Every cold render of the applications SPOT walks the templates of all
269 roles, and those templates call lookup('config'), lookup('tls'),
lookup('domain') and others. Each of these re-enters
get_merged_applications while the render guard is set, and each one
rebuilt the unrendered view from scratch: a deepcopy of all role
defaults plus the override merge, about 8 ms, never cached. A local
cold render of the development inventory made 351 such calls, 2.82 s
of a 6.86 s render.
The outer render now keeps a copy of its unrendered view and its cache
key on the render guard, taken before the inventory volumes are
popped, so it is the same view a nested call used to build. A nested
call with the same key returns it; any other key still builds its own.
The guard drops it when the render ends.
Measured on the same inventory: the nested calls took 0.07 s instead
of 2.82 s and the cold render 3.60 s instead of 6.86 s. The rendered
SPOT is unchanged: the old and new dumps differ in 69 user passwords,
which the development inventory regenerates on every read (two runs of
the old code differ in 68), and in one absolute checkout path, the only
other difference.
In CI each cold render took 40 to 77 s and the heaviest swarm cell of
#950 missed its budget by a few minutes (#984).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The constructor parked no applications carrier between the merge block
and the token store, so every lookup in the svc-swarm-node, svc-storage,
svc-registry and svc-virt bootstrap rendered the SPOT cold, 25 to 30 s
each on a loaded host.
A carrier there was unsafe: in swarm, svc-storage-nfs-server mounts the
NFS export over the controller's DIR_VAR_LIB, so the tokens file the
render reads can appear in the middle of that section, and the cache key
did not notice. merged_applications_cache_key now includes the tokens
file's path, mtime and size, as the users cache key already did, so a
carrier rejects itself once the tokens change. A carrier parked after
the add_host tasks then serves the bootstrap roles. It is parked only in
swarm mode: in compose the section runs in about a second, so a carrier
there would add a render without saving one.
In a swarm drill of web-app-prometheus up to the known NFS probe-write
failure, "Resolve the NFS server backend flavor" went from 29.6 s to
0.07 s, "Probe-mount the NFS export" from 26.4 s to 0.4 s, "Mount
cluster-shared infinito state on controller" from 23.7 s to 0.5 s and
"Ensure Docker-In-Docker DNS works" from 30.0 s to 3.6 s; the run to
that point took 768 s instead of 1735 s.
Closes#925
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ansible forks a fresh worker process for every task, so the in-process
cache behind lookup('applications') was cold in every task. Each task that
touched the merged applications tree (config, domains, nginx, tls, cdn and
their callers) paid a full render: about 16 s on main and 21 to 23 s on this
branch, where ten more application roles carry MCP and AI Jinja. Measured on
the workspace jobs of run 33574056480 against the main run: 331 such tasks
(93 min, 39 % of the job) versus 391 (141 min, 43 %); the same unit is 9 to
43 % of every compose and swarm deploy job on disk. The parent process
rendered once per play, late, while templating a task name, and only the
tasks after that point ran warm.
The constructor now renders once through the new applications_carrier
action and parks the payload with its cache key in the host fact
_INFINITO_APPLICATIONS_RENDERED. Every later worker inherits the fact at
fork time and get_merged_applications serves it while the key (roles dir,
applications, users, DOMAIN_PRIMARY, SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAIN) still matches; a
mismatch falls back to the old render. The action masks its own result: the
payload is the whole tree with every credential, and CI runs with
MASK_CREDENTIALS_IN_LOGS false.
The task sits after the networks, design and service_provider merges, after
the add_host placements and after the token store. An independent review
showed that an earlier position bakes stale values into the play: the
web-app-wordpress title rendered to 'Blog by ' because service_provider did
not exist yet. User records inside the payload are the token store's state
at render time; readers of tokens captured later keep using lookup('users')
or lookup('config', app, 'users.…'), which read the users cache fresh.
Expected savings per job: about 130 min on a fork workspace run, 16 min on
an average compose deploy and 28 min on an average swarm deploy. The
constructor's own lookups before the carrier stay cold.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
enabled and shared were hand-maintained in 24 roles and wrong in both
directions. Both now resolve from the mcp_consumer edges already declared
in meta/services.yml: a server takes the consumers it admits, a client
takes the servers that admit it, and the pair renders as "'peer' in
group_names or ...", or False when no peer is admitted at all. setdefault
keeps meta/mcp.yml and meta/variants.yml as the override channel, so
pinning either key still wins.
The resolved block replaces the mapping instead of being written into it.
_build_role_base_config parks the YAML cache's own object under mcp, so an
in-place setdefault injected the derived keys into every later raw read and
made test_mcp_schema pass alone but fail in a directory run.
The derivation keys on peer presence, never on a peer's own value: a
re-entrant read under _RENDER_GUARD returns the unrendered dict.
Four lints now ask the resolver instead of reading meta/mcp.yml, which they
could not do while the key was hand-written. That is what exposed the eleven
missing hostile-path specs the previous commit closed.
Carries one change that belongs to the WordPress probe but shares a file
with this one: the tool allowlist moves to the hyphenated names the adapter
actually serves.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every script a role ships now lives under `files/<language>/`, and the unit
suite is split the same way: `tests/unit/python/` beside new sibling trees for
the other languages. `tests/lint/filesystem/test_role_files_layout.py` keeps it
that way; directories whose shape is dictated from outside carry a `.nocheck`
naming the constraint (Docker build contexts, WordPress mu-plugins, the Joomla
extension, Odoo addons, Playwright suites, the `files/test/test.sh` harness
that `test-e2e-cli` resolves generically).
This cannot be applied in halves. Moving a file and repointing what names it
are the same change: 14 references resolve only at deploy time, so the tree is
green either before or after, never between.
Those 14 were found by static resolution over every reference class, not by the
test suite -- a full `make quality-high` was green while all of them were
broken:
* 7 `src:` values built from a role variable holding a bare filename
(svc-bkp-remote-2-local, decidim, espocrm, friendica, joomla, pixelfed x2).
The variable doubles as the destination name inside the container, so the
language segment belongs at the call site, not in the variable.
* `sys-service/tasks/04_base.yml` resolved every consumer's systemd script
through `first_found(..., errors='strict')` over `files/script.{sh,py}`.
18 roles ship exactly that and have no template fallback: the play would
have died on each.
* `sys-front-inj-javascript` fell back to `<role>/files/javascript.js`; the
interface now reads `files/javascript/javascript.js`.
* `sys-front-inj-logout/templates/head_sub.j2` built the cache-busting mtime
path through `path_absolute(... 'files', ...)`.
* 4 `ansible.builtin.script:` invocations naming a bare command
(pull.py, prune.sh, set_postgres_superuser_password.sh, ganesha-serve.sh).
* `dev-python/files/shell/install.sh` pointed at a sibling role's script.
Depth-dependent paths inside the moved trees were bumped accordingly: 59
`parents[N]` computations, 12 relative climbs, and the per-role recover CLI,
whose path `cli/administration/recover/recoverers.py` still assembled from the
pre-move location.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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