A container cannot replace its own image from the inside, so "update" is really
"ask whoever owns the container to recreate it" — Yggdrasil pulls `:latest` on the
way, which is what makes a restart an update at all. This removes the second
browser tab, not the panel's authority: the panel still does the work and still
records who asked.
Three settings, needed together, and the page names whichever are missing — an
operator reading "not configured" should not have to go and find out which of
three. The token is never sent to a browser; the page is told only whether it is
set.
Answers 202 rather than waiting. The panel stops this container as part of
answering, so the reply may never arrive, and a request cut off mid-flight is the
successful case wearing a failure's clothes. The interface believes neither answer
and polls /healthz until it responds.
Administrators only, and sessions only. A leaked API token that could restart the
server is a denial of service in one request.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
"I have updated and restarted, but I cannot tell whether it worked" is
not a question the panel could answer. The version was on the startup
line and in the settings page, and nowhere you can reach from outside.
/healthz carries it now. That is the one endpoint answering without a
session, which makes it the only way to ask the question from a terminal
or from the panel itself. The "listening" line repeats it too, because
that is the line the Rune's done_regex matches and therefore the one
sitting at the bottom of the console after a deploy.
The update notice could also never have worked. It reads GitHub's
releases/latest, and this repository had only tags — a tag is not a
release, and that endpoint answers 404 for a repository without any. The
release workflow creates one now, after the image is pushed so a release
never announces a version that failed to build.
VERDANDE_UPDATE_CHECK is a Rune variable, so it can be switched on
without editing the container. Still off by default: it is an outbound
request, and that is a choice to make rather than a default to inherit.
Rune version 1 -> 2, so the panel offers the update.
Note that the check still cannot see anything while the repository is
private — releases/latest is 404 anonymously, exactly as the GHCR package
was. Making the repo public, or teaching the check to carry a token, is a
separate decision.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The HTTP server serves /healthz, the API namespace and the PWA, with the
frontend embedded behind a build tag so a clean checkout compiles without
a Node toolchain. /healthz reads the database rather than just answering:
a process that cannot reach its own data is not healthy, and a 200 there
would keep a broken container in rotation.
The image is distroless and static — the SQLite driver is pure Go, so
CGO stays off. The Rune manifest uses keep_entrypoint because there is
no shell in the image to run a startup command with, and its log watchers
match the JSON log format the container actually emits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>