The `image` lookup inferred `role_id` from `role_name` when only
`service_name` was passed. Inference broke lazy re-evaluation: a default
like `HEALTH_CSP_IMAGE: "{{ lookup('image', 'csp-checker', 'ref') }}"`
defined in sys-ctl-hlth-csp got re-evaluated inside sys-service's
systemctl.service.j2 template (via `system_service_tpl_exec_start`),
where `role_name='sys-service'`. The lookup then searched
`roles/sys-service/meta/services.yml` for `csp-checker` and aborted with
`no image mapping found for role 'sys-service' service 'csp-checker'`.
CI run 25976825584 surfaced this on six apps (web-app-{bridgy-fed,chess,
mig,hugo,mini-qr,postmarks}) whose deploy reached sys-svc-webserver-core
outside the service-loader preload context, which is what actually
triggers the sys-ctl-hlth-csp -> sys-service include chain.
Make `role_id` mandatory in the plugin signature, remove `_infer_role_id`,
and update the three callsites that relied on inference
(sys-ctl-hlth-csp, sys-svc-container, test-e2e-playwright) to pass the
owning role id explicitly. A migration guard catches the removed
`(service_name, want)` form and emits a clear error instead of the
confusing "missing services.yml" file-not-found message.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Role Image Configuration 🐳
This page describes how Docker images are declared, read, overridden, discovered, and mirrored. For the mirroring pipeline, see mirror.md.
Declaration Format 📋
Every role MUST declare its Docker images in meta/services.yml.
The file root IS the services map keyed by <service-name> (no compose: and no services: wrapper):
# roles/<role>/meta/services.yml
<service-name>:
image: <image-name> # e.g. nextcloud, quay.io/keycloak/keycloak, mcr.microsoft.com/playwright
version: <tag> # e.g. latest, 31.0.0, v1.58.2-noble
ports:
inter: 8080 # internal container port (per req-009)
# … other compose fields
imageMUST be the image name as it appears in adocker pullcommand, without the tag.versionMUST be the tag.- Images without an explicit registry prefix are treated as Docker Hub images.
- Compose-managed services and ad-hoc task images both live under the same key on the role's primary or auxiliary service entries.
- Role-local image defaults MUST stay in
meta/services.yml. Inventory-side overrides MUST NOT be written there.
Read 📖
Roles MUST use lookup('image', ...) instead of reading the meta/services.yml keys directly.
The owning role_id MUST be passed explicitly as the first positional argument.
Calls without an explicit role_id MUST raise an error so a lazily re-evaluated expression rendered in another role's template context cannot silently resolve the wrong role.
Supported form:
{{ lookup('image', '<role_id>', '<service_name>'[, '<want>']) }}
Examples:
{{ lookup('image', 'test-e2e-playwright', 'playwright', 'image') }}
{{ lookup('image', 'sys-ctl-hlth-csp', 'csp-checker', 'ref') }}
Supported want values:
| Value | Returns |
|---|---|
all (default) |
the merged mapping |
image |
the repository/image name |
version |
the tag |
ref |
image:version |
Override ✏️
Inventory-side mirror and manual overrides MUST be written to images_overrides.<role>.<service>.{image,version}.
lookup('image', ...) MUST prefer images_overrides and fall back field-wise to the role's meta/services.yml entry.
Inventory generation MUST keep images_overrides separate from meta/services.yml so role defaults remain readable and stable.
Example host-vars override:
images_overrides:
test-e2e-playwright:
playwright:
image: ghcr.io/example/mirror/mcr.microsoft.com/playwright
version: v1.58.2-noble
Supported Registries 🌐
The following registries are discovered and mirrored:
| Registry | Example image |
|---|---|
docker.io (Docker Hub) |
postgres, nextcloud, prom/prometheus |
quay.io |
quay.io/keycloak/keycloak |
ghcr.io |
ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon |
mcr.microsoft.com |
mcr.microsoft.com/playwright |
Images from other registries are ignored by the discovery and mirroring tooling.
Discovery 🔍
utils/docker/image/discovery.py scans every roles/<role>/meta/services.yml and yields ImageRef objects for each top-level service entry that carries both image and version.
An ImageRef carries: role, service, name (without registry), version, source (full pull ref), registry, and source_file.
Mirror Integration 🪞
After discovery, images are mirrored to GHCR and the mirror URLs are injected back into host variables by the inventory creator.
Declarations are resolved back through mirrors.yml.applications.<role>.services.<service> and land in host vars at the same path.
See mirror.md for the full flow.