Converting Nginx Proxy Manager to a platform manifest (fc68c5b6) dropped
two things its image hard-requires, and the result was an endless
start/die loop — shorty-s watched it restart 3,176 times:
1. /etc/letsencrypt mount: NPM's s6 'prepare' service refuses to boot
without it ('ERROR: /etc/letsencrypt is not mounted!'). Mounted from
the same persistent app directory as before
(/var/lib/archipelago/nginx-proxy-manager/letsencrypt), so existing
certificates are preserved — no data moves, no migration.
2. NET_BIND_SERVICE: NPM's internal nginx listens on 80, 443 AND 81,
and the orchestrator runs --cap-drop=ALL. The legacy podman-run path
defaulted to the full capability set (and the legacy repair path in
package/config.rs always listed it), which is why this only broke
once the manifest became the source of truth.
The signed catalog embeds manifests with origin-wins semantics, so the
catalog carries the fix for every catalog-covered node — regenerate it
here (plus the generated store/launcher-port artifacts, which also pick
up drift from bf6ef964's retired apps). Catalog re-signing follows the
usual ceremony.
Upstream publishes no docker images; our v0.18.4 image was built in-house.
This pass: official v0.21.2-beta release binaries (sha256-verified against
the signed release manifest), static, on alpine with the same entrypoint
shape as our existing image, pushed to our registry and smoke-run.
LND 0.21 auto-migrates the channel DB on first start (keeping a backup) —
the Update button is user-initiated, never auto-applied.
First upstream sweep since v1.8.5: the safe patch/minor pins, mirrored
into our registry first (source.archipelago-foundation.org/lfg2025/*).
Held for their own careful passes: the majors (grafana 11, nextcloud,
uptime-kuma 2, bitcoin-core 29, the DBs) and consensus-sensitive apps
(fedimint, electrumx 2.0). LND 0.21.2 needs an in-house image build —
upstream publishes none.
Store-listing components are filtered via the shared serviceNames canon;
these four never earn a tile: MorphOS server is old, the Web5 DID wallet
and CryptPad are untested, Lightning Stack is an untracked upstream
bundle (LND covers it).
Nginx Proxy Manager, Tailscale, Ollama, CryptPad, and AdGuard Home now
carry full manifests: the app gate fronts their web ports (TLS on the
same port, node login where appropriate), installs run through the
orchestrator, and pins live in the signed catalog. Tailscale mirrors its
legacy shape exactly (userspace networking, web console on 8240, plain
HTTP for the gate to front). Ollama stays loopback-only — the
assistant's local model backend, not a web app.
Retires the four already-removed apps for good (FIPS, Nostr VPN,
Routstr, Penpot pins dropped from image-versions.sh, the generator map,
and image_versions.rs), fixes Cuprate's duplicated metadata block that
strict YAML parsers reject, and updates the port-inventory review gates
for the new open (3 own-login consoles) and exempt (2 DNS) ports.
generate-app-catalog.py only updates entries that already exist in each
catalog file, so the hand-curated cuprate entry (added to
app-catalog/catalog.json with 7b88ba59) never propagated to
neode-ui/public/catalog.json — the sync's field-bumps did, the new entry
did not. Both catalogs now carry identical 31-entry lists (verified
content-equal), so the browser-side store copy and the curated one agree.
Pin bumps (all verified pullable from their public registries before
editing, so none can become an image-not-found on a node):
strfry 1.1.1 -> 1.1.2 (dockurr/strfry, direct pull)
btcpay-server 2.4.2 -> 2.4.3 (docker.io/btcpayserver, direct pull)
netbird (nginx) 1.31.3-alpine -> 1.31.4-alpine
pine (nginx) 1.31.3-alpine -> 1.31.4-alpine
image-versions.sh moved in lockstep for BTCPAY_IMAGE — it is the baseline
the update badge compares against. Held back deliberately, per the risk
policy from the Aug-17 pass: gitea (four minors of DB migrations),
portainer (six minors), filebrowser (2.27 -> 2.63), fedimint/gateway
(0.8 -> 0.12, real migrations), lnd (money-critical), netbird-server/
netbird-dashboard (0.x, must move in lockstep), and everything with a
major jump or a data migration.
Cuprate also gets its curated store entry (category money, tier optional,
icon, repo) — same shape as the Alby Hub / phoenixd entries — synced
through generate-app-catalog.py into both store catalogs and the
app-session config. The fips launch-port list is unchanged (Cuprate has
no UI port; the generated file round-trips to the committed bytes after
cargo fmt).
Three further bumps are prepared and parked on the
app-bumps-mirror-pending branch, blocked only on a registry-push token:
vaultwarden 1.37.2-alpine, archy-nbxplorer 2.6.11, home-assistant
2026.8.3 — all mirror-backed, and the push credential on record for the
lfg2025 namespace is dead.
Drift gate: check-app-catalog-drift.py --release --strict clean
(31 store entries, 0 drift, 0 missing). appSessionConfig tests 7/7.
Regenerates both catalogs from the manifests so the 15 pin bumps become
real. The catalog overrides on-disk manifests on every node, so until
now those bumps were edited but inert.
There are two catalogs and regenerating one is not enough:
generate-app-catalog.sh writes releases/app-catalog.json (the signed one
nodes fetch), while generate-app-catalog.py writes app-catalog/catalog.json
and neode-ui/public/catalog.json (the source pair, the second baked into
the frontend app store). check-app-catalog-drift.py --release --strict
reads the *source* catalog, so regenerating only the release one left it
failing and would have aborted the ISO gate at stage 1 — after the
signing and tagging were already done. Drift is now 0.
The regeneration also rewrote fips/app_ports.rs, which had not been
regenerated since the initial open-source import. Diffing the port values
rather than the reformat: 36 -> 37, a single addition, **8187 — Alby
Hub**. Its port has never been in the FIPS firewall allow-list, and by
the same token neither has any app onboarded since that import. Nothing
else changed.
Catalog signed by the pinned release root and verified with
`ceremony verify`; registry trust floor checked before signing, both
hosts trusted by the deployed fleet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>