fix(vpn-ingress): keep the server key in source through SOPS, not as an out-of-band Secret
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Operator correction: secrets are kept in source through sops. #55 shipped the
WireGuard server private key as a Secret to `kubectl create` by hand. Two real
costs, not just a convention break:

  * R-SEC-01 / spec docs/07 -- secrets live in source, SOPS-encrypted, and
    reach the cluster only through Flux.
  * It broke DR for the one credential that cannot be re-derived. A rebuild
    restores everything in git; it does not restore a hand-made Secret, and
    losing this key means re-enrolling EVERY device, because each client
    profile pins its public half. #55 papered over that with "keep a copy in
    your password manager".

(Note secret-provenance did NOT forbid the original shape -- it scopes to
app-namespace=true and vpn-ingress is deliberately a platform namespace. The
rule broken was the written requirement, not an enforced control.)

An agent still must not mint a long-lived private key (CLAUDE.md §6), so the
file is committed ALREADY ENCRYPTED with `privatekey: REPLACE-ME`. That makes
the wiring complete and green from the first commit -- resource line plus both
overlay decryption patches -- leaving the operator exactly one act: replace the
value. A commented-out resource to uncomment later is the "in git, no generator
entry, reviewed, merged, still broken" shape this repo keeps hitting.

The init guard is now a validation rather than an emptiness check: the value is
piped through `wg pubkey`, which accepts only a real curve25519 private key, and
the pod names which case it hit -- placeholder, empty, mangled, or (the silent
one) still `ENC[` ciphertext because an overlay is missing its decryption patch,
which otherwise applies cleanly with every Flux condition green.

Second, independent finding that also fixes #55's step 2: `wg` is on the HOST
only and `sops` is in the CONTAINER only, so `sops -d | wg pubkey` cannot run in
one shell -- the command #55 documented could not have worked. Every step is now
split by where it runs, and the written key is verified by comparing sha256
digests rather than printing anything. `qrencode` is on neither, so the QR step
says so and gives the install command.

Touches clusters/** and adds a **/*.sops.yaml, so approval-policy will block
pending the operator's /approve-override. Deliberately not posted by me.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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# NOTHING downstream reconciles — the incident behind the headlamp/oauth2-proxy/homepage moves
# (DECISIONS-LOG: "Headlamp gating stall").
# * SPECIFIC, AND THE REASON THIS IS NOT A JUDGEMENT CALL: this DaemonSet cannot start until the
# operator creates the out-of-band `wg-server-key` Secret (runbooks/vpn-remote-access.md
# step 1). That is the correct fail-closed state — an unenrolled VPN must not come up — but in
# operator replaces the `REPLACE-ME` placeholder in platform/vpn-ingress/wg-server-key.sops.yaml
# with a real key (runbooks/vpn-remote-access.md step 2). That is the correct fail-closed state — an unenrolled VPN must not come up — but in
# the gating tier it would have been a self-inflicted platform-wide outage ON MERGE, with the
# cause (a missing manual step) invisible from any Flux condition.
#
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ spec:
substituteFrom:
- kind: ConfigMap
name: cluster-vars
# NO `decryption:` stanza is needed in the overlays: this path carries no *.sops.yaml. The server
# key is an out-of-band Secret (platform/vpn-ingress/kustomization.yaml says what to do if that
# ever changes).
# SOPS decryption is layered per-environment by the overlay (clusters/dev and clusters/prod each
# patch THIS Kustomization by name), identical to headlamp/crafty/velero — this path carries
# platform/vpn-ingress/wg-server-key.sops.yaml, the WireGuard server private key. The `sops-age`
# Secret is created out of band and referenced by NAME only. Without the overlay patch the Secret
# applies cleanly full of ENC[...] and only the tunnel is broken, so the patch is as load-bearing
# as the encrypted file itself.