Frank
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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).
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
vllmScriptsrepository (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-default-small (llama.cpp, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B) | 7770 |
| dankclaw | dank | 192.168.0.143 | AI, search, development, observability | frank-default-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-default-small | 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-default-large | dankclaw | — (bare endpoint) | 7770 |
Structure
dankserver/— compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankserver stackdankclaw/— compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankclaw stackshared/— homepage, prometheus config, deploy helpersscripts/—deploy.shanddeploy-remote.sh(service-scoped deployment), the planner, LLM serve scripts, systemd units, env tunables, and bench harnessesold/— retired PP/NPU-era LLM scripts (reference only)serverAppConfigs-docs/— project knowledge base (Obsidian vault, wikilinks).serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/is the LLM fleettests/— 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.