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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 e72050c690 docs: correct CI/platform documentation that was stale, wrong, or load-bearing
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The 2026-09-29 session found the merge gate did not exist -- no branch protection, no
runner -- while the tree asserted both. This corrects the documents that carried, and in
several cases CAUSED, that belief.

CLAUDE.md gains section 2b: never infer platform state from this repository. It carries
the specific API and kubectl checks for protection, runners, CI status, workloads and
Flux revisions, and the rule that a green tick is not proof anything ran (a skipped Gitea
job reports success). This is the rule whose absence produced every other finding.

.gitea/workflows/README.md and merge-gate.yaml both said "there is no remote git host,
this file is dormant". Gitea had been live for weeks. Both were written as plans and never
revisited once the plan completed. The Transition section is now marked COMPLETE and says
what is genuinely still outstanding (CLUSTER_AVAILABLE unset, so L2/L3 never runs in CI).

DECISIONS-LOG 2026-08-31 is annotated IN PLACE. Anyone reading chronologically previously
hit "required status check; runner incluster-dind online" with nothing marking it false
until a month later. The correction now sits on the bullet itself.

ci/README.md, clusters/README.md and both conformance READMEs carry a status banner: they
speak as though no cluster exists, which makes a live L2/L3 coverage gap read as an
expected phase. That framing is why the gap went unexamined.

apps/wave-1/gitea-actions-runner-secret.sops.yaml: fixed a wrong path, replaced advice to
`sops -d` into a terminal (which CLAUDE.md forbids) with the rotation script, and recorded
that a fresh token alone does not re-register a runner holding a stale /data/.runner.

apps/wave-0/plex-claim-secret.sops.yaml: the header claimed the file ships the placeholder.
It has not since the claim -- it holds the spent token, which is inert and deliberately
left in place.

catalog/plex.yaml and the plex secret both asserted a "~4-minute TTL" as fact. It was
uncited, upstream documents no expiry, and it was the basis for a since-disproven claim
that the pipeline was too slow to fit inside it. Measured: ~2m45s.

Both .sops.yaml files were verified to still decrypt after the comment edits
(`sops -d > /dev/null`), and render==golden confirms the catalog comment does not
propagate into the rendered manifest.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-29 02:14:26 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 6a8953e288 feat(prod): observability for the two failure modes that went unseen, plus OIDC self-healing
Minimal prod delivery, authored directly on main (= prod's live revision d1a6628)
rather than by merging work/prod-standup-campaign. That branch carries the DNS apex
inversion, which would have set prod's BASE_DOMAIN to home.keithjackson.dev; prod
runs external-dns with policy: sync and txtOwnerId: prod, so it would have begun
rewriting apex records dev owns while the non-k3s prod still serves 443 there.
Operator sequencing is "dev migrates first". Nothing under clusters/ is touched
here at all, which is what makes this safe to land now.

Also deliberately EXCLUDED, because prod's live cluster-vars has no CNPG_BACKUP_PATH
key and StrictPostBuildSubstitutions would fail the whole tier: the R2 rework of
platform/velero/ and the CNPG destinationPath changes. Those land as
feat/r2-backup-prod together with the endpoint and bucket knobs.

WHAT THIS FIXES

1. Nothing was watching CNPG. All three prod databases have run since bootstrap with
   ContinuousArchiving=False and firstRecoverabilityPoint=null, and no alert existed
   anywhere. Because archive_mode=on and the archive command fails, Postgres refuses
   to recycle WAL: keycloak-db holds every segment ever written (257 MiB on a 5 GiB
   volume, ~6.8 MiB/h) — roughly 29 days to a disk-full PANIC on the cluster's SSO
   database. Found by hand, 38h late. CNPGWALArchiveBacklog would have fired within
   the hour, and evaluates to 3 firing series on prod today.
   Rules key on cnpg_collector_* rather than cnpg_pg_stat_archiver_*, because
   nextcloud-db's exporter cannot log in to its own database (permission denied for
   database "nextcloud", both clusters) so the pg_stat_archiver family does not exist
   for it — the obvious metric would have been blind to one database in three.

2. No PVC outside namespace=monitoring had any fill alert. New rules are partitioned
   by namespace so they cannot double-fire with MonitoringVolumeFillingUp, pinned to
   job="kubelet" (the apiserver copy of the same series reports namespace=default),
   and guarded by inodes > 0 — block-mode PVCs such as unifi-rootdisk report
   available=0 forever and would otherwise have fired critical permanently.

3. VPNTunnelDown could never clear on a cluster with no gateway node; it has been
   firing critical on prod since 2026-09-05. Now guarded so prod self-arms the moment
   a node carries the egress-gateway label, with dev's behaviour unchanged today.

4. The Keycloak realm import fails OPEN: an unresolved placeholder is stored
   LITERALLY and the import still reports success, then sits at Done=True and never
   re-runs. On 2026-09-06 all 12 prod OIDC clients held the literal
   $(env:..._CLIENT_SECRET) string and every SSO login failed, while every signal was
   green. The CronJob is the level-triggered correction; two alerts make its silence
   observable. Repaired live already — this stops it recurring.

Also: the R-NET-04 conformance scan descended into nested agent worktrees under
.claude/, counting 4 egress policies where 1 is authored.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-07 00:59:22 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 14be9b68f6 test(conformance): dr-restore actually asserts off-cluster restore (R-STATE-03)
Closes the LAST scaffold-only safety-critical requirement. The operator has attested DR
works (Velero -> Proxmox versitygw S3, restore demonstrated), but the L3 test carried the
right tag and layer label over a 5-line TODO body — so coverage counted it and reported
"0 safety-critical gaps" while the suite asserted nothing. That was test debt, not
capability debt. This makes the suite assert what the operator already demonstrated.

Three steps:
1. assert-backup-target-is-off-cluster (read-only): BSL must be phase Available (Velero
   itself reached the store), s3Url host is not localhost/*.svc/*.cluster.local, and the
   resolved IPv4 is none of — loopback, any Node Internal/ExternalIP, any Service
   ClusterIP, any Pod IP, inside any node podCIDR, inside any ServiceCIDR. A BSL that
   exists but never reaches Available FAILS (a live DR defect), it does not skip.
2. assert-backups-are-scheduled: R-STATE-03 says SCHEDULED off-cluster backups — Velero
   + BSL but zero Schedule in phase Enabled is a fail.
3. The drill: seed a nanosecond-unique canary onto a longhorn PVC in its own scratch
   namespace; Backup to Completed; assert a PodVolumeBackup for that volume is Completed
   WITH a non-empty status.snapshotID (the kopia snapshot of volume DATA reached the
   remote repo, not just resource JSON); ANNIHILATE the source (delete ns, poll until
   gone, force-delete a lingering PV, FAIL if the original PV survived — a survivor makes
   the restore prove nothing); Restore with namespaceMapping into a clean namespace;
   assert the restored PVC bound a DIFFERENT PV and that the canary bytes are identical.

Off-cluster proof = endpoint outside every cluster address + BSL Available + kopia
snapshotID present + every in-cluster copy destroyed + restore landing on a new PV. The
bytes could only have come from outside.

Skips GREEN on: no longhorn SC, Velero API absent, no BSL, Velero/node-agent not ready —
all three steps re-derive the same gates so it can never half-run. An RBAC denial is
deliberately NOT a skip: it fails loudly as a harness defect. Teardown is a step-level
`finally` that ALWAYS runs — deletes the Restore, issues a DeleteBackupRequest so objects
leave the bucket (2h ttl as backstop), deletes both scratch namespaces by name and by
label, releases leftover PVs whose claimRef is one of its own. Everything it destroys is
something it created.

conformance/incluster/rbac.yaml: authored the R-STATE-03 grants (velero.io backups/
restores/deletebackuprequests create+delete+read; BSL/schedules/podvolume* read-only;
persistentvolumes get/list/DELETE — the off-cluster proof requires destroying the PV).
Also two pre-existing gaps other tests already depended on: storageclasses get/list (the
skip gate of five tests) and apps deployments/daemonsets read. No write verbs on platform
controllers.

NOT ASSERTED, stated in the file header rather than implied: off-HOST (on dev the nodes
are VMs on the same Proxmox host as the S3 target, so this does not survive hypervisor
loss); no direct S3 client read (that would hand a privileged test identity the backup
credential for weaker evidence); real service data (Nextcloud/Gitea/CNPG drills stay
operator exercises); bare-metal rebuild DR; encryption-at-rest; retention/GC.

status: scaffold-only 5 -> 4; safety-critical w/o executable L3 1 -> 0 (of 6); executable
35 -> 36. coverage unchanged at 40/51 (correct — coverage only asks whether a tagged test
exists). PROVEN stayed 0 / not-derivable: it did NOT flip to proven just because the body
is non-empty.

AUTHORED, NEVER EXECUTED — carries a conformance.home.k3s/never-executed annotation. No
cluster access from this workstation. To convert authored -> proven the operator must, IN
A MAINTENANCE WINDOW (it deletes namespaces and PVs and writes/deletes bucket objects):
apply the updated rbac.yaml, run `./conformance/run.sh --requirements R-STATE-03 --layer
l3`, confirm the log shows DR_RESTORED_FROM_OFF_CLUSTER_BACKUP_OK and NOT
DR_RESTORE_SKIPPED_OK (green but proves nothing), confirm no leaked *-dr-src/*-dr-dst
namespaces or orphan PVs or *-dr-backup objects, and record the green run.

Serves: R-STATE-03, R-TEST-05.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-08-31 23:53:36 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 4.8 fdf5c69adc test(conformance): add L3 node-loss test for R-STATE-02 (Longhorn node-loss resilience)
R-STATE-02 was the last safety-critical requirement with no verifying test,
exempted via DOCUMENTED_GAPS. Author the L3 fault-injection test that proves the
guarantee and remove the exemption.

tests/l3-fault-injection/node-loss/chainsaw-test.yaml:
  GIVEN a 3-replica Longhorn volume with written data attached on node N,
  WHEN  N is removed from service (cordon + evict the attached workload, forcing
        the volume to detach from N),
  THEN  a fresh workload on a SURVIVING node re-attaches the same volume and reads
        the canary intact — volume stays available, cluster reconverges.

Safe-by-construction for the 3-node embedded-etcd dev cluster:
  - Disruption scoped to EXACTLY ONE node, at the scheduling layer only (cordon +
    evict our own pod). kubelet/etcd stay up — etcd quorum is never touched.
  - Never `kubectl drain`; only our own writer pod is deleted, so no unrelated or
    system pod is disturbed.
  - Victim node labelled conformance.home.k3s/cordoned-by=<test-ns>; `finally`
    ALWAYS uncordons every node with THAT label and removes it — restored even on
    failure/timeout, and never touches an operator-cordoned node.
  - Self-skips green until a longhorn StorageClass AND >= 3 Ready nodes exist.

Bookkeeping:
  - run.sh: remove R-STATE-02 from DOCUMENTED_GAPS; add node-loss to CONF_HEAVY_TESTS
    (serial pass, matches the other Longhorn/KubeVirt L3 tests).
  - incluster/rbac.yaml: enable the scoped nodes get/list/patch rule the test needs
    (cordon/uncordon/label); no eviction rights (no drain).
  - README.md / coverage.py docstring: refresh the documented-gap example.

Coverage: 36/51 -> 37/51 (70.6% -> 72.5%); safety-critical gaps 1 -> 0. Only
R-STATE-02 changed ([] -> node-loss); no other requirement or golden touched.

NOTE: LIVE execution is DEFERRED to an operator-chosen maintenance window. This
change AUTHORS + statically validates the test (renders, chainsaw-lints, harness
selects it, coverage updates). The static gate runs L2/L3 as SKIP without a
cluster (expected). The node-disruption test was NOT run live.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
2026-08-27 18:12:33 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 4.8 0e69c63b55 conformance: complete vpn-killswitch L3 test + ADR-0015 RBAC/fixtures
Turn the vpn-killswitch scaffold into a runnable SAFETY-CRITICAL L3 test for
R-NET-06 under ADR-0015 (node-level host OpenVPN tunnel steered by Cilium Egress
Gateway with a host nftables kill-switch), replacing the obsolete in-cluster
gluetun design.

- fixtures/vpn-and-internet-pods.yaml: two egress-class probe pods + documented
  RBAC/PodSecurity/namespace requirements for node-level fault injection.
- vpn-killswitch/chainsaw-test.yaml: GIVEN healthy tunnel (vpn egress != WAN);
  WHEN the host `vpn-egress-tunnel` systemd unit is STOPPED via a privileged,
  hostPID, node-pinned nsenter Job THEN vpn-class egress is blackholed (curl
  fails, never returns the WAN IP = no leak) while internet-class is unaffected;
  WHEN restarted THEN vpn egress recovers. spec-level `finally` ALWAYS runs an
  idempotent start Job (self-healing) so a mid-test failure never leaves the
  gateway tunnel down.
- incluster/rbac.yaml: grant the runner least-privilege for the delivered tests
  (namespaces create/delete/patch for the PSA relabel, pods/services/configmaps/
  pods-exec/pods-log, batch/jobs) and replace the gluetun-scale rule with the
  ADR-0015 host-systemd mechanism note (privilege via PodSecurity, not RBAC).

Offline validation: python yaml parse (all docs), `run.sh --lint` (structural),
`run.sh --coverage-only --strict-coverage` (no tag/annotation drift; R-NET-05/06/
07 covered, R-NET-06 has its L3 test), yamllint. No live apply, no cluster run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
2026-08-24 13:58:40 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 4.8 9d8e03892f T-0.4 Chainsaw conformance harness + coverage + behavior scaffolds (R-TEST-01..06)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-08-16 00:08:32 -05:00