Dropping -beta from app_update does not leave a beta branch. SteamCMD wrote "public" into the manifest's UserConfig and left MountedConfig on "unstable", so the install stayed on the 42.14.1 build from February while reporting success. The config had already moved to the bare mod-ID syntax that 42.20+ wants, and 42.14.1 still requires the backslash prefix, so all 283 mods loaded as "required mod ... not found" and the server came up vanilla. Naming the branch explicitly is what actually remounts the content. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deploy Home
There's no place like home!
Just as Dorothy managed the simple task of clicking her heels together, the desire for an equally simple one-button push deployment was in my heart. Thus, this repository was made.
Ansible
Ansible, along with double encrypted secrets, deploys the necessary configurations to make the home fit for certain needs and desires. Namely, having access to my home from anywhere, securely, and a self-hosted CI server that easily ties into existing workflows.
Makefile
The makefile is primarily used as a wrapper script to ensure that necessary
files, such as the secret vault password file, are provisioned as part of this.
One such addition to the task is utilizing dependency pinning through the
utilization of Python's virtualenv to lock down the specific dependency
versions within the requirements.txt file. This, ideally, prevents any
deployment issues with dependency version woes (e.g. version conflicts, major
updates in newest versions, etc.)
| Target Name | Description |
|---|---|
lint |
(default) Runs yamllint and ansible-lint on all YAML files in ansible/ |
deploy |
Deploys everything, or only tasks specified in TAGS= environment variable |
check |
Runs deploy in a "dry-run", showing diff-style outputs on tasks indicating changes |
vault |
Opens the Ansible vault file for editing |