feat(plex): expose tcp/32400 for remote access via a pinned LoadBalancer VIP
Remote Plex clients had no path in, for two measured reasons: Plex advertised no remote connection at all (customConnections and ManualPortMappingMode both ABSENT while PublishServerOnPlexOnlineKey=1), and its Service was ClusterIP, so 32400 had no off-cluster path. The L7 Gateway was NOT the problem -- it serves Plex correctly (200, claimed=1, 401 on protected endpoints) -- but Plex clients discover servers through plex.tv, not DNS, so an HTTPRoute cannot put this server on a client's connection list. Operator chose the native path over ADVERTISE_IP: Plex terminates its own TLS with *.plex.direct and streams bypass the Envoy L7 hop. Adds a hand-written non-catalog unit (the SD schema cannot express a LoadBalancer Service or a pinned lbipam VIP), registered in render.py's EXTRA_UNITS so --emit-waves places it in plex's own wave. externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster, inheriting crafty's 8-day-outage lesson rather than re-deriving it. Known consequence, documented: SNAT puts remote clients inside ALLOWED_NETWORKS, so Plex meters them as LAN. Not an auth change. Remote access does NOT work until the operator does two manual steps that cannot live in this repo -- the WAN tcp/32400 forward and Plex's "manually specify public port" toggle (no env var exists for it; verified NONE in the image's init surface). runbooks/plex-remote-access.md is the procedure. Touches clusters/** -- a sensitive path -- so the approval-policy stage will block pending an operator /approve-override. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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@@ -476,6 +476,26 @@ patches:
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- op: replace
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path: /data/PIHOLE_DNS_VIP
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value: "192.168.2.23"
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# Plex's remote-access listener VIP — raw tcp/32400 for REMOTE Plex clients
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# (apps/wave-0/plex-remote.yaml). 192.168.2.24 is the NEXT FREE address in the prod pool
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# 192.168.2.20-.30, verified live 2026-10-03: the CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool `default-pool`
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# reported IPsTotal 11 / IPsUsed 4 / IPsAvailable 7, and the only four allocations are .20
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# (cilium-gateway-shared), .21 (unifi-l4-tcp/-udp), .22 (crafty-l4-tcp/-udp) and .23
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# (pihole-dns-tcp/-udp). It is inside the pool block the operator already asserted sits outside
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# the SOHO router's DHCP scope, and it is not a node address (.10/.11/.12) or the
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# control-plane VIP (.9).
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#
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# UNLIKE .23, THIS ONE IS ALSO A WAN PORT-FORWARD TARGET. The router forwards WAN tcp/32400
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# here, by hand, off-repo — so changing this value is a two-place edit and the router is the
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# half that CI cannot check. runbooks/plex-remote-access.md is the procedure.
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#
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# NOT ARP-PROBED. .23 was verified free with `arping` from a LAN host before it was claimed;
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# for .24 only the in-cluster pool accounting above was checked, so an off-cluster squatter on
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# this address would not have been caught. Probe before trusting it if remote access comes up
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# with a conflict.
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- op: replace
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path: /data/PLEX_L4_VIP
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value: "192.168.2.24"
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# The prod flat LAN. This is the 192.168.2.0/24 segment the SOHO ROUTER at 192.168.2.1 owns —
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# NOT pfSense's 192.168.1.0/24, which is a different network and not in the LAN-DNS path.
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# It scopes the ingress allow for PiHole's DNS listener to LAN clients only.
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