personal_infra/ansible/roles/navidrome/tasks/install.yml
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navidrome: a music server on its own box, with beets in front of it
Navidrome 0.64.0 on music-box (nodito VM 8200, 1 core / 1 GB / 50 GB), public
at music.contrapeso.xyz. A single Go binary with a SQLite database; the only
external dependency is ffmpeg for transcoding. Plus beets, the CLI that fixes
tags before Navidrome ever indexes them.

── Exposed without basic auth, on purpose ─────────────────────────────────
Navidrome speaks two protocols on one port: its web UI, and the Subsonic API
(/rest/*) that every mobile client actually uses. A Subsonic client
authenticates with ?u=&t=md5(password+salt)&s= in the query string and has
nowhere to carry a second credential, so Basic Auth in front of the site is
invisible to most of them. The choice is a proxy credential or a working phone.

Same call this estate already made for monerod's restricted RPC, for the same
reason: proxied bare so Feather can reach it, with the service's own auth doing
the authenticating.

The cost is stated rather than glossed: the login page and the whole /rest/*
surface are reachable by anyone who finds the hostname, and Navidrome has no
rate limiting and no 2FA.

A fail2ban jail on vipy reads a per-vhost Caddy access log and catches WEB UI
brute force, where a bad login returns 401. It very likely does NOT catch
Subsonic brute force, because that protocol answers a bad password with HTTP
200 and puts the failure in the body - which Caddy never sees. Nor can it be
fixed on the music box: the request arrives from vipy over the tailnet, so the
only address fail2ban could ban there is vipy's, which would take down every
service behind the edge. Banning has to happen at the edge; the edge cannot see
the failure. So /rest/* is protected by password strength alone, and the README
carries a one-line curl to re-check that after every upgrade.

── Passwords are stored reversibly, and cannot not be ─────────────────────
The Subsonic API requires the server to compute md5(password+salt) per request,
so Navidrome cannot hash passwords one-way. It encrypts them at rest with
PasswordEncryptionKey instead. Two real consequences, both in the README: root
on that box means every Navidrome password in plaintext, so the password must
be unique to this service; and changing the key invalidates every stored
password, so it is set before the first account and left alone.

── beets is not a service, deliberately ───────────────────────────────────
`beet import` is interactive and it MOVES AND RENAMES FILES. A timer that
reorganises a music library unattended is a way to lose one. Installed and
configured, run by hand.

/srv/music is counterweight:navidrome mode 2750 and the setgid bit is
load-bearing: without it beets' files land in the curator's own group,
Navidrome cannot read them, and the symptom is an EMPTY LIBRARY rather than a
permission error. ReplayGain and lyrics are auto: no - on one core they turn a
two-minute import into a twenty-minute one.

── Monitoring ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Host liveness and disk (400), the systemd unit (401), a probe that fetches
/app/ and greps it (403), and public reachability plus cert expiry (402).

/app/ was chosen by testing all three candidates against 0.64.0: /ping returns
a bare "." and proves only that something listens; /rest/ping.view identifies
the server but logs two warnings per call, ~576 a day; /app/ returns
<title>Navidrome</title> and logs nothing. 402 asserts 200 on /app/ and not on
"/", because "/" answers 302 - checked live rather than assumed.

── Also ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
The headscale ACL grants tag:prd-vipy exactly tag:music-box:4533. Without a
rule the node is invisible rather than unreachable, which surfaces as a Caddy
502 "no such host".

inventory lan_ip was read off nodito's ARP table for the VM's own MAC, not
guessed - and .149 had belonged to another machine, whose stale host key made
SSH refuse the connection. That is the designed behaviour, not a fault.

50 GB is the LIBRARY ceiling, not just the OS: /srv/music is on the root disk,
so roughly 300-450 albums in FLAC. 1 GB is fine for serving and tight for the
initial scan, which is the memory peak.

No backups, deliberately. The music files would swamp the age-encrypted nightly
path, and navidrome.db is a rebuildable index. What is NOT rebuildable is
playlists, play counts, ratings and accounts - there are none today, which is
what makes the trade fair, and the README names this as the decision to revisit
if that changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-27 11:09:40 +02:00

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---
# The user, the directories, and the binary.
- name: Install Navidrome's runtime dependencies
apt:
name:
# Navidrome shells out to ffmpeg for on-the-fly transcoding. Without it
# the server starts fine and every format the client cannot play natively
# simply fails, which looks like a client bug.
- ffmpeg
- curl
state: present
update_cache: true
- name: Create the navidrome system group
group:
name: "{{ navidrome_group }}"
system: yes
state: present
- name: Create the navidrome system user
user:
name: "{{ navidrome_user }}"
group: "{{ navidrome_group }}"
system: yes
shell: /usr/sbin/nologin
home: "{{ navidrome_data_dir }}"
create_home: no
comment: "Navidrome Music Server"
state: present
- name: Create the navidrome data directory
ansible.builtin.file:
path: "{{ navidrome_data_dir }}"
state: directory
owner: "{{ navidrome_user }}"
group: "{{ navidrome_group }}"
mode: '0750'
- name: Create the navidrome config directory
ansible.builtin.file:
path: "{{ navidrome_config_dir }}"
state: directory
owner: root
group: "{{ navidrome_group }}"
mode: '0750'
# Two principals share this tree and neither is root: the curator writes it
# through beets, Navidrome only reads it. setgid (the 2) is load-bearing -
# without it, files beets creates land in the curator's own group and Navidrome
# cannot read them, which presents as an empty library rather than an error.
- name: Create the music library directory
ansible.builtin.file:
path: "{{ navidrome_music_dir }}"
state: directory
owner: "{{ navidrome_curator_user }}"
group: "{{ navidrome_group }}"
mode: '2750'
- name: Create the incoming staging directory
ansible.builtin.file:
path: "{{ navidrome_incoming_dir }}"
state: directory
owner: "{{ navidrome_curator_user }}"
group: "{{ navidrome_curator_user }}"
mode: '0755'
# check_mode: no on the next two - this repo verifies with `--check --diff`, so
# the role has to survive a dry run. A read-only version probe and a temp
# directory are both harmless to perform for real, and without them every task
# below evaluates against an undefined navidrome_tmp.path and the check aborts.
- name: Check the installed navidrome version
ansible.builtin.command: "{{ navidrome_bin_path }} --version"
register: navidrome_installed_version
changed_when: false
failed_when: false
check_mode: no
- name: Decide whether navidrome needs installing
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
navidrome_needs_install: "{{ navidrome_version not in (navidrome_installed_version.stdout | default('')) }}"
- name: Create a temporary directory for the navidrome download
ansible.builtin.tempfile:
state: directory
suffix: navidrome
register: navidrome_tmp
when: navidrome_needs_install | bool
check_mode: no
# checksum: is the verification. Upstream publishes navidrome_checksums.txt per
# release but signs nothing, so there is no signature to check the way
# roles/monero checks binaryfate's - this pins the exact artefact and no more.
- name: Download the navidrome release tarball
ansible.builtin.get_url:
url: "{{ navidrome_url }}"
dest: "{{ navidrome_tmp.path }}/navidrome.tar.gz"
checksum: "sha256:{{ navidrome_sha256 }}"
mode: '0644'
when: navidrome_needs_install | bool and not ansible_check_mode
- name: Unpack the navidrome tarball
ansible.builtin.unarchive:
src: "{{ navidrome_tmp.path }}/navidrome.tar.gz"
dest: "{{ navidrome_tmp.path }}"
remote_src: yes
when: navidrome_needs_install | bool and not ansible_check_mode
- name: Install the navidrome binary
ansible.builtin.copy:
src: "{{ navidrome_tmp.path }}/navidrome"
dest: "{{ navidrome_bin_path }}"
remote_src: yes
owner: root
group: root
mode: '0755'
when: navidrome_needs_install | bool and not ansible_check_mode
notify: Restart navidrome
- name: Remove the navidrome download directory
ansible.builtin.file:
path: "{{ navidrome_tmp.path }}"
state: absent
when: navidrome_needs_install | bool
check_mode: no
# Check mode skips the three tasks above, so without this a dry run is silent
# about the single most important thing it would do.
- name: Report what a real run would install
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: >-
Would install navidrome {{ navidrome_version }} to {{ navidrome_bin_path }}
(currently: {{ navidrome_installed_version.stdout | default('not installed') | trim }})
when: navidrome_needs_install | bool and ansible_check_mode