Docker02's Sunday job updated and rebooted, then failed only because
portal_app was short of its replica past the 30-minute settle. Its
maintenance_failed figure stayed 1, and the alert kept firing, until a
later job succeeds. A job failed for not coming back into service is
checked again each minute and reads 0 once the host is back; a failed
or timed-out update still reads 1 until a job succeeds.
Also: compose.deploy.yml's syslog comment still said devices are told
apart by address under Swarm (stale since #6096).
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The Syslog page says where to send (this server, its port and protocols) and
where the setting is on Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, OpenWrt, UniFi and rsyslog,
open until a device sends. A sender whose address is on Steward's own
container network (Swarm ingress publishing hides the real sender) is
flagged, with the host-mode ports to publish instead. compose files and the
Dockerfile publish 5514/udp and /tcp; docs/plugins/syslog.md describes the
plugin and the deploy.
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#5275 "steward_db killed by its healthcheck twice": on NFS, pg_isready
timed out during slow writes and the orchestrator killed a healthy
database. The operator removed it from the live stack and ruled that
Steward doesn't ship one. Steward waits for the database itself (60 s at
startup, retries per request), so depends_on needs no health condition.
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Follow-up to the incident where an unwritable /data made Steward silently mint a
fresh ephemeral secret key on every boot, orphaning all encrypted secrets — only
discovered when an Ansible run failed. Make both failure modes loud and visible.
- config._resolve_secret_key: if a new key must be generated but can't be
persisted (no STEWARD_SECRET_KEY, unwritable /data), raise RuntimeError and
refuse to start, with an actionable fix (set STEWARD_SECRET_KEY, or make /data
writable by uid 1000). Also raises a clear error if an existing key file can't
be read. First-run on a writable volume still generates + persists normally.
- core.settings: detect secrets stored as ciphertext that won't decrypt with the
current key (scan_undecryptable_secrets at startup; _is_undecryptable helper).
Cached in memory; set_setting discards a key on a fresh write so the banner
clears without a restart.
- app.py: run the scan after migrate_plaintext_secrets, log a warning, and inject
undecryptable_secrets into the template context.
- base.html: admin banner naming which secrets to re-enter, each linked to its
settings tab.
- compose.deploy.yml: document the uid-1000 /data write requirement and the
STEWARD_SECRET_KEY option for multi-node Swarm.
- Tests: secret-key resolver (reuse existing file, generate when writable, raise
when unpersistable) and the undecryptable-secret detection helper.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Jg27rgypiW2efULXJDtMC
The app auto-generates a key on first boot and persists it to /data/secret.key,
which the app_data volume keeps across image updates. No reason to surface this
as a user-facing env var in the deploy compose. Removed from .env.example too.
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Plain ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD} in compose; default 'steward' lives in .env.example
where it's visible and editable rather than buried in compose YAML.
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Add the rule-46 image-publish lane: a `publish` job gated on
[lint, unit, integration] that builds the runtime Dockerfile in ci-builder
and pushes git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/steward:<sha> always, :dev on dev
and :latest on main. Authenticates with the REGISTRY_TOKEN repo secret
(the injected GITHUB_TOKEN lacks write:package). Steward is the first family
app to implement the publish lane; mechanics mirror CI-runner's
build-ci-python.yml.
Add compose.deploy.yml for a persistent remote instance that pulls :dev
(no source bind-mounts, persistent app_data+pgdata volumes, bundled Postgres),
plus a README "Remote dev instance" runbook and the POSTGRES_PASSWORD env key.
Fix .env.example's database URL var to the canonical STEWARD_DATABASE_URL
(single underscore) and document the publish lane in ci-requirements.md.
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