Both ansible.cfg files lacked vault_password_file, causing
'Attempting to decrypt but no vault secrets found' when running any
playbook that auto-loads the encrypted group_vars/all/ files.
- ansible.cfg (root): vault_password_file = .vault_pass
- infrastructure/ansible.cfg: vault_password_file = ../.vault_pass
.vault_pass is gitignored. Each machine needs its own copy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
knoe-db deploys cluster-native (mode k3d for local dev, k8s for the
shared company cluster, k3s still supported for individual homelab
collaborators via conf/k3s.cfg). The ansible-managed distributed cluster
of prole.org machines is no longer the target topology, and the Ansible
inventory in this tree targets only the original author's specific hosts
(merlin/gandalf/myrddin/pi/raspberry/retropie.prole.org). It is neither
portable nor useful for the new deployment shape.
Removed:
- infrastructure/inventory/ (hosts.ini + 7 *.prole.org host_vars)
- infrastructure/playbooks/ (11 playbooks, all hardcoded to *.prole.org)
- infrastructure/roles/ (20 roles: pihole, samba AD DC, mariadb,
netplan, iscsi, prole_ssl, etc. -- all
tied to the bare-metal prole.org topology)
- infrastructure/setup/ (cr_ansible_user.sh, cr_samba_family_users.sh,
filesystem.txt -- prole.org bootstrap)
- infrastructure/deployments/svc-check-helm/
(legacy; etc/init_kong.sh already tears
down svc-check resources on every run)
- infrastructure/ansible.cfg (references deleted inventory)
- ansible.cfg, ansible.sh, ansible_min.cfg, ansible_recovery.log (root;
orphaned without inventory)
- vault_backup/ (ansible-vault encrypted prole.org secrets
backup: ad_dc_vault.yml, all_prole_vault.yml,
iscsi_vault.yml)
- tools/ (dashboard.sh, ghcr_docker_login.sh,
k3s-cluster-rename.sh, manage-node.sh,
export_mariadb_synology.sh,
prepare_mariadb_usb.sh, and a dumped
synology.prole.org mariadb .sql file --
all prole.org-era deployment helpers)
Kept: scripts/ (cluster ops), bin/ (prole-env.sh, prole-kpf.sh dev
shims), conf/k3s.cfg / conf/k3d.cfg (still supported modes; any
*.prole.org defaults in those files are legitimate mode fallbacks for
collaborators who keep running their own k3s/k3d setups). Test
fixtures referencing *.prole.org hostnames are left as-is (regression
data).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Added tasks and playbooks for K3s datastore export/import using MariaDB Tools role, with associated tests and defaults.
- Enhanced iSCSI role to support mkfs-once logic and safer re-initialization of block storage.
- Migrated iSCSI-backed Rancher data from retropie to merlin.prole.org.
- Updated k3s roles/playbooks to relax Rancher storage preflight checks, supporting PARTUUID-based mounts.
- Adjusted Samba AD NetBIOS name derivation to use uppercase short hostname by default.
- Incremented prole DB version to 104, updated generated prole.cfg, inventory, and recovery manifest templates.
