personal_infra/ansible/infra/403_service_probe_registration.yml
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jar-lid-archive: a staging deployment on its own box
Jar Lid Archive (Django + Postgres 18 + SeaweedFS) on jar-lid-archive-staging-box
(nodito VM 3300, 1 core / 1 GB / 10 GB), public at jars-staging.contrapeso.xyz
through vipy's Caddy. New role roles/jar_lid_archive; per-host values in
host_vars, so a production host is a new [jar_lid_archive] entry, not a new
playbook.

── Containers, following :master ──────────────────────────────────────────
The same three services as the app repo's compose.yaml, so staging rehearses
what dev and CI run. Every playbook run pulls :master and `up -d --wait`s;
compose recreates web only when the digest moved. --wait gates on web's
/health/, which checks the database and the bucket, so a green run means the
app serves. Upgrading is re-running the playbook.

── web is on the host network ─────────────────────────────────────────────
Docker's published ports are DNATed before UFW sees them, so `8000:8000` would
answer on the LAN whatever UFW says, and binding to the tailnet IP races
tailscaled at boot. On the host network gunicorn's port is an ordinary one: UFW
default-deny covers the LAN, tailscaled's ts-input accepts tailscale0 ahead of
UFW (checked on mempool-box), and the headscale ACL grants tag:prd-vipy exactly
:8000. db and storage publish on 127.0.0.1 only. Verified: LAN times out, vipy
gets 200.

That matters for HTTPS: the app trusts X-Forwarded-Proto
(DJANGO_BEHIND_TLS_PROXY=1), which is only safe while Caddy is the sole client.
Login POST through the public URL passes CSRF; cookies are Secure.

── Secrets ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Generated straight into host_vars/jar_lid_staging_local/vault.yml, never
printed: Django key, Postgres and S3 secrets, and seed passwords for the
fixture's alice/bob/admin usernames - never the fixture's published passwords,
since the site is public. The group vault gains one line, this host's Gatus push
token; decrypted, it differs from before by exactly that line.

── Backups, and the outage the first one caused ───────────────────────────
One uncompressed tar (pg_dump -Fc + the SeaweedFS data dir), age-encrypted on
the box at 02:20, pulled by small-backups-box; 3 days at both ends. Verified end
to end, including decrypting a pulled artefact on lapy.

The first test run stopped web AND storage and left the app down 26 minutes:
SeaweedFS outlasted its 150s healthcheck budget on this disk, compose marked it
unhealthy, and web's depends_on never started it. Now only web is stopped - it
is the only writer to both stores, so they are still captured at one instant -
and the healthchecks have start_periods sized for the disk.

Also inherited from the app's compose.yaml: storage writes /tmp/s3.json and
chowns it to seaweed, so on a RESTART of the same container root cannot
re-create it (sticky /tmp + protected_regular): "Permission denied". Fixed here
with rm -f first; the app repo needs the same line.

── The disk is the problem ────────────────────────────────────────────────
The VM disk is on proxmox-tank-1, the HDD mirror, which knots-box's random reads
(~6 MB/s) keep near saturation. Inside this VM: ~96% "full" I/O pressure while
idle, ~5 min to start web, sudo occasionally over 12s. Moving it to local-zfs
(NVMe) is the fix; noted in the README, not done.

── Also ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- lan_ip read from the Proxmox guest agent; host key checked against the one
  the agent reads off the disk before it went into known_hosts.
- Monitoring: liveness + disk (400), probe_jar-lid-archive-staging (403), public
  /health/ + DNS (402), backup-dump/backup-store.
- tofu: the VM definition.
- Deployed v2026.10.03.1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 23:56:30 +02:00

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---
# The per-service health probes.
#
# These are NOT the same thing as the systemd checks in infra/401. Those answer
# "is the unit running"; these answer "does the service actually respond" - an
# RPC call to bitcoind, a TCP connect to Fulcrum's Electrum port, an HTTP fetch
# from the Mempool backend. A process can be perfectly `active` and useless,
# which is precisely the gap these close.
#
# The checks themselves live in each service's own role, deployed by that
# service's playbook. This play only registers where they report, because the
# endpoints must exist in Gatus before the first push arrives.
#
# They used to push to Uptime Kuma. The scripts now POST with a bearer token
# instead of GETting ?status=up, and each host uses its own token.
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Alerting thresholds, and why they differ by check type.
#
# `failure-threshold` counts CONSECUTIVE failures, but "consecutive" means a
# different amount of wall-clock time per check:
#
# push/heartbeat endpoints a failure is produced once per heartbeat window
# pulled endpoints a failure is produced once per interval
#
# So the default of 3 would mean 33 minutes on an 11m heartbeat and over a day
# on a 7h one - and the heartbeat window ALREADY encodes the tolerance. An 11m
# window on a 5-minute push is precisely "one missed push forgiven"; stacking a
# threshold of 3 on top triples a tolerance that was already chosen.
#
# Hence: push endpoints alert on the FIRST heartbeat failure. Pulled endpoints
# have no built-in tolerance, so the threshold is where it belongs for them.
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- name: Register the per-service probes with Gatus
hosts: observability
become: yes
vars:
probes:
- {name: bitcoin-knots, host: knots_box_local}
- {name: datum-gateway, host: knots_box_local}
- {name: fulcrum, host: fulcrum_box_local}
- {name: phoenixd, host: vipy}
- {name: forgejo-runner, host: forgejo_runner_local}
- {name: mempool-mariadb, host: mempool_box_local}
- {name: mempool-backend, host: mempool_box_local}
- {name: mempool-frontend, host: mempool_box_local}
# The two Monero probes push ONCE A DAY, not every 5 minutes, so they
# need a window wider than a day. 26h, not 24h: the window must exceed
# the push interval or a check that reports exactly on time races its own
# deadline and alerts on jitter. The timers are OnCalendar 05:00 and
# 05:30 with RandomizedDelaySec=900, so the true worst case is ~24h15m.
# Cadence lives in roles/{monero,xmrblocks}/defaults/main.yml; the two
# are one decision and must move together.
- {name: monerod, host: monerod_box_local, heartbeat: '26h'}
- {name: xmrblocks, host: monerod_box_local, heartbeat: '26h'}
- {name: navidrome, host: music_box_local}
- {name: jar-lid-archive-staging, host: jar_lid_staging_local}
tasks:
- name: Build the probe endpoint list
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
probe_endpoints: "{{ probe_endpoints | default([]) + [{
'name': item.name,
'group': 'probe',
'token': gatus_push_tokens[item.host],
'heartbeat': item.heartbeat | default('11m')}] }}"
loop: "{{ probes }}"
- name: Register the probe endpoints
ansible.builtin.include_role:
name: gatus_endpoint
vars:
gatus_endpoint_default_alerts:
- type: signal
# 1, not 3: the heartbeat window is the tolerance. See the note above.
failure-threshold: 1
success-threshold: 2
send-on-resolved: true
minimum-reminder-interval: 6h
gatus_endpoint_name: probes
gatus_endpoint_external: "{{ probe_endpoints }}"