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infra-ops and infra-hermes act as the same OS identity and dockerd does not
log exec per caller, so host-side changes carry no fingerprint. Git cannot
close the gap either: every commit here is attributed to Vuong Hoang by
convention, which is correct for authorship and useless for attribution.
On 2026-09-18 a second session edited the searxng stack mid-deploy, crash-
looping fleet search for ~4 minutes, and the author was unidentifiable.
scripts/ops-log records one line per host-changing action and holds a
lightweight claim so two agents do not deploy the same stack at once.
Four design questions, settled:
* Central on nh3-dev, not per-host and not the post office. Both agents
run as the same unix user there, so one file is shared with zero
provisioning. Per-host needs a writable path on ~25 heterogeneous boxes
and stores "we changed host Y" on host Y. journald looked free but shows
an unprivileged reader only their own _UID, which would have split the
log silently between the infra-ops and lkraven halves of the fleet.
* The claim is advisory and enforced in the tooling. deploy-stack.sh
refuses a foreign claim across the diff, the prompt and the apply -- the
whole review window, which is where the collision happened. Acquire is
mkdir, so it is atomic rather than probably-fine. Stale claims auto-break
and the break is recorded.
* Writers are automatic. deploy-stack.sh and elway record themselves; a log
that depends on remembering is the same class of instrument as a health
check that passes in both states.
* There is a detector. `ops-log audit` asks each host what changed on disk
and compares it to the newest log line for that stack, covering the
manual ssh-and-edit path the automatic writers structurally cannot.
ops-log being absent or broken never blocks a deploy; only a live foreign
claim does. `ops-log baseline` marks the 136 stacks that predate the
instrument so the detector starts from today rather than reporting the whole
fleet forever and training us to ignore it.
An unreachable host reports INCOMPLETE and exit 5, never clean.
eshpfi-management
Infrastructure management workspace for the PFI fleet (plus the ESH home-lab host). Tracks server state, canonical Docker Compose stacks, per-host configs, and the tooling that moves them around.
See CLAUDE.md for the full set of conventions and the rules Claude Code sessions follow when working here.
The fleet
Docker hosts:
| Host | IP | Site | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| fv-ml1 | 10.251.50.54 |
Fountain Valley (10.251.0.0/16) |
GPU / AI inference (bare metal, 4× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q) |
| ana-docker | 10.250.50.70 |
Anaheim | General-purpose Docker + cross-site hubs (VM on pfi-pve) |
| nh3-docker | 10.100.50.40 |
NH3 (10.100.0.0/16) |
General-purpose Docker (VM on nh3-pve) |
| esh-docker-vm | 10.0.50.45 |
ESH home lab (esteban.net) |
Home-lab Docker (VM on esh-pve, non-PFI scope) |
| vm-esh-nas | 10.0.50.154 |
ESH home lab | NAS-adjacent Docker, NFS-mounted shares (VM on esh-pve-nas, non-PFI scope) |
Proxmox hypervisors (tracked for inventory; not Docker targets):
| Host | IP | Site | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| pfi-pve | 10.250.250.31 |
Anaheim | Proxmox VE (188 GB / Xeon Silver 4310) |
| nh3-pve | 10.100.250.60 |
NH3 | Proxmox VE (62 GB / i9-13900H) |
| esh-pve | 10.0.250.35 |
ESH home lab | Proxmox VE (62 GB / i9-13900H) |
| esh-pve-nas | 10.0.50.55 |
ESH home lab | Proxmox VE, storage-dedicated (125 GB / Xeon W-1250) |
Per-host snapshots of the running system live under servers/<host>/system-details.txt, refreshed via scripts/refresh-server-info.sh.
Layout
.
├── CLAUDE.md # conventions; loaded by Claude Code sessions
├── README.md # this file
├── scripts/ # workstation tooling
│ ├── server_inspect.sh # read-only diagnostic, runs on remote via stdin
│ ├── proxmox_inspect.sh # Proxmox-aware probe (VMs, LXCs, storage, backup coverage)
│ ├── refresh-server-info.sh # pull fresh system-details.txt for one/all hosts
│ ├── refresh-proxmox-info.sh # pull fresh proxmox-details.txt for one/all PVE nodes
│ ├── add-host.sh # register a new server (writes servers/<name>/ssh-target)
│ ├── sync-stacks.sh # pull /opt/docker/{compose,conf}/ → stacks-mirror/
│ ├── deploy-stack.sh # push stacks-mirror/<host>/<stack>/ with diff + prompt
│ ├── discover-fortigate.sh # DHCP lease list from a FortiGate via SSH
│ ├── discover-unifi.sh # client list from a UniFi Controller via REST
│ └── discover-gaps.sh # find IPs in discovery TSVs not tracked in servers/
├── servers/ # per-host notes + latest snapshot + ssh-target fallback
│ └── <host>/
│ ├── README.md
│ ├── system-details.txt # regenerate on demand
│ └── ssh-target # <ip> or <user>@<ip>, used when DNS fails
├── stacks/ # canonical compose files (source of truth)
│ └── <stack>/
│ ├── compose.yaml
│ ├── .env.example
│ └── README.md
├── stacks-mirror/ # gitignored — live mirror from sync-stacks.sh
├── configs/ # host-level config files that aren't docker-compose
│ ├── homepage/ # canonical config for the fleet dashboard (on esh-docker-vm)
│ └── restic/<host>/ # resticprofile configs + pre-backup hooks
└── docs/ # general reference (network, models, proxmox, etc.)
└── pfi/
Current stacks
GPU (fv-ml1):
llama-swap— GGUF model swapper via llama.cpp (port 9292)vllm— embeddings (8001) + reranker (8002) + Skywork reward classifier (8003) via vLLM
Anaheim non-GPU (ana-docker):
traefik,crowdsec,gitea,vaultwarden,synapse,seafile,searxng,openwebui,sillytavern,mailrise,rustdesk,dockge,it-tools- (
mattermostretired 2026-04-21 — compose dir may still linger, containers gone) - Notes / feeds:
miniflux(RSS, 8080),nevermore(twice-daily LLM-curated brief, 8181, multi-tenant — extracted to its own repo atvh/nevermore),memos(note server, 5230) - Assistant tooling:
task-board(MCP + dashboard for assistant task state, 7878) - Fleet services:
beszel(metrics hub, port 8090),dozzle-hub(log viewer, 8088),backrest(restic UI, 9898) - Backup target:
rest-server-anaon port 8000
GPU fv-ml1 (non-canonical for now):
comfyui,kokoro,parakeet,vibevoicealongside the canonicalllama-swap+vllm
NH3 (nh3-docker):
adguard,dockge, plus Beszel/Dozzle agents
NH3 (Synology 10.100.50.50):
rest-server-nh3— restic backup target (port 8000)
ESH home lab (esh-docker-vm):
adguard,homeassistant(macvlan),esphome,mosquitto,paperless-ngx,pgadmin,calibre-web-automated,drawio,traefik,homepage,uptime-kuma, plus Beszel/Dozzle agents
ESH home lab (vm-esh-nas):
filezilla(web UI on port 5800),dockge, plus Beszel/Dozzle agents. Mounts/mnt/{share,music,books,media}from the Debian NAS at 10.0.50.50.
Common tasks
Refresh one host's snapshot:
scripts/refresh-server-info.sh ana-docker
Refresh all hosts:
scripts/refresh-server-info.sh all
Refresh all Proxmox nodes (separate flow — captures VM/LXC/backup-coverage):
scripts/refresh-proxmox-info.sh all
Add a new host:
scripts/add-host.sh <name> <ip-or-user@ip>
scripts/refresh-server-info.sh <name>
Validate discovery (without hitting the network):
scripts/refresh-server-info.sh --validate-only all
Push a stack to a host (with diff + confirm):
scripts/deploy-stack.sh <host> <stack>
Pull every server's compose/conf trees into stacks-mirror/ (not committed — see .gitignore):
scripts/sync-stacks.sh all
Bootstrap a new fleet repo from this one:
scripts/fork-fleet.sh ~/development/<other-fleet>-management
# optional: override the fleet-name baked into the skeleton CLAUDE.md / README
scripts/fork-fleet.sh ~/development/<dest> <fleet-name>
Mirrors the reusable tooling (everything under scripts/, the
generic playbook templates, .gitignore, conventions section of
CLAUDE.md) into the destination dir, strips fleet-specific content
(servers/, stacks/, configs/, fleet-named playbooks
(deploy-*, decouple-*), docs/orientation.md, docs/runbooks/,
docs/pfi/, STATUS.md, host-pinned helper scripts), regenerates
skeleton CLAUDE.md / README.md / STATUS.md with the new fleet
name, and initializes a fresh git history with one "Initial commit".
The script does not create a gitea remote or push — namespace +
repo name are an explicit manual step. The "next steps" output prints
the exact tea repo create + git remote add + git push commands
to wire it up when ready.
Backup pipeline
Backups are driven by per-host resticprofile configs under configs/restic/<host>/, scheduled via systemd timers on each host:
- Writes: each host backs up to its site-local rest-server (
rest-server-anaorrest-server-nh3), over HTTP basic-auth. - Authentication: shared
.htpasswdfile on both rest-servers, one entry per host; credentials stored in/etc/restic/restic.envon each client host. - Encryption: per-host client-side passphrase in
/etc/restic/password(unique per repo; losing it = losing that host's backups). - Visibility: Backrest (
http://10.250.50.70:9898) shows every repo for browsing/restore. - Schedule: backup at 01:00 daily,
forgetat 03:00 daily, weeklycheck --read-data-subset 10%on Sundays. - Prune: manual ceremony (rest-server runs with
--append-only, which blocks destructive prune ops). - Off-site: cross-site rsync between the two rest-server data dirs is planned (not yet implemented).
Coverage status (as of 2026-04-29)
Goal: every Docker host + configs + every database covered, not just VM images.
| Layer | State |
|---|---|
| VM-level (Proxmox vzdump) | ✅ All running guests covered across pfi-pve / nh3-pve / esh-pve-nas; esh-pve has VMID 108 uncovered |
| ana-docker restic (host files + DBs) | ✅ configs/restic/ana-docker/ with pre-backup hooks for synapse / seafile / vaultwarden-pg / gitea (native dump) / openwebui |
| fv-ml1 restic | ✅ configs/restic/fv-ml1/ — bare-metal host files (no DB hooks needed) |
| nh3-docker restic | ✅ Light — no DB hooks needed |
| esh-docker-vm restic | ✅ With DB hooks for paperless-postgres (external), home-assistant + pgadmin + uptime-kuma (host-side sqlite3), calibre-web-automated (in-container sqlite3) |
| vm-esh-nas restic | ✅ Light — NFS mounts explicitly excluded |
| nh3-dev (workstation) restic | ✅ /home/lkraven + /etc with language-toolchain and build-output excludes |
| irv-ml1 restic | ✅ Cross-site to rest-server-nh3 via WireGuard |
| esh-vm-db restic | ✅ With pg_dumpall + mongodump pre-backup hooks |
| Cross-site redundancy | ✅ ana-nas → nh3-nas rsync at 04:00 daily; nh3-nas → ana-nas at 05:00 daily (configs/rsync/) |
| Prune ceremony | ✅ Quarterly manual ritual documented in docs/runbooks/nh3-prune-ritual.md (DSM-mediated --append-only toggle) |
| offen/docker-volume-backup sidecars on esh-docker-vm | ❌ Remove once restic proves itself (~1 week of clean runs) |
Authoritative vs. mirror
- Authoritative: files on each server under
/opt/docker/compose/<stack>/and/opt/docker/conf/<stack>/. - This workspace: source-of-truth copies under
stacks/<name>/(hand-curated), and a gitignored mirror understacks-mirror/pulled bysync-stacks.sh.
Edit in stacks/, push with deploy-stack.sh. Never commit stacks-mirror/ — it can contain embedded plaintext secrets from upstream compose files that haven't been audited yet.