An image bump in a provider redeployed every variant of every consumer,
including the variants that switch that provider off and therefore never
deploy the bumped image at all. The diff-derived whitelist now narrows each
affected role to the variants whose own round closure still reaches a seed,
emitted as `role#0,2` selection tokens. That closure is walked on the same
variant-merged services maps the matrix planner builds its rounds from, so the
narrowing follows a parent's variant choice across every generation of the
chain. It covers every auto-derived whitelist: the weekly update PRs,
Dependabot, and any other diff-driven run.
The narrowing never shrinks the matrix on partial information. A seed role
keeps every variant, because its own files changed. A role reached only
through a run_after edge keeps every variant too, because the round closure
does not follow that edge and a role whose hits are empty is therefore
unnarrowed rather than dropped.
A pinned token naming a role the discovery query does not return now warns
instead of aborting the run. The diff-derived whitelist legitimately names
roles the lifecycle envelope filters out, and once it pins variants such a
token would abort every chunk; role names are still checked against roles/
before the run starts, so a typo is caught one layer earlier.
The round's variant merge moves out of the deploy inventory package into
utils/roles/applications/variants.py. The CI selection has to build the same
maps, and importing the deploy package for them pulls in a module that reads
INFINITO_SRC_DIR at import time, which the runner host does not set.
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A round deploys a provider once, so the role that pulls it in is the only place that can say how lean it has to be. A variant entry may now carry any application config topic under a service it depends on: a mapping deep-merges, so naming one key changes that key alone, and null empties the topic. Empty was the case that needed a marker of its own, because merging an empty mapping is a no-op and would leave exactly the services the round was trying to shed.
The topic vocabulary and the merge semantics live in utils.roles.applications.topics, which is also where resources.py now gets them rather than spelling the same null-or-merge out a second time. Collecting who demands what stays in the inventory tree, refuses two roles demanding different values for one provider in the same round, and skips a role's own entity entry so the existing services.<own>.users declarations are not read as overrides.
The CI set-cover learns the same fact. Its greedy cover retires a role's variant-0 row when an earlier row of another role embeds it, on the stated premise that embedding pulls the provider's variant 0. A variant that dictates that provider's config breaks the premise from the other side: whatever ran, it was not the provider as the provider declares it. Such a pair now covers nothing, so the retired row keeps its job, its artefact and its verdict.
Measured on the current tree: 20 override pairs, 41 covered rows before and after, so nothing is revoked today. The rule bites the moment an override lands in a row that covers.
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3529 invalid comments in 528 files, grandfathered in while the linter
only saw the working-tree diff. Removal ran through the linter's own
collectors, so detection and deletion cannot drift: a comment whose
opener line is blank before it and whose closer line is blank after it
loses all its lines, anything else loses only the comment region, and a
line left holding a bare delimiter goes with it.
Five files keep their comments behind a nocheck marker instead. Four are
upstream configs whose inline docs are upstream's own (mautrix, systemd
journald, nextcloud-oidc-login, MediaWiki). In littlejs the
commented-out entries ARE the deactivation mechanism for an example
tile, so deleting them would delete configuration.
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Since 576fad84f (2026-05-10) moved role images from
`defaults/main.yml` into `meta/services.yml`, matrix-deploy's variant
baker has been writing the FULL effective config (services.yml +
variants.yml deep-merged via `get_variants`) into host_vars through
the `--vars` JSON consumed by `apply_vars_overrides`. That populates
`applications.{role}.services.{svc}.image` (and `.version`, .cpus,
etc.) with the upstream value, which then silently disables
`apply_mirror_overrides` for every role with an explicit image
declaration: the default `if_missing` policy short-circuits when the
field is already non-blank, so the rendered compose / Dockerfile FROM
keeps pulling from the upstream registry rather than the GHCR mirror.
The regression went unnoticed because Docker Hub usually serves the
pull, but it eventually surfaced as a BuildKit 429 on
`docker.io/library/php:8.2-apache` during the suitecrm Dockerfile
build (job 77602110531 on run 26362676803). Nextcloud, moodle,
mariadb consumers, postgres consumers, simpleicons, phpmyadmin,
phpldapadmin, jenkins, baserow, fider, ... all share the same latent
defect — only suitecrm happened to hit the rate limit first.
Fix the root cause instead of papering over per-role with
`mirror_policy: force`: introduce `get_variant_overrides_only` next
to `get_variants` and switch payload.py to it. The new function
returns the raw `meta/variants.yml` entries per role — no merge with
`meta/services.yml`. matrix-deploy now bakes only the variant-
specific overrides into host_vars; the role's services.yml fields
flow through the normal Ansible lookup chain at deploy time, leaving
`image`/`version` blank in host_vars so `apply_mirror_overrides`
populates them from `mirrors.yml` under its default `if_missing`
policy.
Behavior preserved for the other `get_variants` consumers:
* utils/manager/inventory.py:104 (schema-driven credentials) keeps
the full merged variant payload.
* planner.py:58 (variant-count only) is unaffected.
* legacy_resolver.py:42 (CombinedResolver runtime services_overrides)
keeps the full merged view.
Coverage:
* 3 new tests in test_applications.py for the new helper (single
empty variant when no meta/variants.yml, raw override without base
merge, cache invariance).
* test_payload.py + test_builder.py mocks repointed from `get_variants`
to `get_variant_overrides_only`.
* `make test` green across all 5 targets (lint, unit, integration,
external, test-lint) — 188 tests total.
Side-effects assessed:
* Repo-wide grep confirms no template / task accesses
`applications.X.services.Y.image` directly via hostvars — every
consumer goes through `lookup('config', …)` which still deep-merges.
* Roles previously pulling upstream now resolve via the GHCR mirror
whenever the image is already synced (the `images-mirror-missing.yml`
workflow keeps the destination populated).
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Two changes ship together because the variant-only matrix-deploy logic
was written into the legacy 697-line inventory.py and then re-split:
* Source package (max 240 lines per submodule, well under the 300 budget):
- spec.py DevInventorySpec + PlanEntry data types
- payload.py _resolve_variant_payloads + _bake_overrides
- legacy_resolver.py CombinedResolver fallback (default-mode path)
- variants.py strict variant-only include resolution
- planner.py plan_dev_inventory_matrix + filter_plan_to_variant
- builder.py build_dev_inventory + build_dev_inventory_matrix
- __init__.py public-API re-exports + back-compat shims
* Test package mirrors the source 1:1 with a shared _fixtures.make_spec
to avoid duplicating the DevInventorySpec defaults across files.
* New variant-only matrix mode (gated on any primary shipping
meta/variants.yml): only services whose merged variant payload pins
both enabled and shared to literal True become inventory groups;
Jinja flags never qualify (group_names does not exist yet at build
time); run_after only orders the include, never expands it;
cross-primary disagreement on a (service-key, round) raises ValueError.
Default mode (no variants.yml on any primary) keeps the legacy
CombinedResolver path untouched.
* Docs in design/{inventory,variants}.md updated to point at the new
per-submodule paths; test_nginx_vhosts.py's Test classes now also
inherit directly from unittest.TestCase so the AST-level lint in
test_all_test_files_have_tests.py picks them up (transitive base via
NginxVhostsTestBase alone is not enough).
Coverage: 458 cli unit tests, 349 utils unit tests, 99 dev-deploy tests,
all green; ruff check clean.
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