Frank 03d44d3308 comfyui: replace the stale compose container with a Quadlet unit
ComfyUI had failed 9,146 times and had been down ~7 hours when this was found:
its container was created 2026-09-15 14:12, BEFORE the GPU declarations were
added to the compose service, and `restart: unless-stopped` kept restarting
that stale container — no /dev/kfd, no /dev/dri, no keep-groups — so it died
every time on `RuntimeError: No HIP GPUs are available`. Its "unit" was a
hand-written ~/.config/systemd/user/comfyui.service that shelled out to
`podman compose up -d`, which is not repo-tracked state and collides by name
with the Quadlet the generator produces.

  - dankclaw/comfyui/quadlet/comfyui.container: image comfyui-rocm:gfx1151
    (built from Containerfile.comfyui), /dev/kfd + /dev/dri, keep-groups,
    the four comfyui-data volumes, loopback-only publish (an unguarded service
    is internal-only here; the homepage card probes 127.0.0.1:8188), Restart=
    always, WantedBy=default.target.
  - the compose service is deleted — one owner per container name.
  - deploy_comfyui builds the image, installs the unit, retires the compose-era
    unit into ~/.AGENTTRASH, removes the stale container so the unit's own can
    take the name, and waits on :8188.
  - the healthcheck is a file, because the podman 5.x v1 generator splits
    HealthCmd on spaces and an inline `python3 -c "..."` becomes a quoting
    puzzle that fails silently.

The comfyui seam now reads the unit instead of compose for devices, command and
groups (and resolves the Containerfile from the deployer's declaration, not
from a directory listing).
2026-09-16 07:13:27 -07:00

Server App Configs

The single repository for the two homelab servers: the Podman container stacks and the LLM inference fleet. One repo, one checkout per host, one deploy script.

2026-08-22: the former vllmScripts repository (LLM fleet) is merged into this repo with its full git history. See AGENTS.md for the merge note.

Targets

Host User IP Podman stack LLM service LLM port
dankserver dank 192.168.0.235 media and library frank-medium (ROCmFPX llama.cpp, Qwen3.8-27B AGENT) 7770
dankclaw dank 192.168.0.143 AI, search, development, observability frank-large (CIRU ROCmFPX, Qwen3.8-27B) 7770

Active Services

Service Host Hostname Port
RomM dankserver romm.dankserver.local 8085
Copyparty dankserver files.dankserver.local 3923
Calibre-Web dankserver books.dankserver.local 8083
frank-medium dankserver — (bare endpoint) 7770
SearXNG dankclaw search.dankclaw.local 8081
ComfyUI dankclaw comfyui.dankclaw.local 8188
OpenWebUI dankclaw chat.dankclaw.local 3000
Hermes dankclaw hermes.dankclaw.local 8090
Gitea dankclaw gitea.dankclaw.local 3001
Grafana dankclaw grafana.dankclaw.local 3002
Prometheus dankclaw prometheus.dankclaw.local 9090
frank-large dankclaw — (bare endpoint) 7770

Structure

  • dankserver/ — compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankserver stack
  • dankclaw/ — compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankclaw stack
  • shared/ — homepage, prometheus config, deploy helpers
  • scripts/ — deploy.sh and deploy-remote.sh (service-scoped deployment), the planner, LLM serve scripts, systemd units, env tunables, and bench harnesses
  • old/ — retired PP/NPU-era LLM scripts (reference only)
  • serverAppConfigs-docs/ — project knowledge base (Obsidian vault, wikilinks). serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/ is the LLM fleet
  • tests/ — bats test suite (see Testing Policy)

Deployment

See serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Deployment Flow.md and serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/deployment.md. Run ./scripts/deploy.sh <dankclaw|dankserver> after committing changes. It plans and deploys only the changed services. Use --service NAME for an explicit single-service retry; inference is restarted only when its own files (or the shared chat template) changed.

Knowledge Base

The serverAppConfigs-docs/ directory is an Obsidian vault. Start at serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md. The LLM fleet knowledge base lives at serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/index.md.

Testing

Run ./tests/run.sh before every push. See serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Testing Policy.md.

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