# Conjurer on Docker / Proxmox Runbook for running Conjurer as Docker containers across Proxmox VMs: | Component | VM | Container | Port | Image | |-----------|----|-----------|------|-------| | **Main bot** | VM-bot | `conjurer-bot` | 5000 (Flask comm) | `docker/Dockerfile.bot` | | **Librarian** | VM-librarian | `conjurer-librarian` | 5001 | `docker/Dockerfile.librarian` | | **Musician** | VM-musician | `conjurer-musician` | 5000 (+ radio) | `docker/Dockerfile.musician` | The three talk to each other over HTTP on the Proxmox LAN. Direction of calls: ``` bot --(/mp3,/get_music,/add_to_priority,...)--> musician bot --(/query)--------------------------------> librarian musician --(/prepped_tracks)--------------------> bot librarian --(/conjurer results)-----------------> bot ``` Everything is configured through `CONJURER_*` environment variables (see the `docker/env/*.env.example` files). Nothing is hardcoded to a host path anymore. --- ## 0. Prerequisites (per VM) Create a small Linux VM in Proxmox (Debian 12 / Ubuntu 22.04+ is fine), then install Docker: ```bash sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl git curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh sudo usermod -aG docker "$USER" # log out/in afterwards ``` Clone the repo on each VM (they build from it): ```bash sudo mkdir -p /opt && cd /opt git clone https://github.com/migatu/conjurer.git cd conjurer ``` > All `docker compose` commands below are run **from the repo root** (`/opt/conjurer`), > because the compose files use `context: ..` relative to `docker/`. --- ## 1. Main bot (VM-bot) ### 1a. Prepare host directories ```bash sudo mkdir -p /srv/conjurer/data /srv/conjurer/secrets ``` ### 1b. Preserve existing command history ⭐ The bot's conversation memory and settings live in JSON files. Copy them from your current deployment (e.g. the Pi's `/home/pi/Conjurer/`) into the data volume so the history carries over: ```bash # run on the Pi, or scp the files across, then place them here: sudo cp pamiec.json /srv/conjurer/data/ # AI conversation history sudo cp pamiec_muzyki.json /srv/conjurer/data/ # music-DJ memory sudo cp settings.json /srv/conjurer/data/ # word/cyclic reactions sudo cp system_gpt_settings.json /srv/conjurer/data/ sudo cp accident_log.json /srv/conjurer/data/ # if present ``` If you skip this, the container starts with the (empty) template files baked into the image and history begins fresh. ### 1c. Tokens Drop your existing netrc (the one with `discord`, `openai`, `spotipy`, `youtube` entries) into the secrets dir: ```bash sudo cp ~/.netrc /srv/conjurer/secrets/.netrc sudo chmod 600 /srv/conjurer/secrets/.netrc ``` (Alternatively skip netrc and set `DISCORD_TOKEN` / `OPENAI_API_KEY` in the env file — those take precedence.) ### 1d. Configure and launch ```bash cp docker/env/bot.env.example docker/env/bot.env # edit docker/env/bot.env: set CONJURER_FILE_SERVICE / _LIBRARIAN_SERVICE to the # other VMs' IPs, and CONJURER_API_KEY (same value on all three) if you want auth. docker compose -f docker/compose.bot.yaml up -d --build docker logs -f conjurer-bot ``` Look for `Extension loaded: …` for each cog and `All systems: operational`. ### 1e. Startup model: core cogs vs service-gated cogs The bot **always** starts with the cogs that depend on nothing but itself (administration, AI, other, latex, voice, conanjurer). Cogs that need a sibling service are **health-gated**: | Group | Cogs | Enabled when | |-------|------|--------------| | musician | `music_commands`, `radio_commands`, `file_search_commands` | `GET {FILE_SERVICE}/mp3` answers | | librarian | `librarian_commands` | librarian answers HTTP at all | When a service is down its cogs stay disabled (commands simply don't exist) and the log says so. A watchdog re-checks every 5 minutes and enables the cogs the moment the service starts answering — no bot restart needed. A single broken cog (missing pip package, bad import) is skipped with a full traceback in the log; it never takes the whole bot down. ### 1f. Troubleshooting a crash-looping container `docker logs conjurer-bot` now shows the real reason (the bot logs to stdout as well as the rotating file). The most common cases: - **`FATAL: Discord token missing`** — the secrets mount is missing/empty or `CONJURER_NETRC_FILE` points elsewhere. Check: `docker inspect -f '{{json .Mounts}}' conjurer-bot | jq` and `docker exec conjurer-bot ls -la /secrets/` (after a manual `docker run … sleep infinity` if it crash-loops too fast). - **Missing state files** — not fatal anymore: missing dirs are created and missing JSON state is seeded from the repo templates baked into the image (existing files are never overwritten). Fix the mount at your leisure. **About files "disappearing" from `/srv/conjurer/...`:** nothing in this stack deletes host files — the entrypoint and the bot only ever *create* missing files. With a bind mount, `/srv/conjurer/data` **is** the live state (not an installation staging area): don't delete it after a successful install. If files vanished, the usual suspects are `docker compose down -v` (only affects *named* volumes, not binds), a re-provisioned VM, or copying the files to a different path than the one in the compose `volumes:` line — verify with `docker inspect -f '{{json .Mounts}}' conjurer-bot`. --- ## 2. Librarian (VM-librarian) ### 2a. Mount the DOI database The librarian checks keyword hits from Crossref against a local database of DOI chunk files (`0_chunk.txt … N_chunk.txt`). Put that database on the VM and point the volume at it: ```bash sudo mkdir -p /srv/librarian/doi /srv/librarian/secrets # copy/replicate your chunk files into /srv/librarian/doi/ ``` > The old Windows path `C:\Database\chunks\` is now `CONJURER_LIBRARIAN_DB_PATH` > (defaults to `/doi/` in the container). `CONJURER_LIBRARIAN_MAXTHREADS` (41) > and `CONJURER_LIBRARIAN_CHUNK` (`_chunk.txt`) are configurable too. ### 2b. Configure and launch ```bash cp docker/env/librarian.env.example docker/env/librarian.env # edit: CONJURER_MAIN_BOT=http://BOT_VM_IP:5000, CONJURER_CROSSREF_MAILTO, CONJURER_API_KEY docker compose -f docker/compose.librarian.yaml up -d --build docker logs -f conjurer-librarian ``` --- ## 3. Musician (VM-musician) The web service is container-ready (`docker/Dockerfile.musician` + `compose.musician.yaml`). It containerises the **Flask file/playlist service only** — the Liquidsoap radio (`radio_conjurer.liq`), `script.params` and any Samba/NFS share tooling are separate and typically stay on the host or a dedicated setup (you'll adapt those yourself). ### 3a. Two volumes: the library and the writable state | Mount | Container path | Holds | |-------|---------------|-------| | `/srv/musician/music` | `/music` (`CONJURER_MUSIC_FOLDER`) | your mp3 library (indexed/served) | | `/srv/musician/data` | `/data` (`CONJURER_MUSICIAN_BASE`) | playlists, logs, `radio_log.log`/`persistence.log` | ```bash sudo mkdir -p /srv/musician/music /srv/musician/data # point /srv/musician/music at (or copy in) your mp3s ``` ### 3b. Preserve existing playlists/state (optional) If you already run the musician, copy its working playlists into the data volume so nothing is regenerated from scratch: ```bash sudo cp all_playlist.playlist hit.playlist request.playlist \ priority_queue.playlist playlist.json /srv/musician/data/ 2>/dev/null || true ``` The container's entrypoint (`docker/entrypoint.musician.sh`) creates any missing playlists and touches `radio_log.log` / `persistence.log` empty so the track-forwarding thread waits instead of crashing when the radio runs elsewhere. It never overwrites files you copied in. ### 3c. Configure and launch ```bash cp docker/env/musician.env.example docker/env/musician.env # edit: CONJURER_MAIN_BOT=http://BOT_VM_IP:5000 and CONJURER_API_KEY (match the bot) docker compose -f docker/compose.musician.yaml up -d --build docker logs -f conjurer-musician ``` ### 3d. Radio coupling (if you keep Liquidsoap separate) The musician only forwards "now playing" to the bot by tailing the radio's `radio_log.log` / `persistence.log`. To wire them up, have Liquidsoap write those two files into the same `/srv/musician/data` directory (or set `CONJURER_RADIO_LOG` / `CONJURER_PERSISTENCE_LOG` to wherever it writes). The `/stream` page template is served from the baked-in `/app/stream.html` (override with `CONJURER_STREAM_TEMPLATE` if you customise it). ### 3e. Radio (Liquidsoap) container `docker/Dockerfile.radio` builds the full Liquidsoap environment through **opam**, with the OCaml/opam/Liquidsoap versions selectable at build time: | Build arg | Default | Notes | |-----------|---------|-------| | `LIQUIDSOAP_VERSION` | `2.1.4` | what `radio_conjurer.liq` targets | | `OCAML_VERSION` | `4.14.2` | 2.1.x needs OCaml **4.x** (never 5); prod ran 4.13.0 — pass it for exact parity | | `OPAM_VERSION` | `2.1.5` | static binary from GitHub releases | | `LIQ_OPAM_PACKAGES` | `mad lame cry taglib pulseaudio samplerate inotify ffmpeg` | exactly the features the script uses (mp3 in/out, icecast, tags/replaygain, pulse mic/out, watch-reload) | The container runs **both Liquidsoap and Icecast** — the stream is served from this one container (`output.icecast(host="localhost", …)` in the script). Volume layout (same paths inside and outside): | Host & container path | Holds | |---|---| | `/srv/betoniarka/data` | playlists, `script.params`, `persistence.log`, `radio_log.log`, the seeded `radio_conjurer.liq` | | `/srv/betoniarka/music` | the mp3 library | | `/srv/betoniarka/secrets` | `icecast_credentials.json` — **provision at install**, like the other services' secrets | ```bash sudo mkdir -p /srv/betoniarka/data /srv/betoniarka/music /srv/betoniarka/secrets # provision the icecast secret (same pattern as the bot's netrc): echo '{ "password" : "SOURCE_PW", "admin_password" : "ADMIN_PW" }' \ | sudo tee /srv/betoniarka/secrets/icecast_credentials.json sudo chmod 600 /srv/betoniarka/secrets/icecast_credentials.json docker compose -f docker/compose.radio.yaml up -d --build docker logs -f conjurer-radio ``` At startup the entrypoint renders `/etc/icecast2/icecast.xml` from `docker/icecast.xml.tpl`, filling the source/admin/relay passwords from the secret (`admin_password`/`relay_password` are optional and default to `password`), and starts icecast as its unprivileged user. If the secret is missing, a `CHANGE_ME` placeholder is seeded with a loud warning — the stack boots but the stream stays locked until you fix it. The script + `script.params` are seeded into the data volume on first run and never overwritten (live edits survive rebuilds). Missing playlists are created empty and a silent emergency-fallback mp3 is generated if the `single()` file is absent, so the script always boots. Wire-up: listeners tune to `http://RADIO_VM_IP:8000/mp3-stream`; the bot points at `CONJURER_RADIO_HARBOR=http://RADIO_VM_IP:54321` (harbor `/skip` lives in the script itself). **Privileges:** Liquidsoap refuses to run as root (`init: security exit`), so the main process runs as the dedicated **`radio`** user (member of `audio`/`pulse-access`) — no `settings.init.allow_root` override. The entrypoint (root) seeds volumes, renders the icecast config, starts icecast/pulse, chowns `/srv/betoniarka/data` to `radio` and drops privileges via `setpriv`. This is also why the opam switch lives in `/opt/opam` instead of `/root/.opam` (the binary and the liquidsoap stdlib must be readable by `radio`). **PulseAudio** (`PULSE_MODE` env): - `internal` (default) — a system-wide pulse daemon runs inside the container with a **null sink** (`docker/pulse-system.pa`): no sound hardware needed, `output.pulseaudio()` plays into the void and the `input.pulseaudio()` mic path reads silence (which `blank.strip` already gates out). Right choice for a headless Proxmox VM. Started with `--disallow-module-loading` (startup modules from `system.pa` still load; only later client-requested loads are blocked). The `forcibly disabling SHM mode` notice is inherent to system mode and harmless. - `host` — mount the host's pulse socket and set `PULSE_SERVER`, for a VM with real audio hardware (the Pi's Lexicon Lambda setup). - `none` — you removed the pulse in/out from the script. **Verdicts on the old Pi setup quirks** (asked during containerisation): - `ffmpeg.pref` (Pin-Priority 1001 on the `libavcodec59/libavformat59/…` family): it **did have a purpose** — the opam-built ocaml-ffmpeg bindings for 2.1.x are compiled against Debian bookworm's FFmpeg 5.x sonames, and the pin forced those over conflicting Raspberry Pi OS repo builds (even as a downgrade). In this single-repo container the same versions come naturally, so the pin is redundant — **the file has been removed from the repo** (this note preserves the knowledge). - adding root to `pulse-access`/`audio` groups: needed on the Pi for the system-wide pulse socket and ALSA device access. The image bakes the same memberships in (`usermod -aG audio,pulse-access root`) — harmless with the internal null sink, required for `PULSE_MODE=host`. --- ## 4. Networking & auth - Open the ports between VMs on the Proxmox LAN: **bot 5000**, **librarian 5001**, **musician 5000** (+ radio harbor 54321 if used). A simple `ufw allow from ` per port is enough; do not expose them to the internet. - **Auth:** set the same `CONJURER_API_KEY` in all three `*.env` files. Then every internal call carries `X-Conjurer-Api-Key` and each service rejects requests without it (HTTP 401). Leave it empty everywhere to disable auth (fully backward compatible). ⚠️ Setting it on only one side breaks the link. - The addresses point at each other by VM IP (or a DNS name). Set: - bot: `CONJURER_FILE_SERVICE`, `CONJURER_RADIO_HARBOR`, `CONJURER_LIBRARIAN_SERVICE` - librarian & musician: `CONJURER_MAIN_BOT` --- ## 5. Verify ```bash # bot is up and reachable from another VM: curl http://BOT_VM_IP:5000/conjurer # -> "ALIVE" # librarian answers: curl http://LIBRARIAN_VM_IP:5001/ -I # service reachable docker ps # all containers "Up" docker logs conjurer-bot --tail 50 ``` In Discord, exercise a command that round-trips through a service (e.g. a music search that hits the musician, or a librarian query) to confirm the wiring and the API key. --- ## 6. Updates ```bash cd /opt/conjurer && git pull docker compose -f docker/compose.bot.yaml up -d --build # rebuild + restart ``` Data in `/srv/.../data` and `/doi` / `/music` volumes survives rebuilds, so history and databases persist across updates. --- ## 7. Rollback / coexistence - The native (Raspberry Pi / systemd) deployment is unaffected — none of the defaults changed; the container behaviour is opt-in via `CONJURER_DATA_DIR` and the other env vars. You can run both during migration. - To roll back a VM: `docker compose -f docker/compose..yaml down` and restart the previous deployment. The JSON state in `/srv/.../data` is plain files you can copy back to the Pi if needed. --- ## Notes on the images - **Bot** uses the vendored `yt_dlp/` and `spotify_dl/` forks (they win over the pip packages because `/app` is first on `sys.path`), so your patches stay active without the old `sed` hacks from `install_main_bot.sh`. - **Tectonic** (LaTeX `$latex` command) is installed best-effort; if the build step fails the bot still runs, just without LaTeX. Remove that layer from `Dockerfile.bot` if you don't need it. - Voice needs `ffmpeg` + `libopus0` (both in the image). No microphone/pyaudio is required — voice is received over Discord and transcribed via AssemblyAI.