The AI secrets migration PR (#4) was a full-file rewrite of deploy.yml.
That rewrite mechanically dropped one $ from EVERY $${VAR} occurrence in
the file, not just the new AI additions -- silently reverting all
pre-existing secret references (SWARM_MANAGER_IP, IMMICH_*, GIT_*,
POSTGRESQL_*, VAULTWARDEN_*, ENTERTAINMENT_*, etc.) to single-dollar
form. Per this file's own header comment, Woodpecker blanks single-dollar
braced refs at compile time since secrets aren't in that variable map --
this is the exact "SWARM_MANAGER_IP secret is empty" failure mode
documented above, and it fired immediately on the first push after #4
merged.
Impact: provision-secrets/deploy/verify all failed at their first
if-empty guard and exited before any ssh/scp/rsync ran. No live secret,
service, or deployed stack was touched -- this was a CI-only outage.
Fix: restored $${VAR} for every secret-backed reference throughout the
file. CI_PIPELINE_FILES / CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE stay single-dollar (correct
-- those are Woodpecker compile-time metadata, not secrets). The \$FILE
/ \$TMP backslash-escaping inside the ai) case's remote SSH command is
unrelated and was already correct (it protects those local-to-remote
vars from expanding before the SSH payload is sent).
This is a straight revert-of-the-regression -- no new secrets, no logic
changes beyond restoring the escaping.