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fix(prod): break the CDI cold-start deadlock, and make preflight catch its class
`platform-config` stopped dead on prod:
StorageProfile/longhorn dry-run failed: no matches for kind
"StorageProfile" in version "cdi.kubevirt.io/v1beta1"
A TRUE DEADLOCK, not a transient. platform-config applies the CDI CR *and*
platform/kubevirt/cdi-storageprofiles.yaml in the SAME pass. StorageProfile's
CRD does not exist until cdi-operator has reconciled that CR — and Flux
server-side dry-runs EVERY object before applying ANY of them, so the unknown
kind aborts the whole tier, the CR is never applied, the CRD is never created,
and platform-config can never converge. Every tier below it stays blocked.
Same root cause as the Kyverno CRD bundle, different operator: Flux cannot order
a resource against a CRD that one of its own siblings is responsible for
creating. It is INVISIBLE on an established cluster — dev's CDI CRDs have been
there for months — and fatal on a cold one. Observed on prod: cdi-operator
Available for 12h, no CDI CR, no storageprofiles CRD.
`crds` now breaks it by applying ONLY the CDI CR — the minimum — and leaving
every other object to Flux. The CR carries no ${} tokens, so applying it here
cannot diverge from what Flux would render. It refuses if the `cdi` namespace is
absent (platform has not run yet) rather than applying into nothing, waits for
the CRD, and requires it to reach Established. On prod the CRD appeared in 10s
and platform-config was unblocked.
`preflight` now reports the CRDs that later tiers apply resources against
(storageprofiles/cdis/kubevirts/volumesnapshotclasses) and dumps the cdi
namespace when one is missing, so this is caught in seconds instead of after
`resume` burns its 900s wait discovering it. It also names the stale-discovery-
cache variant, which presents identically but clears on a forced reconcile.
THE DURABLE FIX IS A REPO CHANGE, deliberately NOT made here: move
cdi-storageprofiles.yaml out of platform-config into its own Kustomization with
dependsOn: platform-config, so the CR lands one reconcile before the resources
needing its CRDs. That edits the reconciliation graph both clusters share, and
prod currently reads a pinned revision from the bootstrap Gitea while dev is
mid-migration on a separate branch — so it wants doing deliberately, not at
02:00 to unblock a bring-up. Until it lands, C2 is a prerequisite for C5 on any
cold cluster, and PROD-STANDUP.md says so.
Refs R-GITOPS-01, R-ENV-02.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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feat(prod): standup.sh + PROD-STANDUP.md — the complete standup sequence, in git
The last steps of a prod bring-up were living in shell history: resume the tiers in the right order, clear a wedged HelmRelease, fix external-dns without deleting the other cluster's DNS. That is the same failure the Kyverno CRD pre-apply had, so it gets the same treatment. bootstrap/standup.sh — environment-agnostic (R-ENV-02), no dev/prod fork. Six idempotent steps: preflight, crds, unwedge, externaldns, resume, verify. THE GUARD IS THE POINT. --expect-server is MANDATORY and is compared against the live API server before any step runs; there is no override flag. Dev is live and shares the keithjackson.dev Cloudflare zone with prod, and on 2026-09-04 prod deleted every one of dev's public records. Negative control run: prod's kubeconfig with dev's server URL refuses and changes nothing. preflight fails closed if EXTERNALDNS_TXT_OWNER_ID is empty, still the base sentinel, or `default` (dev's owner) — the exact condition that caused the incident. It also surfaces SUSPENDED HelmReleases separately, because a suspended release keeps its last Ready condition and a stale `Ready=True` otherwise hides that Flux is not managing it at all (external-dns today). externaldns is the dangerous step, and the ordering IS the mitigation. A Helm upgrade resets replicas to 1 and applies new args in ONE operation, so there is no window to check the result first; if --txt-owner-id were missing the pod starts as owner `default` and syncs away dev's records. So the step PROVES THE OUTCOME BEFORE CAUSING IT: render the chart with the LIVE HelmRelease values and assert --txt-owner-id=<owner> appears, aborting if not. Rendering is deterministic and touches nothing, which turns a race into a precondition. Then snapshot Cloudflare, upgrade, re-verify live args (scale to 0 and fail if wrong), and diff the zone. resume walks the dependency order and STOPS at the first tier that does not go Ready — a partial understood bring-up beats a forced green. velero is skipped while S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT is the TBD placeholder. TWO BUGS CAUGHT WHILE VALIDATING THIS, both by measuring instead of assuming: 1. preflight counted Kyverno CRDs with grep 'kyverno.io' and reported 20 of 22 — the policy-report types are in the wgpolicyk8s.io group. A preflight that under-reports reads as "the pre-apply failed" when it succeeded. Fixed and re-run: 22. 2. The documented node-health invocation used -e k3s_hosts=k3s_prod and SILENTLY RAN AGAINST DEV'S THREE NODES. Diagnostic plays deliberately keep their own target var (node_health_hosts, memattr_survey_hosts, vpn_egress_gateway_hosts) so they stay pointable while a bring-up is scoped elsewhere — a good design I did NOT change. The hazard is that the wrong flag does not error, it falls through to the dev default. Caught only by --list-hosts; the doc now leads with that warning and a dry-run command. Verified after fixing: node-health and all six site.yml plays target prod. .claude/settings.local.json — permission rules for the above. Every entry hardcodes prod's kubeconfig AND prod's --expect-server (or prod's ansible groups), so the permission strings are themselves prod-scoped and cannot be turned against dev. Deliberately NO rule for `dev.sh run bash -c *`, which would have been blanket cluster access wearing a narrow-looking mask. Refs R-ENV-02, R-GITOPS-01, R-SEC-02. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> |
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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docs(prod): platform tier up 8/9 — and TWO blockers, one of them an armed footgun
Unsuspended prod's `platform` after pre-applying the Kyverno CRDs.
8/9 HelmReleases Ready, 76/76 pods Running (cert-manager, CNPG, Cilium,
Longhorn, kube-prometheus-stack, Loki, Alloy, external-dns). `platform` itself
is NOT Ready and the 10 downstream tiers stay blocked.
THE CRD PRE-APPLY WORKED and is now proven against a live API server: 22 CRDs
Established, a second run a clean no-op (rc=0), reproduced under the PINNED
toolchain (helm 3.16.0) matching the 3.20.0 run byte-for-byte. It also confirmed
the predicted failure mode: Kyverno's Deployments had 55 RESTARTS EACH over 4.5h
and stabilised within minutes of the apply — controllers with no API types.
BLOCKER 1 — Kyverno's Helm release is wedged in `uninstalling`. The install
timed out *because* of that crash loop; install.remediation.retries:3 then fired
an uninstall which ALSO timed out, leaving sh.helm.release.v1.kyverno.v1 at
status=uninstalling. helm-controller cannot advance from there, so `platform`
(wait: true) never goes Ready. The Deployments themselves are healthy at the
right chart version — this is stale Helm bookkeeping, not a broken workload.
Fix needs `helm uninstall` + `flux reconcile --force`; destructive, so NOT run
unattended. Safe here because prod carries no workloads and a cold install
proves the bootstrap path. The pre-applied CRDs live OUTSIDE the release and
survive the uninstall — precisely why the pre-apply is a separate step.
BLOCKER 2 — AND THIS ONE IS ARMED. Prod's external-dns Deployment runs
--policy=sync --registry=txt --domain-filter=keithjackson.dev WITH NO
--txt-owner-id. Absent that flag it defaults to `default` — the owner of ALL 36
of dev's TXT registry entries. Scaling it to 1 would claim dev's records and,
under policy: sync, DELETE THEM: the 2026-09-04 incident, exactly.
The repo is not at fault. helmrelease.yaml sets txtOwnerId from cluster-vars,
prod resolves it to `prod`, and the LIVE HelmRelease spec.values carries
txtOwnerId: "prod". Verified against the real chart: 1.21.1 with txtOwnerId:
prod renders --txt-owner-id=prod, so the key is right and an upgrade would fix
it. The fault is Helm/Flux STATE: `helm get values` shows the installed release
has policy and domainFilters but NO txtOwnerId — it predates
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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docs(prod): D0/D1 as executed, and CORRECT the P1 gate — it guards the apex, not prod
Two runbook corrections from executing step A of the dev migration. 1. P1 said "only NOW unsuspend prod", gated on D8 (dev's apex vacated). That silently assumed prod would be serving the bare apex. IT IS NOT. Prod runs |
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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13081a863f |
feat(bootstrap): automate the Kyverno CRD pre-apply — the last cold-start blocker
`platform/kyverno/admission/helmrelease.yaml` sets `crds: {install: false}`
because the CRD bundle is 5,636,155 bytes, far past kubectl's 256 KiB
last-applied-configuration limit — a client-side apply fails with
"metadata.annotations: Too long" and STALLS the HelmRelease.
The consequence nobody automated: with CRD install off, NOTHING installed
them. `platform` has `wait: true` and every other tier chains transitively
through it, so on a cold cluster Kyverno's API types never exist, `platform`
never goes Ready, and all 10 downstream tiers stall. Dev only ever had these
CRDs because they were applied BY HAND — exactly the undocumented manual step
this repo exists to eliminate.
New `bootstrap/flux/preapply-crds.sh`, wired into bootstrap.sh as step [2/4]
(after `flux install`, before the graph is applied) and standalone-safe so an
already-bootstrapped cluster can be unblocked without re-running bootstrap.
NO SECOND PIN: all four chart coordinates are read with yq out of the same
HelmRelease/HelmRepository pair Flux reconciles. The version is passed through
as the CONSTRAINT ("3.9.x"), not a resolved tag — helm and helm-controller both
use Masterminds/semver, so the render is the version Flux installs. Renovate
bumps one line and this step follows; there is nothing here to drift from.
Only `kind: CustomResourceDefinition` documents are applied. The by-hand
command recorded in the HelmRelease comment piped the WHOLE template into
kubectl, which would create Deployments/webhooks outside Helm's ownership and
then fight the HelmRelease over field managers.
THREE GUARDS, because a silent skip here reproduces a failure mode this repo
has been bitten by repeatedly:
1. any derived coordinate that is empty/null/multi-valued aborts;
2. rendered CRD count must be > 0 — this caught a real bug in the first
draft: on an empty render `yq .metadata.name` emits one BLANK line, which
counted as 1 CRD and sailed past the guard into an apply of an empty file
returning 0, i.e. the exact silent-success trap. Blank/null lines are now
dropped and a chart with no CRDs exits 1;
3. every applied CRD is waited on for condition=Established, so "kubectl
returned 0" is not the only evidence.
No opt-out flag, deliberately: a skipped CRD apply yields a cluster that looks
bootstrapped and reconciles nothing.
`roles/flux_bootstrap` is untouched — it already shells to bootstrap.sh, the
documented single entrypoint, so it inherits the step with no dev/prod fork
(R-ENV-02). A second role task would double-apply.
MEASURED, not assumed — reproduced under the PINNED toolchain (helm 3.16.0,
yq 4.44.6) in infra/devcontainer, matching an independent run on helm 3.20.0
byte-for-byte: 3.9.x resolves to 3.9.0, 22 CRDs, 5,636,155 bytes CRD-only
(5,870,019 full render). Largest single CRD document is 1,378,544 bytes —
under etcd's 1.5 MiB default, but not by much; worth watching on chart bumps.
NOT YET EXERCISED against a live API server: the server-side apply and the
Established wait were tested with a stub kubectl. velero and
kube-prometheus-stack also say "CRDs pre-applied" but both still get theirs
from Helm's native crds/ dir on FIRST install, so neither is a cold-start
blocker; CRD_HELMRELEASE makes extending this a one-liner if that changes.
Refs R-GITOPS-01, R-ENV-02.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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feat(dns): INVERT to operator's simpler layout — dev to subdomain, prod to apex
*** DO NOT MERGE TO main WHILE THE OPERATOR IS AWAY. MERGING IS THE MIGRATION. ***
Operator simplified the architecture, inverting
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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c8c1d2935d |
feat(dns): per-environment BASE_DOMAIN — prod moves to its own subdomain
INCIDENT FIX. Prod's external-dns DELETED EVERY ONE OF DEV'S PUBLIC DNS RECORDS. Both
clusters ran policy: sync against the SAME Cloudflare zone with the SAME implicit
txtOwnerId (`default`), so prod believed it owned dev's records, found no matching sources,
and removed them plus their TXT registry entries. Dev recovered ~30s after prod was scaled
to 0; verified restored against Cloudflare directly (my first check went through a pfSense
override and falsely showed healthy — local resolvers are not evidence about public DNS).
THE MISS WAS MINE, and it was a failure of imagination in how I briefed every agent. I put
"never touch dev" in brief after brief and enforced it — separate kubeconfigs, verified
--limit, sha-checked dev's kubeconfig before and after. Every one of those guards held. NONE
of them covered SHARED EXTERNAL RESOURCES. Prod reconciling its OWN correctly-authored
manifests reached across a third party and destroyed dev's state. Cluster-to-cluster
isolation was verified; the dependency that mattered was cluster-to-Cloudflare.
Operator's architecture: dev -> *.dev.home.keithjackson.dev, prod ->
*.prod.home.keithjackson.dev, apex CNAME <svc>.home -> <svc>.prod.home.
PHASE 1 ONLY (this commit): prod moves to its own subdomain. DEV IS NOT MIGRATED and its
effective hostname stays home.keithjackson.dev, so dev renders byte-identically and nothing
live moves. That alone ends the collision and unblocks prod. Phase 2 (dev -> dev.home. +
apex CNAMEs) is deferred to when the operator is present: it relocates Keycloak's issuer and
12 clients' redirect URIs, forces a rolling k3s restart and kubectl SSO re-issue for every
user, and moves gitea.home. — which is BOTH the GitOps source and the current push target.
BASE_DOMAIN WAS A DEAD KNOB — it existed in cluster-vars but the status report flagged it as
referenced by nothing, because hostnames were hardcoded throughout. Now real: 141 refs.
Searched the AUTHORITATIVE reconciled set by resolving each Flux spec.path transitively via
conformance/lib/status.py — the same resolver the L0 gate uses, so "what Flux reconciles"
has one definition. 185 occurrences across 47 files in 154 reconciled files. Tokenized:
Gateway listeners, the wildcard Certificate, coredns-custom, external-dns, Keycloak
instance/realm (26 redirect URIs), oauth2-proxy, Grafana OIDC, all HTTPRoutes, Homepage's 15
links, 30 runbook_urls, unifi cloud-init, render.py's ZONE constant (which drove
--oidc-issuer-url/--cookie-domain/--whitelist-domain on every forward-auth sidecar) and 11
catalog/ ServiceDefinitions re-rendered canonically. Left alone: 43 comment/prose
occurrences and non-reconciled paths.
TWO THAT CANNOT BE TOKENIZED, flagged not forced:
- headlamp's OIDC URLs live inside a SOPS-encrypted Secret; re-encrypting rewrites the MAC
over every value and the OFFLINE harness cannot verify it (kustomize does not decrypt),
so an error would break live-dev SSO with no pre-flight proof. Prod needs its own copy
anyway — client secrets are realm-scoped.
- kube-apiserver --oidc-issuer-url is a k3s SERVER FLAG, not a manifest, so Flux can never
reach it. Done on the inventory seam instead (k3s_base_domain -> k3s_oidc_issuer_url,
overridden in group_vars/k3s_prod). Verified per host: dev keeps the default, prod gets
prod.home.
EXTERNAL-DNS OWNER, the actual incident cause: txtOwnerId is now explicit per environment —
dev renders exactly `default` (the chart default it was already using, so its existing
records stay recognised) and prod gets `prod`. The BASE default is a NON-COLLIDING SENTINEL,
deliberately not `default`, so a future environment that forgets the knob owns nothing and
can delete nothing rather than silently inheriting dev's identity.
I OVERRODE ONE AGENT DECISION against our own prior finding: it narrowed prod's
domainFilters to prod.home.keithjackson.dev as defence in depth. FINDING F-DNS1
(DECISIONS-LOG 2026-08-17) already proved a subdomain filter DROPS THE PARENT ZONE —
ExternalDNS generates the record then skips it with "no hosted zone matching record DNS
Name". Prod would have published NOTHING. Set to the ZONE (keithjackson.dev) like dev.
Isolation comes from the subdomain split plus txtOwnerId, which is what the incident
actually needed and what a domain filter cannot provide.
DEV PROVEN UNCHANGED: 11 of 12 substituting paths byte-identical; the 12th differs by
exactly one line, `+ txtOwnerId: default` — the value dev was already using implicitly.
POSITIVE CONTROLS confirm the harness is not blind: perturbing BASE_DOMAIN moves 10 of 12
hashes (the 2 that don't provably contain no hostname), perturbing the owner id moves
exactly 1. Prod's rendered output has ZERO home.keithjackson.dev references outside prod.,
and its cert renders *.prod.home.keithjackson.dev — no overlap with dev's.
L0 substitution assertions 106 -> 254; BASE_DOMAIN is no longer flagged dead. Gate PASS.
PROD REMAINS SUSPENDED (platform + 10 downstream tiers) pending review; nothing applied.
Serves: R-ENV-02, R-DNS-01, R-DNS-02, R-DNS-03, R-TLS-01.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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feat(prod): temp Gitea source + wireless disabled + flux bootstrap path
Autonomous prod bring-up, operator away. Three changes that together clear the last blockers before `flux bootstrap`. === 1. TEMPORARY BOOTSTRAP GITEA — the last hard blocker, cleared === clusters/prod's source URL could not work: Gitea runs ON the dev cluster (the one slated for decommission) and split-horizon DNS resolves gitea.home.keithjackson.dev to PROD's OWN gateway. Stood up the existing bootstrap/gitea/bootstrap-gitea.sh on the operator's workstation with HOST_NAT_IP=192.168.2.132; all three prod nodes verified reachable (Gitea 1.22.6 via the API), no firewall change needed — prod is on the same /24, no NAT. clusters/prod now points at http://192.168.2.132:3000/... under a boxed TEMPORARY banner with a 5-step cutover checklist ending 'delete this whole block — dev's stanza is what done looks like'. Repo verified PUBLIC with anonymous read two independent ways (API "private":false; git ls-remote unauthenticated with GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0), so NO secretRef is needed — documented so a future auth failure is not misread as a network fault. bootstrap-gitea.sh's header corrected: it documented HOST_NAT_IP=10.73.0.1, the RETIRED libvirt NAT, and forbade agent use; the operator has now directed this for prod. === 2. WIRELESS DISABLED ON PROD (operator-reported) === k3s-prod-3 was on ethernet AND wireless, and the wifi DHCP client was overwriting /etc/resolv.conf. Root cause of the silence: node_baseline's DNS `contended` detection checked resolvconf and NetworkManager but NOT dhcpcd, so the role wrote resolvers, reported success, and dhcpcd reverted them on lease renewal — the exact 'green run that fixed nothing' the contended branch exists to prevent. Now IaC, not a one-off: survey wireless hardware, **REFUSE to disable it if the path to the node runs over the wireless interface** (the guard that meant an agent dying mid-apply cost nothing), blacklist the driver so it never reloads, stop dhcpcd only where it holds a wireless interface and nothing else, take links down and unload modules with NO reboot, then report the resulting state. dhcpcd is now in the contended set without weakening fail-closed. Applied and verified: node 3's wlp1s0 is GONE from /sys/class/net, dhcpcd inactive and its unit not-found, ONE default route per node, all three on 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1 resolving public names. Safe and idempotent on nodes 1 and 2, whose wifi hardware was already down. === 3. flux_bootstrap PATH PARAMETERISED === bootstrap/flux/bootstrap.sh already read FLUX_ENV_PATH but the role never exported it, so it ALWAYS bootstrapped clusters/dev — prod was impossible. Two behaviour-bearing lines: role default clusters/dev + `environment: FLUX_ENV_PATH`, overridden to clusters/prod in group_vars/k3s_prod. Proven per host with a read-only Ansible probe: prod hosts resolve clusters/prod, localhost/hypervisor resolves clusters/dev. Only two definitions repo-wide. DEV PROVEN BYTE-IDENTICAL for the source change: all 12 substituting Flux paths rendered for both trees, 27/27 SHA-256 artefacts identical, with TWO POSITIVE CONTROLS (an overlay-level canary and a deep-path content canary) confirming the harness detects change — and both canaries proven restored. Honest scope note recorded: kustomize strips comments, so the harness proves the built stream, not source comments. L0 substitution check: 106 assertions, 0 hazards. ci/l0.sh and ci/lint.sh exit 0. === STILL BLOCKING A FULL PROD RECONCILE (operator decisions) === - S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT remains TBD-PROD-*: prod CANNOT reach dev's versitygw at 192.168.1.9:9000 (verified UNREACHABLE from all three — the pfSense boundary), and a prod backup target is a deferred operator decision. Deliberately NOT invented: a DR target on a workstation container would create false confidence. Velero/CNPG backups will fail loudly. - Prod's public resolvers mean the API server's oidc-issuer-url resolves PUBLICLY, so kubectl SSO will not work on prod until split-horizon is solved for it (§4). - The temp Gitea is a single container on the operator's workstation — a single point of failure for prod reconciliation, acceptable for bring-up only. Serves: R-GITOPS-01, R-DNS-01, R-DNS-03, R-ENV-02, R-ENV-03. Task: T-7.1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> |
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feat(prod): kernel fix + disk layout — prod nodes ready for k3s
Prod is being stood up now, without waiting for node 2's RAM upgrade. Three coupled
changes, all applied and verified on all three nodes.
=== 1. KERNEL >= 6.13 — now a PREREQUISITE, not a nice-to-have ===
A k3s SERVER that intermittently boots with 2.6 GiB is not a degraded node; it fails under
etcd plus its workload share, unpredictably, on any reboot. Fixed before k3s goes on.
roles/node_baseline gains a `kernel`-tagged block: asserts the suite matches the node's
Debian release, writes a deb822 trixie-backports source, installs, reads back the exact
version, writes a provenance/rollback note to the node. Scoped by
node_baseline_backports_kernel (default FALSE, true only in group_vars/k3s_prod) — chosen
over a hostname test so a fourth prod node inherits it from group membership. Verified:
--check against dev skips all 8 tasks on all 3 hosts. Two deliberate calls: `state: latest`
not `present` (linux-image-amd64 was already installed from main, so `present` would have
silently fixed nothing), and NO preferences.d pin (backports' NotAutomatic +
ButAutomaticUpgrades already gives 100/500; an explicit Pin-Priority: 100 would switch OFF
automatic security upgrades for the very kernel being installed).
Installed 7.1.8+deb13-amd64 on all three; 6.12.107 kept bootable.
THE DECISIVE PROOF: node 2 booted at MEMATTR=0xbeeb0018 — the EXACT address that gave it
2.6 GiB twice — and now reserves 634,904K instead of 13,958,980K. MemTotal 15.4 GiB. Same
address, handled correctly; not a lucky draw.
§0b's claim that a fixed kernel prints 'FW_BUG Corrupted...' is CONDITIONAL and was
corrected: >=6.13 has three rejection gates and only the third prints that line; all three
nodes hit gate 1 (version > 2). Proof instead is boot-independent — decompressing
/boot/vmlinuz on all three yields the FW_BUG and descriptor-size strings verbatim; neither
exists in 6.12.
TWO MORE BUGS IN MY OWN HEALTH CHECK, found because the fix couldn't otherwise be shown:
- MEMATTR_VERSION_RE matched (\d+) but the kernel prints that field with %d — SIGNED. Node
2's real value was -1569980416, which did not match, so state fell through to `clean` and
the node reported PASS "the kernel accepted it without complaint". A FALSE PASS on the
exact bug the check exists to find. Now (-?\d+).
- bad_version was WARN unconditionally, so a FIXED node would have stayed WARN forever.
Now keys on memattr_kernel_fixed: same line, WARN below 6.13, PASS at/above.
=== 2. DISK LAYOUT — Longhorn claimed, per-node paths DISCOVERED not hardcoded ===
Operator decision: reuse the ~424 GB partition; accept the shared-device I/O risk (dev's
etcd/Longhorn contention was on a spinning HDD, prod is SSD/NVMe).
Device paths differ per node (sda5 / nvme0n1p5 / sda5), so the role DISCOVERS the partition
via `findmnt --mountpoint` on a declared claim mountpoint rather than trusting inventory.
Per-host host_vars would have frozen today's hardware into inventory, where it goes stale on
the first re-image and the stale value's failure mode is mkfs on the WRONG partition.
Eleven fail-closed asserts before any write: real block device, not backing / /boot /usr
/var /home /tmp or active swap (built from the node's OWN gathered facts, never a hardcoded
list), already ext4, no foreign label, >= 100 GiB, and empty. Relabel, never reformat.
/srv verified empty first on every node (ls -A -> lost+found only; du 20K; the "5.1% used"
was ext4's default 5% root reserve).
=== 3. k3s DATA-DIR MOVED — /var was 11.8 GiB and would have killed etcd ===
Measured on the fully-deployed dev cluster: containerd 21-25 GB/node, /var total 58-70 GB.
Prod's /var is 11.8 GiB and held BOTH etcd and the image store, so prod would have filled
/var during its first image pulls — and a full /var means etcd cannot write its WAL. Cluster
death, not degradation, arriving during bring-up. Invisible when the disk decision was made,
because "etcd on root" sounded like the 30 GiB / rather than a separate 12 GiB /var.
Now: p5 -> /data (LABEL=k3s-data), with /data/longhorn and /data/k3s. Neutral names chosen
deliberately — the partition now has two tenants, and reusing /srv would make "claimed" and
"unclaimed" indistinguishable to the idempotency pivot, while a bare `data` label would make
a stranger's `data` volume look already-claimed and weaken an assert.
The transition off the existing LABEL=longhorn mount is DECLARED, not inferred
(node_baseline_data_retired_fs_label/_retired_mount, defaults ""), because changing the label
makes a claimed node answer "no" to the pivot and walk into the greenfield path. Self-retiring
once blkid -L k3s-data succeeds. THREE independent gates keep live dev out: retired vars
default ""; gated on longhorn_source == claim-mountpoint (dev is `device`); and the emptiness
assert fails closed on dev's 18 volumes even if both were defeated.
k3s_data_dir is one variable read by two roles (k3s_server --data-dir; node_baseline derives
the etcd mount). Role default is k3s's own default, so dev is unchanged and keeps its
dedicated etcd device. node_baseline_etcd_source becomes `shared-data-partition` and is
LOAD-BEARING: the role asserts per run that the filesystem backing the etcd dir really IS the
data partition — had the mount silently failed, etcd plus 21-25 GB of images would land back
on the OS filesystem invisibly until the disk filled.
LONGHORN_DATA_PATH is a new cluster-vars knob (R-ENV-02): base and DEV /var/lib/longhorn,
prod /data/longhorn.
DEV PROVEN UNCHANGED, which is the property that mattered — the live cluster has 18 Longhorn
volumes on that path. All 12 substituting Flux paths rendered through
`kubectl kustomize | flux envsubst --strict` for both trees: 12/12 per-file SHA-256 identical
and an identical aggregate SHA over every rendered dev byte. With a POSITIVE CONTROL showing
the same harness detects prod changing on exactly one line — an all-identical result is
worthless if the harness cannot see change. Live check after: dev's default-data-path setting
still /var/lib/longhorn, 18 volumes attached, 0 Kustomizations unready.
Idempotent: run 2 is changed=0 on all three nodes. Also fixed a real tag bug — include_tasks
does NOT propagate its own tags to included tasks (unlike import_tasks), so `--tags disks`
selected the include and ran nothing inside it while reporting success.
OPEN DEFECTS, tracked not forgotten: node 2's warm-reboot hang (one clean reboot since, NOT a
fix); and node 3 runs dhcpcd for its wifi interface, which rewrites /etc/resolv.conf on lease
renewal — the role's `contended` detection checks resolvconf and NetworkManager only, so node
3's decided resolvers will silently revert.
Gate: MERGE GATE: PASS. L0 substitution check 106 assertions.
Serves: R-ENV-01, R-ENV-02, R-ENV-03, R-STATE-01, R-STATE-02, R-PLAT-01. Task: T-7.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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fix(node_health): "Failed to map" does NOT mean memory lost — plus survey results
THE MODEL WAS WRONG AND MY CHECK WITH IT. A live counter-example: k3s-prod-2 after its power
cycle shows MEMATTR=0xbeeb0018 and 'Failed to map ... @ 0xbeeb0018' — the SAME address and SAME
line as both of its 2.6 GiB boots — with MemTotal 15857732 kB, i.e. 15.1 GiB of 16 GB. FULL
MEMORY. The check reported FAIL 'THIS NODE HAS LOST MEMORY TO THE BUG' on a healthy node while
memory.physical_total correctly PASSed at 4.2%. The two checks contradicted each other.
REFINED MECHANISM — two kernel functions were conflated:
efi_memattr_init() does the memblock_reserve(). Catastrophic loss needs tbl_size NEGATIVE
(signed int -> sign-extended -> clamped to PHYS_ADDR_MAX). A garbage-but-POSITIVE tbl_size
reserves a modest wrong amount and costs nothing noticeable.
efi_memattr_apply_permissions() does the later memremap(), and THAT is what prints
'Failed to map'. It fails for ANY sufficiently wrong size, negative or merely large-positive.
So the line proves the table was corrupt AND TRUSTED, not that memory was lost. The cost is set
by the garbage VALUE, which is why one address gave 2.6 GiB twice and 15.1 GiB once.
THIS ALSO REFUTES THE ADDRESS->OUTCOME HYPOTHESIS OUTRIGHT — not untested, disproven.
STRUCTURAL FIX so the contradiction cannot recur: the shortfall is computed ONCE into a shared
fact (node_health_mem_shortfall) with worst-wins sub-verdicts; memory.physical_total IS that
verdict and firmware.efi_memattr READS it, measuring nothing itself. FAIL is gated on the shared
verdict. 'Failed to map' + normal memory is now WARN ('the bug fired and this boot survived it').
No honesty guard was weakened; one was strengthened (the measurement clause falls back to the DIMM
shortfall when zoneinfo is unreadable, and only claims 'could NOT be measured' when neither was
read). All five paths incl. the two unproducible-live SKIPs exercised against synthetic facts.
Verdicts: prod-1 WARN, prod-2 WARN (was FAIL), prod-3 PASS, dev unaffected.
SECOND FAULT, arguably worse for prod: NODE 2 HANGS ON A WARM REBOOT, STAYING POWERED. Its
journal ends cleanly mid-shutdown ('eno1: NIC Link is Down') then stops; the box sat powered but
off-LAN for ~38 min until the operator held the power button. A node that cannot survive an
unattended warm reboot cannot be rolled in an HA cluster, and node_health cannot see a machine
that is off the network. Leading candidate: node 2 is the ONLY node with 'Recover OS after Boot
Failure = Enable' — promoted from 'coincidence' in the BIOS diff to a live availability defect.
The reboot survey is NOT viable unattended on node 2 until this is understood.
SURVEY RESULTS (40 boots): prod-1 0/20, prod-3 0/20, prod-2 0 ROUNDS (hung on its first reboot),
pooled 0/40 -> p(bad) 95% CI 0.000-0.088. NOT elimination: 0/20 still permits 17% per node, and
node 2's prior 2-of-3 is unchanged. What it did establish: addresses are node-specific and highly
concentrated (node 1 used 3 distinct addresses in 20 boots, 15 at one; no address ever shared
between nodes); MEMATTR -> parse was a PERFECT function across all 7 repeated addresses over 37
boots; and the corrupting bytes are stable PER MACHINE (node 1 always 1030, node 3 always
1463964749), so the 'shared OS boot chain' inference needs refining.
Adds playbooks/memattr-survey.yml + roles/memattr_survey — reboots opt-in, resumable, artifacts
gitignored. Documents an Ansible defect worth knowing repo-wide: a looped include_tasks under the
default 'linear' strategy is flattened per host, so hosts run SERIALLY; the first attempt rebooted
node 1 twenty times while the others idled. Fixed with strategy: free + a forks preflight assert.
Serves: R-ENV-01, R-ENV-03, R-OBS-04, R-TEST-02. Task: T-7.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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feat(prod): node 3 onboarded — and it is NOT immune; BIOS-setting hypothesis disproven
k3s-prod-3 online at the planned 192.168.2.12 (serial 8CC015307N, same chassis/BIOS/CPU),
enabled in inventory, vaulted become confirmed, package floor installed. Health: 0 FAIL /
4 WARN / 14 PASS / 1 SKIP — the only node with zero FAILs. WD Blue WDS500G2B0A SATA SSD at
100% life, 3213 h, 0 grown bad blocks, 0 erase fails. Matched Crucial 2x16 GB pair — the only
node with symmetric memory.
*** NODE 3 IS NOT IMMUNE TO THE §0b BUG. *** Its firmware DOES publish a MAT
(MEMATTR=0xbeece018); the ABSENCE of a memattr diagnostic line means the kernel read a VALID
table, which is the opposite of immunity. There are THREE outcomes, not two: bail-out on a
garbage version >2, a valid parse with a sane size, and the catastrophic path. Seven boots across
three machines show the MAT address MOVES BOOT-TO-BOOT on every node with settings constant, and
each node has been seen on more than one path. Blast radius widens from two nodes to ALL THREE;
all three need the >= 6.13 kernel.
THE CORRUPTING BYTES ARE THE OS BOOT CHAIN, not firmware and not DRAM: garbage version
1463964749 = 0x5742544D appeared on node 2 AND node 3 — two different machines, identical bytes.
The overwriter is the shared shim/GRUB/EFI-stub/initrd placement writing into the page the
firmware pointed at. So initrd size, module set and boot device are part of the causal chain.
BIOS-SETTING HYPOTHESIS: DISPROVEN, and the three-way diff cannot support it even in principle.
All 240 attributes read on all three; firmware identical fleet-wide. The discriminating set (both
working nodes agree, broken differs) is seven attributes, of which:
- Fast Boot is the ONLY live candidate, and only as a probability-shifter — HP documents it
'skips some preboot initialization steps', which changes the heap top and hence where the MAT
lands. Different mechanism from the previously-killed MRC-caching theory; that stays dead.
- Legacy Boot Options is AFFIRMATIVELY INERT: 'Configure Legacy Support and Secure Boot' =
'Legacy Support Disable and Secure Boot Enable' on ALL THREE, Option ROM Launch Policy =
'All UEFI' on all three. No CSM is built on node 2 either. A naive diff gets this wrong.
- the rest are coincidence. After Power Loss is ELIMINATED by node 3, which works and shares
node 2's Power Off — though it is now a §1 checklist violation on TWO nodes.
FATAL CONFOUND: the 1=3!=2 partition is perfectly collinear with node 2 being the only
single-DIMM AND the only NVMe-booting node. Adding node 3 did not break the confound, it DOUBLED
it. No setting can be the cause anyway: node 2 booted good once and bad twice with settings held
constant.
EXPERIMENT DESIGN RECORDED because the obvious approach is statistically worthless: p(bad) is
known only to n=3, 95% CI ~0.09-0.99, so even 8 clean boots prove nothing. Elimination needs ~20
boots/arm; an odds shift needs ~50. Zero-touch first step: 20 reboots of node 2 unchanged, logging
MEMATTR address vs outcome — both failures were at exactly 0xbeeb0018 and all five successes
elsewhere, so if outcome maps onto a narrow address range the mechanism is settled without
touching anything.
ROLE BUG FIXED: node 3's WD drive reports a SMART threshold for only 1 of 25 attributes, and
smartctl OMITS the key rather than emitting 0 — summary.txt.j2 dereferenced a.thresh bare in five
places and the report task died, so no artifact was written. Added a thr() macro rendering 'n/a'
(deliberately not 0, which would read as a real ATA cannot-trip threshold). Would have hit any
drive of this class.
Also: three nodes, three different disk models, only one NVMe, and every node has a single disk
with no unpartitioned spare — so §2's identical-layout requirement is unmet on all three.
Serves: R-ENV-01, R-ENV-03, R-OBS-04. Task: T-7.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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docs(prod): will 6.12.y get the memattr fix? Researched — not on its own
Operator asked whether waiting is viable or whether a backports kernel is permanent. Answer: it will NOT arrive on its own, but it CAN be made to, and the ask is unusually strong. VERIFIED: - NOT in linux-6.12.y. Newest commit touching memattr.c on that branch is 2024-07-12. In mainline since v6.13 (2025-01-19) — ~19 months, ~97 point releases. - NO stable tag and NO Fixes: tag on either commit. Structural, not an oversight: the unvalidated arithmetic dates to the file's creation in 2016, so it is not a regression and there is no bad commit to point Fixes: at. BOTH automatic feeds — Fixes:-scanning and AUTOSEL — had nothing to grab. AUTOSEL never surfaced it for any branch. - NOBODY has requested it: nothing on [email protected], nothing in all 8,027 open+archived Debian bugs against src:linux. - 6.12 LTS EOL is December 2028 — outlives Debian 13's support window, so not time-barred. - Debian REBASES: trixie carries 6.12.94-1 in trixie-security ('New upstream stable update'), so an upstream pickup would reach us via a normal apt upgrade. THE DECISIVE CARD: the cherry-pick is BYTE-CLEAN. Debian trixie 6.12.94-1's memattr.c hashes to 164203429fa7a..., identical to the upstream patch's pre-image blob — the file has not diverged between v6.12 and the commit's parent. cherry-pick applies with zero conflicts and zero adjustment, which removes the usual reason such requests get declined. The commit also meets every stable-kernel-rules criterion: mainline, 17 insertions, 'hardware quirk', 'a real bug that bothers people'. PLAN: backports now as explicitly provisional; email [email protected] (rules Option 2) CC linux-efi and Ard Biesheuvel who authored AND committed it as EFI maintainer, leading with the clean-apply proof and the three-boot reproduction with byte-identical e820; Debian BTS as secondary under handbook §9.1.7; make the deviation permanent only if there is no movement in 4-6 weeks. Only 8fbe4c49c0cc is needed by hand — 5d0faa8e8369 loosens a heuristic that was rejecting LEGITIMATE tables and is not required for this symptom. Serves: R-ENV-01, R-ENV-03. Task: T-7.1. |
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docs(prod): node 1's DIMMs are not a matched pair
Surfaced by the new node_health DIMM reporting, unrelated to the memattr bug and NOT a fault: DIMM1 is a Micron 8ATF2G64HZ-3G2E1 (DDR4-3200), DIMM3 a Micron 16ATF2G64HZ-2G6E1 (DDR4-2667). Both 16 GB so capacity is right, but different rank organisation and rated speed mean the pair runs at the slower 2667. Recorded in §0 where the symmetry decision gets made, because §2 requires the three nodes to end up with identical layouts and the previous '2x16 GB Micron' note hid the mismatch. Serves: R-ENV-03. Task: T-7.1. |
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feat(node_health): detect the EFI memattr bug on every run, two independent ways
The fault is BOOT-TO-BOOT NON-DETERMINISTIC — the same machine booted correctly two boots
earlier — so it has to be detected on every health run, not diagnosed once. And node 1 is
exposed to the identical lottery on every reboot while currently looking healthy.
firmware.efi_memattr — reads the kernel ring buffer and distinguishes six states:
Failed to map EFI Memory Attributes table @ 0x.. -> FAIL (memory lost NOW)
Unexpected EFI Memory Attributes table version <N> -> WARN (corrupt table still published;
intact only by luck)
[Firmware Bug]: Corrupted EFI ... detected! -> PASS (the >=6.13 fix working)
no memattr line, log reaches early boot -> PASS (no table / accepted / not UEFI)
no memattr line, log does NOT reach early boot -> SKIP
dmesg unreadable -> SKIP
memory.physical_total — deliberately a SEPARATE check, not folded in: it measures the SYMPTOM
with no kernel log at all, so an unreadable-dmesg node is still not unmeasured. Two sub-verdicts,
worst wins: /proc/zoneinfo present-vs-managed (world-readable, works on metal and VMs — sum of
managed IS MemTotal) and MemTotal vs the DIMM total from dmidecode. Thresholds 10% WARN / 25%
FAIL, set from measured baselines: 2.0% prod-1, 2.1% workstation, 2.2% dev VM, vs 83.4% prod-2.
THREE GUARDS AGAINST A FALSE PASS, because "no memattr line" must never silently mean "fine":
1. dmesg failure yields available:false with the exact reason (rc, uid, kernel.dmesg_restrict) -> SKIP
2. the ring buffer WRAPS and every memattr line prints in the first fraction of a second, so the
collector records a boot_covered anchor (Linux version / BIOS-provided physical RAM map); no
memattr line WITHOUT that anchor is a SKIP, not a PASS
3. memory.physical_total needs no kernel log at all
Verified by forcing the unprivileged path: SKIP with the EPERM reason while zoneinfo still PASSed.
VERDICTS, confirmed live:
k3s-prod-1 WARN "EXPOSED, not immune ... survived only because its garbage version field read
1030, which is > 2 ... one unlucky boot from the failure state" + PASS 2.0%
k3s-prod-2 FAIL "THIS NODE HAS LOST MEMORY TO THE BUG ... at 0xbeeb0018" + FAIL 83.4%/83.6%
k3s-dev-* PASS both, NO false finding: "no UEFI config-table line ... did not boot via UEFI.
Log reaches back to early boot, so that absence is measured, not assumed."
Both failure texts carry the remediation verbatim, including that there is NO kernel cmdline
workaround because efi_memattr_init() runs before any efi= bail-out.
Root-gating follows the role's existing pattern: --privileged re-runs THE SAME collector under
become, only when the unprivileged pass actually failed to read something. Reimplementing the log
grep and SMBIOS parse in Jinja would have been a second source of truth for the same fact.
LATENT BUG FIXED in passing: the collector's run() used bare shutil.which(), so dmidecode (in
/usr/sbin) was invisible under the unprivileged k3s PATH and produced a FALSE "not installed"
skip reason. Now shares the sbin-aware which() collect_tools() already had.
INCIDENTAL FINDING recorded in §0b: node 1's DIMMs are NOT a matched pair — DIMM1 Micron
8ATF2G64HZ-3G2E1 (DDR4-3200), DIMM3 Micron 16ATF2G64HZ-2G6E1 (DDR4-2667). Both 16 GB so capacity
is right, but different rank organisation and rated speed, so the pair runs at 2667. Not a fault;
recorded because §2 requires the three nodes to end up symmetric and "2×16 GB Micron" hid it.
Serves: R-ENV-01, R-ENV-03, R-OBS-04. Task: T-7.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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docs(prod): second independent confirmation + no cmdline workaround exists
A second research pass reached the same root cause by a different route and pinned the arithmetic. Recording it because convergence from two independent lines is what turns this from a good hypothesis into a settled diagnosis. MECHANISM TO THE BYTE: - the garbage 'version' node 2 read was 1463964749 = 0x5742544D = ASCII 'MTBW'. The kernel is reading unrelated data. HP publishes the MEMATTR pointer into memory /sys/firmware/memmap calls plain System RAM, so the pre-Linux boot chain overwrites it. - tbl_size is a SIGNED int; num_entries * desc_size wraps mod 2^32 and goes NEGATIVE when bit 31 lands. memblock_reserve sign-extends it and memblock_cap_size clamps to PHYS_ADDR_MAX - base, so EVERYTHING above 0xbeeb0018 is reserved. - memblock_free_all then hands the allocator nothing above that line while present_pages (from memblock.memory) is untouched -> present 3340288 / managed 0. - 'Failed to map EFI Memory Attributes table' is emitted LATER by efi_memattr_apply_permissions(); it is positive PROOF the reservation already happened, a consequence rather than the cause. CLEANEST A/B TELL, one dmesg line: NODE_DATA(0) on prod-2 ends at 0xbeeb0000 — pgdat forced immediately BELOW the reservation — while on prod-1 it ends at 0x82f800000, the top of RAM. Identical 0x2a980 allocation, opposite placement. THERE IS NO KERNEL CMDLINE WORKAROUND. efi_memattr_init() is called from efi_config_parse_tables(), and x86's efi_init() calls efi_config_init() BEFORE the efi_runtime_disabled() bail-out — so noefi / efi=noruntime / efi=novamap do NOT prevent the reservation. A fixed kernel is the only real fix. EFI_MEMORY_SP / soft-reserved was the strongest competing theory and is EXCLUDED BY MEASUREMENT: /sys/firmware/memmap/10/type reads 'System RAM'. Soft-reserved would print as 'Soft Reserved' and is never memblock_add()ed, which would have left present at ~0 rather than 3340288. Also records that the hardening landed exactly one release late for Debian 13 (bug present since 2016; 8fbe4c49c0cc first in v6.13; follow-up 5d0faa8e8369) and that a Debian BTS report against src:linux is warranted — 6.12 is Debian 13's kernel for the release lifetime. Serves: R-ENV-01, R-ENV-03. Task: T-7.1. |
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docs(prod): node 2 memory SOLVED — Linux 6.12 EFI memattr bug, NOT a hardware fault
I framed this as an OPEN HARDWARE FAULT and blamed, in order: the DIMM, BIOS memory remapping,
and stale Fast Boot memory-training data. ALL THREE WERE WRONG. The hardware is fine.
ROOT CAUSE: HP's R21 firmware publishes a CORRUPT EFI Memory Attributes Table, and Linux 6.12
fails to validate it before reserving memory from its contents. drivers/firmware/efi/memattr.c
never validates num_entries or desc_size:
if (tbl->version > 2) { pr_warn(...); goto unmap; }
tbl_size = sizeof(*tbl) + tbl->num_entries * tbl->desc_size;
memblock_reserve(efi_mem_attr_table, tbl_size);
Garbage version > 2 -> kernel bails, memory intact. Garbage version <= 2 -> kernel multiplies two
garbage fields and reserves GIGABYTES from the table address to the top of RAM.
THE EVIDENCE THAT SETTLES IT: the same machine — same DIMM, same BIOS, same kernel, same cmdline —
booted with the FULL 15.9 GiB two boots earlier, with a byte-identical BIOS-e820 map. Boot -2:
15,917,744K available, 615,208K reserved, 'Unexpected EFI Memory Attributes table version
1463964749'. Boots -1/0: 2.6 GiB, 13.9 GiB reserved, 'Failed to map ... @ 0xbeeb0018'. No hardware
fault is intermittent in that shape or fixed by a reboot. MemTotal = DMA(3840) + DMA32(684481)
pages = 2,753,284 kB exactly, Normal contributing zero.
BOTH PROD NODES ARE AFFECTED. k3s-prod-1 prints 'Unexpected EFI Memory Attributes table version
1030' — also garbage, but >2, so the kernel bails and it keeps its 32 GiB BY LUCK, NOT IMMUNITY.
It is one unlucky boot from the identical fault. Dev nodes publish no memattr table at all
(Proxmox OVMF) and are unaffected.
FIX: kernel >= 6.13 — upstream 8fbe4c49c0cc 'efi/memattr: Ignore table if the size is clearly
bogus', whose commit message describes this verbatim. Verified absent from v6.12 and from current
linux-6.12.y. On Debian 13: linux-image-amd64 from trixie-backports.
DO NOT buy RAM, move the DIMM, RMA the board, or run memtest expecting failures. Rebooting,
disabling Fast Boot, clearing CMOS and unplugging USB are all the same lottery — they move where
the table lands and may LOOK like fixes.
Records every killed hypothesis with its disproof so none of them get re-run.
Serves: R-ENV-01, R-ENV-03. Task: T-7.1.
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docs(prod): BIOS password answer + CORRECT the 0x4 'auth failure' reading
Operator asked for the default BIOS password. ANSWER: there is none, and no factory default exists to look up. HP business desktops ship with no Setup and no Power-On password; the is_enabled=0 we measured IS the factory state. Recovery for a forgotten password is the PSWD jumper — and 'stringent security' must NOT be enabled, since HP documents that it removes the physical bypass and turns a 5-minute fix into a signed per-serial HP service case. CORRECTION, and the kernel driver misled me: I recorded that the firmware refused our write for lack of BIOS-admin authentication. Wrong. hp-bioscfg passes the return of HP's WMI SetBIOSSetting through hp_wmi_error_and_message(), which is THE ERROR TABLE FOR A DIFFERENT INTERFACE (the "SECU" commands under HP_WMI_BIOS_GUID). Per HP's Client Management Interface white paper, SetBIOSSetting 4 = 'Failed' (generic) and 6 = 'Access Denied'. We got 4, not 6 — and the driver has a separate BIOS_ADMIN_NOT_SET = 0x38 -> -EPERM for the no-password case, which we also did not get. 'Invalid command type' is the driver looking 4 up in the wrong table: a genuine upstream bug worth reporting to platform-driver-x86. Most likely real cause (inferred, testable): with an empty password the driver emits an UNTAGGED empty UTF-16 string, while every HP-documented caller passes Password="<utf-16/>" even when blank — the driver only prepends that prefix for a non-empty string. Setting a password may fix writes, but by flipping onto the tagged code path, NOT because 0x4 meant unauthorised. Also verified from source: hp-bioscfg CANNOT set a password. current_password and new_password both funnel into store_password_instance(), which only strscpy's into driver RAM; new_password is write-only into a buffer nothing ever reads. Count corrected: 241 attributes exposed, 239 with a current_value, 215 non-empty. I had quoted 215 as the total; it was the non-empty subset. Recommendation recorded: land read-only drift detection now (zero risk, no new credential, and it already caught real drift); treat a Setup password as a deliberate experiment on node 3 only; hp-repsetup as fallback but it needs Secure Boot off or a self-signed module; skip Sure Admin/BCU at this scale. Serves: R-ENV-03, R-SEC-01. Task: T-7.1. |
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docs(prod): iGPU ruled out as the cause; CORRECT my last_pfn misreading
Operator asked whether node 2's missing memory could be reserved for integrated graphics. TESTED, and no: /proc/iomem shows 'c8800000-cc7fffff : Graphics Stolen Memory' = EXACTLY 64 MiB, matching the BIOS Video Memory Size=64 MB setting, and it sits BELOW the 4 GiB line. The UHD 630 (i915 bound) takes precisely what it is configured to take. It cannot account for 13.3 GiB and is not even in the affected address range. CORRECTION to my own analysis, prompted by checking that hypothesis properly: I cited the 'last_pfn revised DOWN from 0x42f800 to 0xc3c10' line as evidence of a memory cap. That was a MISREADING. x86 boot prints last_pfn twice — first max_pfn from the full e820, then max_low_pfn, the end of RAM below 4 GiB. The e820 low usable region ends at 0xc3c0ffff, so the next PFN is exactly 0xc3c10, which is the second value observed. It matches to the byte and is normal on any machine with more than 4 GiB. I presented a routine boot message as a smoking gun, and the 'memory remapping above 4 GB not being applied' signature claim rested partly on it. The real anomaly is narrower than first stated: the Normal zone is 'present' but 'managed 0', 13.3 GiB is reserved, and nothing in the boot log explains by what. Ruled out so far: DIMM health, firmware inventory, memory-remap settings (none exist on this platform), MTRR trim, iomem registration, and now integrated graphics. Leading remaining hypothesis is stale memory-training data cached by Fast Boot — testable with one F10 toggle. Serves: R-ENV-03. Task: T-7.1. |
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docs(prod): fill in node-2 inventory; drop stale investigate bullets
Records node 2's as-found hardware alongside node 1 and removes two bullets that my earlier edit left duplicated/obsolete (the BIOS comparison is done; clear-CMOS was listed twice). Makes the hardware ASYMMETRY explicit in the table rather than buried in prose: node 1 is a ~2011 Micron C400 SATA SSD at 69% life with 15 grown bad blocks and 187 erase failures; node 2 is a Samsung PM9A1 NVMe at 96% life, PASSED. Same chassis, same BIOS, same CPU, same partition layout — very different storage. §2 requires an identical disk layout across all three nodes because Longhorn replica placement assumes symmetry, so this belongs in the inventory where the disk decision will be made. Serves: R-ENV-03. Task: T-7.1. |
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docs(prod): CORRECTION — BIOS attributes are read-only in practice, not writable
I recorded that the hp-bioscfg attributes were 'writable from the OS' because current_value has mode rw and no BIOS passwords are set. That was WRONG, and the firmware said so when the write was actually attempted: hp_bioscfg: Returned error 0x4, "Invalid command type" (surfaces as printf: I/O error) HP requires BIOS-admin authentication for programmatic changes and neither credential is provisioned on these nodes — Setup Password is_enabled=0 (role bios-admin), SPM key_mechanism=not provisioned. Secure Boot is also enabled. File mode is not authority; the firmware is. What survives the correction, and it is the useful half: READS WORK. Diffing 215 attributes between node 1 and node 2 is exactly how the drift in §0b was found — nobody spots 'After Power Loss=Power Off' by eye. So the §1 firmware checklist IS machine-CHECKABLE today with reads alone, and node_health should assert it. What does NOT survive: machine-ENFORCEABLE. Converging BIOS settings automatically would require provisioning a BIOS Setup Password on every node — a stored credential that can rewrite firmware. That is a real security decision and the operator's call, not something to default to. Consequence for the node-2 memory fault: setting Fast Boot=Disable and After Power Loss=Power On must be done in F10 on the box. Updated §0b and §1 accordingly. Serves: R-ENV-03. Task: T-7.1. |
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docs(prod): BIOS settings compared programmatically via hp-bioscfg
Both nodes load the hp-bioscfg driver, exposing 215 BIOS attributes read/write at /sys/class/firmware-attributes/. No BIOS passwords are set, so they are writable FROM THE OS. RULED OUT as the cause of node 2's 2.6 GiB limit: firmware inventory is correct (BIOS itself reports Memory Size=16384 MB); no memory-remap/above-4G attribute exists on this platform at all; MTRRs are effectively identical with no trim warning; /proc/iomem registers the full 100000000-42f7fffff as System RAM and 127 memory blocks report online. REAL DIFFERENCES FOUND (node1 works / node2 broken): After Power Loss Power On / Power Off <- VIOLATES this document's own §1 Fast Boot Disable / Enable <- leading hypothesis Legacy Boot Options Disable / Enable TPM Activation Policy F1 to Boot / Allow user to reject MS+Windows UEFI CA 2023 Enable / Disable Leading hypothesis: HP Fast Boot reuses CACHED MEMORY-TRAINING DATA rather than retraining each boot. A DIMM fitted while Fast Boot was on is a plausible route to memory being present, inventoried, handed to the kernel — and then reserved. It is also the only memory-relevant setting differing from the working node. NOT TESTED: changing it is a firmware write plus a reboot and needs operator sanction. BROADER FINDING for T-7.1: the §1 firmware checklist is now MACHINE-CHECKABLE rather than an eyeball-at-F10 exercise, and machine-ENFORCEABLE too. That is precisely how node 2 came to have After Power Loss=Power Off while node 1 has Power On — nobody could see the drift. Follow-up recorded: extend node_health to assert the firmware checklist, add a role to converge it. Raw BIOS dumps deliberately NOT committed — they carry serials, UUIDs and MAC addresses, same reason node-health artifacts are gitignored. Only the findings are recorded. Serves: R-ENV-03. Task: T-7.1. |
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feat(prod): enable node 2 + HARDWARE FAULT — it addresses 2.6 GiB of its 16 GB
k3s-prod-2 (192.168.2.11) came online 2026-09-01. Enabled in the inventory, baseline package
floor installed, first health run completed. Vaulted become works on it unchanged.
*** OPEN FAULT: the node can only address ~2.6 GiB of a healthy, correctly-installed 16 GB
DIMM. *** Recorded in PROD-PROVISIONING §0b.
dmidecode 16 GB Samsung M471A2K43DB1-CTD in DIMM1 @ 2667 MT/s (DIMM3 empty)
BIOS e820 reports ~16 GiB usable, incl. 0x100000000-0x42f7fffff
kernel Memory: 2568544K/16546088K available (13958980K RESERVED)
last_pfn revised DOWN 0x42f800 (~16.7 GiB) -> 0xc3c10 (~3.06 GiB) in early boot
zones Normal present 3340288 pages (~12.7 GiB) but MANAGED 0
MemTotal 2,753,284 kB = 2.6 GiB
The DIMM is NOT the problem: it is present, correctly identified, and at rated speed. The
kernel sees all 16 GB and then reserves 13.3 GiB. Everything below ~3 GiB usable, everything
above 4 GiB present-but-unmanaged — the signature of memory remapping above 4 GB not being
applied, not of failing memory. Node 1 is the control: identical chassis, identical BIOS R21
Ver. 02.26.00, identical CPU, and it addresses its full 31 GiB. Per-machine state, not a
firmware-version defect.
WARNING RECORDED: do NOT assume the incoming 32 GB fixes this. If the fault is the slot, the
board or a BIOS setting rather than the DIMM, 32 GB presents identically and the money is
wasted. Verify MemTotal after any RAM change.
ALSO FOUND — the prod nodes are NOT hardware-symmetric:
node 1 Micron C400 512GB SATA SSD (~2011) — 69% life, 15 grown bad blocks, 187 erase
failures, 32 unexpected power losses
node 2 Samsung PM9A1 512GB NVMe — 96% life, 2142 power-on hours, 34 unexpected
power losses, overall-health PASSED
Same chassis, same BIOS, same CPU, same partition layout — very different storage. §2 requires
an identical disk layout across all three nodes because Longhorn replica placement assumes
symmetry, so this asymmetry is now a live input to the disk decision rather than a footnote.
Node 2's NVMe is the drive node 1 should have had.
Node 2 otherwise: 0 FAIL / 3 WARN / 12 PASS / 2 SKIP. Same three WARNs as node 1 (swap still
active pending full baseline, single IPv4 resolver, and the NVMe's 34 unexpected power losses),
plus the same unknowable-ECC SKIP.
Serves: R-ENV-01, R-ENV-03, R-OBS-04. Task: T-7.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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feat(conformance): R-STATE-03 PROVEN — DR restore from off-cluster backup, executed
The second requirement ever proven on this project, and the one the operator had attested was working but the suite could not attest to. Test authored 2026-08-31 carrying a `conformance.home.k3s/never-executed` annotation; executed for the first time tonight. test dr-restore run 20260902T001846Z-fdc3265 req R-STATE-03 (safety-critical, DR) junit passed / 0 failed / 0 skipped sentinel DR_RESTORED_FROM_OFF_CLUSTER_BACKUP_OK proof proven sha |
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acae2ad36c | Merge pull request 'PROVEN: 0 → 1 — R-STATE-02 proven, plus two ledger bugs that made proof impossible' (#11) from feat/ledger-section-parsing into main | ||
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fix(conformance): the ledger counted as evidence FOR the requirements it proves
Committing the first PROVEN row immediately degraded it to `stale-proof`. Cause: a self-defeating loop. `IMPL_EXCLUDE_PREFIXES` excluded `conformance/tests/` and `ci/tests/` but NOT `conformance/runs/`. The ledger and the preserved run logs CONTAIN the requirement IDs they are evidence FOR — `ledger.jsonl` literally holds `"requirements":["R-STATE-02"]` — so they were scanned as IMPLEMENTING evidence for R-STATE-02. That made `last_change` for the requirement move to the ledger commit itself, which the row's `git_sha` necessarily predates, so the freshness check failed. The consequence was total, not marginal: **recording a proof destroyed it, so NO ledger row could ever have been non-stale.** The ledger would have reported `PROVEN: 0 (stale N)` forever while looking like it was working — the same shape of silent-uselessness as the COMMAND-echo bug in the previous commit, and found the same way: by actually running the thing and disbelieving a green-looking result. Fix: exclude `conformance/runs/`. The ledger is the proof RECORD; it must not participate in the freshness computation about itself. Verified: `PROVEN: 1 (stale 0, self-skipped 0, failed 0, unknown 0) from 1 ledger row(s)`; R-STATE-02 reads **proven**. status.py --selftest PASS. The staleness machinery is otherwise untouched — a genuinely stale row (impl changed after the run) still degrades, which the selftest continues to assert. Serves: R-TEST-01..04. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> |
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feat(conformance): first PROVEN row — R-STATE-02 node-loss
Records the first requirement this project has ever PROVEN, in the only sense its own
definition of done accepts: a green, requirement-tagged, reproducible behaviour test,
executed against a real cluster, with the evidence committed.
test node-loss run 20260901T235117Z-e9a4b66
req R-STATE-02 (safety-critical) junit passed
sentinel NODE_LOSS_VOLUME_AVAILABLE_OK proof proven
sha
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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fix(conformance): ledger read tokens from Chainsaw's COMMAND echo, not real output
The run ledger mis-classified the FIRST real L3 execution — a genuine PASS recorded as
`skipped`. Diagnosis, from the preserved log, section-classified:
line 51 COMMAND echo NODE_LOSS_SKIPPED_OK <- script SOURCE
line 190 STDOUT NODE_LOSS_VOLUME_AVAILABLE_OK <- the only REAL emission
Chainsaw echoes each script into a `=== COMMAND` block before running it, and every
skip-gated test contains `echo <TEST>_SKIPPED_OK` as source text. record_run.py scanned the
raw log without distinguishing sections, so it matched the skip token in the echo.
NODE_LOSS_SKIPPED_OK never appeared in output at all.
SEVERITY: since every skip-gated test embeds its own skip token as source, and skip outranks
pass, THE LEDGER COULD NEVER HAVE RECORDED `proven` FOR ANY TEST WITH A SKIP GATE. It would
have silently recorded nothing forever while appearing to work. It failed CLOSED — the right
direction — but a ledger that always fails closed is an expensive way to write "unknown".
FIX: classify_sections() splits the log on indented `=== NAME` markers (a section runs to the
first non-blank line indented LESS than its marker). Verified against the real log's actual
markers, including that Go's column-0 `=== RUN/PAUSE/CONT` lines carry a test name and must
never open a section. Then:
PASS tokens are read from STDOUT ONLY — exactly where Chainsaw's own contains($stdout,…)
looks, so a source echo or stderr can never manufacture a proof.
SKIP tokens are read from every section that is NOT COMMAND, so an unknown future section
name fails closed in BOTH directions.
Lines outside any section prove nothing — this also closes a second false-positive vector:
a FAILING Chainsaw run prints the assertion expression, which contains both tokens.
A log with no markers is scanned whole exactly as before (such logs have no COMMAND echo).
SECOND BUG, same root: _LOG_HEADER_RE never matched a real Chainsaw log — the lines are
` l.go:52: <BS>| 23:51:18 | <ANSI>node-loss<ANSI> | …`, not `| … |`. EVERY genuine run was
silently falling into DEGRADED whole-log mode. Now strips ANSI/backspace noise first and
accepts the Go source prefix, so runs attribute per-testcase as designed.
Safety properties re-asserted, not assumed: skip still beats pass WITHIN real output; unknown
layers still require a sentinel; JUnit failed/error/skipped still outrank everything; missing
JUnit or log still exits 3. Negative control: with scan_texts forced section-blind in a
throwaway copy, exactly the new cases fail — they do catch this bug.
Includes the preserved run directory 20260901T235117Z-e9a4b66 (report.junit.xml + run.log)
for R-STATE-02 / node-loss — 131s, cordon -> evict -> volume stayed available -> reader
re-attached -> clean teardown, the first L3 fault-injection test ever executed on this
cluster. The ledger row is recorded in the FOLLOWING commit, deliberately: git_sha is sampled
at record time and a dirty tree records `-dirty`, which is unresolvable and correctly degrades
to stale-proof. Recording against this clean commit is the honest way to get a resolvable sha
— NOT a --git-sha override, which would be a lever for recording a clean sha over a dirty
tree and was deliberately not added.
Serves: R-TEST-01..04, R-STATE-02.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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14494e1947 | Merge pull request 'feat(conformance): committed run ledger — prerequisite for moving PROVEN off zero' (#10) from feat/conformance-run-ledger into main | ||
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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feat(conformance): committed run ledger — the only thing that can move PROVEN off zero
status.py has always reported PROVEN: 0 for all 51 requirements, and named the fix in its
own header: "a committed, machine-readable run ledger". There was none — _artifacts/ is
gitignored, the root .gitignore kills *.junit.xml, and a stray JUnit was surfaced only as
a quarantined mtime advisory. Built BEFORE the first real L3 execution so that run is
captured rather than reconstructed from memory.
THE TRAP THIS EXISTS TO AVOID. These tests exit 0 and Chainsaw records `passed` on a
SELF-SKIP exactly as on a real run, and Chainsaw's JUnit carries no stdout — only
properties. So committing the JUnit as proof would let DR_RESTORE_SKIPPED_OK be recorded
as proof of R-STATE-03: authoritative-looking and wrong, which is worse than no ledger.
The sentinel token is the ONLY thing distinguishing proven from skipped, and it lives
solely in the run log. The ledger therefore records the LOG alongside the JUnit and
derives proof from the sentinel, never from the JUnit result.
Sentinel tokens are DERIVED, not hand-listed: record_run.py parses every
contains($stdout,'TOKEN') out of each test's own chainsaw-test.yaml, so the list cannot
drift from the tests. 23 of 35 tests declare no sentinel at all.
decide() is the single place `proven` is emitted, ordered WORST-FIRST:
JUnit failure/error -> failed
JUnit <skipped/> -> junit-skipped
ANY declared skip token in the log -> skipped (beats a green JUnit AND beats a pass
token present in the same log)
no sentinel declared -> proven ONLY for L0/L1 (whose JUnit is truthful on its own, since
run_l1_offline.py maps exit 3 to <skipped/>); written as an
explicit exempt-set so an unknown/blank layer fails CLOSED
EVERY declared pass token present -> proven
otherwise -> unknown-sentinel-absent
Log attribution is a state machine over Chainsaw's per-test headers; a log with no
recognisable header falls back to whole-log scanning restricted to GLOBALLY-UNIQUE tokens,
so DNS_OK (owned by two tests) can never prove either. record_run.py exits 3 if the JUnit
or the log is missing — nothing recorded, never green.
STALENESS: a proven row is honoured only while `git merge-base --is-ancestor` holds
between the requirement's last implementing/test change and the row's git_sha; otherwise
it degrades to stale-proof. A -dirty sha, an unknown rev, or an uncommitted test path all
fail ancestry the same way. A requirement reads proven only when EVERY verifying test
does (worst-of), and the latest row per test wins — not best-ever.
REFUSAL POSTURE PRESERVED: with an empty ledger the report is unchanged in intent — every
requirement not-derivable, headline "PROVEN: 0 — NOT DERIVABLE". This replaces "not
derivable" with real evidence only where evidence exists, never with optimism.
--record is explicit, never implicit (a run that silently records itself is how a bad run
becomes permanent false proof), is rejected for --status/--coverage-only/--lint, and
re-execs under tee returning ${PIPESTATUS[0]} so recording can never soften a gate. It
rm -f's a stale _artifacts/report.junit.xml first — a hazard hit live during development,
where a stale JUnit got paired with a fresh log.
Selftests: record_run.py 23 checks (incl. end-to-end Chainsaw-passed + NODE_LOSS_SKIPPED_OK
-> proof "skipped"), status.py +16 against a throwaway git repo (self-skip -> skipped;
proven-at-older-sha -> stale-proof; dirty/unresolvable -> stale-proof; worst-of;
latest-row-wins; malformed lines dropped). No regressions: --coverage-only, --status,
--lint, --strict-coverage and the merge-gate shape all rc=0 and unchanged; nothing in ci/
references status.py.
Root .gitignore needed no change — conformance/runs/ is not itself excluded, so the deeper
negations override the root's global *.junit.xml. Verified with git check-ignore.
Serves: R-TEST-01, R-TEST-02, R-TEST-03, R-TEST-04.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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aa0a50a143 | Merge pull request 'chore(flux): restore platform prune:true — Cilium split merge 2 of 2' (#9) from chore/cilium-split-merge2 into main | ||
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chore(flux): restore platform prune:true — MERGE 2 of 2 (Cilium split cleanup)
Closes the transition opened in merge 1 (
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23aa2854f1 | Merge pull request 'feat(flux): Cilium gets its own Kustomization — merge 1 of 2' (#8) from feat/cilium-own-kustomization into main | ||
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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feat(flux): give Cilium its own Kustomization — MERGE 1 of 2 (transition)
Cilium was one of ~12 components inside a single `platform` Kustomization with wait:true,
so the CNI's health was indistinguishable from eleven unrelated components in the tier's
Ready condition, and the only emergency valve was freezing the whole platform tier. This
repo already set the precedent in reverse (oauth2-proxy and headlamp were split OUT so
unhealthy leaves would not gate a tier); Cilium is the mirror image — the one component
that legitimately SHOULD gate everything.
New clusters/base/cilium.yaml: path ./platform/cilium, wait:true, prune:true, interval 1h
(a CNI does not need a 10m re-render cadence; kustomize-controller is source-triggered so
a push still reconciles immediately — the interval is only the drift-correction floor),
timeout 10m (a 3-node DaemonSet rollout with wait exceeds the 5m default),
dependsOn:[flux-system], and postBuild.substituteFrom: cluster-vars — the last is
LOAD-BEARING, not decorative: helmrelease.yaml references ${K3S_API_HOST} and
kustomize-controller now runs --feature-gates=StrictPostBuildSubstitutions=true, so
without it this Kustomization would fail immediately.
*** THE HAZARD WAS FAR WORSE THAN "the CNI gets pruned" ***
platform/cilium/namespace.yaml is the ONLY declaration of Namespace/kube-system anywhere
under ./platform, and the live object carries kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/name=platform.
With prune:true, the moment ./platform/cilium leaves platform's path the stale set is not
"the Cilium HelmRelease" — it is `kubectl delete namespace kube-system`, taking coredns,
metrics-server, local-path AND Cilium. A full cluster kill, not a CNI kill.
TWO INDEPENDENT PROTECTIONS, deliberately not trusting either alone:
1. prune:false on `platform` for this transition merge — Flux's documented Procedure 1 for
moving resources between Kustomizations. Chosen over the per-resource
`kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/prune: disabled` annotation because that needs THREE merges
and leaves the new Kustomization owning resources it can never prune.
2. The pruner's own owner-label filter. In v1.4.0, prune() passes Inclusions:
GetOwnerLabels(obj.Name...), so platform only deletes objects whose LIVE labels still
say name=platform. The new cilium Kustomization relabels all three to name=cilium on
apply, and platform.dependsOn:[cilium] is REVISION-GATED, so platform provably cannot
reconcile revision N until cilium has APPLIED revision N. The relabel deterministically
precedes the prune.
Protection 2 alone would probably have sufficed. Not betting kube-system on "probably".
NOTED FOR THE FUTURE, in-file: anyone moving a platform/* component must first check
whether it is the sole declarer of a shared Namespace — that turns a component-scoped
prune into a cluster-scoped one.
Verified: `kubectl kustomize platform` goes 88 -> 85 documents, 3 removed / 0 added /
0 CHANGED, and `kubectl kustomize platform/cilium` reproduces those 3 byte-identical
(sha256-matched). A pure ownership move; no Cilium value touched. L0 substitution gate
103 assertions (was 102), new cilium row, 0 hazards. Server-side dry-run against the live
cluster accepted both CRs. clusters/prod renders clean off the same base.
MERGE 2 (restore prune:true) follows only after verifying: 13/13 Ready; kube-system, the
HelmRelease and the HelmRepository all relabelled to name=cilium; platform's inventory no
longer lists them; and Cilium pod ages/restarts UNCHANGED from
cilium-2f8h8 r=0 2026-09-01T05:55:27Z / cilium-425m8 r=1 2026-08-30T13:25:10Z /
cilium-54cww r=0 2026-09-01T05:55:26Z, HelmRelease v11.
Serves: R-PLAT-01, R-GITOPS-01.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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62968c9ee9 | Merge pull request 'docs: P0/P1/P2 landed + postStart crashloop incident' (#7) from docs/poststart-incident into main | ||
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docs: record P0/P1/P2 landing + the postStart crashloop incident
Two bugs stacked and the outer one hid the inner. Fixing the dead OIDC guard made the block execute for the first time in these apps' deployed lifetime, which immediately exposed a latent defect: the hook's last statement was `[ cond ] && action`, so on the SUCCESS path it returned 1 and became the hook's exit status — and a non-zero postStart exit makes the kubelet kill the container. Records the pattern for the next PM: fixing dead code is not a safe no-op. It is the first execution of never-tested code and deserves the caution of new code, not of a one-character escape. Also records what is verified live (Cilium maxUnavailable applied with pod ages UNCHANGED, proving nothing rolled), and that strict substitution is committed but NOT ACTIVE — it needs bootstrap.sh step 1 because the controllers sit outside Flux's inventory. |
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ac9f20034c | Merge pull request 'fix(sso): postStart hooks must exit 0 — nextcloud crashloop' (#6) from fix/poststart-exit-status into main | ||
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fix(sso): postStart hooks must exit 0 — nextcloud crashlooped the moment OIDC ran
LIVE REGRESSION, caught on the reconcile after merging #5. nextcloud went
CrashLoopBackOff with FailedPostStartHook, 7 restarts, and apps-wave-1/2 stalled.
ROOT CAUSE — a latent bug that could never fire until now. The final statement of
nextcloud's postStart script was:
[ "$p" -ge 15 ] && nextcloud_oidc_fail "could not promote ... after retries"
On the SUCCESS path (p < 15) the test returns 1, and as the script's LAST command that
becomes the hook's exit status. A non-zero postStart exit makes the kubelet KILL the
container. This was harmless for as long as the OIDC guard above it was dead code that
exited 0 first (see
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63002d19c8 | Merge pull request 'Close the post-build substitution race: dependsOn + strict mode + CNI blast radius' (#5) from fix/strict-postbuild-substitutions into main | ||
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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feat(prod): SOPS decryption (same age key as dev) + GitOps source on main
Operator decisions, 2026-09-01:
1. Prod uses the SAME SOPS age key as dev.
2. Prod tracks the SAME BRANCH as dev (`main`). Dev is a temporary instance and will be
decommissioned once prod is deemed stable.
SOPS: eight `decryption: {provider: sops, secretRef: sops-age}` patches mirroring dev
exactly — platform, apps-wave-0/1/2, oauth2-proxy, headlamp, crafty, velero. The sops-age
Secret is still created OUT OF BAND on prod (bootstrap/sops/install-age-key.sh); the
overlay references it by name only, never inlines key material.
RECORDED CONSEQUENCE of the shared branch: once prod is live, EVERY MERGE TO main
RECONCILES BOTH CLUSTERS. There is no promotion step and no soak window — dev and prod
move together. That is a deliberate consequence of dev being temporary, not an oversight,
but it removes the "prove it on dev first" safety net that the last few days have leaned
on heavily. Worth revisiting if dev outlives its expected life.
*** BOOTSTRAP BLOCKER recorded, NOT papered over *** — the source URL cannot work on a
cold prod cluster, for two independent reasons found while wiring this:
1. SELF-HOSTING CIRCULARITY. Gitea runs ON THE DEV CLUSTER — the one slated for
decommission. Prod syncing from it means prod's source of truth lives inside the
cluster being retired. Gitea must move to prod (or off-cluster) BEFORE dev is torn
down. This makes Gitea migration the FIRST task of the decommission plan, not the last.
2. SPLIT-HORIZON DNS SENDS IT TO THE WRONG PLACE. platform/coredns/coredns-custom.yaml
answers the ENTIRE home.keithjackson.dev zone with ${GATEWAY_VIP} via a template
plugin. On prod that is 192.168.2.20 — PROD's own gateway, where no Gitea listens. Prod
Flux would resolve gitea.home.keithjackson.dev to itself and never reach a repository.
This is the same split-horizon mechanism that makes dev work, inverted against us.
Bring-up therefore needs a TEMPORARY source (the bootstrap host-Gitea, or an off-cluster
mirror) with a cutover to the in-cluster URL once Gitea actually runs on prod — precisely
the sequence docs/05 describes for dev's own Phase-6 cutover. The branch is settled and
correct; only the host is blocked. Documented at the patch site and in
PROD-PROVISIONING.md §7.
Gate: MERGE GATE: PASS.
Serves: R-SEC-01, R-GITOPS-01, R-ENV-02, R-ENV-03. Task: T-7.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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fix(flux): close the substitution race — platform dependsOn root + strict substitution (P0/P1)
P0 — clusters/base/platform.yaml gains `dependsOn: [flux-system]`. This is the actual fix for the incident, not the feature gate. Verified against kustomize-controller v1.4.0 `kustomization_controller.go :: checkDependencies` (our version): dependsOn is REVISION- gated, not merely Ready-gated — when the dependency shares a GitRepository, the dependent cannot reconcile revision N until the dependency has APPLIED revision N. Applying revision N is exactly what writes a newly-added cluster-vars knob. Graph verified mechanically, not by eye: built clusters/dev and clusters/prod and walked the resulting objects. `platform` was the ONLY Kustomization without a dependsOn, and all 11 substituting Kustomizations chain transitively through it (platform-config -> platform; the waves, apps-vms, oauth2-proxy, headlamp, homepage, crafty, velero -> platform-config). The "not chaining through platform" set is EMPTY, so this one edge protects the whole graph. DFS over the full edge set after the edit: no cycles. The root (clusters/dev/ sync.yaml) runs wait: false, which is what makes the edge deadlock-free — it reaches Ready on apply success without health-gating its children. Accepted trade-off, documented in-file: the root becomes a gate. A malformed manifest anywhere under clusters/<env> — including clusters/base — now stalls platform and everything downstream, where today it would not. Fail-closed, per doctrine. P1 — StrictPostBuildSubstitutions. MY PREMISE WAS WRONG about where this belongs and it matters: this repo deliberately does NOT use `flux bootstrap` (see bootstrap/flux/README). There is no gotk-components.yaml in git, and the live kustomize-controller Deployment carries NO Flux ownership labels — it was installed imperatively by `flux install` from bootstrap.sh and is not in Flux's inventory. `flux-system` self-manages the CR graph, NOT the controllers. Nothing under clusters/** can reach a controller flag. So it uses Flux's documented mechanism for hand-installed clusters: a new bootstrap/flux/components/kustomization.yaml wrapping `gotk-components.yaml` with a JSON-6902 patch appending --feature-gates=StrictPostBuildSubstitutions=true to kustomize-controller. JSON-6902 `add /args/-` deliberately, NOT strategic merge — a container's args is atomic and a merge patch would replace all five install-generated args. bootstrap.sh step 1 now renders (`flux install --export` into a temp dir, apply the patch, ASSERT the gate string is present so a future Flux bump that breaks the patch target fails loudly) then applies. FLUX_INSTALL_PLAIN=1 is a loud escape hatch. Nothing is vendored, so components can never drift from the pinned FLUX_VERSION. Rejected: vendoring gotk-components.yaml under the root's path (the root's prune: true would put Flux's own controllers and CRDs in a prune inventory), and shipping a partial Deployment as a Flux-managed resource (a future prune would delete kustomize-controller). ROLLOUT ORDER MATTERS. P0 arrives automatically on the next reconcile. P1 does NOT arrive on a git push — the controller Deployment is outside Flux's inventory, so an operator must re-run bootstrap.sh step 1, which restarts kustomize-controller (~10-20s; Flux is level-triggered so an interrupted reconcile is simply retried). P0 must be reconciled BEFORE P1 is rolled out: with the gate on but the ordering edge absent, the same race turns a transient empty render into a transient hard Kustomization failure. ALSO FIXES A PHASE-7 BLOCKER THIS CHANGE WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE CREATED. clusters/prod had no root Kustomization — dev/sync.yaml even carried the note "a prod overlay needs its own sync.yaml -> ./clusters/prod". With the new dependsOn, a prod bootstrap would have left platform blocked forever on a flux-system Kustomization that does not exist, and nothing downstream would ever reconcile. clusters/prod/sync.yaml is now authored, mirroring dev. Two further prod-overlay gaps found and DOCUMENTED, not guessed (PROD-PROVISIONING §7): prod has no SOPS `decryption` patch (every encrypted Secret would fail to decrypt — needs the prod age-key decision, a security choice not a copy), and no GitRepository source URL patch (needs a decision on whether prod tracks the same branch as dev, which would make a dev-facing merge reconcile prod). Substitution gate re-run: check OK, 102 assertions, 0 hazards. Gate: MERGE GATE: PASS. Serves: R-ENV-02, R-GITOPS-01, R-PLAT-01, R-ENV-03. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> |
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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fix(cilium): maxUnavailable 2 -> 1 — bound CNI rollout blast radius (P2)
During the substitution incident a bad render (k8sServiceHost: "") took down TWO of three
Cilium agents simultaneously. The agents' `config` init container falls back to the API
ClusterIP, which only the Cilium agent itself can translate — and that agent is the one
being replaced — so it deadlocks on `dial tcp 10.43.0.1:443: i/o timeout`.
Root cause of the 2-at-once: `updateStrategy.rollingUpdate.maxUnavailable: 2` is the
UPSTREAM CHART DEFAULT, confirmed by downloading cilium-1.20.1.tgz and reading
values.yaml:437-444 — not a local choice, and not overridden anywhere in this repo.
maxUnavailable: 1 makes a rollout replace ONE agent at a time and stop at the first pod
that fails to become Ready. The whole value of the setting is that the rollout halts on
the first bad node instead of taking the majority of the dataplane with it, and that
guarantee only exists at 1. It matters far more on a cold PROD bootstrap, where there is
no healthy peer to recover from — dev only self-healed because k3s-dev-3 kept a working
agent throughout.
Set as a [parity] field in ALL THREE places, per this repo's documented contract that the
Ansible bootstrap values and the Flux HelmRelease values must agree on settings that
define cluster networking (Ansible installs Cilium at bootstrap; the HelmRelease adopts
it; the two layers fight otherwise):
platform/cilium/helmrelease.yaml (authoritative for Flux)
infra/ansible/roles/cilium/templates/cilium-values.yaml.j2 (authoritative for bootstrap)
platform/cilium/values.yaml (reference mirror, kept in sync)
Verified by rendering the .j2 with roles/cilium/defaults and diffing full value sets: every
[parity] field is byte-equal across all three; only k8sServiceHost differs, as designed
(${K3S_API_HOST} vs {{ k3s_api_host }}).
MERGING THIS IS NON-DISRUPTIVE. updateStrategy lives at DaemonSet.spec.updateStrategy — a
SIBLING of spec.template (chart daemonset.yaml:49-53). The DaemonSet controller decides a
pod is out of date by hashing spec.template alone, so the pod-template hash does not move,
no new ControllerRevision is created, and zero pods are recreated. Helm patches the field
in place. (If it were disruptive it would be self-defeating: rolling agents under the old
maxUnavailable: 2 in order to install maxUnavailable: 1.) Verify after reconcile with
`kubectl -n kube-system get ds cilium -o jsonpath='{.spec.updateStrategy.rollingUpdate.maxUnavailable}'`
plus unchanged pod ages — that is the cleanest proof nothing rolled.
Trade-off recorded in the comments: upgrades serialise, roughly two waves to three at 3
nodes (a minute or two). On a large cluster this becomes painful and a percentage such as
"10%" would be right — noted so a future larger cluster revisits it deliberately.
SCOPE: this bounds blast radius, it does NOT close the substitution race. A bad render
still ships; it now breaks one node and stalls rather than taking the majority.
platform.dependsOn: [flux-system] (P0) is the fix for the cause.
Serves: R-PLAT-01, R-NET-01.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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docs: research findings — measured Flux substitution semantics + ranked remediation plan
Records three parallel research passes and, importantly, TWO CORRECTIONS.
Correction 1 (mine): StrictPostBuildSubstitutions alone is INSUFFICIENT — it fixes nothing
about ordering. The actual fix is one line: platform.dependsOn: [flux-system]. Verified
against kustomization_controller.go::checkDependencies at our exact version — dependsOn is
REVISION-gated, not merely Ready-gated, so a dependent sharing a GitRepository cannot
reconcile revision N until the dependency has APPLIED revision N.
Correction 2 (a research agent's): the claim that Helm considered the bad release healthy,
so remediation never fired, is WRONG — measured on the live cluster, the Helm release
secrets show v9 = failed. The machinery did fire. maxUnavailable: 2 of 3 IS confirmed, so
the real harm was blast radius, not missed detection.
Adds a MEASURED substitution-semantics table, including the two anti-patterns nobody had
written down: ${VAR:?msg} renders the MESSAGE as the value, and ${VAR:=default} silently
ships the dev value to prod. Both are exempt from strict mode by design — which is exactly
why strict would never have caught the gitea/nextcloud dead-guard bug.
Also corrects repo doctrine: escaping is TOTAL ($${ARR[0]} is safe); only the unescaped
indexed form is fatal. And qualifies an earlier overstatement in this log: kustomize strips
structural YAML comments before envsubst, so the hazard is block-scalar bodies, not all
comments.
Notes Flux 2.4.0 is out of support and that strict became default-on in kustomize-controller
v1.9.0 — so the audit is a prerequisite for the upgrade regardless.
Ranked plan P0-P5 with what is done, what is ready, and what needs an operator call.
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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feat(ci): substitution-safety gate + escape 6 comment hazards; strict mode is now SAFE
Adds conformance/tests/l0-static/flux-postbuild-substitution/ — an offline, stdlib-only
L0 check tagged R-ENV-02 + R-GITOPS-01 (deliberately NOT R-TEST-01, which would
overclaim). It reuses lib/status.py's `resources:` walk rather than forking it, so "what a
path renders" has exactly one definition. It asserts: every ${...} on a substituted path
is defined-or-escaped (comments included); no default-operator form on an undefined name;
no unparseable expansion; the rendering path actually substitutes cluster-vars; every
overlay-patched /data/KEY has a base default; and that the gate itself is load-bearing.
WIRED AS AN UNCONDITIONAL STAGE (3c) in ci/l0.sh, and that matters: stage 3b scopes to
touched requirements, and ci/touched-requirements.sh maps only clusters/* to R-ENV-02 —
so an edit to a substituted manifest under apps/ or platform/ would have filtered this
check out of exactly the change that introduces the bug. l0 fail -> BLOCK=1 in gate.sh.
Mutation-tested all five assertion classes (undefined token, indexed expansion, :- form,
missing substituteFrom, un-wired gate); each fails as intended, baseline green.
STRICT MODE IS PROVEN SAFE TO ENABLE — measured, not inspected. For all 11 substituted
paths, `kubectl kustomize --load-restrictor LoadRestrictionsNone <path> | flux envsubst
--strict` exits 0 against cluster-vars base defaults. Negative control confirms the
incident: with K3S_API_HOST unset, non-strict renders k8sServiceHost empty while strict
exits 1 with `variable not set (strict mode)`. The feature gate itself is NOT flipped
here — that is a live-cluster change and the operator's call.
Escapes the six comment hazards that stood in the way (apps/vms/unifi x4,
platform/longhorn x2). All were prose ABOUT the escaping convention; since the repo's own
contract is that $${...} emits a literal ${...}, escaping them is both precise and
self-consistent. kustomize strips these particular comments today, but comment survival is
an implementation detail — a body comment carrying $ WAS observed surviving into built
apps/wave-1 — and a survivor would kill the whole Kustomization.
DOCTRINE CORRECTED (measured against flux 2.4.0): clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml claimed an
indexed expansion is fatal "escaped or not". Escaping is TOTAL — $${ARR[0]} emits the
literal text safely; only the UNESCAPED indexed form is fatal. Corrected in place.
Also empties DOCUMENTED_GAPS in conformance/run.sh with rationale: R-ENV-02 and
R-GITOPS-01 now have a real verifying test, which run.sh's own comment named as the
trigger for removing them.
Advisory output (not failures): 6 dead cluster-vars knobs — BASE_DOMAIN, CLUSTER_ENV,
CLUSTER_POD_CIDR, PIA_REGION, PLATFORM_NODE_SELECTOR_{KEY,VALUE}. The last four are
documented reference-only; BASE_DOMAIN and CLUSTER_ENV look like genuine rot (hostnames
are hardcoded elsewhere) and are worth a follow-up.
Gate: MERGE GATE: PASS. 102 assertions, 0 hazards.
Serves: R-ENV-02, R-GITOPS-01.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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fix(sso): gitea + nextcloud OIDC bootstrap was DEAD CODE — envsubst ate the guard
Both ServiceDefinitions guarded their Keycloak OIDC registration with an UNESCAPED
braced expansion:
if [ -z "${GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}" ]; then # gitea
if [ -z "${NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}" ]; then # nextcloud, then exit 0
apps-wave-0/1 both declare postBuild.substituteFrom: cluster-vars, and neither name is a
cluster-vars key — so Flux's envsubst substituted them away AT RECONCILE TIME, long
before the container ever ran. Verified in the LIVE cluster: the deployed Deployments
literally contain
if [ -z "" ]; then
which is always true. The entire OIDC registration block has been skipped on EVERY boot
of both apps.
WHY NOBODY NOTICED: both apps DO have the provider registered — `gitea admin auth list`
shows keycloak/OAuth2/true and `occ user_oidc:provider` shows the keycloak provider.
Those live in each app's own database, persisted from an earlier successful registration.
SSO works today and DECISIONS-LOG is not wrong. But the idempotent re-registration is
dead, so any PVC rebuild, DB restore, or fresh cluster build comes up with NO OIDC and
only the break-glass local admin. A PROD BUILD FROM THIS REPO WOULD SILENTLY HAVE NO SSO
on gitea or nextcloud.
The irony: the surrounding code was hardened twice — see its own comments about a "silent
first-boot RACE", the verify-then-retry loops, the marker files. All of that hardening was
unreachable, because the guard above it always evaluated true.
Not a regression from the recent R-ENV-02 tokenization — introduced 2026-08-27 (
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docs: INCIDENT — Flux post-build substitution fails OPEN, briefly broke Cilium
Merging PR #4 put cilium agents into Init:Error on 2/3 dev nodes for ~6 minutes. Self-healed; cluster fully green. Recorded because the mechanism is systemic and far more dangerous on a cold prod bootstrap. Root cause: cluster-vars (which DEFINES a knob) is owned by the flux-system Kustomization, while platform/ (which REFERENCES it) is owned by the platform Kustomization, with no dependency ordering between defining a variable and using it. Flux post-build substitution is NON-STRICT by default, so during the window where platform rendered the new manifest against the old cluster-vars, ${K3S_API_HOST} became the EMPTY STRING. Cilium upgraded with k8sServiceHost: "" and fell back to ClusterIP 10.43.0.1 — which only the Cilium agent can translate, and that agent was the thing restarting. Its config init container then could not reach the API server at all. Proven by the HelmRelease config digest going e83bf695 -> eebd6c88 -> e83bf695: the config changed and then changed back to BYTE-IDENTICAL. The pre-merge byte-identity verification was correct — the steady state is identical; the damage was a transient intermediate render. optional: false does NOT protect against this: it requires the ConfigMap to exist, not that every referenced key is defined. Fix recommended, NOT applied unilaterally: enable the StrictPostBuildSubstitutions feature gate on kustomize-controller so an undefined variable FAILS the Kustomization instead of silently emptying it — fail-closed, per this project's own doctrine. Requires first proving every ${VAR} in every substituted path is defined or correctly escaped, or it would fail legitimate embedded shell expansions. Interim discipline: add a knob in one commit, reference it in a later one. Serves: R-ENV-02, R-GITOPS-01, R-PLAT-01. |
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dce0e8ffe9 | Merge pull request 'Phase 7 (prod) opened — prep only: T-7.1 checklist, R-ENV-02 tokenization, node_health, CI false-green fix' (#4) from docs/phase-7-open-prod-node-1 into main | ||
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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ff0533106b |
feat(prod): operator decisions — node DNS, service VIPs, become vault, collections path
1. PROD NODE DNS = 8.8.8.8 + 1.1.1.1 (operator, 2026-09-01). Two INDEPENDENT public
upstreams, so the single-upstream SPOF that broke containerd pulls and CoreDNS
forwarding on dev cannot recur. Prod deliberately differs from dev, which is
PiHole-first because dev needs the local jackson.lan zone.
SCOPE CORRECTED IN THE COMMENTS. Three resolvers answer *.home.keithjackson.dev and
only one is configured here:
pods -> CoreDNS -> platform/coredns/coredns-custom.yaml, whose `template` plugin
answers the WHOLE zone with ${GATEWAY_VIP}. Self-contained in-cluster;
PiHole is NOT in this path. Prod is already correct (.20).
LAN -> PiHole. Not a cluster concern.
nodes -> THIS FILE.
The one thing public node DNS breaks: the k3s API SERVER is a node process carrying
oidc-issuer-url=https://keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev/realms/homelab and reaches the
issuer through the NODE resolver, so prod would get the PUBLIC record instead of the
prod Gateway VIP — breaking kubectl OIDC SSO. Dev avoids this only because its node
resolver IS PiHole. Not blocking (prod has no cluster or Keycloak yet); options are
recorded in PROD-PROVISIONING.md §4 for the operator to pick.
2. SERVICE VIPs DECIDED: UNIFI_L4_VIP 192.168.2.21, CRAFTY_L4_VIP 192.168.2.22 — the
first two addresses after GATEWAY_VIP (.20), mirroring dev's .53/.54/.55 ordering
within the .20-.30 pool. S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT stays TBD-PROD-* : no prod backup target
exists, and dev's versitygw is across the pfSense boundary on the dev host, so it is
not DR for prod.
3. PROD BECOME VAULT committed, ansible-vault encrypted, matching the hypervisor and
proxmox_hosts pattern. Verified working: `ansible k3s_prod -m command -a 'id -un'
--become` returns root. The L0 no-plaintext-secrets check asserts every ansible
vault.yml starts with $ANSIBLE_VAULT, so this stays honest by gate.
4. TOOLCHAIN GAP FIXED: the devcontainer image does NOT ship the Galaxy collections, so
EVERY ansible play died at parse time on community.general.modprobe. ansible.cfg now
sets collections_path = collections, and the collections are installed there from the
existing collections/requirements.yml (gitignored — pinned by requirements, fetched at
setup, vendored bytes are not source).
5. DRIVE HEALTH MEASURED and recorded in §2 with the raw attribute table so the numbers
are auditable. Verdict: usable, but not for production etcd/Longhorn state — 31% of
rated life consumed, 15 grown bad blocks, 187 erase failures, and 32 unexpected power
losses on a consumer drive with NO power-loss protection, in a single failure domain.
etcd is the worst possible tenant: it fsyncs constantly and unclean power loss without
PLP is exactly how a member corrupts.
6. NON-ECC RAM: RISK ACCEPTED by the operator, recorded as a CLOSED decision, not an open
item — do not re-litigate. Rationale: 3-node k3s homelab, not enterprise; corruption on
one node is outweighed by the other two and causes node ejection. That holds for the
dominant mode (etcd raft CRC + quorum; Longhorn 3 replicas + hard anti-affinity +
rebuild). Recorded residual: corruption introduced UPSTREAM of replication replicates
faithfully to all three replicas, so quorum sees no disagreement — low probability, and
the only mitigation is different hardware. Follow-up noted: Longhorn's
snapshotDataIntegrity is left at the chart default rather than set explicitly, and it
is the mechanism that operationalises the operator's own argument.
Serves: R-DNS-01, R-DNS-03, R-ENV-02, R-ENV-03, R-SEC-01. Task: T-7.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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