The SPA was rendering <base href="https://semaphore.local.mk-labs.cloud/">
regardless of which hostname served the page, causing the imagineering
alias to load the same UI but rewrite all in-page navigation back to the
semaphore hostname. Confusing for users hitting either Traefik alias.
Leave SEMAPHORE_WEB_ROOT empty so Semaphore emits relative URLs and is
fully host-agnostic. Both DNS names (semaphore + imagineering) now serve
cleanly without preference between them.
The template only emits SEMAPHORE_WEB_ROOT when the variable is set, so
the env-var is absent from the container when not needed.
The v2.18 image's entrypoint runs the setup wizard on first boot. Without
the SEMAPHORE_ADMIN_* variables it prompts on stdin, fails with 'Username
cannot be empty', and the container exits — leading to a crash loop.
Set:
SEMAPHORE_ADMIN=admin
SEMAPHORE_ADMIN_NAME=Administrator
SEMAPHORE_ADMIN_EMAIL=admin@local.mk-labs.cloud
SEMAPHORE_ADMIN_PASSWORD={{ vault_semaphore_admin_password }}
SEMAPHORE_PLAYBOOK_PATH=/var/lib/semaphore/playbooks
The env-var bootstrap path is stable in v2.x; only the legacy
'semaphore user add' CLI invocation was unreliable. Drop the manual
user-add step from the README.
Complete rewrite of the semaphore role. Supersedes three prior
iterations whose admin-user-creation logic was unreliable across
Semaphore CLI versions.
Architecture:
- Rootful Podman Quadlet under /etc/containers/systemd/
- Separate PostgreSQL 16-alpine container on a user-defined
podman network (semaphore-net)
- Named volumes for both data stores (semaphore_data,
semaphore_postgres_data) so container recreation is
non-destructive
- Pinned image tags: semaphoreui/semaphore:v2.18.5-ansible2.16.5
and postgres:16-alpine
- Post-deploy HTTP health check fails the playbook if Semaphore
doesn't respond on /api/ping within ~60s
Admin user creation remains intentionally manual after first deploy;
the role README documents the exact podman exec command.
Removes the duplicate deploy_semaphore.yml and the now-unneeded
cleanup_semaphore.yml; day1_deploy_semaphore.yml is the canonical
entry point.
- Add quadlet tasks and handlers for modern rootless Podman deployment
- Fix broken Jinja in semaphore.container.j2
- Add proper 0777 permissions handling for rootless
- Support semaphore_use_postgres toggle with fallback to legacy BoltDB path
- Updated container quadlet template to use modern SEMAPHORE_DB_DIALECT variable
- Updated env.j2 template for consistency with current SemaphoreUI expectations
- Resolves BoltDB not being honoured on v2.18.x
- Move all roles from playbooks/roles/ to roles/
- Update roles_path in ansible.cfg
- Add cast user to common role
- Create standalone podman role
- Add semaphore role with Podman + Quadlet support
