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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 0fee584e3a feat(plex): opt into hardware.gpu: intel-quicksync, and write the runbook for the step GitOps cannot reach
Plex has been transcoding in software on hardware that can do it in the iGPU. This
opts its ServiceDefinition into the `hardware` capability from #27 and re-renders.

catalog/plex.yaml gains four lines of YAML and the comment that explains them:

    hardware:
      gpu: intel-quicksync

which renders exactly two things into apps/wave-0/plex.yaml and nothing else — a
`dri` hostPath volume (/dev/dri, type: DirectoryOrCreate) and a read-write /dev/dri
volumeMount on the app container. Whole-tree render diff: 6 added lines, one file.

The comment records what is not obvious from the four lines: the device exists on
ALL THREE prod nodes with i915 bound (so no nodeSelector is rendered and none is
wanted); why `supplementalGroups` would be INERT rather than a hardening (the
image's cont-init hook adds the plex user to the device's group inside the
container, and s6-setuidgid then REPLACES the process group list from /etc/group,
discarding anything Kubernetes supplied); and why `DirectoryOrCreate` is
load-bearing (apps-wave-0 is wait:true with apps-wave-1 depending on it, so a
failed mount would stall the whole app tier for a feature that is not).

THE FEATURE IS INERT UNTIL A HUMAN CLICKS A BOX, and that is the part this commit
is really about. Mounting the device does not enable hardware transcoding; Plex's
`HardwareAcceleratedCodecs` preference does, and it is ABSENT from Preferences.xml
— the toggle has never been on. It cannot be automated: a bounded grep across the
running image's entire init surface (/etc/cont-init.d, /etc/services.d,
/etc/fix-attrs.d, /plex-common.sh, /usr/local/bin) found ZERO PLEX_PREFERENCE*
support, and the six setPref keys the image does write are all unrelated. So
runbooks/plex-quicksync.md is the procedure, registered in the configMapGenerator
(a runbook in git with no generator entry is reviewed, merged, and still a 404) and
indexed in runbooks/README.md. It covers the GitOps/manual boundary, the toggle and
the real preference keys (including the widely-cited one that does not exist and
the upstream misspelling nobody should "fix"), verification via `Transcode (hw)` on
the Plex dashboard — stated plainly as the ONLY proof, because Plex renders no
ServiceMonitor and an alert could never fire — the device-cgroup failure to expect
first with its Intel-device-plugin fallback, and the floating-`:latest` caveat.

Stacked on #27 (feat/sd-hardware-capability), which is open and unmerged; that
branch's commit is in this range by design and this must merge after it.

NOT VERIFIED, and the handoff says so at length: hardware transcoding has not been
observed working. Whether containerd's device cgroup lets a non-privileged pod
open() a bind-mounted char device is an open question that only deploying settles,
and the Plex-side toggle was still unset at the time of writing. A green gate
proves the manifest renders; it proves nothing about transcoding.

Gate (pinned toolbox, worktree): rc 3 — UNDETERMINED, not green. Passed:
decisions-log, lint, l0, render-golden, l1, approval-policy. Skipped (the known
local ceiling): spec-immutability (no sibling spec repo), gitea-settings (no
SETTINGS_API_TOKEN), conformance (CLUSTER_AVAILABLE unset, so L2/L3 did not run).
No fourth skip, nothing failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 21:05:17 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 6a6fea8151 docs(auth): root-cause jackett's session loss; add the oauth2-proxy-session runbook
Reported as "GET works, PUT/POST to add indexers fail, reloading never helps,
and I am never re-prompted". Diagnosis lands here; the MANIFEST FIX DOES NOT,
deliberately -- see the blocker below.

ROOT CAUSE, measured from two pods' logs interleaved to the second:

  15:31:06  jackett  [AuthSuccess]
  15:31:29  radarr   "cookie signature not valid, removing session"
  15:31:32  jackett  "No valid authentication in request"   <- 3s later

Six oauth2-proxy instances (seven pods) emit the DEFAULT cookie name
`_oauth2_proxy` on `.home.keithjackson.dev` holding seven DIFFERENT
cookie-secrets (compared in-cluster by sha256; all distinct). `removing
session` is ClearSession, which expires the cookie on radarr's own zone-wide
--cookie-domain, so jackett's session is DELETED by a process in another
namespace, 26s after a clean login whose `expires` was 5 minutes out. 8 such
lines in radarr's log, 1 in jackett's, 0 elsewhere. It was never expiry and it
was never Jackett -- and it is why reloading does not help: the operator's
Radarr tab re-clears the cookie seconds after each new login.

Two contributing mechanisms, also measured:
  * session lifetime == Keycloak access-token lifetime, 300.000s exactly, with
    refresh_token:true on the same line and --cookie-refresh unset (default 0).
  * XHRs answered 302 not 401: oauth2-proxy's AJAX guard needs an exact
    `Accept: application/json`, which Jackett's jQuery does not send. On /api/
    paths: 33 x 302 vs 2 x 401. A browser following a 302 re-issues a POST as a
    GET and DROPS THE BODY -- 4 of 6 POSTs never reached Jackett at all.

WHY NO MANIFEST FIX HERE. apps/wave-0/jackett.yaml is a GENERATED GOLDEN. The
sidecar args come from one shared function, _oauth2_sidecar_container() in
catalog/render.py; catalog/jackett.yaml declares only auth.mode/auth.groups and
the auth schema is additionalProperties:false, so there is NO per-app override
hook. Hand-editing the rendered file is rejected by the gate exactly as
designed ("GOLDEN DRIFT ... render-golden: FAIL"). Changing the renderer
instead rewrites all five rendered apps -- measured:

  CHANGED: apps/wave-0/{jackett,pihole,qbittorrent}.yaml
  CHANGED: apps/wave-1/{radarr,sonarr}.yaml

and render-golden requires all five be regenerated in the same commit. Four of
them are owned by fix/oauth2-proxy-cookie-collision-fleet right now. The cookie
fix is ONE change, not five; it needs re-cutting as a single renderer commit
rather than two branches rewriting the same generated block.

Validated the intended argument list against the pinned image and the real
issuer before stopping: it printed back `name:_oauth2_proxy_jackett ...
domains:jackett.home.keithjackson.dev ... refresh:after 2m30s` and
`API route - Path: ^/api/`. Two corrections fell out of that: --api-route is
SINGULAR (--api-routes does not exist and the proxy refuses to start), and
--session-cookie-minimal is mutually exclusive with --cookie-refresh
("cookie_refresh > 0 requires oauth tokens in sessions"), so dropping
--pass-access-token does NOT shrink the cookie -- it is a least-privilege
change, not a size one.

Adds runbooks/oauth2-proxy-session.md: the four sidecar log lines that tell the
auth layers apart (including the upstream `-` that means the proxy answered a
request the app never saw), the cross-log collision diagnosis, and the
generated-golden warning with its blast radius. Registered in the
configMapGenerator AND runbooks/README.md so the URL resolves.

Jackett is NOT fixed by this commit and will keep losing its session to Radarr
until the renderer change ships.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 12:47:42 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 55b232e2ce feat(obs): notify on Flux deploy start and completion
gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 1m40s
gate / conformance (pull_request) Has been skipped
The operator got no mail when Flux began applying a git change and none when
it finished. Measured cause: notification-controller v1.4.0 is running and its
CRDs serve v1beta3, but there are ZERO Provider and ZERO Alert objects in the
cluster — nothing in git ever created any.

The obvious fix does not work. Neither Flux event can be filtered into a deploy
signal: ReconciliationSucceeded is a heartbeat (101 events in one hour across 16
Kustomizations, message byte-identical whether the apply changed anything), and
Progressing is worse (five Kustomizations re-apply the same object on every tick
— event counts 2505/2504/2501/2495/2490). gotk_* carries no revision label at
all (gotk_reconcile_condition 120 series, gotk_suspend_status 40, none with one).

The applied revision is the only signal that moves when and only when git moves,
and it lives in object status alone. So export it via the kube-state-metrics
custom-resource-state path that already serves the Velero Schedule metrics —
kube_flux_kustomization_info/_suspended and kube_flux_gitrepository_info — and
ask the question in PromQL:

  FluxRolloutInProgress (severity: info, no `for:`) fires the moment a
  non-suspended Kustomization's applied revision is not the revision the
  GitRepository fetched from main, and CLEARS when all have caught up. Fired
  mail = a deploy started; RESOLVED mail = it completed. The completion half is
  send_resolved, not a second rule.

  FluxRolloutStuck (severity: warning, for: 30m) is the same expression as the
  escalation for a rollout that started and never converged.

Two guards, each with a test whose only job is to fail if the clause is removed:
`and on () (count(gitrepository_info) > 0)` — without it a missing exporter makes
`unless on (revision) <empty>` remove nothing and all 16 Kustomizations alert
forever, the permanently-firing mode this repo shipped once already — and the
suspended-Kustomization exclusion, without which a suspended tier holds the
rollout open and the "applied" mail never arrives.

A dedicated Alertmanager severity=info route + email-deploy receiver keeps deploy
notices off the [WARNING] catch-all. podAnnotations carries a roll-counter because
the chart sets no checksum over the custom-resource-state ConfigMap, so a
config-only edit would leave KSM on the old collector set with the new alerts
silently inert.

Verified: promtool SUCCESS on 6 scenarios (both guards, plus the convergence test
that proves the alert empties itself); lint/l0/render-golden/l1/decisions-log/
spec-immutability green in the pinned toolbox. NOT verified: no mail has been
sent — the metrics do not exist until this merges. Full gap list, and the
deliberately-cut notification-controller half, in the handoff entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 23:40:01 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 ea0c0632d2 fix(crafty): the Keycloak gate works -- Crafty's own login was the wall
Reported: "crafty does not sign in after signing into keycloak, and there is
no way to set the service up without credentials."

MEASURED, not inferred. The sidecar log settles which layer refused:

  GET /                        -> 302 to Keycloak
  [AuthSuccess] ... groups:[platform-admins]        <- oauth2-proxy is FINE
  GET /oauth2/callback         -> 302
  GET /login?next=/panel/dashboard -> 200           <- Crafty's OWN login page
  POST /api/v2/auth/login/     -> 401               <- Crafty refused

So the Keycloak gate was never broken. Crafty 4 has no OIDC and cannot consume
the sidecar's identity headers, so it shows its own local login to an already
authenticated user. That second factor is intended. What was NOT intended is
that nothing documented where its password comes from, which is exactly why
setup was impossible: Crafty generates it ONCE on first boot (users table
empty -> DatabaseBuilder.default_settings()) into /crafty/app/config/
default-creds.txt, mode 0600, on the PVC's `config` subPath. Never in git;
a fresh PVC generates a new one. The README asserted the double login was
"expected, not a bug" and then left the reader with no way forward.

Verified in-cluster that the existing credential is still usable, so the
service can be set up without touching the DB: users.last_update equals
users.created for `admin` (09/05/2026, 08:10:04), i.e. the password has never
been changed, and admin's last_login is 09/14 from 127.0.0.1 -- the API login
that created the "homelab" server. default-creds.txt is therefore live.

ALSO FIXED -- a real, separate defect found while proving the above, which
produces the reported symptom intermittently and would have been blamed on
Keycloak forever: this sidecar and the SHARED forward-auth oauth2-proxy both
emitted oauth2-proxy's DEFAULT cookie names (_oauth2_proxy,
_oauth2_proxy_csrf) scoped to .home.keithjackson.dev, while holding DIFFERENT
cookie-secrets (compared the two live Secrets: they differ, so neither can
decrypt the other's cookie). One cookie pair, two proxies: whichever
authenticated last clobbered the other's session; the loser logged "No valid
authentication in request", bounced to Keycloak, and -- SSO session still live
-- was redirected straight back, clobbering it again. Fixed on this side only
(renaming the shared proxy's cookie would sign out every other gated app):
a unique --cookie-name plus a host-scoped --cookie-domain, since a per-app
reverse proxy has no reason to broadcast its session zone-wide.
--whitelist-domain stays zone-wide: it governs redirect targets, not cookies.

Two traps measured rather than assumed, both now documented:
  - The 3-strikes cooldown CANNOT fire behind this sidecar. Crafty records
    attempts under get_remote_ip() (honours X-Forwarded-For -- the live
    tracker key is the chain "192.168.2.132, 10.0.0.123") but checks the
    cooldown under request.remote_ip, which is always 127.0.0.1 here. The
    halves key differently, so get_recent_attempts() always reads empty.
    Good (no lockout risk) and bad (that throttle is not a control we have).
  - Crafty's `set_passwd` console command is unreachable in k8s: it calls
    getpass.getpass() and needs a TTY; the container runs `main.py -d -i`.
    Recovery has to go through the DB, and argon2 is installed ONLY in
    /crafty/.venv/bin/python -- the system python3 lacks it.

Deliberately NOT done: an initContainer seeding default.json from a SOPS
Secret to make a rebuilt Crafty's password deterministic. Crafty does support
that hook (find_default_password reads app/config/default.json, min 8 chars),
but the image entrypoint pulls its default config ONLY when app/config is
EMPTY -- so writing a file there pre-boot suppresses the whole config
bootstrap. Buying reproducibility means co-owning image-internal bootstrap
logic that a 4.11 bump could silently change, to replace a one-command
retrieval. Recorded in DECISIONS-LOG as considered and rejected.

New runbook runbooks/crafty-admin-credential.md: tell the two auth layers
apart from the sidecar log, retrieve and rotate the bootstrap credential,
and reset a lost one via argon2 -- generating the password in-pod into a 0600
file rather than passing it in, because dev.sh does not forward stdin (a
`kubectl exec -i` through it hangs; verified). Registered in the configMapGenerator
so the URL actually resolves, not just the file exists.

Gate: toolbox ./ci/gate.sh -- lint/l0/render-golden/l1 green, spec-immutability
green. rc 3 overall: gitea-settings SKIPPED (no SETTINGS_API_TOKEN) and L2/L3
NOT RUN (CLUSTER_AVAILABLE unset). No runtime browser round-trip performed --
the sign-in fix is UNVERIFIED end-to-end and needs the human test in the README.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 22:48:18 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 761e25cc3f docs(runbooks): two more uncited "4-minute" claims the first pass missed
gate / gate (push) Successful in 1m34s
gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 1m35s
gate / conformance (push) Has been skipped
gate / conformance (pull_request) Has been skipped
A systematic grep for the TTL assertion found it still in runbooks/README.md and in
runbooks/kustomization.yaml, outside the page being rewritten. Same correction: the
countdown on plex.tv/claim is the authority, not a number in our tree.

README.md also now records that the server is CLAIMED and points at claim-ship.sh with
the measured ~2m45s loop, rather than describing a push-based sequence that no longer
exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 01:57:47 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 4fd75ccdaa feat(plex): wire PLEX_CLAIM from a SOPS Secret so the server can be claimed
gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 1m58s
gate / conformance (pull_request) Has been skipped
Plex cannot create libraries over the already-mounted 8.33T NFS bulk share while
the server is UNCLAIMED. catalog/plex.yaml carried a long argument for leaving
PLEX_CLAIM unwired; the operator has decided to override it. This implements the
wiring in the way that respects the half of that argument which is still true.

WHAT WAS TRUE AND STILL IS: a https://plex.tv/claim token has a ~4-minute TTL,
far shorter than commit -> push -> Flux reconcile -> pod-roll on its own timers.
So the committed value is a documented PLACEHOLDER and the live token is injected
by the operator inside that window, with the reconcile FORCED rather than waited
for. runbooks/plex-claim.md is that timed procedure.

WHAT WAS NOT TRUE: the old comment claimed "a placeholder/absent claim Secret
would crashloop the pod". Half of that is wrong, and the difference is the whole
design. Established from plexinc/pms-docker's own first-run script (branch
`master`, root/etc/cont-init.d/40-plex-first-run, s6-overlay v2), cross-checked
byte-identical against the same file inside the running :latest image:

  * the claim exchange (line 106) is gated on PLEX_CLAIM being non-empty AND the
    PlexOnlineToken pref in /config being empty. Once the server is claimed the
    block is skipped entirely, so the env is a NO-OP on every later start
    whatever it holds ("If server is already logged in, this parameter is
    ignored" -- upstream README).
  * with an invalid/expired token on a still-unclaimed /config, plex.tv answers
    403 with an empty body; curl's status is never checked, the token sed yields
    empty, the success branch at line 120 does not fire, there is no else branch
    and no non-zero exit, and the script (no `set -e`) exits 0. The pod comes up
    UNCLAIMED AND SERVING. It does not crashloop.
  * the image never sets S6_BEHAVIOUR_IF_STAGE2_FAILS (default 0 = continue even
    if a cont-init script failed), so even a non-zero exit would not halt
    startup.

An ABSENT Secret is the real hard failure (secretKeyRef has no `optional`, so it
is CreateContainerConfigError), which is why the Secret is committed, encrypted
and listed in the wave kustomization rather than hand-created at claim time.

NO SCHEMA CHANGE. `optional` on secretKeyRef would only be needed if the pod had
to tolerate a missing Secret or could not start without a VALID token. Neither
holds: the Secret always exists in the Flux graph, and an invalid token is
non-fatal. schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json is untouched, and so are
catalog/render.py's env emission and the renderer contract.

Changes:
  * apps/wave-0/plex-claim-secret.sops.yaml -- new Opaque Secret plex-claim/plex,
    key PLEX_CLAIM, SOPS-encrypted to the committed age recipient. Its header
    carries NO dollar-brace expressions on purpose: kustomize preserves body
    comments into the stream envsubst reads (per
    conformance/tests/l0-static/flux-postbuild-substitution), so quoting the
    upstream shell conditions verbatim would have been a live substitution
    hazard on apps-wave-0, not prose.
  * catalog/plex.yaml -- the PLEX_CLAIM env via valueFrom.secretKeyRef, the
    "deliberately NOT set" block rewritten around the TTL + one-shot design, and
    the stale crashloop claim in the /config storage comment corrected.
  * apps/wave-0/plex.yaml -- re-rendered with the canonical command
    (`--all catalog -o apps --wave-layout --no-image-automation`). No L1 golden
    under conformance/tests/l1-rendering covers plex, so this is the only
    rendered surface that moves.
  * catalog/render.py -- plan_apps_waves places `<svc>-claim-secret.sops.yaml`
    in the app's OWN wave, like the bootstrap secret, plus a selftest assertion.
    Without this, the next `--emit-waves` would have silently dropped the Secret
    from apps/wave-0/kustomization.yaml and put the pod into
    CreateContainerConfigError. apps/wave-0/kustomization.yaml is the hand-pruned
    subset (vm-demo/keycloak are rendered but deliberately unlisted), so its one
    new line was applied without re-emitting the rest.
  * runbooks/plex-claim.md + its kustomization.yaml generator entry + README
    index -- the operator procedure that fits in 4 minutes, including the single
    forced-reconcile command and the mandatory pod roll (a changed Secret does
    NOT restart anything: PLEX_CLAIM is read only at container start and the pod
    template is byte-identical across this change).

Touched requirements: R-SEC-01 (secrets encrypted at rest), R-GITOPS-02
(ServiceDefinition onboarding contract).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-28 22:26:44 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 a3f4ddb971 merge: feat/egress-gateway-staleness-alert — finished so it can actually pass the gate
Brings the two alerts for the silent egress-gateway failure: VPNEgressSteeringStale
(critical) and VPNEgressUplinkLabelMissing (warning), plus the kube-state-metrics
allowlist entry that makes them non-inert.

WHY THE BRANCH SAT IN THE BACKLOG: it could not pass the merge gate. Three
whole-repo checks failed on it, and each one was a real gap rather than a nuisance:

  * alert-runbooks-resolvable — both alerts link to /runbooks/vpn-egress-stale,
    which did not exist. An alert firing now would hand the operator a 404.
  * alert-rules-unit-tested — alerts.yaml is already a covered file, so new rules
    in it must be tested or a "tested" file quietly grows untested rules.
  * alert-metrics-have-scrape-targets — see the guard bug below.

WHAT THE ALERTS CATCH. egress-class=vpn pods leave through one gateway node's tun0;
Cilium resolves it to an ifindex and caches it. An OpenVPN reconnect destroys and
re-creates tun0 with a NEW ifindex, and the node label
homelab.keithjackson.dev/egress-uplink=<addr>-<ifindex> is what forces Cilium to
re-resolve. If the label does not follow the tunnel, the cache points at a destroyed
interface and every vpn-class pod is silently dropped — while tun0 stays up and
VPNTunnelDown says nothing. That ran ~80 minutes undetected on the dev gateway.

Verified this is live on prod, not inert: k3s-prod-3 carries egress-gateway=true and
egress-uplink=10.150.192.86-139, and vpn-egress-steering has been in place 14 days.
The label was exported on 0 series before this change, so the allowlist entry is
what switches the alerts on.

runbooks/vpn-egress-stale.md — written and wired into the configMapGenerator, with
the four required operator sections. It leads with proving egress from a pod the
policy selects, because the symptom is "outbound traffic silently disappears", and
it says plainly not to "fix" this by deleting the policy: that does not restore
egress, it sends vpn-class traffic out of the real ISP connection, which is the leak
the class exists to prevent.

platform/monitoring/tests/vpn-egress.test.yaml — four promtool fixtures. 1 and 2 are
the SAME tunnel reconnect with and without the label following it, which isolates the
mechanism the rule actually keys on: a label VALUE change is not a changing sample,
it retires one series and starts another. 3 is the inert case (gateway node, no uplink
label) where the critical rule CANNOT fire, which is why the warning exists.

Two fixes the branch needed that were defects in the checks themselves:

1. alert-metrics-have-scrape-targets asserted the KSM allowlist matched
   `nodes=[...egress-gateway]` with a literal closing bracket — i.e. that the list
   contained EXACTLY that one label. Adding a second label correctly (egress-uplink,
   which these alerts need) therefore FAILED the check while the property it guards
   was perfectly satisfied. Loosened to `[,\]]`: in the list, not the whole list. A
   guard that breaks when you correctly extend the thing it guards teaches people to
   edit the guard, which is how it stops guarding.

2. UNTESTED_ALERTS listed VPNTunnelDown, and the check flagged it as stale because
   "asserted on" is a bare word match over the test file — my header COMMENT
   mentioning VPNTunnelDown was enough to count as coverage. Rather than delete the
   register entry and claim coverage that did not exist, the fixtures now assert
   VPNTunnelDown QUIET in all four cases. That required making them faithful: they
   had no node_network_receive_bytes_total{device="tun0"} at all, so VPNTunnelDown
   would have been firing throughout unnoticed, because promtool only checks the
   alertnames you name. A healthy tun0 passes traffic, and that silence IS the claim
   these rules exist for.

NOTE FOR LATER, not fixed here: that word-match means any alert named in prose counts
as tested. Tightening it to `alertname:` positions could reveal other prose-only
"coverage", and the register is shrink-only, so the cascade wants doing deliberately
rather than at 01:00 unattended.

Conflicts resolved: kept HEAD's Velero custom-resource-state block and took only the
branch's one-line allowlist change (14 lines down to 1); inserted the branch's
2026-09-12 DECISIONS-LOG entry in date order rather than appending it out of sequence.

Gated: offline l0,l1 --include-scope whole-repo — 24 cases, 0 failures, 0 skips,
0 unwired. The new unit tests pass under the pinned promtool 3.14.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-19 00:52:06 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 bc106caac1 docs(runbooks): node-memory-swap — replacing k3s-prod-1's mismatched DIMM pair
The operator has a matched 32 GB pair to install. k3s-prod-1 is the node that
needs it: DIMM1 is a Micron 8ATF2G64HZ-3G2E1 (16 GB, DDR4-3200, 1Rx8) and DIMM3
a 16ATF2G64HZ-2G6E1 (16 GB, DDR4-2667, 2Rx8), so capacity is correct at 32 GB
but the pair runs at the slower 2667. Nothing is faulty. k3s-prod-3 is a matched
Crucial pair.

The procedure exists because this node is the awkward one to take down: it held
24 Longhorn replicas, it is one of three etcd members (so the drain leaves
quorum at 2 of 3 with no further margin), and its rebuilds are the load that
starved etcd once already. So the runbook front-loads the checks that decide
whether to start at all, and treats a BLOCKED drain as the safety property
working rather than an obstacle to force past.

Two things it deliberately does not assert:

- node-drain-policy is not pinned in platform/longhorn/helmrelease.yaml, so the
  runbook has the operator READ the live Setting and set it before draining if
  it is not block-if-contains-last-replica, instead of assuming the default.
- Configured Memory Speed, not Speed, is named as the field that proves the
  swap worked — a matched pair being clocked down still reports the rated Speed.

It also flags the capacity decision as a decision: 2x16 GB keeps the three nodes
symmetric as PROD-PROVISIONING.md §2 assumes, while 2x32 GB makes node 1 the
asymmetric one on memory as well as disk.

Recorded caveats: the node-health artifacts de-duplicate DIMM part numbers, so
they can prove "two different modules" but cannot distinguish one module from
two identical ones — verification therefore collects dmidecode live. And node 2's
inventory is stale and self-contradictory (documented as the only single-DIMM
node at 16 GB, yet reporting ~31.1 GiB), so it needs re-inventory before anyone
claims three-way symmetry. This is NOT the §0b "do not buy RAM" case, which was
an EFI memattr kernel bug on node 2.

Wired into the configMapGenerator so it is served at /runbooks/node-memory-swap
rather than existing only in git.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-18 22:15:08 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 b7341b329b fix(runbooks): declare whole-repo scope, drop the bespoke l0 stage, +cnpg-primary-spread
Three corrections after rebasing onto main.

1. THE GUARD CAUGHT A REAL ONE ON ITS FIRST CONTACT WITH main. main had gained
   `CNPGPrimariesCoLocated` (platform/cnpg/alerts.yaml) pointing at
   /runbooks/cnpg-primary-spread, with no runbook. The check failed the rebase exactly as
   designed — 46 annotations, 35 names, 34 present — naming both the missing file AND the
   missing configMapGenerator entry. runbooks/cnpg-primary-spread.md now exists: what
   co-located primaries actually cost here (blast radius, not an outage, because
   instances: 3 + required anti-affinity), why the drift is uncorrectable-by-declaration
   (CNPG has no primary-placement field), the readiness gate that keeps the rule quiet
   during a real node outage, and the ~9s-per-database switchover rebalance, one cluster
   at a time. The 2026-09-07 outage in which all three primaries sat on one node is the
   reason the alert exists at all.

2. WHOLE-REPO SCOPE, NOT A HAND-WRITTEN STAGE. main's refactor replaced ci/l0.sh's
   per-check "UNCONDITIONAL" stages with a declaration:
   `conformance.home.k3s/scope: "whole-repo"`, unioned into every gate run by Stage 3b's
   `--include-scope`. My +38-line Stage 3f is removed (ci/l0.sh is now byte-identical to
   main) and the annotation is declared instead. Assertion (7) of the check was rewritten
   to match: it no longer asserts its own path appears in ci/l0.sh — it asserts the test
   DECLARES the scope and that ci/l0.sh still passes --include-scope, since neither half
   alone makes the check load-bearing. That matters here because
   ci/touched-requirements.sh maps platform/monitoring/* to "R-OBS-01 R-OBS-02", not
   R-OBS-04, and maps platform/kubevirt/* and runbooks/* to nothing at all.

3. A FACTUAL CORRECTION IN ALL 35 RUNBOOKS. Every page claimed `dev.sh` defaults its
   current-context to k3s-dev. main's `9b4744d fix(devcontainer): dev.sh defaults to
   prod` made that false, and a runbook that misstates which cluster a command talks to is
   worse than one that says nothing. The pages now say what is durably true: the default
   has already changed once, so naming `--context k3s-prod` is what makes a command mean
   the same thing next month, and the per-invocation banner is there to be read. The
   check's own failure message was corrected the same way.

Re-verified after all three: check green at 374 assertions (46 annotations, 35/35 runbooks
present, 35/35 projected), re-applied to prod, and re-probed in-cluster through the
Gateway — node-down, keycloak-down, keycloak-client-secrets, cnpg-archiving,
longhorn-faulted, vpn-down, node-io and cnpg-primary-spread all HTTP 200 with
text/plain; charset=utf-8 and 8.9-12.1 KB of real body; /runbooks/ index 200; an unknown
name 404s with a pointer rather than a blank page; and homepage still answers the apex `/`,
confirming Gateway API longest-path precedence.

Full merge gate: PASS (spec-immutability, lint, l0, render-golden, l1 all green;
prom-rules SKIPPED for want of promtool in the image; L2/L3 SKIPPED, no cluster).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-13 00:00:24 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 44983095e1 feat(runbooks): make the 42 alert runbook_url annotations resolve
Every platform-health alert rule carries
`runbook_url: "https://${BASE_DOMAIN}/runbooks/<name>"` — 42 annotations over 34
distinct names, across platform/monitoring/alerts.yaml,
platform/monitoring/pvc-capacity-alerts.yaml, platform/cnpg/alerts.yaml and
platform/kubevirt/alerts.yaml. There was no runbooks/ directory and no HTTPRoute
serving that path: an in-cluster probe of
https://home.keithjackson.dev/runbooks/node-down returned HTTP 404. Every alert that
reached a human handed them a dead link at the exact moment the documentation is read,
and the annotation made it look solved — the same green-surface-over-absent-mechanism
class as the import Job that reported success while storing placeholder secrets.

No alerts.yaml is touched and no runbook_url value changes. The existing URL scheme is
made to resolve instead.

WHAT LANDS
- runbooks/<34>.md — one per name, each grounded in this cluster's real topology and,
  where one exists, its real incident history: the 2026-09-07 k3s-prod-1 etcd I/O
  starvation (measured PSI 11.36 vs 0.75/1.29, the exact journal lines, the four
  mechanisms proven inert), the Longhorn reboot tax and the freeze/thaw of
  concurrent-replica-rebuild-per-node-limit, Cilium's once-resolved egress interface
  cache (Ifindex 3 against a live 1780) and the absence of OSS failover, the CNPG
  38-hour ContinuousArchiving=False with its measured 6.8 MiB/h disk-full clock and the
  2026-09-12 aggregation-scope fix, the 2026-09-06 Keycloak lockout in which all 12
  clients held literal placeholder secrets behind an entirely green cluster, the Velero
  R2 x-amz-tagging NotImplemented incompatibility and its v1.14.3-rc.2 pin, and swap
  re-enabling itself across reboots via systemd-gpt-auto-generator.
  Each page states what the alert means HERE, the first diagnostic commands, likely
  causes ordered by probability with a remediation each, and when to escalate or stop.
- Every page uses FULLY-QUALIFIED resource names and says why: three CRDs register the
  kind `Backup` here, the bare short name resolves to Longhorn's (zero objects), so
  `kubectl get backup -A` prints "No resources found" on a cluster holding 6 Velero and
  27 CNPG backups. Acting on that false negative is how a CLI quirk becomes data loss.
- Every page states that kubectl only works via
  `infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run bash -c '...'` with an explicit `--context k3s-prod`,
  because dev.sh defaults its current-context to k3s-dev.
- Pages also record which alert groups are INERT today (measured 2026-09-13: no
  Longhorn, cert-manager, Flux-controller or Hubble scrape job exists, so 13 rules
  evaluate against nothing) so nobody reads their silence as health.

SERVING — runbooks/serving/ plus clusters/base/runbooks.yaml
A two-replica nginx-unprivileged serving a ConfigMap generated from runbooks/*.md, at
the apex `/runbooks` prefix, in its own non-gating post-platform Flux tier
(dependsOn platform-config, wait:false) — the platform/homepage pattern, file for file.
- The service catalog cannot express this route: ingressRoutes[].host is pattern-bound
  to a single DNS label plus the apex, so the bare apex is unrepresentable, and there is
  no path field.
- Rejected: redirecting to the Gitea web UI. A runbook is read when the platform is
  broken, and Gitea is an app-tier workload whose own dependencies several of these
  runbooks document; Gateway API's RequestRedirect also has no "append .md" modifier,
  so it would need 34 hand-maintained ReplaceFullPath rules.
- configMapGenerator maps each file to an EXTENSIONLESS key (node-down=node-down.md),
  so /runbooks/node-down is a plain static lookup with no rewrite rule. Served as
  text/plain: the namespace has DNS-only egress, so a CDN markdown renderer could not
  load anyway.
- The tier declares NO postBuild.substituteFrom, deliberately: envsubst would run over
  the prose and silently empty every ${...} shell example (it fails open — the 2026-09-01
  emptied Cilium k8sServiceHost). The HTTPRoute omits `hostnames:` and inherits the
  https-apex listener's, so nothing needs substituting.

AUTH — PUBLIC, deliberately
auth-mode=none. Gating these pages behind oauth2-proxy/Keycloak would make
runbooks/keycloak-down unreadable when Keycloak is down and
runbooks/keycloak-client-secrets unreadable during the exact 2026-09-06 failure mode.
An operator who cannot log in is this route's primary reader. Content is operational
procedure only, no secrets. The rationale is recorded in an annotation on the HTTPRoute
so the route is left OUT of the Gateway ext-authz attachment when forward-auth
enforcement lands.

PROVEN — in-cluster probe through the Gateway on prod
  /runbooks/node-down        HTTP 200   8613 bytes  text/plain; charset=utf-8
  /runbooks/keycloak-down    HTTP 200   9378 bytes  text/plain; charset=utf-8
  /runbooks/cnpg-archiving   HTTP 200  11729 bytes  text/plain; charset=utf-8
  /runbooks/longhorn-faulted HTTP 200   9135 bytes  text/plain; charset=utf-8
  /runbooks/vpn-down         HTTP 200  11092 bytes  text/plain; charset=utf-8
  /runbooks/backup-failure   HTTP 200   9604 bytes  text/plain; charset=utf-8
HTTPRoute Accepted by io.cilium/gateway-controller on sectionName https-apex; the
`/runbooks` prefix wins over homepage's apex `/` by Gateway API longest-path precedence.

GUARD — conformance/tests/l0-static/alert-runbooks-resolvable (R-OBS-04)
363 offline assertions. It checks BOTH halves, because the regression is silent in both
directions: an alert with a new runbook_url and no runbook links to a 404, AND a runbook
committed without its configMapGenerator entry is in git, reviewed, merged, and still
404s in the cluster. Also asserts a quality floor so a stub cannot make the link look
fixed, and that route/listener/nginx prefix agree with the annotations.
Proven to fail, then reverted: a bogus runbook_url (2 FAIL), a runbook removed from the
generator (1 FAIL), and a 31-byte stub (7 FAIL).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-12 23:49:58 -05:00