The pin was a month old — 2026-08-20 against the 2026-09-17 image the container runs.
Third module in a row whose pin had aged into a downgrade; the pattern is hq issue 099.
gitea, umami, influxdb, icecast and mailu require a secret and keep each of theirs
under a local name (novox/hq ADR 0094); the broker account stays their own. The
route proxy's recipe starts FROM the bases its manifest declares (ADR 0097).
From the survey of every env-file secret (ADR 0086, issue 041): amqp-ping,
minio, mongodb and grafana use the _FILE twin their software honours;
mesh-catalog and model-usage read DATABASE_URL_FILE (a file the mesh
templates, mounted where only the runtime reads it); grafana's secret files
belong to its own account. Two dead deliveries removed: a line nothing read
in amqp-email-forwarder, and mailu's secret.env on four containers that
never read it. The 25 exceptions that remain carry the surveyed reason —
convertible and awaiting a bed, convertible through a generated config file,
the application's own code, or not convertible.
ADR 0086. mesh-controller mounts its six own secrets and names them with
_FILE twins, so no credential of its own reaches its environment. The 35
containers that still read a secret through an env-file carry
secrets-in-environment with the reason; converting each where its software
accepts a path is the per-module work of issue 041.
keycloak, mailu, minio, mongodb, mssql, nextcloud, portainer, redis,
umami and verdaccio get the Dockerfile + build section the eight
buildable modules already had; their runtime containers name the
artifact instead of a placeholder digest.
One convention, settled (060's open question, informed by 061): the
runtime container runs serve mode with every serve-time entrypoint in
MESH_TOOL_MODULES — tools serve, events flow, and a provider's
provisioner reconciles in the same process with the broker connected.
postgres, gitea and lavinmq are retrofitted from args-run provisioners,
which served no tools and emitted lifecycle events nowhere.
route-proxy is deferred: its build context is the mesh-controller
repository, a cross-repo shape the build section cannot yet express.
Piece A + B of ADR 0056, completing the internal-CA work in ff01ada.
Selectable issuer. acme-ca is now a role two providers can satisfy: step-ca
(internal CA) or the new public-acme (a fact-only module, no container/listen)
that serves Let's Encrypt production. A mesh assigns one or the other to satisfy
route-proxy's `requires: acme-ca`.
One directory shape for both. A provider serves the ACME directory's parts the
way the mesh already models any reachable service -- an address (`at`), a `port`
and a `path` -- and route-proxy composes `https://<at>:<port><path>`. step-ca
lets the mesh fill `at` (its node) and `port` (its single listen) and serves only
`path`; public-acme, not being a mesh service, serves all three (overriding `at`
with the public host). Same composition either way.
Empty root means the system trust store. Both providers serve `root`: step-ca
the operator root PEM (settled per mesh), public-acme an empty string. route-proxy
writes it to the CA bundle file unconditionally; the binary now reads an empty
bundle as "the root is already trusted by the OS" and falls back to system roots
(examples/route-proxy/main.go, committed on the mesh-control ADR-0056 branch).
step-ca inits from the operator's root. The operator's root cert, root key and
root-key password are mounted at the smallstep entrypoint's default init paths
(/run/secrets/root_ca.crt, root_ca_key, root_ca_key_password) with the matching
DOCKER_STEPCA_INIT_*_FILE vars, so `step ca init` adopts the operator's root
instead of self-generating one -- the CA that signs is the CA route-proxy trusts.
Route names are labels, not FQDNs. Every routed module now contributes a `label`
(the leftmost subdomain) instead of a full public hostname; the node's public
domain composes the name. Apex (novox.be) is left as a full name -- composeName
has no empty-label/apex convention yet (mesh-control follow-up).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
Add a `route` contribution (requires/contributes/binds) to every web app so
each gets a Host-routed public name via route-proxy, mirroring the
de-spiegel/only-office pattern:
- novox: gitea, keycloak, nextcloud, umami, invoicing, verdaccio, registry,
and mailu (single mail.novox.be -> 7080; admin/webmail/api ride that port).
- ace: grafana, sonarr, radarr, lidarr, bazarr, ombi, tautulli, jackett,
nodered, searxng, home-assistant, bookshelf, baserow.
Split photos so its three sites each get a name: photos keeps server +
admin-client (photos.novox.be), and new photos-eef (eef.novox.be) and
photos-filip (filip.novox.be) modules carry the client sites.
The production FQDN stays the literal default; a per-node .incus name is a
settings override applied where the mesh runs, not a manifest hardcoding.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
The whole-mesh dry-run found umami's runtime crash-looping "admin password is
not set": its `admin` own-secret is mounted at /run/secrets/admin, but the
client read the bare env UMAMI_ADMIN_PASSWORD, which nothing sets. Same shape as
the six tool-runtime credential fixes — read the mounted file first
(MESH_UMAMI_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE), falling back to the env. (photos and mailu
remain deeper conversion jobs — a stub app image and a full Mailu config env —
not credential-wiring, tracked separately.)
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
The postgres provisioner creates each consumer a database named after the login the mesh
minted (mesh_<node>_<module>), per ADR 0048 -- 'a same-named database under exactly that
login'. But baserow, letta, umami, gitea, keycloak and nextcloud each hardcoded their app db
name (DATABASE_NAME=baserow, /letta, /umami, NAME=gitea, /keycloak, POSTGRES_DB=nextcloud),
so the service connected to a database that does not exist ('database letta does not exist').
Each now uses ${bound:postgres-database:as} as the db name -- the login, which is also the db
name -- matching the working meshboard pattern and the provisioner's actual behaviour.
Found by the two-node DB-consumer lab install (mesh-lab assigned-two-node-db); baserow is
proven connecting and running there. The S3 bucket name is the same class of assumption and is
a separate follow-up (s3 identity has its own length bound).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
Each provider's separate provisioner container becomes a runtime container that
serves the module's tools and runs its provisioner under the module's scoped broker
account: mesh-runtime-<module>, on the backend's own network (reaching the backend
by name and the broker by NAT), with MESH_BROKER_FILE + MESH_RECEIVES replacing
GRANTS. umami gains the broker own-secret it lacked. cloudflare-dns's adapter is
re-pointed at the ADR 0053 contract (a data provision, like umami — its record
return is the scoped-out concern).
Proven: provider-on-backend-network green — redis's runtime, on the private redis
network, binds the broker and provisions a consumer with the mesh's credential.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
umami was only half a module: it required postgres but did not provide
what it exists to offer. It now provides the mesh 'analytics' interface
(ADR 0045) — a webapp requires analytics and umami's provisioner creates
its site and returns the grant — mirroring the postgres provider pattern
(serves/receives/grants + a provisioner container that adapts umami's API
to the mesh contract).
Also: split the listen (one port, two surfaces — the mesh-gated dashboard
and the public collection endpoint browsers POST to, hence from:anywhere),
and an admin own-secret for the provisioner to drive umami's API.
Parses against internal/catalogue. Still to build: the provisioner image
(mesh-provision-umami-analytics — the adapter, real code like
postgres-provisioner; placeholder digest for now) and umami's tools/client
in the module (ADR 0044), which need the sdk harness.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
Each module becomes modules/<name>/ holding module.json, with room for
the rest of what a module is — its tools, health checks, provisioning,
lifecycle — which the conversion from hal still has to bring across.
The flat <name>.json was only the resource-declaration half.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
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