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The Production block never set one. inventory provision writes only
ansible_connection for a local host, so DOMAIN_PRIMARY stayed at the
group_vars default of infinito.localhost and the deployment served a zone its
own resolver knows nothing about. CoreDNS templates answers for
INFINITO_DOMAIN_RE and nothing else, so every lookup of the deployment's own
name came back NXDOMAIN.
Mastodon is where that surfaced. tootctl accounts create validates the address
through EmailMxValidator, which resolves MX and then, for the domain itself,
A and AAAA. All six queries returned NXDOMAIN in run 33574056480, the
validator recorded email :unreachable, and the admin account was never created.
Only the guide rows were affected: the matrix rows write
DOMAIN_PRIMARY: "{{ lookup('env', 'INFINITO_DOMAIN') }}" into their host_vars
and resolve fine.
The template now carries DOMAIN=<your-domain> in both the host and the
container form and threads it into --vars, with the container form passing it
through the docker run boundary as well. The two guide runners substitute it
the way they already substitute the SSH key, so the replay deploys under
INFINITO_DOMAIN like every other CI deploy. compose_deploy.sh moves its env
load ahead of the substitutions to have the value; host_deploy.sh had no env
load at all.
A production reader is asked for a domain now instead of silently inheriting
infinito.localhost, which no real deployment wants either. The shipped default
keeps its value: sys-svc-nss documents that *.localhost resolves through the
myhostname NSS module without any zone, and host-side tasks lean on it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Content Delivery Network
Description
Nginx is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy. This role wraps Nginx as an internal Content Delivery Network that serves static assets such as CSS and JavaScript bundles for other web applications in the stack.
Overview
This role deploys an Nginx-based CDN container behind the project's standard reverse proxy and exposes the canonical cdn service so that other roles can consume it through services.cdn.
It also publishes the css and javascript aliases as canonical references back to cdn so dependent applications can opt into either alias without duplicating configuration.
Cosmos
The diagram places Content Delivery Network in the Infinito.Nexus cosmos: the components it deploys (capabilities), the central services it consumes (dependencies), and its outward reach (federation and bridged external networks).
flowchart LR
subgraph deps [Dependencies]
dep_svc_net_tor["svc-net-tor 🐳🐝"]
dep_web_app_matomo["web-app-matomo 🐳🐝"]
dep_web_app_prometheus["web-app-prometheus 🐳🐝"]
end
subgraph role [web-svc-cdn 🐳🐝]
svc_dashboard["dashboard"]
svc_cdn["cdn"]
svc_build["build"]
svc_matomo["matomo"]
svc_javascript["javascript"]
svc_prometheus["prometheus"]
svc_tor["tor"]
end
subgraph dependents [Dependents]
dpt_web_app_dashboard["web-app-dashboard 🐳🐝"]
dpt_web_svc_css["web-svc-css 💻"]
end
dep_svc_net_tor -. "0..1" .-> svc_tor
dep_web_app_matomo -. "0..1" .-> svc_matomo
dep_web_app_prometheus -. "0..1" .-> svc_prometheus
svc_dashboard -- "1:1" --> dpt_web_app_dashboard
svc_dashboard -- "1:1" --> dpt_web_svc_css
Solid 1:1 edges are fixed relationships; dashed 0..1 edges are conditional (enabled only in matching deployments); red 0..0 edges are turned off in this role. Node markers show the role's deploy modes (💻 host, 🐳 compose, 🐝 swarm); ❌ marks a service that is explicitly turned off, and ⚙️ an Ansible role dependency declared in meta/main.yml.
Features
- Canonical CDN service: Provides the primary
cdnservice entry consumed viaservices.cdnacross the stack. - Aliased asset channels: Exposes
cssandjavascriptas canonical aliases ofcdnfor clearer per-asset wiring. - TLS-aware delivery: Runs behind the project's reverse proxy and inherits its certificate management.
- Container-managed: Deploys via Docker Compose with project-standard healthchecks, restart policy, and resource limits.
- Matomo and Prometheus aware: Toggles tracker and metrics integration based on the presence of the corresponding application roles.
Quick Setup
Development
Clone, set up the workstation, and deploy Content Delivery Network onto the local stack:
git clone https://github.com/infinito-nexus/core.git
cd core
make onboard
make compose-deploy mode=reinstall apps=web-svc-cdn full_cycle=false
Production
Run the published image to provision the inventory and deploy Content Delivery Network to a managed server (the mounted volume persists the inventory):
APP=web-svc-cdn
HOST=<your-server>
DOMAIN=<your-domain>
TLS_MODE=self_signed
SSH_PUBLIC_KEY="<your-ssh-public-key>"
docker run --rm -it \
-v "$PWD/inventories:/etc/infinito.nexus/inventories" \
-e APP="$APP" -e HOST="$HOST" -e DOMAIN="$DOMAIN" -e TLS_MODE="$TLS_MODE" -e SSH_PUBLIC_KEY="$SSH_PUBLIC_KEY" \
ghcr.io/infinito-nexus/core/debian bash -c '
INVENTORY=/etc/infinito.nexus/inventories/production
infinito administration inventory provision "$INVENTORY" \
--inventory-file "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
--host "$HOST" \
--include "$APP" \
--vars "{\"TLS_MODE\": \"$TLS_MODE\", \"DOMAIN_PRIMARY\": \"$DOMAIN\", \"users\": {\"administrator\": {\"authorized_keys\": [\"$SSH_PUBLIC_KEY\"]}}}" &&
infinito administration deploy dedicated "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
--password-file "$INVENTORY/.password" \
--diff -vv'
Further Resources
Credits
Implemented by Kevin Veen-Birkenbach. Part of the Infinito.Nexus Project and maintained by Kevin Veen-Birkenbach. Licensed under the Infinito.Nexus Community License (Non-Commercial).