PocketBase On Loopback, A Collection Round-Tripped
PocketBase, the backend in one binary, from the upstream release (sha256-verified), a hardened system service on loopback, its data under one directory. The live test creates a superuser with PocketBase's own command, sees a wrong password refused, makes a collection and a record, reads it back, sees an anonymous read refused, deletes the collection. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-20 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
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Documentation
pocketbase
PocketBase, the backend in one binary (sqlite, auth, files, realtime), from the upstream release (sha256-verified), as a hardened system service on loopback for a proxy that terminates TLS. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.
No package, so the checksum is the whole story. EL 10 carries no
pocketbase; PocketBase ships a release with a checksum file beside it. The
role downloads both and has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless its
SHA-256 is the one in the vendor's file, then installs the binaries as
root's in /usr/local/bin, pinned by pocketbase_version.
A service account, a hardened unit, a loopback listener. pocketbase
is a system user with no shell that owns the data directory and nothing
else; the unit runs with NoNewPrivileges, PrivateTmp, ProtectHome and
ProtectSystem=strict. The listener is 127.0.0.1:8090 by default,
for a proxy that authenticates or a client on the same host; the live test
reads the listening sockets and expects loopback only.
Proven by a collection. The live test creates a throwaway superuser with PocketBase's own command (idempotent, so a second run is harmless), sees a wrong password refused, authenticates, creates a collection with one required field, writes a record, reads it back, sees an anonymous request refused for that collection, and deletes it. That is the schema, the storage, the rules and the auth all doing their work.
Everything under one directory. pb_data (the sqlite databases and
uploaded files) and pb_public (static files) live under
pocketbase_data_dir, the one path the hardened unit can write. The
dashboard at /_/ is on loopback with the API; the first superuser is
pocketbase superuser upsert, which is what the live test runs.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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