Thermograph monorepo: graded-climate API + SSR frontend + infra, domain-specific containerized deploys
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secrets: vault dev and Centralis; render dev without common.yaml
Brings the last two credential stores under SOPS, so all three environments and
the control plane are managed the same way.

dev.yaml — dev was not "intentionally not wired in", it was broken

The vault README claimed dev had no real secrets. Both halves were false.

Dev needed secrets it did not have: thermograph-dev-daemon-1 has been in a crash
loop, restarting every ~60s with "neither THERMOGRAPH_INTERNAL_TOKEN nor
THERMOGRAPH_AUTH_SECRET is set; refusing to start" — so dev has had no Discord
gateway and no job timers. With THERMOGRAPH_BASE_URL unset the app also falls
back to https://thermograph.org, so dev's IndexNow pings and verification links
claimed to be prod. dev.yaml gives it its own generated AUTH_SECRET and a real
base URL, and 12 values total.

And dev already held production credentials: backend-deploy-dev.yml injects
S3_ACCESS_KEY/S3_SECRET_KEY into every dev deploy, and the only provisioned
keypair for that bucket is read-write — on the bucket holding prod's backups.
Dev does not need them; without bucket creds the lake service 503s and history
falls through to the archive. Those workflow lines still need removing.

dev renders dev.yaml ALONE, via THERMOGRAPH_SECRETS_SKIP_COMMON=1. Eleven of
common.yaml's sixteen values are live production credentials, the render is a
plaintext concatenation consumed through env_file:, and dev is the operator's
desktop AND the Forgejo runner executing unreviewed dev-branch code with the
docker socket mounted. An override in dev.yaml would not help — last-wins
governs consumers, but prod's value is still physically a line in the file.
Verified: current renderer leaks 28 lines onto dev including both S3 keypairs
and the VAPID private key; patched gives exactly 12 keys and no prod credential.
Beta's render is byte-identical either way.

centralis.prod.yaml — its own file, its own renderer

/etc/centralis.env was hand-edited, which is how a JSON registry got written
unquoted into a shell-sourced file tonight and silently collapsed three
identities to one. The renderer now owns the file.

It is service- AND environment-scoped, not folded into prod.yaml, because
/etc/thermograph.env is loaded into every container in the app stack. Folding
these in would put CENTRALIS_AUTH_TOKEN and CENTRALIS_TOKENS — which
authenticate an endpoint carrying run_on_host and sql_query(write) — into the
web backend's environment, turning a read-anything bug in the app into a
foothold on the control plane.

Quoting is guaranteed three ways rather than assumed. Critically, `sops -d
--output-type dotenv` emits values verbatim, so reusing the existing render path
would have reproduced tonight's bug exactly. The new function decrypts to JSON
and emits POSIX single-quoted assignments; it then sources its own output in a
clean shell and compares every value before touching /etc; and it refuses to
write unless CENTRALIS_TOKENS parses as a non-empty subject->token object after
sourcing. Tested against 16 hostile values including embedded quotes, newlines
and ;rm -rf /.

Value-identity proven, not asserted: rendered vs live compared as *effective*
values on prod (a textual diff would report a false difference, and would report
a false match if the vault had captured quote characters as part of the value),
plus both env files producing a byte-identical `docker compose config` digest.
9 keys, both token subjects preserved. Nothing deployed.

Note for later: /etc/thermograph.env is also shell-sourced, and survives on raw
dotenv only because none of its 32 current values contains a shell-special
character. It is one quoted secret away from the same bug.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0182KTMrsTHJc3TcewCatJFY
2026-07-24 18:10:51 -07:00
.forgejo/workflows observability: add the estate's first alerting; supervise Postfix 2026-07-24 13:19:19 -07:00
backend Retire NASA POWER from every serving path (#72) 2026-07-24 23:56:34 +00:00
frontend Frontend QA batch: date/TZ, https origin, date-422, VAPID rotation, trace-precip, partial-day gate (#70) 2026-07-24 23:13:36 +00:00
infra secrets: vault dev and Centralis; render dev without common.yaml 2026-07-24 18:10:51 -07:00
observability observability: add the estate's first alerting; supervise Postfix 2026-07-24 13:19:19 -07:00
.gitignore Drop accidentally-committed worktrees; ignore .claude/worktrees 2026-07-24 15:57:34 -07:00
CLAUDE.md docs: monorepo README, cutover runbook, root agent instructions 2026-07-22 22:11:33 -07:00
CUTOVER-NOTES.md docs: record the 2026-07-22 branch-migration sweep in cutover notes 2026-07-22 22:27:09 -07:00
README.md docs: monorepo README, cutover runbook, root agent instructions 2026-07-22 22:11:33 -07:00

thermograph

The Thermograph monorepo — the split repos reunified (2026-07-22) with full history via subtree merges, while keeping everything the split was actually for: per-domain images, per-domain deploys, and an async FE/BE contract.

Domains

Dir What CI
backend/ FastAPI graded-climate API, accounts, notifications (Discord bot, push, mail), data pipeline backend-build-push → image emi/thermograph/backend; backend-deploy[-prod|-dev]
frontend/ Public client: static JS/CSS + SSR pages frontend-* mirrors of the above; image emi/thermograph/frontend
infra/ Compose, deploy scripts, terraform, SOPS secrets vault, ops cron infra-sync (host checkout + secrets render), secrets-guard, ops-cron
observability/ Loki + Grafana + Alloy stack observability-validate

thermograph-docs deliberately stays its own repo (ADRs + runbooks, no build artifacts, different change cadence).

How CI stays decoupled

Every workflow in .forgejo/workflows/ is path-filtered to its domain: a push touching only frontend/** builds/deploys nothing else. Images stay separate (emi/thermograph/backend, emi/thermograph/frontend, each tagged sha-<12hex>), deploys stay per-service (infra/deploy/deploy.sh SERVICE=backend|frontend|all), and the API version contract (GET /api/version, PAYLOAD_VER) still lets FE and BE ship out of lockstep. The one intentionally coupled piece is pr-build.yml: a single always-running gate required check that builds only the domains a PR touches (a path-filtered required check would deadlock auto-merge).

Branch model (unchanged from the split era): PRs → dev, main → beta, release → prod; infra tracked via main on all hosts.

Before pointing anything live at this repo, read CUTOVER-NOTES.md.