A component bump touches that role's defaults/main.yml, which is on the Molecule
workflow's path filter, so the change-detection job runs that role's scenario.
The bump therefore only merges once the new version has actually been started on
the configuration the role renders. That is a real gate, and a stronger one than
a human reading a version number in a diff.
Patch only. A minor carries behaviour changes that no static rule can judge - the
MASH fleet tried a minor-automerge preset across 21 stateless roles and reverted
all of them, because reading a given release's notes is what decides it, and that
is a job for a human or an agent rather than a config file.
Branch push rather than a PR, as with the other automerge rules here.
The list has to stay in step with the roles that actually have a scenario, so
bin/check-molecule-automerge-list.py enforces it from prek. The direction that
matters is a role keeping automerge after losing its scenario: bumps would then
merge with nothing exercising them. It reports the harmless direction too, since
a role gaining a scenario without being listed is usually an oversight.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SEH3vxYSQ5SV4N5z61eyGT
`just molecule` leaves a shared virtualenv of over 500 MB under var/, plus a
~7 MB Ansible home per role that has a scenario. Neither is reclaimed by
anything today.
`--idle-days N` limits it to what has not been touched recently, so it can be
run unattended without taking the cache out from under a scenario being worked
on right now.
The two directories are named explicitly rather than globbed: var/ holds other
things and must never be removed wholesale.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SEH3vxYSQ5SV4N5z61eyGT
Scenarios install their Galaxy dependencies with `force: true`, so two roles
running at once re-extract the same collections and roles into ~/.ansible and
pull them out from under each other mid-play. It surfaces as a collection that
was working moments earlier going missing:
the connection plugin 'community.docker.docker' was not found
Found while running five scenarios in parallel, where it cost a run.
ANSIBLE_HOME relocates both `collections/` and `roles/`, so one variable covers
both halves; the scenarios' ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH workaround now follows it rather
than hardcoding ~/.ansible/roles. Left alone if already set, and unset in CI,
where each role runs in its own job and has nothing to collide with.
Verified by removing var/molecule-ansible-home entirely and running
matrix-alertmanager-receiver from cold: green through idempotence, with the
collections and roles landing under the per-role directory - which also shows
nothing was quietly relying on the shared ~/.ansible being populated.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SEH3vxYSQ5SV4N5z61eyGT
Three things that would not have scaled to 70 roles:
- The Python and Ansible dependency pins were about to be copied into every
role. They now live once in molecule-shared/, which scenarios reference
relatively, so they cannot drift apart.
- The helper container images used for probing were hardcoded inline. They
are pinned once in molecule-shared/vars.yml, carry `# renovate:`
annotations, and a custom manager in .github/renovate.json keeps them
current - verified with a local Renovate dry run, which offers
curl 8.11.1 -> 8.21.0 and python 3.13 -> 3.14-alpine. Seventy invisible
hardcodes is the blindness class we have been removing elsewhere.
- Running a scenario meant knowing the venv and cd incantation. `just
molecule <role>` does it, and with no argument lists the roles that have
a scenario.
Molecule is deliberately not wired into prek: a run takes minutes, pulls
images and needs Docker, which is fine on request and not fine per commit.
docs/molecule-testing.md covers how to run and write these, including the
four things a role here needs that a standalone role does not. AGENTS.md
points at it rather than carrying the detail.
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Since mautrix-meta v26.07, Instagram is a separate bridge upstream (its own binary, container image and configuration schema). As of v0.2608.0, the bridge no longer has a `mode` configuration option at all, so the premise of auto-generating the Instagram role from the Messenger one (one binary, one schema, a mode switch) is gone.
- Drop the role generator (`bin/rebuild-mautrix-meta-instagram.sh` and the `just rebuild-mautrix-meta-instagram` recipe). The two roles are now maintained independently.
- Drop `matrix_bridge_mautrix_meta_instagram_meta_mode` and all mode-derived lookups from the Instagram role. Computed values are unchanged.
- Sync both config templates with the v0.2608.0 example configs: the Instagram template loses `mode` and gains the Instagram-only options; the Messenger template replaces `mode` with the new `tor` option (still derived from `matrix_bridge_mautrix_meta_messenger_meta_mode: facebook-tor`) and loses the Instagram-only `disable_xma_*` options.
- Fix self-building for the Instagram role: build via `Dockerfile.ig` (producing the actual Instagram binary at `/usr/bin/mautrix-instagram`) instead of the Messenger `Dockerfile`. A new `matrix_bridge_mautrix_meta_instagram_container_binary_path` variable points the systemd service at the right binary for self-built and prebuilt images.
- Rename the systemd service templates to role-specific file names.
Related to https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/5510
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Part of adopting a uniform naming policy for bridge variables,
where the variable prefix matches the role directory name.
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Part of adopting a uniform naming policy for bridge variables,
where the variable prefix matches the role directory name.
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Running `just add-inventory-host example.com 1.2.3.4` (or
`make add-inventory-host domain=example.com ip=1.2.3.4`) adds a new
host to the inventory, creating inventory/hosts and
inventory/host_vars/matrix.DOMAIN/vars.yml from the example files,
with strong secrets generated automatically.
Existing configuration is never overwritten. The command refuses to
run if the host is already in the inventory, so it can also be used
for adding more hosts later.
Based on the idea proposed in
https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/pull/4682 by @Ser5
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Slavi Pantaleev
Suguru Hirahara
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