Major improvements to environment variable management:
1. Added .env.example files for ALL stacks
- Each stack now has its own .env.example with only required variables
- Variables include comments explaining their purpose
- Examples: core, dockge, infrastructure, dashboards, arcane, media, media-management, transcoders, monitoring, sablier, utilities, productivity, wikis, vpn, homeassistant, alternatives
2. Created .env.global generation
- Generates /opt/stacks/.env.global with all variables
- Strips comments and blank lines for clean output
- Available to all stacks for reference
3. Improved variable replacement strategy
- Variable replacement now ONLY targets labels and x-dockge sections in docker-compose files
- Configuration files (traefik, authelia) still get full variable replacement
- Uses Python script for precise section detection
- Preserves environment variables and volume mounts as-is
4. New deployment approach
- Each stack copies .env.example to .env
- Values populated from main ~/EZ-Homelab/.env file
- No more manual sed commands to remove unused variables
- Consistent approach across all deployment functions
5. Updated deployment functions
- deploy_dockge, deploy_core, deploy_infrastructure, deploy_dashboards, deploy_arcane, deploy_sablier_stack
- All now use process_stack_env() for clean .env handling
- All use updated localize_yml_file() for targeted variable replacement
Benefits:
- Clean, minimal .env files for each stack
- No unnecessary variables or comments in deployed .env files
- Variables in compose files preserved for Docker Compose to handle
- Easier to understand what each stack needs
- Uniform deployment approach across all stacks
- Reorganize Authelia configuration files
- Add new dynamic routing files for Traefik
- Update various service docker-compose files
- Remove outdated templates and scripts
- Add traefik.docker.network=traefik-network label to all local services with traefik.enable=true
- Ensures consistent network selection for Traefik IP discovery
- Prevents routing conflicts when services are on multiple networks
- Updated 12 docker-compose files with 32+ service labels
- Maintains dual network access (homelab-network + traefik-network) for web UIs
- Add traefik.docker.network=traefik-network label to homepage service
- Prevent Traefik from using wrong IP from homelab-network
- Resolve 504 Gateway Timeout issues after authentication
- Update various docker-compose configurations and templates
- Clean up unused configuration files
- Add Sablier middleware to all 32 services across stacks
- Update vaultwarden port from 80 to 8091 to avoid conflicts
- Add tdarr-server and unmanic services with lazy loading
- Optimize health checks (wget for some services, dozzle built-in)
- Update Traefik routers and service definitions
- Update port documentation
All services now support on-demand startup via Sablier middleware.
- Resolve port conflicts: TasmoAdmin (8084), Form.io (3002), Gitea (3010)
- Add missing Authelia SSO and Sablier lazy loading to utilities stack
- Standardize Form.io labels to match TRAEFIK CONFIGURATION guidelines
- Reorganize ports-in-use.md with stack-based table and proper column order
- Remove Dokuwiki deployment from ez-homelab.sh (already in productivity stack)
- Update service restart policies for lazy loading compatibility
- Remove authelia middleware from Vaultwarden (Bitwarden) for app compatibility
- Simplify all compose files to use only homelab-network and traefik-network
- Remove unnecessary isolated networks (nextcloud-network, wordpress-network, etc.)
- Remove monitoring-network, formio-network, and media-network
- All services now communicate through the unified homelab-network
- Maintain traefik-network for proxied services only
- Replace all ${VARIABLE:-default} with ${VARIABLE} in compose files
- Ensure explicit variable requirements without default values
- Updated 10 docker-compose.yml files across all stacks
- Made reset-ondemand-services.sh executable
- Change ${SERVER_HOSTNAME:-debian} to ${SERVER_HOSTNAME} in Sablier groups
- Prevents empty default values that were causing configuration errors
- Applied to dashboards, infrastructure, media, productivity, and utilities stacks
- Add consistent # TRAEFIK CONFIGURATION headers to all services
- Standardize label structure with service metadata, router config, and Sablier settings
- Update dockerproxy and sablier-service with Docker API requirements documentation
- Fix YAML validation issues in productivity stack
- Ensure all stacks have uniform labeling for easy management
Resolves Docker API connectivity issues for Sablier lazy loading
- Apply consistent label structure across all compose files
- Include complete Traefik and Sablier labels for all services
- Enable Sablier by default for services with middleware definitions
- Comment out Sablier labels for services without middleware
- Add explanatory comments for remote Traefik configurations
- Comment out Authelia middleware where not appropriate (media apps, public services)
- Maintain existing configuration data and functionality
- Enable Sablier by default for services with middleware definitions
- Update label comments to indicate 'enabled by default - comment out to disable'
- Ensure x-dockge sections have proxied URLs first, then direct IP:port
- Remove any x-dockge labels from service configurations
- Maintain well-documented, concise label sections for easy enable/disable
- Change Traefik configs to use ${SERVER_HOSTNAME} placeholder (defaults to debian)
- Update ez-homelab.sh to replace SERVER_HOSTNAME in config templates
- Set Sablier session duration to 5m for testing (increase to 30m for production)
- Add SERVER_HOSTNAME prompt and saving in setup script
- Reorganize .env.example with better structure and SMTP variables
- Add production guidance comments to docker-compose files
- Intentional SMTP variable redundancy for service flexibility
- Added healthcheck to ensure Jellyfin is ready before Sablier redirects
- Added hacker-terminal theme to Sablier starting page
- This should help Sablier detect when Jellyfin is fully ready
- Add SERVER_HOSTNAME env var for Sablier group naming
- Update default hostname from 'jarvis' to 'debian' for generic repo compatibility
- Add restart policy documentation to all docker-compose files
- Add Sablier labels to lazy-loaded services (jellyfin, dozzle, glances, code-server, homarr, dokuwiki)
- Update sablier.yml template to use debian- prefixes
- Enhance deploy script to auto-detect hostname and update configurations
- Ensure all YAML files remain syntactically valid
- Change restart policy from 'unless-stopped' to 'no' for services configured with Sablier middleware
- Services affected: jellyfin, dozzle, glances, code-server, homarr, dokuwiki
- Allows Sablier to control container startup/shutdown for lazy loading
- Improves resource utilization by only running services when accessed
- Added x-dockge.url=https://service. labels to all services that have Traefik routers
- Enables Dockge to display direct links to service web interfaces
- Covers all stacks: core, infrastructure, media, productivity, monitoring, utilities, etc.
