps working; data dir preserved)
- scripts/bench-fast-greedy.sh: PORT 52625 -> 7770
Tests updated to the new topology (both LLM endpoints on :7770 by host;
open-webui -> :7770). Docs + pi KB updated; dated historical runbooks
keep their point-in-time ports. models.json (pi client) re-pointed to
:7770 separately, effective on the next client restart.
deploy.sh now deploys both workloads per target in one run:
push -> pull on /home/dank/serverAppConfigs -> podman stack steps
(dankclaw) -> LLM unit relink + daemon-reload + service restart ->
homepage health + LLM health (up to 20 min model-load wait).
Sudo: plain sudo on the fleet hosts (passwordless verified
2026-08-22); FRANK_SUDO_PW covers headless runs elsewhere. The
vllmScripts deploy.sh is superseded.
Units: frank-default-{small,large,npu}.service now reference
/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/... (the merged checkout).
bench-spec-stack.sh: env file path updated to the merged checkout.
A 'caddy reload' delivered over the admin API cannot apply a config
that disables the admin API -- the fix cannot ride the API it is meant
to enable (2026-08-22: admin off sat in the running config across
deploys). Track the reload result; on failure, restart the container
so it reads the rendered file on start.
The Caddyfile had 'admin off', which disables Caddy's config file
watcher. Rendered Caddyfile changes never loaded until the container
was recreated, so the double-hash basicauth fix sat on disk unapplied
across deploys (2026-08-22). Admin binds to 127.0.0.1:2019 inside the
container and the port is unpublished, so nothing outside reaches it.
deploy.sh now issues an explicit 'caddy reload' (retry loop) after
'up -d', with the file watcher as backstop.
buildah can serve a stale COPY --from layer (cache keyed on stage
name), so a Containerfile edit silently produced an unchanged image.
The image now carries a cfhash label; a mismatch forces a --no-cache
rebuild.
- alloy 1.x renamed the server component to ui; the old block failed the
initial load and the container crash-looped
- grafana/loki is distroless and grafana/alloy lacks wget, so their
healthchecks could never run; local images add a static busybox from
alpine for that one command
- deploy.sh builds all three local images if missing
- tests: 3 new seams
- Caddyfile: drop http:// site prefixes, global acme_dns porkbun block,
HTTPS redirects on the bare-IP and legacy vhosts
- new dankclaw/caddy/Containerfile: xcaddy build with caddy-dns/porkbun
- compose: caddy uses franksdank/caddy-porkbun:latest + Porkbun env vars
- deploy.sh: build the image on first deploy if missing
- .env.example: rename PORKBUN_API_SECRET -> PORKBUN_API_SECRET_KEY
(the name the caddy-dns/porkbun module expects)
- tests: 7 new caddyfile/compose seams for the TLS config
Per user direction, Caddy runs only on dankclaw. It fronts every
service on both hosts: local services by container name, quadlet
services by published LAN port, dankserver services by published LAN
port (192.168.0.235:PORT).
- dankclaw/Caddyfile: merged vhost list (was: two Caddyfiles, one per
host). gitea's single vhost moves in from the retired gitea-caddy
quadlet (option B). Upstreams fixed to live reality: gitea :3000,
search :8081 (gluetun), chat :3005 (open-webui quadlet), media
services via 192.168.0.235. Retired: llms (open-webui on dankserver
is removed; chat is its successor), the dankserver homepage (302 to
the shared one).
- dankserver/Caddyfile, dankclaw/gitea/Caddyfile: deleted (git rm).
- dnsmasq addn-hosts: every name -> 192.168.0.143 (the one Caddy
host); no .235 records, no llms.
- compose.yaml: removed the openwebui/postgres/gitea services (they
are quadlets now); caddy service mounts the rendered Caddyfile from
/home/dank/Containers/caddy, healthcheck probes the bare-IP
catch-all (302).
- deploy.sh: per-target logic (dankserver = pull-only, health via the
shared Caddy at 192.168.0.143); renders CADDY_BASICAUTH_HASH from
the host .env into the mounted Caddyfile.
- .env.example: CADDY_BASICAUTH_HASH on dankclaw; Porkbun block
dropped from dankserver (its Caddy is gone); SEARXNG_BASE_URL to
the flat name; stale OPENAI_* block dropped (quadlet is
self-contained).
- tests: caddyfile.bats now asserts the single-Caddyfile invariant;
dnsmasq.bats cross-checks vhosts -> .143 and the retired names.
The trusted group lives in limiter.toml, not settings.yml. Add
shared/searxng/limiter.toml trusting 192.168.0.0/24 in pass_ip and
trusted_proxies, copy it into /opt/searxng/config on deploy, and correct
the SearXNG doc. New test seam: tests/searxng_limiter.bats.
Frank