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Frank b6be6d3da6 docs: FrankBook-Pro page + 2026-09-01 log

Document the Mac *arr/qBittorrent stack (VM placement, gluetun credential
gate, socat LaunchAgents, PBKDF2 qB seed) and log the day: dankserver
recovery + full quadlet cutover of the six media services, the frankbook
skip-propagation/PBKDF2 handler fix, the 7-service frankbook deploy, and
the jellyfin GPU-parity finding.

2026-09-01 14:32:57 -07:00

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FrankBook-Pro

FrankBook-Pro (192.168.0.112, macOS x86_64, Intel) runs the *arr automation stack and qBittorrent inside a podman machine VM (Fedora CoreOS-style core user). Seven quadlet units live in frankbook-pro/<svc>/quadlet/: gluetun, qbittorrent, prowlarr, sonarr, radarr, lidarr, readarr.

Why a VM, and why inside it

macOS podman runs containers inside a VM; quadlet units are installed in the VM (/home/core/.config/containers/systemd/) via podman machine ssh.
/Volumes/COMPLETE (review disk) and /Volumes/INCOMPLETE (in-progress disk) are virtiofs-mounted into the VM, so qBittorrent writes straight to the same disks the human review workflow uses.
Grab-only stack: the arrs never auto-import; nothing writes to the entropy volume. Completed files land in /Volumes/COMPLETE/Finished Torrents.

WireGuard gate (gluetun)

qBittorrent downloads through gluetun (netns share); the arrs run without it. Until /home/core/Containers/gluetun/env contains the WireGuard credentials (a second peer for the Mac — reusing Dankclaw's key would flip its tunnel and kill SearXNG), deploy_frankbook_stack skips gluetun and qbittorrent with instructions and deploys the five arrs anyway. The qB WebUI port stays unpublished by design; the e2e torrent test waits on the credentials.

Deploy flow

Same deployer as every host: ./scripts/deploy.sh frankbook-pro --service <svc> from Dankware. The Mac-side handler (deploy_frankbook_stack in scripts/deploy-remote.sh) pipes unit files + a seed script through podman machine ssh bash -s, seeds qBittorrent's first-boot config once (marker file qbit-seeded), restarts the selected unit inside the VM, and health-checks its published port on Mac loopback.

LAN reachability

gvproxy forwards published ports to Mac loopback only. LaunchAgents (local.fwd.* in ~/Library/LaunchAgents) run socat forwarders binding the LAN IP (192.168.0.112) for arr UIs (9696/8989/7878/8686/8787), the qB WebUI (8080, inert until the tunnel is up), and the BitTorrent port 6881 tcp+udp.

qBittorrent seed (first boot, inside the VM)

WebUI\Password is a PBKDF2 @ByteArray(salt:hash) (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512, 100k iterations, 64 bytes) — qB ≥ 4.2 ignores plaintext. The plaintext lives in /home/core/Containers/qbittorrent/env (mode 600, VM-local) for Prowlarr wiring.
HostHeaderValidation=false + ServerDomains=*: the socat forwarder preserves the LAN Host header, which would otherwise be rejected.
categories.json pre-creates Finished Torrents, lidarr, radarr, tv-sonarr with save_path /Volumes/COMPLETE/Finished Torrents.
Session\DefaultSavePath=/Volumes/COMPLETE, Session\TempPath=/Volumes/INCOMPLETE/incomplete (two-disk layout).

Citations

Plan: local://podman-standardization-arr-migration-plan.md (session 2026-09-01)
Units: frankbook-pro/*/quadlet/*.container, seam tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats
Handler: deploy_frankbook_stack, scripts/deploy-remote.sh

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