chore: default branch main

Pipeline branch filters and PR bases, Flux GitRepository ref, image automation
checkout and push, restore-test, vmtest and bootstrap.sh. Merge right before
the master -> main rename.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.woodpecker/alert-monitor.yml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 #   - cron   : a cron NAMED exactly "alert-monitor" (name filter, same
 #              mechanism as update-audit.yml):
 #                woodpecker repo cron add --repo konairius/homelab \
-#                  --name alert-monitor --branch master --schedule '*/15 * * * *'
+#                  --name alert-monitor --branch main --schedule '*/15 * * * *'
 #   - deploy : woodpecker-cli pipeline deploy konairius/homelab <n> alert-monitor
 #              where <n> is an existing pipeline to promote.
 when:

.woodpecker/build-ci-images.yml

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 # Note this pipeline runs no LLM agent, so the exfil path that motivated the
 # other cutovers does not apply to it.
 #
-# Push builds run on master only. Without the branch filter a feature branch
+# Push builds run on main only. Without the branch filter a feature branch
 # that touches this file started all steps at once: it pushed unreviewed
 # images and used the whole woodpecker-ci-quota, so the PR checks could not
 # get a pod (REN-286).
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 # image, and in parallel they exceed the woodpecker-ci-quota.
 when:
   - event: push
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
     path:
       - "ci/images/**"
       - "secret-rotator/**"

.woodpecker/ci-claude-refresh.yml

@@ -46,20 +46,20 @@
 #                                push/cron/manual events this pipeline fires on.
 #
 # OWNER SETUP — the token + secret above are already provisioned. The one
-# remaining step, to be run AFTER this merges to master (a cron references a
+# remaining step, to be run AFTER this merges to main (a cron references a
 # pipeline that must exist on the target branch), is to register the schedule:
 #   woodpecker repo cron add --repo konairius/homelab \
-#     --name ci-claude-refresh --branch master --schedule '@weekly'
+#     --name ci-claude-refresh --branch main --schedule '@weekly'
 # Weekly is plenty; the pipelines tolerate being a few days behind a release.
 #
 # Triggering:
 #   - cron   : the cron NAMED exactly "ci-claude-refresh" (see above).
 #   - deploy : woodpecker-cli pipeline deploy konairius/homelab <n> ci-claude-refresh
 #              where <n> is an existing pipeline to promote.
-#   - push   : a change to the Containerfile (or this file) ON master forces a
+#   - push   : a change to the Containerfile (or this file) ON main forces a
 #              rebuild of the current latest version so Containerfile fixes ship
-#              promptly. Restricted to master ON PURPOSE — a feature branch must
-#              never build/push an image or open a bump PR (only master pushes
+#              promptly. Restricted to main ON PURPOSE — a feature branch must
+#              never build/push an image or open a bump PR (only main pushes
 #              images), and without this filter every PR that edits these paths
 #              would do exactly that from its own branch.
 when:
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ when:
   - event: deployment
     evaluate: 'CI_PIPELINE_DEPLOY_TARGET == "ci-claude-refresh"'
   - event: push
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
     path:
       - "ci/images/claude/**"
       - ".woodpecker/ci-claude-refresh.yml"
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ steps:
         jq -n --arg title "chore(ci): bump ci-claude image to $$NEW" \
               --rawfile body /tmp/pr-body.md \
               --arg head "$$BRANCH" \
-          '{title: $$title, body: $$body, head: $$head, base: "master"}' > /tmp/pr.json
+          '{title: $$title, body: $$body, head: $$head, base: "main"}' > /tmp/pr.json
         code=$$(curl -s -o /tmp/resp.json -w '%{http_code}' \
           -X POST -H "Authorization: token $$PUSH_TOKEN" \
           -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data @/tmp/pr.json "$$API/pulls")

.woodpecker/deploy-claude-workstation.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 when:
-  # Deploy only on master (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
+  # Deploy only on main (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
   - event: push
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
     path:
       - "ansible/roles/claude-workstation/**"
       - "ansible/plays/install-claude-workstation.yml"

.woodpecker/deploy-edge-mqtt-bridge.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 when:
-  # Deploy only on master (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
+  # Deploy only on main (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
   - event: push
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
     path:
       - "ansible/roles/mqtt-bridge/**"
       - "ansible/plays/edge-mqtt-bridge.yml"

.woodpecker/deploy-infrastructure.yml

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 when:
-  # Plan only on master (merge) + manual — a push trigger without this gate
+  # Plan only on main (merge) + manual — a push trigger without this gate
   # would run `tofu plan` (which evaluates provider/data-source code) with
   # all proxmox/hetzner/unifi secrets mounted for any pushed branch,
   # including malicious feature-branch .tf.
   - event: push
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
     path:
       - "opentofu/**"
       - ".woodpecker/deploy-infrastructure.yml"

.woodpecker/deploy-netbird-client.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 when:
-  # Deploy only on master (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
+  # Deploy only on main (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
   - event: push
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
     path:
       - "ansible/roles/netbird-client/**"
       - "ansible/plays/install-netbird-client.yml"

.woodpecker/deploy-netbird-proxy.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 when:
-  # Deploy only on master (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
+  # Deploy only on main (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
   - event: push
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
     path:
       - "ansible/roles/netbird-proxy/**"
       # install-netbird-proxy.yml also applies the netbird-proxy-watchdog role,

.woodpecker/deploy-netbird-server.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 when:
-  # Deploy only on master (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
+  # Deploy only on main (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
   - event: push
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
     path:
       - "ansible/roles/netbird-server/**"
       - "ansible/plays/install-netbird-server.yml"

.woodpecker/deploy-uptime-kuma.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 when:
-  # Deploy only on master (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
+  # Deploy only on main (merge) + manual — never auto-deploy from a branch.
   - event: push
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
     path:
       - "ansible/roles/uptime-kuma/**"
       - "ansible/plays/install-uptime-kuma.yml"

.woodpecker/hermes-image.yml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # gitea.renner.uno/konairius/hermes:build.<unix-ts> and :latest.
 when:
   - event: push
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
     path:
       - "ci/images/hermes/**"
       - ".woodpecker/hermes-image.yml"

.woodpecker/issue-fix.yml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 # Triggering:
 #   - cron   : a cron NAMED exactly "issue-fix":
 #                woodpecker repo cron add --repo konairius/homelab \
-#                  --name issue-fix --branch master --schedule '41 * * * *'
+#                  --name issue-fix --branch main --schedule '41 * * * *'
 #   - deploy : woodpecker-cli pipeline deploy konairius/homelab <n> issue-fix
 #              where <n> is an existing pipeline to promote.
 when:
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ steps:
         git push "https://$$PUSH_TOKEN@gitea.renner.uno/konairius/homelab.git" HEAD:"$$BRANCH"
         jq -n --arg title "$$TITLE" --rawfile body /tmp/alert-fix/summary.md \
           --arg head "$$BRANCH" \
-          '{title: $$title, body: $$body, head: $$head, base: "master"}' > /tmp/gitea-pr.json
+          '{title: $$title, body: $$body, head: $$head, base: "main"}' > /tmp/gitea-pr.json
         code=$$(curl -s -o /tmp/gitea-resp.json -w '%{http_code}' \
           -X POST -H "Authorization: token $$PUSH_TOKEN" \
           -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data @/tmp/gitea-pr.json \

.woodpecker/pr-review.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # Triggers on pull_request: PR opened AND new commits pushed to an open PR.
 # Approves only when the review found nothing red/yellow (see run.sh); humans merge.
 #
-# The central code is cloned from public homelab@master on every run, never taken
+# The central code is cloned from public homelab@main on every run, never taken
 # from the PR checkout, so a PR cannot alter the rubric or helper scripts it is
 # reviewed with.
 #

.woodpecker/security-scan.yml

@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ steps:
     failure: ignore
 
   - name: security-fix-agent
-    # Auto-fix run: only on master (cron / manual / direct push). On the
+    # Auto-fix run: only on main (cron / manual / direct push). On the
     # bot's own PR branches, the scans re-run as a re-validation gate but
     # this step is skipped — otherwise we'd fork-bomb PRs.
     when:
-      - branch: master
+      - branch: main
     image: gitea.renner.uno/gitea_admin/ci-claude:2.1.303
     environment:
       CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN:
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ steps:
           --arg title "$$TITLE" \
           --arg body  "$$BODY"  \
           --arg head  "$$BRANCH" \
-          '{title: $$title, body: $$body, head: $$head, base: "master"}' \
+          '{title: $$title, body: $$body, head: $$head, base: "main"}' \
         | curl -sfL -X POST \
             -H "Authorization: token $$GITEA_TOKEN" \
             -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

.woodpecker/update-audit.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #              name filter is the only thing that can select a workflow for a
 #              scheduled run:
 #                woodpecker repo cron add --repo konairius/homelab \
-#                  --name update-audit --branch master --schedule '@weekly'
+#                  --name update-audit --branch main --schedule '@weekly'
 #   - deploy : woodpecker-cli pipeline deploy konairius/homelab <n> update-audit
 #              where <n> is an existing pipeline to promote.
 #

ci/agents/pr-review/run.sh

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ AUTH="Authorization: token $REVIEW_TOKEN"
 WS="$PWD"                     # workspace = this repo, checked out at the PR head by Woodpecker
 MAX_DIFF_LINES=20000
 
-# This script, the prompts and scripts/ci/ all come from the homelab@master
+# This script, the prompts and scripts/ci/ all come from the homelab@main
 # clone the per-repo stub made (see .woodpecker/pr-review.yml) — never from the
 # PR checkout, so a PR cannot change the rubric or the helper scripts it is
 # reviewed with.
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ while IFS= read -r ITEM; do
   # event, so Woodpecker's built-in clone already checked THIS repo out
   # at the PR head in $WS — the agents (which cd into $WS) read it
   # directly for context. The old cron model had to clone each target
-  # repo by hand (its workspace was homelab@master), and that clone
+  # repo by hand (its workspace was homelab@main), and that clone
   # embedded REVIEW_TOKEN in the URL, persisting a write-scoped PAT in
   # work/target/.git/config — readable by the review agent whose report
   # is posted publicly. Per-repo pull_request triggering makes the manual

kubernetes/apps/gatus/configmap.yaml

@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ data:
 
       # Mosquitto MQTT broker (ClusterIP, home-assistant ns). A TCP-connect
       # check on :1883: the broker's image tag is auto-bumped by Flux
-      # image-automation straight to master (no CI gate), and the deployment
+      # image-automation straight to main (no CI gate), and the deployment
       # is a single Recreate/rolling pod, so a bad bump that fails to come up
       # would otherwise be silent. This turns that into an alert.
       - name: Infrastructure 4

kubernetes/bootstrap.sh

@@ -93,18 +93,18 @@ GITHUB_REPO="${GITHUB_REPO:-Homelab}"
 GHCR_PULL_USER="${GHCR_PULL_USER:-konairius}"
 FLUX_PATH="kubernetes/clusters/homelab"
 # Branch Flux reconciles from, and that `flux bootstrap` commits its own sync
-# manifests into. master for a real rebuild.
+# manifests into. main for a real rebuild.
 #
-# Overridable so the phase can be rehearsed without writing to master — point it
+# Overridable so the phase can be rehearsed without writing to main — point it
 # at a throwaway branch, which has to exist already: `flux bootstrap` clones the
 # branch and fails with `couldn't find remote ref` rather than creating it.
 #
-#     git push origin origin/master:refs/heads/rehearsal-1
+#     git push origin origin/main:refs/heads/rehearsal-1
 #     FLUX_BRANCH=rehearsal-1 ./bootstrap.sh flux
 #
 # Nothing else about the phase changes, which is the point. Delete the branch
 # afterwards.
-FLUX_BRANCH="${FLUX_BRANCH:-master}"
+FLUX_BRANCH="${FLUX_BRANCH:-main}"
 SOPS_KEY="$HOME/.config/sops/age/keys.txt"
 
 PHASE="${1:-all}"
@@ -1475,8 +1475,8 @@ if [[ "$PHASE" == "vmtest" ]]; then
     # GITEA_TOKEN and a FLUX_BRANCH to write to, because `flux bootstrap`
     # commits its sync manifests into the branch it reconciles.
     if [[ "${VMTEST_FULL:-0}" == "1" ]]; then
-        [[ "$FLUX_BRANCH" != "master" ]] \
-            || fail "VMTEST_FULL would have flux bootstrap commit into master — point FLUX_BRANCH at a throwaway branch that already exists"
+        [[ "$FLUX_BRANCH" != "main" ]] \
+            || fail "VMTEST_FULL would have flux bootstrap commit into main — point FLUX_BRANCH at a throwaway branch that already exists"
         echo -e "${YELLOW}Continuing into the flux phase against branch ${FLUX_BRANCH}.${NC}"
         PHASE=all
     else

kubernetes/clusters/homelab/flux-system/gotk-sync.yaml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ metadata:
 spec:
   interval: 1m0s
   ref:
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
   secretRef:
     name: flux-system
   url: https://gitea.renner.uno/konairius/homelab.git

kubernetes/infrastructure/image-automation/update-automation.yaml

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ spec:
   # owner, which is the `flux` Gitea account (uid 9) — not
   # gitea_admin, as this comment used to say. Evidence: the flux
   # account's contribution history matches every
-  # `chore(image-automation)` commit on master 1:1, while
+  # `chore(image-automation)` commit on main 1:1, while
   # gitea_admin's own contributions stop at 2026-07-21. That account
-  # therefore has to keep push access to master, or writeback fails
+  # therefore has to keep push access to main, or writeback fails
   # silently — no commit is attempted unless a tracked image moves.
   # The commit author overridden below to security-bot@renner.uno is
   # the author field only; it says nothing about who pushes.
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ spec:
   git:
     checkout:
       ref:
-        branch: master
+        branch: main
     commit:
       author:
         email: security-bot@renner.uno
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ spec:
 
         Updates managed by image-automation-controller.
     push:
-      branch: master
+      branch: main
   update:
     path: ./kubernetes
     strategy: Setters

kubernetes/restore-test/flux-root.yaml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ spec:
   interval: 10m
   url: ssh://git@github.com/konairius/Homelab.git
   ref:
-    branch: master
+    branch: main
   # Read-only deploy key, created per run by bootstrap.sh.
   secretRef:
     name: restore-test-git

kubernetes/vmtest-job.yaml

@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ spec:
             # monitor socket under it and sun_path caps the path at 108 bytes.
             - name: VM_STATE
               value: /work/vm
-            # Which branch to test. master unless a run is checking a change.
+            # Which branch to test. main unless a run is checking a change.
             - name: BRANCH
-              value: master
+              value: main
             # Secrets are streamed in here at the moment the run needs them,
             # never baked into the image and never stored as a Secret. They live
             # in this emptyDir for the length of the Job and go with it — so