Tidy the deploy checkout into build/, symlink docker-compose.yaml up
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Sources now sync into /srv/podman/maptool/build/ (wiped and fully
replaced every deploy, nothing in it needs preserving) instead of
directly into /srv/podman/maptool/ itself, where data/ and .env also
live — the old sync step had to specifically skip data/ by name to
avoid wiping it; this way there's nothing to skip.

docker-compose.yaml is symlinked (ln -sf, relative target) from
/srv/podman/maptool/ up to build/ — both for a human to still find it
at the top, and because that symlink's own location, not build/, is
what compose resolves ./data and .env's directory against. No changes
to docker-compose.yaml or the podman-compose@.service systemd unit's
WorkingDirectory needed.

Verified against a full local dry run of the new sync step (copy into
a fake build/, symlink up, confirm pre-existing data/ survives) and
`docker-compose config` against the real docker-compose.yaml through
that symlink — both volume mounts (./data, the kiwix ZIM path)
resolved to the sibling data/ directory as intended, not build/data.
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@@ -62,21 +62,26 @@ jobs:
- name: Write REVISION
run: git rev-parse --short HEAD > REVISION
# Clears out everything in the target except data/ (uploaded GPX
# files, offline.pmtiles) and copies the fresh checkout over, dropping
# .git afterwards. Dotfiles like .env (deployment secrets) are left
# alone too — the glob below doesn't match them — and neither is ever
# part of the git checkout in the first place, since both are
# gitignored.
- name: Sync to /srv/podman/maptool
# The checkout lives in build/, wiped and fully replaced every
# deploy — data/ and .env live one level up, in /srv/podman/maptool/
# itself, so they're never inside the directory this nukes and never
# need special-casing here (an earlier version of this step had to
# skip data/ by name for exactly that reason). docker-compose.yaml
# itself is symlinked up to /srv/podman/maptool/ (relative target, so
# it survives /srv/podman itself ever being renamed) purely for
# discoverability — a human poking around expects to find it at the
# top, not a level down — and because that's what makes `./data` in
# it resolve to the sibling directory: compose resolves a relative
# volume path against the *symlink's* location, not build/ (verified
# against plain `docker-compose config`), so podman-compose@.service's
# own WorkingDirectory=/srv/podman/maptool needs no change either.
- name: Sync to /srv/podman/maptool/build
run: |
mkdir -p /srv/podman/maptool
for f in /srv/podman/maptool/*; do
[ "$(basename "$f")" = "data" ] && continue
rm -rf "$f"
done
cp -a . /srv/podman/maptool/
rm -rf /srv/podman/maptool/.git
rm -rf /srv/podman/maptool/build
mkdir -p /srv/podman/maptool/build
cp -a . /srv/podman/maptool/build/
rm -rf /srv/podman/maptool/build/.git
ln -sf build/docker-compose.yaml /srv/podman/maptool/docker-compose.yaml
# Regenerated on every deploy from repo secrets (Settings -> Actions
# -> Secrets) rather than created once by hand on the server — see
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@@ -31,15 +31,30 @@ existing paths/tooling that still assume `/srv/docker` keep working;
expect this to flip the other way, `/srv/docker` symlinked to
`/srv/podman`, once nothing depends on the old name anymore) holds:
* A checkout of this repository (kept in sync by the deploy job, see
below) — `Dockerfile`, `docker-compose.yaml`, application code.
`podman compose` reads the same `docker-compose.yaml` — no
Podman-specific compose file needed.
* `data/`, *not* part of that sync — uploaded GPX files,
`offline.pmtiles`, `terrain.pmtiles`, and `kiwix/wikipedia.zim` (see
`docs/development.adoc` for each). Persisted via a bind mount
(`./data:/app/data` in `docker-compose.yaml`), so a redeploy never
touches it.
* `build/` — a checkout of this repository (kept in sync by the
deploy job, see below), wiped and fully replaced every deploy —
`Dockerfile`, `docker-compose.yaml`, application code.
* `docker-compose.yaml` — a relative symlink to `build/docker-compose.yaml`,
purely so it's where a human poking around expects to find it, at
the top rather than a level down. Also what makes the layout work at
all: `podman compose`/`docker compose` resolve a relative volume
path (`./data` below) against the *symlink's own* directory, not
where it points — confirmed against plain `docker-compose config`,
not assumed — so `./data:/app/data` in the compose file keeps
meaning `/srv/podman/maptool/data`, and
`podman-compose@.service`'s `WorkingDirectory=/srv/podman/maptool`
needs no change either.
* `data/`, *not* part of the checkout sync (nothing in `build/`
references it, and the sync step doesn't need to special-case it
the way an earlier version of this layout did) — uploaded GPX
files, `offline.pmtiles`, `terrain.pmtiles`, and
`kiwix/wikipedia.zim` (see `docs/development.adoc` for each).
Persisted via that bind mount, so a redeploy never touches it.
* `.env` — regenerated every deploy (see below), lives here rather
than in `build/` for the same reason as the symlink: `docker
compose`/`podman compose` auto-load `.env` from the compose file's
own directory (as invoked, i.e. following the symlink's location,
same story as the volume path above).
== The native deploy runner
@@ -224,9 +239,12 @@ on a push to `main`, with `runs-on: cube-host`:
`actions/checkout@v4` — a leftover from when this job ran in a
Node-less container; kept as-is since there's no reason to bring
Node back in for something this already does.
. Copies the checkout into `/srv/podman/maptool/` using plain `cp`/`rm`:
clears everything in the target except `data/`, copies the fresh
checkout over, then drops the copied `.git`.
. Wipes and replaces `/srv/podman/maptool/build/` with the fresh
checkout (plain `cp`/`rm`, dropping the copied `.git`), then
`ln -sf`s `docker-compose.yaml` up to it — self-healing (harmless
to redo every deploy) and, being a fresh checkout each time, nothing
in `build/` needs preserving the way `data/`/`.env` (both a level
up, see "Layout on the server" above) do.
. `sudo systemctl restart podman-compose@maptool.service`. The service
(`/etc/systemd/system/podman-compose@.service`, a systemd template
instantiated as `podman-compose@maptool.service`) owns the actual