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hermes 59d751d9dd fix(ui): mobile pop-out for the advice, and tables that fit a phone
The brewing advice is several hundred characters.  In a table cell it
pushed the table past the width of a phone, so the column was clipped
off the right edge and the advice could not be read without sideways
scrolling.

The advice is now a compact trigger in the cell and the text is in a
floating panel that opens on hover (desktop) or on tap (phone).

The panel is position:fixed and anchored by the script.  Absolutely
positioned inside the cell it was clipped by the table's own scroll
container, and the advice was sliced in half by the card's edge.  It
flips above the trigger when there is no room below.

The tables now reflow into stacked cards on a narrow screen, with each
value labelled by its column name.  A seven column table does not fit a
phone, and it used to scroll sideways inside its wrapper, so the
columns on the right were off the screen.

Also: the header wraps onto two rows so the nav tabs are not clipped,
the point scale says 'points' rather than 'pts', and the reading count
on the beer card does not orphan its word.
2026-11-09 20:56:56 +10:00
hermes 8de3d011db fix(advice): find the marker however the model formats it
The instruction asks for "ADVICE:", but the model writes "**ADVICE:**",
"## ADVICE:" or puts it in a code block.  The extraction has to cope,
because leftover markdown in the advice is visible to the brewer.

The marker is now matched case-insensitively and with the decoration the
model puts around it, and the leftover formatting is stripped.

    plain marker         -> 'Warm it to 20C and wait.'
    bold marker          -> 'Warm it to 20C and wait.'
    in a code block      -> 'Warm it to 20C and wait.'
    marker mid-text      -> 'Warm it to 20C and wait.'
    markdown heading     -> 'Warm it to 20C and wait.'
    lowercase marker     -> 'Warm it to 20C and wait.'
    no marker            -> 'Warm it to 20C and wait.'
    bold + code block    -> 'Warm it to 20C and wait.'

182 tests (up from 181).
2026-11-09 19:46:13 +10:00
hermes 75f94d47e2 fix(advice): a deterministic split, not a guess at where the advice starts
The stripper tried to work out where the model's working ends and the
advice begins by classifying prose - marker words, hedging words,
length.  It failed in BOTH directions, and the review caught both:

- it emptied legitimate advice (a 1,093-character reply containing one
  hedging word and no marker phrase was reduced to ""), so the brewer
  saw nothing at all; and
- it let the model's working through in full (a 1,053-character reply
  with no hedging word was returned verbatim), so the brewer was shown
  the model thinking about their beer.

Neither a marker list nor a length threshold is reliable.  Prose is not
a format.

So the model is asked for the format instead.  Its reply must have this
shape:

    ADVICE:
    <the advice itself>

Everything before the marker is working, everything from it on is the
advice.  The split is exact, with no judgement calls.

Verified against the live model, four different brews:

    Test Pale Ale        marker@pos=0  finish=stop  advice_len=656
    Nocturna Christmas   marker@pos=0  finish=stop  advice_len=668
    Ginger beer          marker@pos=0  finish=stop  advice_len=621
    Cider raspberry      marker@pos=0  finish=stop  advice_len=539

All four start clean, with no marker left in the advice.

A reply with no marker is used as it stands - the safe direction, where
the brewer sees a slightly rambling reply rather than no advice at all.

An empty advice is now recorded as a FAILURE rather than stored as a
successful generation.  Storing an empty string with advice_ok=True
made the page render "Thinking..." for ever, because the template's
`{% if reading.advice %}` was false - so the brewer never learned that
it had failed.

181 tests (up from 184 - the eight heuristic-era stripper tests are
replaced by six that test the marker behaviour).
2026-11-09 19:44:52 +10:00
hermes cbc71716e8 fix(advice): judge the working by its shape, not by its length
A length threshold is a blunt instrument: a legitimate advice reply can
run to a thousand characters, and a short working reply can be a few
hundred - so a threshold gets both wrong.  A 995-character advice reply
with no marker word in it was being emptied.

The reliable signal is the SHAPE.  The model's working is about
INTERPRETING the numbers - what the reading might mean, what could be
causing it, what it is unsure about.  The advice is about what to DO.

So a reply is working when it is full of the model's hedging about the
data AND contains no instruction at all.  Length is only a tie-breaker
for a reply that is both hedged and short.

    995-char legitimate advice  -> kept
    long pure working           -> dropped
    short legitimate advice     -> kept
    long working + advice       -> advice kept

Checked against the live model - a real reply comes back clean, with no
reasoning in it:

    At two weeks in, dropping from 1.055 to 1.020 is a healthy 35-point
    fall - about 64% attenuation - which is right in the normal range for
    a pale ale, though you likely still have 5 to 8 points to go...

184 tests (up from 183).
2026-11-09 19:27:08 +10:00
hermes 4bedd23c24 fix(advice): the no-token guard must cover all three shapes of "no token"
The guard matches on the absence of a token.  `{"$exists": False}` covers
a reading with no token field, but NOT one whose token field is present
and empty.

Verified against the live database, before the fix:

    token present but empty -> write matched: 0   <-- missed it

`{"$in": [None, ""]}` covers all three - a missing field, an empty
field, and a null one - because `$in` with null also matches a missing
field.

    no token field          -> write matched: 1
    token present but empty -> write matched: 1
    token is null           -> write matched: 1

183 tests (up from 182).
2026-11-09 19:10:16 +10:00
hermes d18d037bb9 fix(advice): the pre-token guard, and a stripper that cannot empty real advice
Two findings from the fifth review.

The pre-token fallback re-opened the hole
-----------------------------------------
A reading that has never been edited has no token.  The guard fell back
to the gravity check for those, and a comment-only correction leaves the
gravity unchanged - so a late thread's write matched and overwrote the
fresh advice, for exactly the 47 existing readings.

Reproduced live before the fix:

    pre-token reading token: None  ->  stale thread carries ""
    fresh write modified: 1
    stale write modified: 1   <<< stale advice overwrote the fresh one
    final advice: 'STALE ADVICE'

The guard now matches on the ABSENCE of a token, which still tells the
generations apart: an edit writes a token, so a stale thread's "" stops
matching the moment the reading is corrected.

    fresh write modified: 1 (must be 1)
    stale write modified: 0   (must be 0)

The stripper could empty real advice
------------------------------------
"Actually the drop is fine.\\n\\nWait a couple of days and check again."
is advice, and judging it paragraph by paragraph emptied it - so the
brewer saw nothing at all, with no failure note.

The test is no longer a marker list, which real advice often does not
contain.  A reply is all-working when it is LONG and has no instruction
in it: the model's working runs to thousands of characters, while the
advice is two to five sentences.

    short reply with no marker  -> kept
    long reply, no instruction  -> dropped
    long reply with advice      -> advice kept
    single-paragraph working    -> dropped

Also: the log message named the gravity, but the guard is the token.

182 tests (up from 178).
2026-11-09 19:08:28 +10:00
hermes 7d9d718b41 fix(advice): an empty token must not be used as a guard
None of the 47 existing readings have a token - they all predate it.  A
reading read from the database therefore has an EMPTY token, and the
guard was checking `expected_token is not None`, which is TRUE for an
empty string.  So the write was conditioned on a token that does not
exist, matched nothing, and **the advice would never have been written
for any of the existing readings**.

Verified against the live database, before the fix:

    write with expected_token='' -> 0   (0 = the advice would NEVER be written)

After:

    write for a pre-token live reading: 1   (must be 1)

An empty token is now not a usable guard - there is no token to match -
so the write falls through to the gravity check instead.  A non-empty
token is still the primary guard.

There is a test for it, with a reading inserted the way the existing
ones are - directly, with no token.

178 tests (up from 177).
2026-11-09 18:24:57 +10:00
hermes 27a28b5e58 fix(advice): the stripper must DROP the working, and the token is the guard
Two findings from the fourth review.

The stripper was a no-op in the case it was written for
---------------------------------------------------
The "all working" branch returned the text UNCHANGED, which is
byte-identical to the old fallthrough.  And in the case where a preamble
marker WAS present and no paragraph read like advice, it returned the
whole reply - working included - so the branch made the "store the
working instead of the advice" failure MORE likely, not less.

Measured on a realistic 5-paragraph reasoning reply: the old code stored
80 chars (one paragraph), the new code stored 612 chars (five
paragraphs) of the model's working.

It now DROPS the working, so the reply is empty and the brewer sees a
clear "could not be generated" rather than the model thinking about
their beer.

"keep" alone is not an advice marker
------------------------------------
"I need to keep in mind that the hydrometer was read at a different
temperature" is the model thinking, not advice.  The bare words "keep",
"raise", "lower", "take the" were matching ordinary reasoning phrasing,
so the "all working" detection almost never fired on real reasoning
text.  They are now matched as phrases - "you should keep", "raise it
to", "take another reading" - and "i need to keep in mind" is
explicitly working.

The token is the primary guard
------------------------------
The gravity can be unparseable for some readings, so `expected_sg` can
be None - and then the write was becoming unconditional, reintroducing
the stale-overwrite bug on those readings.

The editing token is the primary guard: it changes on EVERY edit, so it
catches a stale generation whatever else changed - the gravity, the
comment, or nothing.  The gravity is now a secondary check, used only
when there is no token.

177 tests (up from 174).
2026-11-09 18:22:51 +10:00
hermes a78aabe3ea fix(advice): an editing token, so a comment-only correction is safe too
The gravity guard caught a correction that changed the gravity, but a
COMMENT-ONLY correction leaves the gravity unchanged - so the late
thread for the old advice still matched and overwrote the fresh one.

Reproduced against the live database:

    fresh advice matched: 1
    stale thread matched: 1     <-- should be 0
    FINAL advice: 'STALE ADVICE'

Every edit now writes a fresh token onto the reading, and the advice
thread carries the token it was given.  A late thread finds a token that
no longer matches, so its write is refused.  The gravity is still
checked as well.

Verified against the live database:

    token changed: True
    fresh advice matched: 1
    stale thread matched: 0     <-- must be 0
    FINAL advice: 'FRESH ADVICE'

174 tests (up from 173).
2026-11-09 18:14:24 +10:00
hermes 8da3601941 fix(advice): the remaining review findings
Four things from the earlier review of this PR.

The prompt test did not test the prompt
---------------------------------------
`test_the_advice_is_about_the_reading_that_was_saved` asserted which
dict was PASSED to the generator - not what the model was actually ASKED.
So it passed even while the prompt still said "give advice for the most
recent reading", which is the bug that made the model advise about the
wrong number while the advice was filed against the right one.

It now asserts on the prompt content: the reading is marked, its date is
named, and "most recent reading" is gone.

Verified by reverting the prompt fix - the test fails, and so does
`test_the_prompt_names_the_reading_to_advise_about`.  Two tests now
guard it, and reverting the fix breaks both.

A write that matches nothing was silent
--------------------------------------
The advice writer discarded the return value of `set_reading_advice`.  A
write that matched 0 documents - which is now the EXPECTED outcome when
the brewer corrected the reading while the advice was being generated -
was dropped without a word.  It is logged now.

A stale docstring
-----------------
The background thread "builds its own" client - it has used the shared
one since the leak was fixed.

A missing CSS class
-------------------
`advice--reading` is used on the active-beers card and the run detail
page, and was never defined, so it had no styles.

173 tests (unchanged - the new assertions were added to existing tests).
2026-11-09 17:47:14 +10:00
hermes 3e1e4f42b7 fix(advice): stale advice must not overwrite a correction
The review found a race between the background advice thread and the
brewer correcting a reading.

`set_reading_advice` wrote unconditionally by id.  The advice is
generated in the background, so if the brewer corrects a reading while
the advice for the OLD gravity is still being generated, the slow thread
lands afterwards and overwrites the fresh advice with advice about a
reading that no longer exists.  The reading ends up with the final
gravity from the correction and the advice from before it.

Reproduced against the live database:

    wrote advice for 1050
    wrote advice for 1020
    late stale write matched: 0
    final sg: 1020 | final advice: 'ADVICE FOR THE CORRECTION'

The write is now conditional on the reading still holding the gravity
the advice was generated for, so a late thread matches nothing.

Also
----
`finish_reason` is now checked.  A reply that stopped at the token
ceiling is incomplete - it may be advice that stops mid-sentence - and
it was being stored as if it were the whole answer.  It is now marked
as cut off.

173 tests (up from 171).
2026-11-09 17:45:16 +10:00
hermes b414240bb5 fix(advice): keep the advice when the reply is over-long
The review found a way to store the model's WORKING instead of its
advice.

The advice is at the END of the reply, so the length cap was cutting
from the front - which took the advice off and left only the working.
That is worse than no advice at all, because it looks like advice: the
brew sees a full paragraph of the model thinking about their beer, and
nothing about what to do.

Reproduced:

    input len: 2515 -> final len: 1199
    advice present? False
    TAIL: 'padding padding padding padding padding'

Two changes:

- The length cap keeps the END of the reply and cuts at a sentence
  boundary near the end, so the advice survives.
- The stripper now also catches a reply that is entirely working - no
  marker phrase, and no paragraph that reads like advice - instead of
  only catching one that says "let me think".

    input: 2515 -> stripped: 2515 -> final: 1199
    advice present? True

A short reply is untouched.

171 tests (up from 169).
2026-11-09 17:36:13 +10:00
hermes cf08b751e4 feat(advice): use mistral-large-4, and cope with models that show their working
The model is now `mistral-large-4:cloud`, on the same Ollama instance.
It was probed before being made the default - `deepseek-v4-flash:cloud`,
`deepseek-v3.2:cloud` and `qwen3.5:cloud` are all retired and fail at
call time while still appearing in the model list.

What the probes showed
----------------------
`think: false` does NOT stop the reasoning.  It only changes where the
working goes: with thinking off, the model writes it into the CONTENT
instead of a separate field.  Either way the reasoning comes out of the
same token allowance as the answer, and at 500-3000 tokens the reply
came back EMPTY - which looks like a broken model rather than a budget
problem.  The budget is now 8000, and the timeout 120s.

The reply is also stripped of a reasoning preamble.  The advice is the
prose at the END; the working comes first, in several paragraphs.  The
preamble is found by walking back from the end of the reply and keeping
the paragraphs that read like advice to the brewer, rather than like
the model thinking out loud.

Verified against the live model, on a stalled brew (OG 1.042, 1.022 after
nine days, "no change since day 7"):

    That 1.022 reading after nine days at 19C - with no movement since
    day seven - looks like a stalled fermentation; a 1.042 wort should
    be well on its way to 1.010-1.012 by now, not sitting at only about
    48% attenuation. Gently swirl the fermenter to rouse the yeast cake
    and keep the temperature steady at 19-20C, and if the gravity hasn't
    budged in another 48 hours, pitch a fresh, healthy yeast starter...

And on a CORRECTED older reading - the case the review found broken -
the advice is about the corrected reading, with the later one as context:

    A brew-day reading of 1.038 against an OG of 1.042 is only four points
    low, which is almost certainly just the normal difference between
    your kettle gravity and the post-transfer fermenter reading...

169 tests (up from 167).
2026-11-09 17:10:24 +10:00
hermes 0011f30e59 fix(advice): a race in the shared repository, and the prompt naming the wrong reading
Two findings from the re-review of PR #14.

A race that recreated the leak
-------------------------------
`get_shared_repository()` did an unsynchronised check-then-set on a
module global.  Eight concurrent advice threads on a cold process each
saw None and each built their own repository - so eight MongoClients and
twenty-five threads.  The fix that was meant to remove the leak
reintroduced it, just bounded by a race instead of by the number of
readings.

Measured before: 8 repositories built, 25 threads.
Measured after:  1 repository built,  4 threads.

There is a lock, and the check is repeated inside it.

The prompt was about the wrong reading
--------------------------------------
The advice targeted the right reading, but the PROMPT said "give advice
for the most recent reading" - and when the brewer corrects an OLDER
reading, the most recent one in the history is a different reading.  So
the model was asked about the wrong number while the advice was filed
against the right one.

The reading is now named in the instruction (with its date and gravity),
marked in the reading list as the one to advise on, and the system prompt
says to advise about the marked reading because it may not be the most
recent one.

A corrected reading is also flagged as such, so the model knows it may
differ from what it said before.

167 tests (up from 164).
2026-11-09 17:04:57 +10:00
hermes 21fa0d9a12 fix(advice): make the id helper unusable rather than merely rejected
_as_doc_id returned None for a hostile id.  That was guarded at the one
call site, but the helper could still be misused into "$in needs an
array" - and a caller who forgot the guard would have got an error
rather than a safe no-op.

It now returns an EMPTY LIST for anything that is not a reading id.  An
empty list is a valid $in argument that matches nothing, so the helper
cannot produce a query error, cannot match every document, and cannot be
interpreted as a query operator.

Verified against the live database: a hostile id matches 0 documents and
updates 0 documents.

164 tests.
2026-11-09 16:31:05 +10:00
hermes 6dd0b7b046 fix(advice): the review findings - the ids, the client leak, the wrong reading
The review of PR #14 found a critical defect and two real bugs.  All
verified against the live database, not just read.

CRITICAL - the advice would never have been stored
--------------------------------------------------
`_as_doc_id` accepted only an ObjectId or a string that parses as one.
But **all 47 live readings have string `_id`s** - 24 random characters
from the original app's importer, like `l78ZidBJ3QaYn98tvB88x4uM`.  The
helper turned every one of them into None, so the update matched nothing
and the advice was silently never stored in production.

The mongomock fixture generates ObjectIds, so the tests could not see it.
`_as_doc_id` now returns both forms and the query uses `$in` (a plain
list would be an exact ARRAY match in Mongo, which is not what is
wanted).  Verified against the live database: the advice now lands on a
real reading, with the brewer's comment untouched.

There are now tests for BOTH id shapes, with the string shape built
explicitly, because the fixture would not produce it.

The advice was written about the wrong reading
----------------------------------------------
`latest` was taken from the date-sorted tail of the run, so editing an
OLDER reading generated advice about the NEWEST one.  The advice is now
written against the reading that was actually saved.

A leaked MongoClient per reading
--------------------------------
The background thread built a `BeerRepository()` - and therefore a
`MongoClient` - for every advice write, and never closed it.  A
MongoClient spawns three monitor threads and pymongo does NOT reap them
on `close()`; they go only when the client is garbage collected.

Measured: three threads and a connection pool accumulated per reading
recorded.  There is now one shared repository for the life of the
process, which is what the request-scoped repository does too.  Measured
again after the fix: 4 threads total, not 16 over five writes.

Also
----
- `BeerRepository` gained `close()` and the context-manager protocol.
- The advice writer now logs instead of dying silently if the write
  fails.

164 tests (up from 160).
2026-11-09 16:29:39 +10:00
hermes d0aef7a787 fix(advice): clear stale advice on edit, and pin the injection guard
Two things I wanted to be sure of before this merges.

Stale advice
------------
The advice is written for the gravity that was there when it was
generated.  If the brewer then edits the reading - to fix a typo, or to
mark it final - the old advice no longer describes it, and the page was
showing advice that contradicted the number next to it.

`upsert_reading` now clears the advice fields, so the stale advice goes
and a fresh one is generated (the form already regenerates on every save).
Only the advice fields are cleared - the brewer's own comment is never
touched.

The injection guard
-------------------
The reading's `_id` is an ObjectId, so the original `_as_id` coercion
(which turns run ids into plain strings, to stop a caller passing a dict
that Mongo would interpret as a query operator) did not apply - it turned
the ObjectId into an empty string and the update silently matched
nothing.  `_as_doc_id` accepts only an ObjectId or a string that parses as
one.

Verified against a live injection attempt: `{"$ne": None}`, `{"$gt": ""}`,
a list, an int, None and a non-ObjectId string all return None and match
nothing.  There is now a test that pins it, because it is a security
property that would otherwise only be covered by reading the code.

160 tests (up from 158).
2026-11-09 16:05:59 +10:00
hermes ab3050194d feat(advice): LLM brewing advice on every observation (work in progress)
Stores a model's advice for each recorded reading, in its own field, so the
brewer's own comment is never overwritten.

Fire and forget: the advice is generated in a background thread, so
recording a reading never blocks on the model.  A failure is recorded as a
visible note saying the advice could not be generated, because a silent
failure is indistinguishable from "still thinking".

The model is `glm-5.3:cloud` on the Ollama instance at 192.168.178.45:11434.
Several models on that instance are retired and fail at call time while
still appearing in the model list, so the default is one that was probed.

The system prompt tells the model never to call a reading impossible: a
gravity below 1.000 is always a mis-entry, but the rest of the run may be a
genuine long fermentation and still worth understanding.

150 tests.
2026-11-09 16:03:29 +10:00
hermes 41cf2cbb8e fix(analysis): rising gravity, undated readings, and the range band (#13)
Build and Push Image / Build and push image (push) Successful in 3m19s
fix(analysis): rising gravity, undated readings, and the range band (#13)
2026-11-09 15:57:59 +10:00
hermes 76a4d0805c fix(analysis): the review findings - rising gravity, undated readings, the band
A second, deeper review of PR #12 found five things the first review did
not.  All are fixed here.

The band was not the band
-------------------------
The fermentation curve's shaded range was drawn as ONE dataset with
`fill: "+1"`, which fills to the NEXT dataset - and the next dataset was
the median line, not the maximum.  So the band shaded min-to-median, the
upper half of the range was drawn as a hairline but never shaded, and the
tooltip said "range min to max" while the picture showed something else.
The band is now two datasets - the min curve filled down to a max curve -
with the max hidden from the legend.

Rising gravity
--------------
`attenuation_percent` rejected a final gravity below 1.000 and one
implying more than 100% attenuation, but a run whose gravity went UP
produced a NEGATIVE attenuation - which was then averaged into the
headline figure and plotted as a negative bar.  Verified against the live
code: OG 1010 -> FG 1020 gave -100.0%.  Now rejected, and reported by
`implausible_runs` with the reason "the gravity went up, which is usually
a mis-ordered pair of readings".

Undated readings
----------------
An undated reading sorted to the front of the run, so it became the
original gravity - which put the OG after the FG and produced a negative
attenuation.  The OG now comes from the earliest *dated* reading, and
`days_to_target` skips the readings it cannot place on the timeline rather
than giving up on the whole run.  Verified: readings 1050 (dated), 1005
(undated), 1010 (dated) gave None instead of 24 days, and an OG of 1005
instead of 1050.

Active runs on the curve
------------------------
The curve chart filtered on `curve.length > 1` only, so it plotted the
active runs as well - a partial fermentation on a chart meant to describe
how a completed one behaves.  It now excludes them, along with the
suspect runs.

Four fetches, one payload
-------------------------
`/api/runs` carries every reading of every run, and four charts each
fetched it independently - so the analysis page made two identical
round-trips of the whole collection.  There is now one shared fetch.

Also
----
- The "Readings that need a second look" table links to the run, so a
  suspect reading can be corrected in one click.
- `days_to_1015` and the `curves` variable were computed and never used.
  Removed.
- A reading below 1.000 now says what it is - "beer cannot be less dense
  than water, so this is almost certainly a typo (a 1.012 reading entered
  as 012?)".  The reading is still SAVED: rejecting it would lose the
  brewer's actual observation, and seeing it recorded is how they spot the
  mistake.

142 tests (up from 134).
2026-11-09 15:55:56 +10:00
hermes 21e7553ab4 feat(analysis): attenuation, fermentation curves and brew timings (#12)
Build and Push Image / Build and push image (push) Successful in 8m10s
feat(analysis): attenuation, fermentation curves and brew timings (#12)
2026-11-09 14:18:44 +10:00
hermes 6fec78e9e4 fix(analysis): address the two review nits
The re-review returned APPROVED with two low-severity notes.

- The prose said "Across 15 finished brews", which reads as though there
  are only 15 brews.  It now says "Across 15 of 16 finished brews", so the
  exclusion is visible in the sentence itself and not only in the card
  header.

- `/api/runs/<run_id>` did not carry the `suspect` flag that
  `/api/runs` does, so a consumer of the detail endpoint could not tell an
  impossible run from a good one.  It does now, with a test.

134 tests.
2026-11-09 14:18:29 +10:00
hermes bbd9fe17e5 fix(analysis): exclude suspect runs from every average, not just attenuation
Review finding, and it was right. The PR claimed that runs with impossible
readings were "excluded from the averages". That was only true of the
attenuation average. Run 12's bad final gravity was still poisoning three
other statistics:

- **Brew time** - its 56 days were folded into the average, making a
  typical brew look like 13.7 days when it is 10.9.
- **Time to 1.010** - its 56 days did the same to that figure (8.4d).
- **The history page's ABV** - an 18.64% ABV, which made run 12 the
  "strongest" beer in the history and pulled the average up.
- **The fermentation curve** - its curve plunges from 1.042 to 0.900, which
  dragged the median line down and stretched the min-max envelope to cover
  a gravity below water.

One bad reading was reaching four different statistics.

What changed
------------
- The suspect runs are computed once and excluded from every aggregate:
  the attenuation, brew-time and time-to-1.010 averages, the fastest and
  slowest brews, the history page's ABV average, and its strongest and
  lightest.
- `/api/runs` now carries a `suspect` flag, and the charts skip the flagged
  runs - the attenuation chart and the fermentation curve.
- The suspect run stays in the table, with a "not counted" chip and a tinted
  row, so it can be corrected.  It is excluded from the figures, not
  hidden.  The card header says "16 brews (15 counted)" and the prose says
  how many brews the figures are based on.

Tests
-----
133 (up from 127).  New coverage: the suspect run is excluded from the brew
time and time-to-1.010 averages, it is still listed for review, it is
flagged in the API, it is not the strongest brew in the history, and the
charts filter it out.

The `logged_in` fixture moved to conftest.py, where both test modules can
use it.
2026-11-09 14:03:07 +10:00
hermes 4d1e070d74 docs: document the analysis page and the CI deploy flow
The RUNBOOK still said the workflow did not deploy to the cluster. It does
now - it builds, pushes, applies the manifests, rolls the pods and verifies
the app from inside the pod. The manual deploy path is documented alongside
it, along with the dry-run step that catches the schema errors kubectl apply
silently swallows.
2026-11-09 13:12:51 +10:00
hermes e1a9a7384f feat(analysis): attenuation, fermentation curves and brew timings
Adds the analysis page the old app never had: how consistently the brews
ferment, and how long each one takes.

What it shows
-------------
- **Attenuation by brew** - what fraction of the original gravity was
  fermented away, for every finished brew.
- **Fermentation curves** - the typical shape of a fermentation, drawn as a
  median curve with the min-max envelope behind it. Plotting every brew
  individually gave 16 near-identical lines and an unreadable legend.
- **Every finished brew** - OG, FG, ABV, attenuation, days in the fermenter,
  days to reach 1.010, and the finish date.
- **Readings that need a second look** - readings outside the plausible
  hydrometer range.
- Headline figures: average attenuation and its spread, average brew time,
  average time to 1.010.

Data quality
------------
One live run (run 12) has a final gravity of 900, which worked out as 338%
attenuation and dragged the average to 103.2%. That is not a real result,
so:

- Attenuation is rejected when the final gravity is not physically possible
  for the original gravity.
- Runs that fail that check are EXCLUDED from the averages rather than
  silently distorting them, and are listed on the page as needing review.
- The average now reads 87.5% +/- 7.4 percentage points across 16 brews.

Chart bugs found while building this
------------------------------------
- **The gravity charts had their y axis reversed.** With `reverse: true`
  the high reading sits at the BOTTOM, so the fermentation curve climbed
  left to right - it read as gravity *rising* as the beer fermented. A
  brewer reads a fermentation as a descending line. The point-scale run
  chart on the run detail page had the same bug. Both are fixed.
- **The curve chart's x axis was treated as categorical.** The x values are
  numeric (0-100), and Chart.js defaults a line chart's x axis to
  category, which collapsed every point onto index 0 and rendered the
  curve as a sliver at the origin. The axis is now explicitly linear.
- **The curve was interpolated by exact key lookup**, so it only worked when
  every brew happened to be read at the same progress points. It now
  interpolates between a brew's actual readings, and the curve carries 21
  points across the full range.
- **Long beer names were clipped** at the left edge of the attenuation
  chart ("...x crying out loud"). Names are trimmed to 18 characters with
  an ellipsis; the tooltip and the table carry the full name.

Tests
-----
127 (up from 105). The two chart regressions are covered by reading
`charts.js` and asserting the gravity axis is not reversed and that long
names are trimmed - these are exactly the kind of change that silently
reverts, and they are invisible to a screenshot test.
2026-11-09 13:11:23 +10:00
hermes 0785c11790 fix(ci): use the house CI pattern instead of a bespoke one (#11)
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2026-11-09 12:50:21 +10:00
hermes 563e22fb00 fix(ci): use the house CI pattern instead of a bespoke one
I had built a parallel mechanism for this repo rather than copying the
workflow that is already known to work on this cluster.  The working patterns
are `armistace/resbuilder_ai` and `armistace/wedding-photos`, and the house
skill (`gitea-forgejo/references/homelab-ci-workflow-template.md`) documents
them.  This rewrites the workflow to match them.

What changed, and why each piece was wrong:

- ONE job, not three.  The kubeconfig is written at the TOP, before buildx,
  because the buildx `kubernetes` driver needs it to create its builder pod.
  My split into test/build/deploy jobs put the kubeconfig in a job that ran
  AFTER the build, which the kubernetes driver cannot use.

- `driver: kubernetes` with `namespace=gitea-runner`, not the `remote`
  driver.  I switched to the remote driver to dodge an x509 error, but the
  real cause was that the job container lacked the k3s CA - and the working
  workflows solve that the same way: the kubeconfig carries the CA.  The
  remote driver was a workaround for a problem the house pattern does not
  have.

- The CA-refresh script and the pinned-fingerprint file are deleted.  They
  existed to work around the same x509 error, and the house pattern does not
  need them.

- The deploy step installs kubectl and applies `kube/*.yaml`, creating the
  image-pull secret idempotently, then does a `rollout restart` (the image
  tag in the manifest does not change, so `apply` alone does not roll the
  pods).

- The verification step exercises `/healthz` and `/readyz` from inside the
  pod, using the pod's own python - the pattern the house skill documents
  for probing a deployed app.  There is no `curl` in the slim image.

The Deployment manifest also changes:

- `runAsUser: 999` at the POD level, matching the `beer` user in the image.
  kubelet can only verify a numeric UID, so `runAsNonRoot` on the container
  fails with a named user.
- `allowPrivilegeEscalation` and `capabilities` are on the CONTAINER, not
  the pod - the house skill notes that putting them on the pod makes
  `kubectl apply` silently reject the manifest.
- The image is `:latest` again, with the rollout restart doing the work -
  the `SET_BY_CI` sentinel was my own invention and does not fit the pattern.

All three manifests were validated with `kubectl apply --dry-run=client`
and then applied for real: the rollout completed and `/healthz` and
`/readyz` both return 200 from inside the pod.
2026-11-09 12:49:54 +10:00
hermes bb071343c2 fix(ci): count the kubeconfig's clusters correctly
The cluster-count guard I added used `grep -c '"name"'`, which counts
LINES.  The jsonpath output is a single line, so the count was 1 for a
kubeconfig with clusters and 1 for one without - which made the guard
reject every kubeconfig:

    ERROR: the kubeconfig has no cluster entries.

The count is now done with `grep -o . | wc -l`, which counts occurrences
rather than lines.  Tested against both cases:

- a real kubeconfig with a stale CA -> the CA is refreshed and kubectl works
- a kubeconfig with no clusters        -> refuses with a clear message
2026-11-09 12:49:13 +10:00
hermes 8048a1112d docs: fix the PR #5 merge commit message (#10)
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2026-11-09 12:39:03 +10:00
hermes 9f2671fa71 feat(active): add the active beers page, run metadata and tap numbers (#5)
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Adds the pages that were missing: an "Active Beers" view of what is in the
fermenter right now, and the per-run metadata (canonical name, tap number,
original gravity, brew notes) that could not be derived from the readings.

Why the metadata is needed
--------------------------
The `beer_data` collection stores a beer name on *each reading*, and that
name drifts within a run - run 4 was entered as "Necatron-Christmas Beer",
then "Nocturna the Christmas beer", then "Nocturna Christmas beer". There was
nowhere to record a tap number, a confirmed original gravity, or a note about
the brew.

The new `beer_runs` collection holds one document per run with exactly those
details. It starts empty; `scripts/backfill_run_metadata.py` populates it
from the existing readings. The script is idempotent, only ever inserts into
`beer_runs`, never touches `beer_data`, and never overwrites a name you have
already set by hand.

The active beers page
---------------------
A card per brew that is still in the fermenter, showing the tap number, the
current gravity, the projected alcohol, how many days it has been brewing, a
sparkline of the gravity so far, and the latest comment.

A run with only one reading and no recorded original gravity has no reliable
estimate, so the alcohol figure shows a dash rather than a misleading number
- record the OG or take a second reading and it appears. The same applies to
the existing reads, where the legacy app's assumed OG of 1012 produced
*negative* alcohol for a perfectly normal OG.

Also adds the history page: alcohol by brew, brews per month, every run in a
table, a comparison of the standard ABV formula against the legacy one, and
a list of readings that fall outside the plausible hydrometer range.

Changes to the existing pages
-----------------------------
- The brew-process page and the run detail page now show the canonical run
  name and the latest comment, and the run detail page lets you edit the
  metadata inline.
- Gravity is displayed as a decimal reading (1.039) with the point scale
  beneath it (39 points), which is the way a brewer reads it. Labelling the
  stored `1039` as "1039 points" would have been wrong.
- A run's display name now prefers the name on its *final* reading - the one
  written when the brew was finished, so the name the operator settled on -
  falling back to the most-used name.
- `upsert_run_metadata` now clears a field when it is passed as `None`, so a
  name or tap number can be deleted. `upsert_run_metadata_partial` is the
  non-clearing variant, used by the backfill.

Bugs found and fixed along the way
----------------------------------
- The chart script was included both in the base template and again by each
  page, so every chart was drawn twice. A test now asserts it is loaded
  exactly once per page.
- The chart library was never referenced by the base template, so all charts
  were silently dead. That was fixed in the previous PR.
- An unfinished run reported a *measured* ABV. `abv_percent()` now returns
  None for a run that is still in the fermenter - its figure is a projection,
  not a measurement. This was showing the two active runs in the "alcohol by
  brew" chart as if they were finished brews.
- The `/api/runs` endpoints the charts fetch from did not exist, so every
  chart was silently empty. They are back, with tests.
- The "brews over time" chart left out the months with no brews, which
  spaced the busy months evenly and made the chart read as continuous
  activity. The quiet months are now included with a zero.

Tests
-----
105 (up from 74). New coverage: the active page contents, the tap number,
the projected alcohol, the "needs 2nd reading" case, metadata saving and
clearing, the stored name overriding the drifting reading name, the next
free tap number, the partial-update semantics, the history page, the
outlier list, and the point-scale formatting.

Data safety
-----------
`beer_data` is untouched by this change. The backfill script only inserts
into `beer_runs` and skips any run whose name has already been set by hand.
2026-11-09 12:38:27 +10:00
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2026-11-09 12:37:19 +10:00
hermes 2a9e0ad15e fix: log index failures, and tidy the CSP and the API error response
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Round-2 review findings.

- `_ensure_indexes` swallowed a `PyMongoError` with a bare `pass`. An index
  failure does not stop the app serving, but it means the lookup is a
  collection scan, which gets slow as the data grows — so it is now logged
  as a warning with the traceback.

- The Content-Security-Policy string is now a module-level `CSP` constant
  rather than inline in the response handler, and it gained
  `object-src 'none'` (the app uses no plugins). The test now also asserts
  that neither `unsafe-inline` nor `unsafe-eval` appears — either would
  defeat the point of the policy.

- `api_run` returned a bare dict for its 404 while the success path used
  `jsonify`. It is now `jsonify({"error": "not found"})` for consistency.
2026-11-09 12:36:17 +10:00
hermes bf0f88dd70 fix: build the image on Python 3.14, and fix the review findings
The image build failed on master:

    ERROR: Ignored the following versions that require a different python
    version: 4.19.0 Requires-Python >=3.11
    ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement
    pymongo==4.19.0

The base image was `python:3.10` but the pinned pymongo 4.19 needs Python
>= 3.11. The image is now `python:3.14-slim` — the current stable release,
so it is not carrying the CVEs fixed in 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13.

All the runtime dependencies ship a cp314 wheel (pymongo included), so no
compiler toolchain is needed. The old apt-get line installed
libsasl2-dev, python-dev-is-python3, libldap2-dev and libssl-dev for
packages that are no longer in the dependency list, so it is gone and the
image is smaller.

The build now asserts the interpreter version, so a base image change that
breaks the pinned requirements fails the build with a clear message rather
than a pip resolution error.

Review findings, all from the independent review of this PR
------------------------------------------------------------
- Mongo indexes: the run metadata is always looked up by `beer_run_id` and
  the readings by `(beer_run_id, date)`. Both are now indexed.
- Content-Security-Policy: the app serves only its own vendored assets, so
  a strict `default-src 'self'` policy is enforceable. Adding it required
  removing the inline `style=` attributes from the templates (they became
  `.mb-lg` / `.mt-lg` utility classes) and the one inline `<script> (the run
  id now travels as a `data-run-id` attribute). A test asserts no template
  has either.
- Job timeouts: the `test` and `build` jobs now have `timeout-minutes`, so
  a wedged build stops occupying a runner.
- OG range: raised from 1300 to 1500 points, so a strong specialty brew
  (a 1.150 wort is real) can be recorded.

Bugs found and fixed along the way
----------------------------------
- An unfinished run reported a *measured* ABV. `abv_percent()` now returns
  None for a run that is still in the fermenter — its figure is a projection,
  not a measurement. This was showing the two active runs in the "alcohol by
  brew" chart as if they were finished.
- The `/api/runs` endpoints the charts fetch from did not exist, so every
  chart was silently empty. They are back, with tests.
- The "brews over time" chart left out the months with no brews, which
  spaced the busy months evenly and made the chart read as continuous
  activity. The quiet months are now included with a zero.
- The run-detail chart was dropped when PR 1 was scoped down, leaving dead
  code behind. It is restored.

Tests: 105 (up from 91).
2026-11-09 12:36:17 +10:00
hermes 1fa9f1dcbe feat(active): add the active beers page, run metadata and tap numbers
Adds the pages that were missing: an "Active Beers" view of what is in the
fermenter right now, and the per-run metadata (canonical name, tap number,
original gravity, brew notes) that could not be derived from the readings.

Why the metadata is needed
--------------------------
The `beer_data` collection stores a beer name on *each reading*, and that
name drifts within a run - run 4 was entered as "Necatron-Christmas Beer",
then "Nocturna the Christmas beer", then "Nocturna Christmas beer". There was
nowhere to record a tap number, a confirmed original gravity, or a note about
the brew.

The new `beer_runs` collection holds one document per run with exactly those
details. It starts empty; `scripts/backfill_run_metadata.py` populates it
from the existing readings. The script is idempotent, only ever inserts into
`beer_runs`, never touches `beer_data`, and never overwrites a name you have
already set by hand.

The active beers page
---------------------
A card per brew that is still in the fermenter, showing the tap number, the
current gravity, the projected alcohol, how many days it has been brewing, a
sparkline of the gravity so far, and the latest comment on a reading.

A run with only one reading and no recorded original gravity has no reliable
estimate, so the alcohol figure shows a dash rather than a misleading number
- record the OG or take a second reading and it appears. The same applies to
the existing reads, where the legacy app's assumed OG of 1012 produced
*negative* alcohol for a perfectly normal OG.

Also adds the history page: alcohol by brew, brews per month, every run in a
table, a comparison of the standard ABV formula against the legacy one, and
a list of readings that fall outside the plausible hydrometer range.

Changes to the existing pages
-----------------------------
- The brew-process page and the run detail page now show the canonical run
  name and the latest comment, and the run detail page lets you edit the
  metadata inline.
- Gravity is displayed as a decimal reading (1.039) with the point scale
  beneath it (39 points), which is the way a brewer reads it. Labelling the
  stored `1039` as "1039 points" would have been wrong.
- A run's display name now prefers the name on its *final* reading - the one
  written when the brew was finished, so the name the operator settled on -
  falling back to the most-used name.
- `upsert_run_metadata` now clears a field when it is passed as `None`, so a
  name or tap number can be deleted. `upsert_run_metadata_partial` is the
  non-clearing variant, used by the backfill.

Bugs found and fixed along the way
----------------------------------
- The chart script was included both in the base template and again by each
  page, so every chart was drawn twice. A test now asserts it is loaded
  exactly once per page.
- The chart library was never referenced by the base template, so all charts
  were silently dead. That was fixed in the previous PR.

Tests
-----
91 (up from 74). New coverage: the active page contents, the tap number, the
projected alcohol, the "needs 2nd reading" case, metadata saving and
clearing, the stored name overriding the drifting reading name, the next free
tap number, the partial-update semantics, the history page, the outlier
list, and the point-scale formatting.

Data safety
-----------
`beer_data` is untouched by this change. The backfill script only inserts into
`beer_runs` and skips any run whose name has already been set by hand.
2026-11-09 12:35:50 +10:00
hermes 081014b8dc fix(ci): self-heal a stale cluster CA in the deploy job (#9)
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2026-11-09 12:16:00 +10:00
hermes 3e20b558a5 fix(ci): harden the CA refresh script and add shellcheck to CI
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Round-2 review findings, all low severity.

- `curl` now has `--connect-timeout` and `--max-time`, so an unreachable API
  server fails the job instead of hanging the runner indefinitely.

- A guard for a kubeconfig with no cluster entries, or an empty one, with a
  clear message rather than an opaque kubectl error.

- The fingerprint mismatch message now prints both the expected and the
  actual value, which cuts the time to diagnose the next CA rotation.

- `set -euo pipefail` was already there; the script now passes shellcheck
  clean, and a shellcheck step was added to the CI test job so the
  operational scripts get the same treatment as the Python code.
2026-11-09 12:15:50 +10:00
hermes a4b3d40e2d fix(ci): pin the cluster CA in the repo rather than in a secret
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The CA fingerprint is not a secret.  It is a public value that anyone can
read straight off the certificate, so pinning it in a Gitea secret was the
wrong shape:

- A change to it would be invisible - no commit, no review.
- Nobody with secret-write access could silently repoint the CI runner at a
  different CA.

It now lives in `scripts/cluster-ca.sha256`, so changing it is a reviewable
commit.  The script reads it from there, and still accepts an override as
its first argument.

This also removes the need for a `KUBE_SERVER_CA_FINGERPRINT` secret, which
the bot token cannot create anyway - the Actions secrets API is owner-only.

The behaviour is unchanged: the CA is fetched over an unverified connection
but only USED if it matches the pinned fingerprint, so an intercepted CA is
refused.  Re-tested against the live API server - the matching fingerprint
refreshes the CA and kubectl then works; a wrong one is refused and the
stale CA is left in place.
2026-11-09 12:13:27 +10:00
hermes ce6f5b7962 fix(ci): pin the cluster CA fingerprint instead of trusting a fetched CA
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The review was right on both counts, and both are fixed.

1. MITM. Fetching the CA over an unverified connection (`curl -sk`) and then
   trusting it is a privilege-escalation hole: the runner holds cluster-admin
   credentials, so an attacker able to intercept the fetch could hand us a CA
   of their choosing and then read everything sent over the connection.

   The CA is now PINNED. It is still fetched over an insecure connection, but
   it is only USED if its SHA-256 fingerprint matches
   `KUBE_SERVER_CA_FINGERPRINT`. An intercepted CA will not hash to the
   pinned value, so it is refused. If the secret is not set, the job fails
   rather than trusting an unverified CA.

2. The hardcoded cluster name. `kubectl config set-cluster default` creates a
   NEW cluster entry when the kubeconfig's entry is called something else,
   leaving the original (and its stale CA) in use. The name is now read from
   the kubeconfig: `{.clusters[0].name}`.

The bash is also moved out of the YAML into `scripts/kube-ca-refresh.sh`, so
it can be read, reviewed and tested on its own rather than as a wall of
shell inside a workflow file.

All three paths are tested against the live API server:

- no fingerprint supplied   -> refuses, exit 1
- wrong fingerprint        -> refuses, exit 1
- correct fingerprint      -> refreshes the CA, exit 0, kubectl then works
2026-11-09 12:11:56 +10:00
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The deploy job failed on its first run:

    error: error validating "kube/beer_namespace.yaml": error validating
    data: failed to download openapi: Get "https://192.168.178.160:6443/openapi/v2":
    tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

This is the same class of problem as the buildx driver earlier: the
certificate-authority-data embedded in the kubeconfig secret does not match
the CA the API server is currently presenting.

Rather than requiring the secret to be regenerated by hand every time the
cluster's CA is rotated, the job now refreshes it:

- The API server publishes its own CA at `/cacerts`.
- If kubectl cannot verify the server, the job fetches that CA (over an
  insecure connection — verifying it is the problem being solved) and pins
  it explicitly with `kubectl config set-cluster`.
- It then retries, and fails with a clear message if that still does not
  work.

Verified by deliberately corrupting the CA in a working kubeconfig: the
failure reproduces exactly, and the recovery path restores connectivity
(`Server Version: v1.34.5+k3s1`).

The secret is also switched from `KUBEC_CONFIG_BUILDX` to
`KUBEC_CONFIG_BUILDX_NEW_2`, which is the one the working `wedding-photos`
workflow uses.
2026-11-09 12:08:49 +10:00
hermes c28553a1b8 feat(ci): add the deploy job and the kubernetes manifests (#8)
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2026-11-09 12:00:35 +10:00
hermes 958ae9b365 fix(ci): keep the credentials out of the process list
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Two small changes to the deploy job:

- The registry password went through `-u armistace:$PASSWORD` on the curl
  command line, where it is visible in the process list for the duration of
  the request. It now goes through a curl config file on stdin instead.

- The kubeconfig is written with mode 600 rather than the default, and is
  removed at the end of the job (with `if: always()`, so it is removed even
  if a later step fails). It is cluster-admin-equivalent, so it should not
  be readable by anything else on the runner.

Verified: `curl --config -` against the registry returns the same digest as
the `-u` form.
2026-11-09 12:00:18 +10:00
hermes 55d5e84150 fix(ci): pin the image to the commit SHA instead of the mutable :latest tag
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The review flagged `:latest` as a critical issue, and it is right: a mutable
tag makes `kubectl rollout undo` meaningless and lets different pods in the
same deployment run different code if they restart at different times.

- The build job now pushes the image with BOTH `:latest` and
  `:${{ github.sha }}`.
- The deployment manifest carries a sentinel tag rather than `:latest`, and
  the deploy job sets the real SHA with `kubectl set image`. That makes the
  deploy a genuine manifest change, so the Deployment rolls because its pod
  template changed — not because it was told to. `kubectl rollout undo` now
  means something: it goes back to the previous SHA.
- The digest check now compares against the SHA tag rather than `:latest`,
  and it checks EVERY running pod instead of `items[0]`. During a rolling
  update `items[0]` may still be an old pod that has not been terminated,
  which would compare against the wrong digest. The job also fails if the
  deployment is not fully rolled out.
- The smoke test now checks the app through the Service as well as directly
  in the pod. The pod check alone would pass even if the Service selector
  or the port mapping were wrong.
- `readOnlyRootFilesystem: true` — the app writes no files, so the root
  filesystem can be read-only. /tmp is still writable via the emptyDir.
- The kubectl install is skipped when the runner already has one.
2026-11-09 11:59:22 +10:00
hermes b73df93f20 feat(ci): add the deploy job so the app deploys from the repo
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The workflow built and pushed the image but never deployed it - the
cluster objects had been created by hand. This adds a `deploy` job that
applies the manifests in `kube/` and rolls the deployment.

The deploy job is separate from the build job on purpose. The
`KUBEC_CONFIG_BUILDX` secret is cluster-admin-equivalent, and a build step
that never talks to the cluster should not be able to read it.

Three things this job does that a naive `kubectl apply` does not:

1. `kubectl rollout restart`. The image tag is `:latest`, which is immutable
   in the manifest, so `apply` alone does not roll the pods. Without the
   restart the deployment reports success while the old pods keep serving
   the old image - a deploy that silently changes nothing.

2. Verifies the running digest against the registry's `:latest`. CI green and
   pods `Ready` do not prove the new code is live; the digest comparison does.

3. Smoke tests the running app - `/healthz` and `/readyz` - from inside the
   pod, so a deploy that comes up but cannot serve is caught in CI rather
   than by the next person to open the page.

The Secrets (`beer-db`, `beer-app`) are hand-provisioned and are deliberately
not in the apply set, so a deploy cannot clobber them.
2026-11-09 11:46:06 +10:00
hermes 55c5de9d61 feat(deploy): add the kubernetes manifests so the deployment is in the repo
The cluster objects for the beer namespace were created by hand. This puts
them in the repo so they can be applied and reviewed like everything else.

- `beer-deployment.yaml` — the Deployment, with the security context, the
  resource limits, and both probes wired up (`/healthz` liveness,
  `/readyz` readiness).
- `beer-service.yaml` — the NodePort service.
- `beer_namespace.yaml` — the namespace.

The credentials are NOT in these files. `MONGO_PASS` and `SECRET_KEY` come
from the live `beer-db` and `beer-app` Secrets, so applying the manifests
cannot clobber a hand-provisioned credential.

Notes on the pod security context
---------------------------------
`runAsNonRoot: true` cannot be set on the container when the image's user is
a *named* user - kubelet can only verify a numeric UID. The pod-level
security context therefore sets `runAsUser: 999`, which matches the `beer`
user the image creates (verified with `id` in the built image).

The container also drops all capabilities and refuses privilege escalation.
2026-11-09 11:45:41 +10:00
hermes 0f93cbea70 fix: build the image on Python 3.14 (#7)
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fix: build the image on Python 3.14 (#7)
2026-11-09 11:26:29 +10:00
hermes c0c6b4c1fc fix: pin the Python patch version and run the app as a non-root user
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Two follow-ups to the review of the base image change.

1. Pin the patch version: `python:3.14-slim` is a floating tag, so a rebuild
   could silently pick up a different base image. It is now
   `python:3.14.10-slim`, so a rebuild is reproducible.

2. Run the app as an unprivileged user. The app only reads its own source
   and talks to Mongo over the network — it writes no files — so it does not
   need to be root. A `beer` system user is created and the image ends with
   `USER beer`.
2026-11-09 11:25:58 +10:00
hermes 9d3ce1d2c4 fix: build the image on Python 3.14
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The image build failed on master:

    ERROR: Ignored the following versions that require a different python
    version: 4.19.0 Requires-Python >=3.11
    ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement
    pymongo==4.19.0

The base image was `python:3.10` but the pinned pymongo 4.19 needs Python
>= 3.11. The image is now `python:3.14-slim` — the current stable release,
so it is not carrying the CVEs fixed in 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13.

All the runtime dependencies ship a cp314 wheel (pymongo included), so no
compiler toolchain is needed. The old apt-get line installed
libsasl2-dev, python-dev-is-python3, libldap2-dev and libssl-dev for
packages that are no longer in the dependency list, so it is gone and the
image is smaller.

The build now asserts the interpreter version, so a base image change that
breaks the pinned requirements fails the build with a clear message rather
than a pip resolution error.
2026-11-09 11:23:22 +10:00
hermes 78b3b10131 ci: use the remote buildx driver, and build amd64 only (#6)
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ci: use the remote buildx driver, and build amd64 only (#6)
2026-11-09 11:04:13 +10:00
hermes a48fb1c566 ci: drop the kubeconfig from the build job
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The independent review flagged that the build job wrote the
`KUBEC_CONFIG_BUILDX` secret to disk even though the build does not need
cluster access at all. That secret is cluster-admin-equivalent: a build step
that never talks to the cluster should not be able to read it, and a
compromised dependency in the build would otherwise have a direct path to the
cluster.

The "Create Kubeconfig" step is removed from the build job. The deploy step,
added in a later PR, gets its own job with the kubeconfig - so the privilege
is only present where it is actually used.

Also checked the buildkit daemon's resources in response to the review: it
already has limits (2 CPU, 4Gi memory, 2Gi ephemeral storage) and requests
(500m, 1Gi). The crash that motivated the amd64-only change was qemu
exhausting memory during multi-arch emulation, not an unconstrained daemon, so
no change is needed there.
2026-11-09 11:01:59 +10:00
hermes e9ce0dcf9b ci: use the remote buildx driver, and build amd64 only
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The build job failed at "Set up Docker Buildx":

    Error: ERROR: error for bootstrap "builder-...":
    Get "https://192.168.178.160:6443/apis/apps/v1/namespaces/gitea-runner/deployments/builder-...":
    tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

Cause
------
The `kubernetes` buildx driver talks to the cluster API to create its builder
pods. That needs the k3s CA certificate, which the job container does not
have - the `catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest` image ships the public CA set
only. So the bootstrap could not verify the API server.

Fix
---
Switch to the `remote` driver, which talks straight to the buildkit daemon
already running in the cluster:

    driver: remote
    endpoint: tcp://buildkit.gitea-runner.svc:1234

No cluster API access is needed at all, so no kubeconfig is needed for the
build. This is the same pattern the wedding-photos workflow uses.

`endpoint` must be a top-level key, not a driver-opt: the action appends it
as the POSITIONAL argument to `buildx create --driver remote <endpoint>`, and
passing it in driver-opts yields "ERROR: no remote endpoint provided".

Also
----
The build was multi-arch (linux/amd64,linux/arm64), which runs qemu
emulation and crashes the buildkit pod on this NUC (exit 255,
SandboxChanged), after which the build hangs for many minutes. The cluster
is amd64, so the image is built for linux/amd64 only.

Verified: `docker buildx create --driver remote tcp://buildkit.gitea-runner.svc:1234`
succeeds from the runner's dind container and reports buildkit v0.29.0 with
linux/amd64 among its supported platforms.
2026-11-09 10:58:28 +10:00