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Deployment Exceptions

This page documents known cases where an Ansible role deliberately skips its work instead of failing, and explains the conditions under which the skipped work will be completed on a subsequent run.

Matomo Token Not Yet Available

Role: roles/sys-front-inj-matomo Variable: users.administrator.tokens['web-app-matomo']

Cause

The Matomo API token is generated during the Matomo bootstrap and persisted to disk by sys-token-store. It is loaded into the users runtime variable at play start.

On the first deployment — or after a factory reset — the token does not yet exist because the bootstrap has not run yet. A second common cause is that tasks/utils/_load_frontend_service.yml skips load_app.yml when the Matomo container is already reachable. In that case the container is healthy but the token file is still absent from the token store, so the variable arrives empty.

Behaviour

When users.administrator.tokens['web-app-matomo'] is empty, sys-front-inj-matomo sets inj_enabled.matomo = false for the current domain. This prevents the NGINX template from rendering the Matomo body snippet (which would reference matomo_site_id) and skips inject.yml entirely. The play continues without error.

Failing instead of skipping would make the play non-idempotent on first deployment and would block every other application from being configured just because Matomo's bootstrap has not completed yet. Matomo tracking is a best-effort enhancement, not a hard runtime dependency of the target application.

Resolution

Once the Matomo bootstrap has run — either later in the same play or on the next Ansible invocation — sys-token-store writes the token to disk. On the next play run the token is loaded at startup, the condition evaluates to false, and inject.yml executes normally: registering the site at Matomo and injecting the tracking code into the target application.

No manual intervention is required. Re-running the play is sufficient.