The role was a scaffold: tasks/main.yml was a two-line comment, there was no
compose.yml.j2, no domains.yml, no volumes.yml, no env.j2. It deployed nothing
while carrying a Playwright spec and two matrix variants.
It also described the wrong project. meta/main.yml and meta/info.yml pointed at
jaywink/socialhome -- a Django ActivityPub hub. The target here is
social-home-io/socialhome: created 2026-04-21, MPL-2.0, aiohttp + SQLite +
Preact, federating peer-to-peer over Ed25519/WebRTC rather than ActivityPub.
Different codebase, no fork relationship.
It turns out to be the simplest web-app in the repo. One published multi-arch
image (ghcr.io/social-home-io/socialhome:2026.6.16, pinned), no Postgres, no
Redis, no queue, no worker, no collectstatic -- SQLite in one volume, one port,
migrations applied in-process at startup.
Two things the source forced that reading the README would not have:
- [standalone].external_url is reachable only through the TOML file, never
through SH_* env (config.py:238-261). Without it routes/pairing.py answers
422 NOT_CONFIGURED and federation pairing is dead, so the role renders a
config and mounts it as type: config.
- provision_admin() runs from SH_ADMIN_PASSWORD but never calls
mark_complete(), so / keeps serving the setup wizard instead of the login
form -- upstream's own docstring claims otherwise. 01_setup.yml closes it
with an idempotent POST to /api/setup/standalone.
No SSO sidecar, deliberately, against the pgadmin model this otherwise copies:
oauth2-proxy would redirect POST /federation/inbox and /api/pairing/accept to
Keycloak and break the one thing the software exists for.
Verified against the real image rather than reasoned about. The http_status
probe's exact argv ran inside the container and returned 0. /healthz answers
with the byte-for-byte shape the spec asserts. The setup POST returns 201 then
409 and flips setup_required true -> false, which is the whole justification
for 01_setup.yml existing. [standalone].external_url lands in the inbox_url of
POST /api/pairing/initiate. The container runs as uid 10001, matching
meta/users.yml.
Both persona blocks are proven, not assumed: biber gets 401 from the token
endpoint, and the 97 static files contain zero occurrences of logout / sign out
/ abmelden, so utils/logout.js has nothing to click. Injecting a control the
way web-app-prometheus does was rejected -- that model points its button at
OIDC.CLIENT.LOGOUT_URL, which does not exist for a role with no OIDC.
swarm stays disabled for the first round. The orchestrator chains
swarm -> compose -> host under mode_fail_fast, and sequencing measures serial
at 198 jobs, so a red swarm job here would skip 92 unrelated jobs and leave 85
roles untested. Compose-only drops that to 10. Flip it once compose is green.
Adversarial review caught five defects before this landed, three of them
certain rather than likely:
- SOCIALHOME_INTERNAL_URL hardcoded 127.0.0.1, which sys-svc-container rewrites
to the bridge gateway whenever DOCKER_IN_CONTAINER is set -- from inside the
Ansible container that address is the Ansible container, so both setup tasks
would have burned five minutes of retries and failed the play.
- SH_WEBRTC_STUN_URL sat outside the coturn guard while the TURN pair sat
inside it. Upstream reads by env PRESENCE, so the empty value would have
beaten the in-app default and left WebRTC with no STUN at all.
- meta/csp.yml whitelisted blob: on worker-src. The bundle registers no service
worker and constructs no Worker; the only blob of JavaScript is an audio
worklet, and worklet modules load under script-src. Voice recording would
have died with the app's own "Audio processing unavailable".
- tasks/main.yml hand-rolled meta: flush_handlers instead of including
sys-svc-compose's finalize.yml, which silently skipped utils/post_deploy.yml.
- 01_setup.yml was gated on IS_STACK_HOST but not run_once, so a three-manager
swarm would fire three concurrent setup POSTs at one ingress port.
TODO.md carried a claim that steered the CSP design and was simply false --
that img-src is not a directive csp_filters.py emits. It appends
"img-src * data: blob:" unconditionally at line 383.
lifecycle: alpha puts the role in the CI deploy matrix before it has ever run
anywhere, deliberately: the first CI round is its first execution. README and
TODO say so rather than claiming a maturity it does not have.
Still unverified: no browser has enforced the CSP, the swarm path was only
rendered, TURN against a real coturn is untested, and arm64 has not been
exercised. TODO.md lists them.
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