Critical fix for argon2 password hash preservation:
- Root cause: Bash variable expansion of $ characters in argon2id hashes
- Solution: Write hash directly from Docker output to file, bypass bash variables entirely
- setup-homelab.sh: Stream Docker output directly to /tmp/authelia_password_hash.tmp
- deploy-homelab.sh: Read hash file in Python to avoid any bash expansion
- Result: Password hash correctly preserved with full $argon2id$v=19$m=... format
Other changes:
- Added DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.44 env var for watchtower (API compatibility)
- Watchtower still has issues with Docker 29.1.4 - keeping version pinned for investigation
Tested on Debian 12 with Docker 29.1.4:
✅ All 11 critical containers healthy
✅ Authelia authentication working correctly
✅ Password hash preserved through entire deployment workflow
⚠️ Watchtower restart loop (non-critical, under investigation)
Issue: sed with | delimiter still has problems with $ in argon2 hash
Attempted fix: Escape special characters before sed replacement
Note: Manual sed with double quotes works, suggesting escaping strategy
may need refinement. Need to test if this resolves the issue.
Issue: Heredoc variable expansion was mangling password hashes containing $ characters
Solution: Use quoted heredoc ('EOF') with placeholders, then sed replace
The unquoted heredoc was interpreting $ in the argon2 hash as shell variable
expansion, corrupting the hash format.
CRITICAL: Previous rounds caused system crashes during cleanup operations
New Safe Reset Script:
- Gracefully stops all containers before cleanup
- Waits for proper shutdown sequences
- Removes Docker volumes only after containers stopped
- Prevents filesystem corruption from aggressive rm operations
- Includes confirmation prompts for safety
Deploy Script Improvements:
- Stops existing containers before config file operations
- Removes dangerous auto-cleanup of Docker volumes
- Adds safety checks before directory removal
- Warns about existing databases instead of auto-removing
Dangerous Operations Removed:
- No more rm -rf while containers running
- No more automatic volume deletion
- No more blind directory removal
- No more container restart during volume operations
Testing Guidelines:
- Always use reset-test-environment.sh for cleanup
- Never run cleanup while containers active
- Monitor system health during operations
- Proper shutdown sequence documented
This prevents the BIOS-level crashes experienced in previous rounds.
- Fix password file ownership (user can now read without sudo)
- Add dashboards stack to automated deployment (Step 5/6)
- Add SSL certificate notes to deploy script output
- Clarify .env file location in documentation (stays in repo folder)
- Update README and getting-started.md with accurate deployment steps
- Add Watchtower notification URL documentation
- Improve user feedback with admin credentials and dashboard URLs
- Remove dashboards from 'Next Steps' since it's now automated
User experience improvements:
- Password file readable by user immediately
- Homepage and Homarr deployed automatically
- Clear guidance on .env file management
- Better SSL certificate expectations
- Add DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.44 to Watchtower (fixes crash loop)
- Add dockerproxy-network creation to deploy script (fixes dashboard deployment)
- Add explicit acme.json file creation with 600 permissions (fixes SSL cert acquisition)
- Fix setup script to correctly resolve user home directory when run with sudo
These fixes resolve all critical blockers discovered in Round 3 testing.
- Added compose files for core, infrastructure, and dashboards stacks
- Added Traefik, Authelia, and DuckDNS configuration files
- Added dockge.managed and dockge.url labels to all services
- Updated Watchtower to latest version with DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.44
- Created comprehensive SSL certificate troubleshooting guide for DuckDNS issues
- Add wildcard certificate configuration to Traefik docs
- Document DuckDNS DNS challenge limitations
- Add SSL troubleshooting commands to quick reference
- Update getting-started with certificate verification steps
- Emphasize single wildcard cert vs individual certs best practice
Documentation now reflects production wildcard certificate setup.
- Refactored README.md, getting-started.md, quick-reference.md
- Enhanced setup-homelab.sh with 9-step automated process
- Created services-overview.md with all stacks
- Added comprehensive documentation for 57 services in docs/service-docs/
- All services include: overview, configuration, resources, educational content
- Coverage: Core, Infrastructure, Dashboards, Media, Media-Extended, Home Assistant, Productivity, Utilities, Monitoring, Development stacks
- Educational focus with links to tutorials, videos, and guides
Add AI-powered Docker service management for VS Code with 60+ homelab services, unified core stack, automated setup and deployment scripts, and modular documentation
- Remove Authelia middleware from Vaultwarden
- Add comment explaining SSO bypass for app compatibility
- Update services-reference.md to show SSO disabled (✗)
Vaultwarden requires direct access for browser extensions and mobile apps to function properly, similar to Jellyfin and Plex.
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- Add Vaultwarden (Bitwarden) password manager to utilities.yml
- Self-hosted password manager with web UI
- SMTP configuration for email notifications
- Admin token for management
- Access at bitwarden.${DOMAIN}
- Protected by Authelia SSO
- Create automated first-run setup script (scripts/setup-homelab.sh)
- Installs Docker Engine and Compose V2
- Configures user groups (sudo, docker)
- Enables SSH for remote management
- Detects NVIDIA GPU and provides manual driver installation instructions
- Creates directory structure and Docker networks
- Comprehensive instructions for post-setup deployment
- Remove redundant compose files (now in core.yml)
- Deleted authelia.yml, duckdns.yml, gluetun.yml, traefik.yml
- All services consolidated into unified core.yml stack
- Eliminates confusion and duplication
- Update disk space requirements across documentation
- Changed from "100GB+ system, 1TB+ media" to:
- "120GB+ system drive (NVMe or SSD highly recommended)"
- "2TB+ for media & additional disks for services like Nextcloud"
- Updated in README.md and getting-started.md
- Add preference for LinuxServer.io images
- Updated copilot-instructions.md
- LinuxServer images support PUID/PGID for proper file permissions
- Preference noted in consistency guidelines
- Update core stack documentation
- Emphasize unified core.yml deployment
- Add both deployment methods (cd to directory vs full path)
- Update getting-started.md with correct deployment steps
- Note removal of separate stack files
- Add Bitwarden environment variables to .env.example
- BITWARDEN_ADMIN_TOKEN, SIGNUPS_ALLOWED, INVITATIONS_ALLOWED
- SMTP configuration for email notifications
- Generation instructions included
- Update services-reference.md
- Add Vaultwarden to utilities section (now 7 services)
- Update service count and access URLs
All documentation now consistent with unified core stack approach and includes all requested features.
Co-authored-by: kelinfoxy <67766943+kelinfoxy@users.noreply.github.com>
- Add Authentik service stack to infrastructure.yml
- Includes Authentik server, worker, PostgreSQL database, and Redis
- Alternative SSO with web UI for user management
- Access at authentik.${DOMAIN}
- Protected by Authelia SSO (comment out to use standalone)
- Fix Uptime Kuma duplicate listing
- Remove from utilities.yml
- Keep only in monitoring.yml where it belongs
- Add Traefik labels and SSO protection to monitoring instance
- Enable SSO on Jellyseerr by default
- Changed from bypass to protected (security-first approach)
- Users can comment out SSO if needed for public access
- Update SSO toggling documentation
- Emphasize commenting out (not removing) middleware line
- Add docker command examples for running from outside stack folder
- Show both "cd to directory" and "full path" methods
- Add examples for starting and stopping services multiple ways
- Enhance security-first methodology
- Update copilot instructions to default SSO to enabled
- Only Plex and Jellyfin bypass SSO by default
- All other services start secured, expose gradually
- Emphasize commenting (not removing) for easier re-enable
- Update services-reference.md
- Add Authentik to infrastructure section (12 services)
- Move Uptime Kuma to monitoring section (8 services)
- Remove from utilities (now 6 services)
- Update Jellyseerr SSO status from ✗ to ✓
- Improve Authentik documentation with deployment guidance
- Add Authentik environment variables to .env.example
- AUTHENTIK_SECRET_KEY, DB credentials
- Generation instructions included
All changes align with security-first principle: start secure, expose services only when ready for deployment.
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- Create core.yml combining DuckDNS, Traefik, Authelia, and Gluetun into single stack
- Simplifies initial deployment (deploy all core services with one command)
- All core services in /opt/stacks/core/ directory
- Reduces complexity for first-time setup
- Add Authelia SSO protection to Homepage and Homarr dashboards
- Prevents exposing service list before authentication
- Both dashboards now require sign-in to access
- Redesign services-reference.md with compact tree-view table
- Reduced from ~460 lines to ~150 lines while keeping all info
- Single comprehensive table with tree structure
- Shows: Stack, Services, SSO status, Storage paths, Access URLs
- Fits on 1-2 screen heights as requested
- Add comprehensive "Toggling SSO On/Off" section
- Quick guide to enable/disable Authelia middleware
- Use cases for development vs production
- AI can automatically toggle SSO when asked
- Add "Authelia Customization" section with:
- Branding and appearance options
- User management via YAML files
- Access control rules examples
- 2FA/TOTP configuration
- Session management settings
- Email notification setup
- Explanation of no web UI (by design, perfect for AI)
- Alternatives with web UI (Authentik, Keycloak)
- Update .github/copilot-instructions.md
- Add core stack explanation
- Update file organization to show core stack structure
- Add SSO toggling instructions
- Update docs/getting-started.md
- Simplify Step 7 to deploy single core stack
- Remove separate steps for DuckDNS, Traefik, Authelia
- Add verification and troubleshooting for core deployment
- Update subsequent steps to Step 8, 9, 10
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- Add Dockge to infrastructure (primary over Portainer)
- Create dashboards.yml with Homepage and Homarr (AI-configurable)
- Create homeassistant.yml with HA, ESPHome, TasmoAdmin, Node-RED, Mosquitto, Zigbee2MQTT, MotionEye
- Create media-extended.yml with Readarr, Lidarr, Lazy Librarian, Mylar3, Calibre-Web, Jellyseerr, FlareSolverr, Tdarr, Unmanic
- Create productivity.yml with Nextcloud, Mealie, WordPress, Gitea, DokuWiki, BookStack, MediaWiki (all with databases)
- Create utilities.yml with Backrest, Duplicati, Uptime Kuma, Code Server, Form.io, Authelia Redis
- Add Homepage configuration templates (services.yaml, docker.yaml, settings.yaml, widgets.yaml)
- All services include container names for Docker integration
- Widgets configured for services that support them (Sonarr, Radarr, Plex, Jellyfin, etc.)
- Organized by category with proper layouts
- Create docs/proxying-external-hosts.md - comprehensive guide for proxying Raspberry Pi and other external hosts via Traefik
- Update .env.example with all new service credentials and Homepage API keys
- Update infrastructure.yml to prioritize Dockge, add Dozzle, Glances, Docker Proxy
- All services configured with /opt/stacks paths, Traefik labels, and appropriate Authelia middleware
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- Update AI copilot instructions for /opt/stacks structure and automated config management
- Replace Nginx Proxy Manager with Traefik (file-based configuration for AI)
- Add Authelia for SSO with bypass rules for Jellyfin/Plex apps
- Add DuckDNS for dynamic DNS with Let's Encrypt integration
- Add Gluetun VPN with Surfshark (WireGuard) for secure downloads
- Update all services to use /opt/stacks paths instead of local directories
- Add Traefik labels to all services for automatic routing
- Configure qBittorrent to route through Gluetun VPN
- Update .env.example with all new required variables
- Create configuration templates for Traefik and Authelia
- Add comprehensive Dockge deployment guide
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