Containers are created with `--rm`, so Docker removes them asynchronously after they stop.
The pre-start `docker rm` returns immediately while that removal is still in progress
(its error is suppressed), and the following `docker create --name` can fail with
"The container name ... is already in use".
This is easy to hit since systemd_service_manager switched its default restart mode to `all-at-once`:
many containers stop and start at the same time and Docker falls behind on removals.
The playbook then fails at "Restart systemd services needing restart at once",
even though the services recover on their own (`Restart=always`) a little later.
The external roles (MASH, devture) were hardened against this in 2026-03
(see mother-of-all-self-hosting/ansible-role-valkey@0ba79c0), but the roles in `roles/custom` never were.
This ports the same bounded cleanup loop to them: stop, force-remove,
and wait until Docker releases the name, failing explicitly after a timeout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: support container_network=host across all roles + systemd templates
Mirror the pattern Slavi introduced for matrix-coturn (aafa8f0) across the
fork: every 'Ensure X container network is created' task gets a
'when: <var> not in ["", "host"]' guard so MDAD does not try to
docker_network create a network literally named 'host' (returns 403,
since host is a pre-defined Docker network).
Mirror the same guard in every systemd unit template that does
'ExecStartPre=docker network connect <addnet> <container>' loops over
matrix_<role>_container_additional_networks: skip the connects when the
container is on host networking (where additional --network attaches
are invalid).
Unblocks DiD setups where MDAD-managed containers share their host's
network namespace (matrix-mdad outer compose service joined to central
postgres/openldap networks) to reach external services on the outer
Docker daemon.
* Simplify container network guards (!= 'host') and fix duplicate when
Guarding on the empty string ('') as well was misleading: systemd unit
templates still render an unconditional --network= flag, so an empty
network value produces a broken docker create command. Only 'host' is
actually supported, so only guard on that. This also matches the
existing convention in the Traefik role
(when: traefik_container_network != 'host').
Also fix a duplicate when key in the meshtastic-relay role, where the
network-creation task already had a when condition - the two are now
combined into a list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Slavi Pantaleev <slavi@devture.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Most of these files were defining a service, usually toward the end.
These lines have been moved upward.
Some components (mautrix-signal, mautrix-gmessages, etc.) were defining
a service conditionally (only if metrics are exposed, etc). This was
causing issues like these in the Traefik logs:
> level=error msg="service \"matrix-mautrix-twitter\" error: port is missing" providerName=docker container=matrix-mautrix-twitter-..
This makes it consistent with the rest of the playbook:
- there's a default config which has various variables controlling
settings
- there's also an `_extension_yaml` variable, which lets you override it
Slavi PantaleevandClaude Opus 5.5
Suguru Hirahara
Benjamin Kampmann