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February 2025

Summary

solti-podman was born this month (first commit 2025-02-06) and immediately started standing up containerized services by hand — Mattermost, Elasticsearch, and Redis working locally within the first two weeks, then a hard pivot away from a dual systemd/quadlet approach toward quadlet-only, ansible-generated unit files. solti-monitoring kept refining its Molecule verify phase, expanding capability.yml to support chained verification calls, then paused testing work to focus on building out services (Mattermost, Elasticsearch) to test against.

What shipped (PRs)

  • solti-podman #1 (merged 02-11) — Mattermost, Elasticsearch and Redis are working locally: no further body detail, but this is the first working multi-service milestone for the new repo.
  • solti-podman #2 (merged 02-18) — Final work on the dual systemd/quadlet management: found the dual-definition approach (ansible starting pods directly, then separately templating quadlet files) had too many holes — "the system is being defined twice...what can go wrong" — decided to regroup on quadlet-only, ansible-generated.
  • solti-podman #3 (merged 02-25) — Refactoring for DRY: introduced a shared _base role for the "services in a container" prepare/cleanup pattern (Ansible has no role inheritance, so this took some variable-namespace care). Noted MinIO as next, then back to the main solti-monitoring test-pattern work.
  • solti-podman #4 (merged 02-25) — documentation pass, no further detail in the PR body.
  • solti-monitoring #6 (merged 02-06) — Molecule Verify phase good enough: GitHub CI can't yet run all distros, so work continued locally; expanded molecule/shared/vars/capability.yml to support a list of verification calls. Paused testing work to start building services (Mattermost, Elasticsearch) to test against.
  • solti-monitoring #7 (merged 02-12) — local verify reporting improved, still working toward DRY.

Commits (raw activity, full calendar month)

43 commits across 3 repos (raw activity count; merge-marker commits excluded, exact duplicate messages de-duped)

Repo Commits
solti-podman 31
solti-monitoring 11
solti-ensemble 1

By repo (additional context beyond PRs)

solti-podman

  • Repo created 2025-02-06; Mattermost, quadlet, Elasticsearch, and Redis all stood up and iterated on within the month
  • Decision point mid-month: drop the dual systemd/quadlet path, go quadlet-only generated entirely from Ansible

solti-ensemble

  • Added galaxy.yml (collection metadata) — first non-scaffold commit since the 01-29 initial commit

Claude Code Sessions

No Claude Code session history available — local transcripts only go back to 2026-05-18.

Plans touched this month

None tracked this month.

Weekly logs included