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renovate-bot 640edb758d Merge pull request 'chore(deps): Update plexinc/pms-docker Docker tag to v1.43.6.11085-d1e52e169' (#111) from renovate/plexinc-pms-docker-1.x into main
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renovate-bot dd9d8da86a chore(deps): Update plexinc/pms-docker Docker tag to v1.43.6.11085-d1e52e169
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renovate-bot c3ce4db767 chore(deps): Update lscr.io/linuxserver/jackett Docker tag to v0.24.3009-ls26
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renovate-bot 9c0292001e chore(deps): Update pihole/pihole Docker tag to v2026.10.1
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2026-11-04 08:16:12 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5.5 183bca6897 feat(images): pin pihole, jackett and plex to the digests already running; Renovate follows them
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pihole/pihole (no tag)               -> 2026.10.0               sha256:d3413471...
lscr.io/linuxserver/jackett:latest   -> v0.24.2865-ls7          sha256:4fcf3cc2...
plexinc/pms-docker:latest            -> 1.43.4.10903-e5521bd8c  sha256:e0ab2739...

Each tag was resolved against its registry and matched the pods' imageID, so the image is
unchanged (the pod template string does change, so Flux rolls the three workloads).

renovate.json5: regex versioning for jackett (-lsN) and plex (build-hex); jackett is looked
up on ghcr.io via overridePackageName, because lscr.io is capped at dockerMaxPages=20 pages
and jackett's 32k tags put the running one at #31,980 (dry run proposed nothing without it);
jackett weekly (13 builds in 12 days); pihole deliberately unheld, year rollover = major.
Stale "publishes only latest" prose fixed in renovate.json5 and three runbooks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-31 10:38:07 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 fda5c31a94 fix(pihole): make the split-horizon answer cacheable, or one blip latches the WAN IP for 5 minutes
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Operator reported DNS flapping between the cluster ingress and the router's
public IP. PiHole is not at fault -- both replicas answer 192.168.2.20
consistently (6/6 via the VIP, 8/8 from a client). The bug is an asymmetry in
CACHEABILITY that we created. Measured:

  pihole  192.168.2.23 -> 192.168.2.20               TTL=0
  public  1.1.1.1      -> wan.home.keithjackson.dev  TTL=300
  router  192.168.2.1  -> wan....  TTL=153 -> 148 -> 143   (decrementing = caching)

dnsmasq answers `address=` entries with TTL 0 unless told otherwise. The router
forwards LAN queries to PiHole and caches the result, so the CORRECT answer is
uncacheable -- re-queried on every lookup, maximum exposure to any gap -- while
the WRONG answer caches for 300s. The instant the router falls back to upstream
(standard forwarder behaviour when the target does not answer) it latches the
WAN address for the whole LAN for five minutes, then expires, re-queries PiHole,
gets TTL 0, and is immediately re-exposed.

So ONE sub-second PiHole gap -- pod restart, L2 lease move, ARP flap, kured
reboot -- becomes FIVE MINUTES of the house resolving to the WAN IP. That
asymmetry, not the gap, is why it reads as "flapping".

Fix: local-ttl=60 prepended to FTLCONF_misc_dnsmasq_lines. dnsmasq applies
local-ttl to replies made from configuration, so one directive covers all five
address= names. 60s rides out a pod restart and a lease re-election while a real
VIP change still propagates inside a minute; these VIPs are pinned and static.

apps/wave-0/pihole.yaml regenerated with the canonical render command
(--all catalog -o apps --wave-layout --no-image-automation, NOT --emit-waves);
exactly two files changed and the rendered diff is the single local-ttl prefix.

UNAPPLIED. Does NOT remove the trigger: .23 still has two independently-elected
L2 leases (as do crafty .22 and unifi .21), which the operator has parked. If
the TTL is still 0 after merge, suspect FTL silently rejecting the passthrough
line -- see the handoff.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-18 02:56:49 -05:00
jakman85 0132c680b3 Update apps/wave-0/plex.yaml
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2026-10-10 16:09:53 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 c5b5b8672a feat(pm-agent): an in-cluster AI Program Manager that turns Gitea issues into pull requests
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A service that reads this repository's Gitea issues, decides what to do about each
thread as the Program Manager persona, and runs one worker agent per assignment that
authors a change, runs the merge gate and opens a pull request. It reacts to issue
creation and to comments; the assignment and all correspondence travel through the
issue thread and the PR. It authenticates with an Anthropic subscription token. It
never pushes to main and never merges.

Three choices carry the design, with alternatives recorded in docs/plans/:
 - it POLLS rather than receiving webhooks (Gitea's webhook SSRF guard, lost
   deliveries, and no inbound reach needed at all);
 - it keeps NO state: the trigger is "the newest thing in this thread was not
   written by me", so the issue thread is the state — no PVC, no backup obligation;
 - the model holds NO tools: its reply is one JSON object this code validates, so
   nothing in the path executes text.

The boundary is platform/kyverno/admission/pm-agent-job-shape.yaml (Enforce,
failurePolicy: Fail), not the RBAC: Kubernetes places no `use` check on
serviceAccountName, so "may create Jobs" is "may run arbitrary code as the
namespace's most privileged identity". Six rules admit only the committed shape, and
the worker identity is bound to nothing with no token mounted, so there is nothing to
escalate to. 28/28 offline Kyverno assertions.

Nothing has run: the image has never been built or pushed, and both the image digest
and the two credentials are deliberate placeholders. See the handoff entry's
"What I did NOT verify".

Refs CLAUDE.md §1/§3/§6, R-SEC-02, R-GITOPS-02.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-05 22:28:10 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 874c6703f0 fix(plex): advertise a resolver-independent plex.direct name again (LAN-wide outage)
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I took Plex down for the whole LAN. ADVERTISE_IP was
http://plex-vip.${BASE_DOMAIN}:32400 -- a name that exists ONLY in PiHole's
split-horizon answers and in no public zone.

A Plex client resolves the advertised host ITSELF, with whatever resolver it
uses, and on a real LAN that is frequently not PiHole: browsers ship DoH on by
default, phones have "private DNS", guest/IoT devices take the router's DNS.
Those clients could not resolve the name, the router answered the failed lookup
with ITSELF, and they all landed on its web UI -- hence the %D certificate.

Measured 2026-10-05:
  192.168.2.1:443      -> C=ZZ, O=%D342e7e6b, CN=%D   (router, LAN side)
  136.51.115.252:443   -> the same %D cert            (router, WAN side)
  pihole-0 AND pihole-1 -> plex -> .20, plex-vip -> .24   (both CORRECT)
  gateway .20:443      -> CN=*.home.keithjackson.dev, valid
  http://192.168.2.24:32400/identity -> 200
  Plex's published connections: all port 32400, nothing on 443

The DNS was right; the DEPENDENCY on it was the bug. And since nothing Plex
advertises listens on 443, the clients had left the Plex path entirely.

Fix: <dashed-ip>.<serverhash>.plex.direct, which is RESOLVER-INDEPENDENT -- a
public zone returning the private address embedded in the label, so every
resolver (PiHole, the router, 1.1.1.1, a DoH browser) answers it with
192.168.2.24. No split-horizon entry, no Cloudflare record and no certificate
work needed: the wildcard cert Plex already serves on 32400 covers that name.
Re-verified today with full validation (no curl -k): 200, TLS verified.

The nicer hostname cannot be made correct for clients that bypass PiHole -- a
public record resolves to the WAN address and there is no NAT hairpin, so it is
right only for PiHole users and wrong for the rest. There is no configuration of
it that is right for both. PiHole's plex-vip answer is KEPT; it is just not what
Plex advertises.

Cost restated, not buried: the value embeds the VIP and the cert hash as a
literal and nothing checks they still agree. Accepted because an unresolvable
name is a worse failure -- silent, LAN-wide, and it points users at the router.

UNVERIFIED: unreconciled, and the client-side resolver path is INFERRED -- my
public-resolver probe was broken (NXDOMAIN even for a name that resolves) so I
discarded it. The chain is the only explanation consistent with the
measurements, but the NXDOMAIN-hijack step was not observed directly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-05 20:58:55 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 a0e6ef145f fix(plex): unblock the app tier — drop the Certificate that stalled apps-wave-0, advertise http
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I broke the app tier with #48. Two faults, both mine, both measured after merge:

1. KYVERNO BLOCKS cert-manager IN APP NAMESPACES. The temporary private-key
   Secrets (plex-vip-<random>) were denied by
   secret-provenance/secrets-must-be-flux-managed, which matches every Secret in
   a namespace labelled homelab.keithjackson.dev/app-namespace=true and excludes
   only those labelled secret-managed-by=controller or carrying a Flux label.
   `plex` HAS that label; `gateway` -- where the working wildcard cert lives --
   does NOT. That asymmetry is why the existing Certificate was never affected
   and mine was, and I did not check it. secretTemplate cannot fix it: those
   Secrets come from the keymanager controller, not the Certificate template. So
   no CertificateRequest, Order or Challenge was ever created.

2. FLUX HEALTH-CHECKS THE CERTIFICATE. `optional: true` did its job -- the pod
   rolled and ran fine without the Secret -- but apps-wave-0 is wait:true, so
   Flux waits on the Certificate OBJECT:
     timeout waiting for: [Certificate/plex/plex-vip status: 'InProgress']
   apps-wave-0 never went Ready; wave-1/-2 and everything downstream of
   platform-config sat in DependencyNotReady behind it. I guarded the pod and
   missed the object. That distinction is the whole bug.

Third, independent: the advertised URL was https with no servable certificate --
Plex answers 32400 with its *.plex.direct cert, which cannot cover plex-vip --
the exact failure mode of the outage earlier the same day.

So: delete the Certificate (pruning it clears the health gate) and advertise
http://plex-vip:32400, which is MEASURED to work today -- PiHole answers the
name with the Plex VIP (verified against pihole-0) and Plex serves 32400 there.
http is explicitly temporary and only tolerable because remote access does not
work yet; the restore condition is written at the call site.

DELETED, not merely unregistered: my first attempt kept the file as "tracked but
not onboarded" and the gate rejected it -- tls-lifecycle-automated (R-TLS-02)
fails any Certificate no Flux path reconciles. Legal for a Deployment, not for a
TLS object. The re-enable recipe (Kyverno exemption + a wait:false Kustomization
+ the https flip, as ONE change) is recorded in catalog/plex.yaml.

Kept and verified working from #48: the hostname design, PiHole's split-horizon
answer, and the postStart hook -- LanNetworksBandwidth is now set live.

Gate: rc 3, all substantive stages pass (first attempt was rc 1 BLOCKED).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-04 17:10:25 -05:00
jakman85 c163deaef9 Merge pull request 'feat(plex): one advertised hostname for local+remote, its own LE cert, and a LAN definition so LAN clients stop reading as remote' (#48) from feat/plex-vip-hostname-and-lan-networks into main
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Reviewed-on: #48
Reviewed-by: Keith Jackson <[email protected]>
2026-10-04 21:47:32 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 b156ee6cfa fix(obs): open 44180 to ns monitoring so the forward-auth gate sidecars are actually scrapable
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platform/oauth2-proxy/podmonitor.yaml landed 2026-10-02 and discovered six targets that
have never once scraped. Measured on prod 2026-10-04: all six read health=down with
lastError "context deadline exceeded" and lastScrapeDuration exactly 10.0s — the
configured scrapeTimeout, i.e. packets DROPPED rather than refused.

Cause: every app namespace ships a default-deny NetworkPolicy with
policyTypes: [Ingress, Egress] and NO ingress key at all (deny-all-ingress), and the only
ingress allowance is <app>-allow-gateway-ingress: fromEntities: [ingress] -> 4180.
Prometheus matched no clause. Verified identical in all six of jackett, radarr, sonarr,
qbittorrent, pihole, crafty; zero namespaces had any -allow-monitoring-scrape object.

render.py already had the right idiom — r_monitoring_ingress_policy — but it returned None
unless the service declared observability.metricsEndpoint, and NO ServiceDefinition in this
catalog declares one. It was wired in at the call site and had never emitted a single
object on any branch: correct, and entirely latent.

It now also fires for the forward-auth gate sidecar's own metrics port, keyed on
_needs_oauth2_sidecar — deliberately the same condition the scrape keys on, since
podmonitor.yaml selects pods purely by the auth-mode label, so a target exists iff the
sidecar exists. Keying on observability.metrics instead would let metrics: false produce a
discovered-but-blocked target: the same "two halves authored apart" failure this function
exists to prevent.

Rendered here rather than in platform/oauth2-proxy because that tier would have to name app
namespaces created by the sibling apps-wave-0/1 tiers — it would apply on a running cluster
and fail on a cold bootstrap. podmonitor.yaml's header records that objection; rendering
per-app dissolves it.

Five CNPs result, one per forward-auth app, each opening only 44180 to only ns monitoring.
apps/ re-rendered with the invocation it was generated by (--no-image-automation, verified
byte-identical beforehand); --emit-waves deliberately not run, so no wave kustomization moved.

Three L1 goldens are regenerated with it (+63 lines, -0): a renderer change that adds an
object necessarily drifts the goldens that pin the renderer's output. The first gate run
caught container-workload-render and egress-class-render as FAIL with exactly this CNP as
the drift. default-deny-baseline-render's golden regenerated byte-identical, which is the
evidence that the regen is faithful and not a rubber stamp.

That puts conformance/** in the diff, which is a sensitive path: this PR needs a non-author
approving review. The local gate cannot see that — offline it reports approval-policy green
(N/A).

Local toolbox gate: rc 3 UNDETERMINED, not 0. Every stage that ran is green and l1 went
FAIL -> pass with the goldens; the only not-run stage is gitea-settings (no
GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN). L2/L3 conformance is UNVERIFIED for all 8 touched requirements.

Not verified: that the scrape now succeeds. Nothing is applied until Flux reconciles main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-04 16:05:44 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 0aa1a0a78a feat(plex): one advertised hostname for local+remote, its own LE cert, and a LAN definition
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Two symptoms after the publishing fix landed:

1. LAN clients were reported as Remote. Measured root cause:
   LanNetworksBandwidth was ABSENT, so Plex had no notion of a local
   network and classified everything WAN -- 468 requests logged
   "Allowed Network (WAN)", ZERO "(LAN)", including Seerr from inside the
   cluster. allowedNetworks only waives AUTH; it does not make a client
   local. Two settings, and only one has an env hook.
2. The advertised URL hard-coded both the VIP and the server's cert hash
   into a cluster-var -- two values nothing kept in sync.

Operator design: ONE hostname, plex-vip.${BASE_DOMAIN}, split-horizon --
PiHole answers it with ${PLEX_L4_VIP} on the LAN, Cloudflare answers it
publicly with the WAN address NATed to the same VIP.

- catalog/plex.yaml: ADVERTISE_IP -> https://plex-vip.${BASE_DOMAIN}:32400,
  plus a level-triggered postStart hook (pihole/qbittorrent idiom) that
  re-asserts LanNetworksBandwidth and the three customCertificate* prefs
  every start, converting PEM -> PKCS#12 so cert renewals need no extra part.
- apps/wave-0/plex-cert.yaml: cert-manager Certificate for exactly that
  name from letsencrypt-prod, so the advertised https URL is servable.
- schema 1.11.0: `optional` on secretKeyRef/configMapKeyRef. Load-bearing --
  the cert is issued INTO the plex namespace, which the rendered plex.yaml
  itself creates, so it lands in the same reconcile; hard refs would have
  held Plex in CreateContainerConfigError and, since apps-wave-0 is
  wait:true, stalled the whole app tier on a slow DNS01 challenge.
- catalog/pihole.yaml: the plex-vip split-horizon answer. Required --
  measured, the name resolved to the Gateway VIP where nothing listens
  on 32400 (http=000).
- PLEX_ADVERTISE_URL deleted; the hostname removes the cert-hash fragility.

Corrects my own earlier claim that a SAN match is REQUIRED: it is not
(httpsRequired=0, secureConnections defaults to Preferred, so clients can
fall back to cleartext). A matching cert keeps the remote leg ENCRYPTED.
Hence: obtain a real cert for the advertised name rather than pick the name
to suit Plex's built-in one.

UNVERIFIED, and stated plainly in the handoff: nothing here has run. Cert
issuance for this name is inferred from the wildcard's success, and whether
Plex accepts an OpenSSL-3 PKCS#12 bundle is untested -- the largest risk.

Touches clusters/** -> sensitive paths -> needs a non-author approval or the
operator's /approve-override; deliberately not self-posted (CLAUDE.md 1).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-04 03:37:57 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 1f4552d409 fix(plex): advertise the plex.direct name, not the bare VIP (server vanished from the plex.tv account)
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customConnections held two hand-typed URLs and neither could ever complete, so
Plex had nothing publishable and the server disappeared from the account:

  - https://192.168.2.24:32400 -- the server's cert is
    *.130072f20c334d6c8f63d0dfef87309b.plex.direct with NO IP SAN, so bare-IP
    https fails TLS for every client. Measured: a continuous storm of
    "CERT: incomplete TLS handshake ... certificate unknown" from real LAN
    clients arriving through the plex-l4-tcp VIP.
  - https://plex.home.keithjackson.dev:32400 -- nothing listens; the Gateway
    serves that host on 443 (measured http=000 against 192.168.2.20:32400).

With no completable connection plex.tv published nothing ("Mapped - Not
Published"), Plex fell back to Relay, and clients reported "not authorized".

Fix: advertise <dashed-ip>.<serverhash>.plex.direct -- public DNS that resolves
to the embedded address, so it points at the LAN VIP and matches the wildcard
cert. Verified with full TLS validation (no curl -k): 200 + verify OK, where
the bare-IP form fails to connect.

Declared as ADVERTISE_IP so git owns the value instead of a web form: the
image's 40-plex-first-run writes it into customConnections on every pod start,
outside the claim guard.

Does NOT fix off-LAN access -- the advertised address is RFC1918 and the WAN
tcp/32400 forward remains unverified. ManualPortMappingMode=1 with an absent
port is left as-is (no GitOps path exists for it).

Touches clusters/** -> sensitive paths -> needs the operator's
/approve-override, deliberately not self-posted (CLAUDE.md 1).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-04 02:53:01 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 028853c87c feat(pihole): two replicas on different nodes, and fix a PVC mounted where pihole never writes
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Phase 2 of making LAN DNS survive a node failure. Pihole was one pod on one
node; measured 2026-10-04, losing that node meant roughly 6-10 minutes with no
LAN resolution (tolerationSeconds 300 + NotReady detection + a Longhorn RWO
force-detach), while losing the node holding the pihole-dns L2 lease -- a
DIFFERENT node -- meant tens of seconds. Two of three nodes were single points
of failure with wildly different blast radii.

Adds `availability.replicas` to the ServiceDefinition schema (1.10.0). Intent
only; the mechanism is render.py's, documented in the renderer contract. 1 or
absent renders a Deployment exactly as before -- verified byte-identical across
the whole apps/ tree. >1 renders a StatefulSet (a longhorn PVC is RWO, so a
multi-replica Deployment never schedules the second pod), per-replica
volumeClaimTemplates, REQUIRED hostname anti-affinity, podManagementPolicy
Parallel, a minAvailable:1 PodDisruptionBudget, and an SLI that follows the
rendered kind (a Deployment-shaped rule against a StatefulSet absent()s forever).

Pinned by ~20 new --selftest assertions rather than a conformance change.

ALSO FIXES A LIVE BUG. Pihole's config PVC was mounted at the renderer default
/data/config, but pihole writes to /etc/pihole. Measured: /etc/pihole (7.1M --
gravity.db, pihole.toml, query DB) was on the OVERLAY, while the 2Gi Longhorn
volume held lost+found and 24K of nothing. So every restart discarded all state
and re-downloaded 72k gravity domains, and backup.policy has been backing up an
empty volume while reporting success. Fixed here because otherwise the new
per-replica volumes would hold nothing while state stayed ephemeral -- and
because persisting gravity.db is what makes a restart cheap.

The /etc/pihole mount is safe on the image's own evidence: start.sh is PID 1 as
uid 0 and chowns the directory recursively (no fsGroup needed), and it calls
migrate_gravity which creates the database when absent.

The gate caught a real regression on the first run: the wave-0 alert unit test
fed pihole a Deployment-shaped series. Updated; promtool SUCCESS.

Touches no sensitive paths, so this one needs no override.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-04 01:34:52 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 3b1d6ae115 feat(pihole): declare the admin password and adlists in git
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Prerequisite for running more than one PiHole replica. A second replica with a
fresh PVC would have come up serving DNS and blocking nothing, with a different
admin password -- answers varying by which pod replied.

pihole.toml's own ### CHANGED markers gave the exact inventory: four settings
already came from env (declared), one came from the image, and exactly ONE
operator-set value lived only on the PVC -- webserver.api.pwhash, a one-way hash
nobody could recover. Separately the adlists were undeclared: one list and 72,234
gravity domains that nothing in this repo named.

Declares both:
- A SOPS secret feeding FTLCONF_webserver_api_password. webserver.api.password
  takes cleartext and FTL hashes it itself (verified: pihole setpassword IS
  setFTLConfigValue on that key), so the PVC's pwhash becomes derived state.
- A level-triggered postStart hook that reconciles the declared adlist set into
  gravity.db -- adds, re-enables, and disables (never deletes) undeclared lists,
  running pihole -g only when something moved. A file would not work: v6's
  adlists.list import is migration-only, guarded on the DB not existing.

The rendered hook was run in the live pod against throwaway copies of gravity.db,
exercising all four paths. A fresh DB built from the image's own schema template
has ZERO adlists, confirming this is load-bearing rather than cosmetic.

Password kept rather than set empty: the pihole Service still publishes port 80
past the oauth2-proxy, closed only by policy, and default-deny has drifted here
before.

Multi-replica is phase 2 and deliberately not in this branch -- it needs a schema
field, a StatefulSet (the config PVC is RWO), anti-affinity and a PDB.

Adds a *.sops.yaml -- a sensitive path -- so approval-policy will block pending
an operator /approve-override.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-04 01:07:30 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 fbaeb3e038 feat(plex): expose tcp/32400 for remote access via a pinned LoadBalancer VIP
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Remote Plex clients had no path in, for two measured reasons: Plex advertised
no remote connection at all (customConnections and ManualPortMappingMode both
ABSENT while PublishServerOnPlexOnlineKey=1), and its Service was ClusterIP, so
32400 had no off-cluster path. The L7 Gateway was NOT the problem -- it serves
Plex correctly (200, claimed=1, 401 on protected endpoints) -- but Plex clients
discover servers through plex.tv, not DNS, so an HTTPRoute cannot put this
server on a client's connection list.

Operator chose the native path over ADVERTISE_IP: Plex terminates its own TLS
with *.plex.direct and streams bypass the Envoy L7 hop.

Adds a hand-written non-catalog unit (the SD schema cannot express a
LoadBalancer Service or a pinned lbipam VIP), registered in render.py's
EXTRA_UNITS so --emit-waves places it in plex's own wave.

externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster, inheriting crafty's 8-day-outage lesson rather
than re-deriving it. Known consequence, documented: SNAT puts remote clients
inside ALLOWED_NETWORKS, so Plex meters them as LAN. Not an auth change.

Remote access does NOT work until the operator does two manual steps that
cannot live in this repo -- the WAN tcp/32400 forward and Plex's "manually
specify public port" toggle (no env var exists for it; verified NONE in the
image's init surface). runbooks/plex-remote-access.md is the procedure.

Touches clusters/** -- a sensitive path -- so the approval-policy stage will
block pending an operator /approve-override.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-03 23:30:46 -05:00
jakman85 948875aad3 Merge pull request 'Added arr suite ability to connect to plex' (#35) from bugfix/arr-to-plex into main
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jakman85 bdfa72b1c7 Merge pull request 'feat(gpu): satisfy hardware.gpu: intel-quicksync with gpu.intel.com/i915 instead of a /dev/dri hostPath (the hostPath was measured not to work: device-cgroup EPERM)' (#37) from feat/quicksync-via-device-plugin into main
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Reviewed-by: Keith Jackson <[email protected]>
2026-10-02 05:02:23 +00:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 78bf68493d feat(gpu): satisfy hardware.gpu: intel-quicksync with gpu.intel.com/i915, not a /dev/dri hostPath
The hostPath mechanism was MEASURED NOT TO WORK. In the live Plex pod on
k3s-prod-2, 2026-10-01: the device node was VISIBLE in the container
(`crw-rw---- root video2 226,128 renderD128`) and could not be opened --
`uid 0 O_RDWR -> EPERM` and `uid 1000 O_RDWR -> EPERM`. EPERM from the DEVICE
CGROUP, not EACCES from file permissions, proven three ways: root on the HOST
opens the same device rc=0; the node is unified cgroup2fs; and the container's
runc config.json read `linux.resources.devices: [{allow: False, access: 'rwm'}]`
with `linux.devices: None` -- one deny-all rule, no allow entry for major 226.
A hostPath is a filesystem operation: it binds the device node in but adds no
cgroup allow rule, because Kubernetes cannot infer one from a volume.

The Intel GPU device plugin produces that allow rule
(`createDeviceSpecsFromDrmFiles` emits `DeviceSpec{..., Permissions: "rw"}`).
It shipped as #36 and is live: all three prod nodes advertise
`gpu.intel.com/i915: 1`, DaemonSet 3/3/3 (measured 2026-10-01).

ZERO ServiceDefinition field changes, which was the entire point of making the
field an enum of capability classes rather than a device path. `catalog/plex.yaml`'s
`hardware:` block comes through byte-identical; only its comment changes, because
it restated the old mechanism. Contract invariant 8 holds, now demonstrated rather
than claimed.

- catalog/render.py: `DRI_VOLUME_NAME`/`DRI_DEVICE_DIR` retired for
  `QUICKSYNC_RESOURCE`; the hardware branch now sets
  `resources.limits["gpu.intel.com/i915"] = 1` on the APP container only (never a
  sidecar) and emits no volume, no mount, no securityContext, no nodeSelector.
  `limits` not `requests` is mandatory: Kubernetes mirrors requests from limits,
  and a requests-only extended resource is invalid. This is the only app-container
  `resources` render path and is deliberately narrow -- no general CPU/memory
  feature was invented.
- selftests: resources dict asserted EXACTLY; hostPath/mount asserted ABSENT; the
  no-`hardware` negative extended to `resources`; the podSecurityContext
  pass-through and the no-synthesised-securityContext assertions kept; one new
  assertion that the limit never reaches the oauth2-proxy sidecar. Mutation-tested:
  8/8 mutants caught (requests-instead-of-limits, emission dropped, hostPath
  re-added, emitted unconditionally, supplementalGroups synthesised, wrong resource
  name, quantity as a string, limit leaked onto the sidecar).
- apps/wave-0/plex.yaml: six hostPath lines removed, a three-line resources block
  added. Only golden touched; keycloak/vm-demo unchanged.

THE REGRESSION, STATED RATHER THAN SOLD. Before: device missing ->
`DirectoryOrCreate` mounted an empty dir -> Plex ran and SILENTLY
software-transcoded (invisible, harmless to everything else). After: resource
unavailable (plugin broken, removed, or not yet reconciled) -> Plex is
UNSCHEDULABLE, and `apps-wave-0` is `wait: true` with `apps-wave-1` dependsOn it,
so that STALLS THE APP TIER. Unavoidable: an extended resource is a hard
scheduling constraint, and it is also the only thing that produces the cgroup
allow rule. There is no graceful-degradation variant. Plex's schedulability is now
coupled to the intel-gpu-plugin DaemonSet. Escape hatch, one field and no code
change: delete the `hardware:` block from catalog/plex.yaml and re-render.
Documented in the contract, the runbook (its own top-of-page section and a
"Plex will not schedule" procedure) and the handoff.

HARDWARE TRANSCODING IS STILL NOT OBSERVED WORKING. The decisive open() test
cannot be re-run until this merges and Flux reconciles, and the Plex-side
`HardwareAcceleratedCodecs` toggle is still unset. A green gate proves the
manifest renders.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 23:21:28 -05:00
jakman85 9048c2f5e8 Forgot to render the golden from the catalog -- fixed
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2026-10-01 22:35:47 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 99560c2d22 feat(auth): declare API paths per service, so --api-route can ship at all
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PR #28 fixed the cookie collision, the 5-minute session and the missing metrics
listener in one renderer function, and deliberately declined `--api-route`
because the config model could not express the difference between two apps.
This adds the hook it was missing and sets the flag only where a measurement
says to.

THE DEFECT. oauth2-proxy answers an unauthenticated request with a 302 to
Keycloak. Its AJAX guard would send 401 instead, but it fires only on an EXACT
`Accept: application/json`, which these apps' JavaScript does not consistently
send. So a browser XHR gets a 302, FOLLOWS IT INVISIBLY, has it satisfied
silently by the live SSO session, and resolves 200 carrying the app's HTML where
the JavaScript expected JSON. On a write it is worse: a browser following a 302
re-issues a POST as a GET and DROPS THE BODY, so the operator's change is
discarded and the UI reports success.

MEASURED, on two apps and two different paths -- which is the whole argument:
  jackett 2026-09-30: 33 x 302 vs 2 x 401 on /api/ paths, and 4 of 6 POSTs
          answered by the proxy and never reaching Jackett (upstream `-`).
  radarr  2026-10-01, 23h after PR #28 deployed (pod radarr-7d55cbffb9-42hmh,
          0 restarts): 232 unauthenticated requests in the pod's whole life and
          ALL 232 are the same call -- POST /signalr/messages/negotiate from a
          browser, 302, upstream `-`. A left-open tab whose session the cookie
          rename orphaned, polling forever, silently redirected every time and
          NEVER re-prompting. The reported symptom, still in production.

So radarr's broken path is /signalr/ and jackett's is /api/, and PIHOLE SERVES
NO /api/ AT ALL. One function renders all five sidecars, so the cheap fix is a
constant -- and a constant applies one app's measurement to four apps nobody
measured. `auth` was `additionalProperties: false`, so there was no per-app
hook. Adding one named, documented key is the change; the block stays closed.

  schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json  1.8.0 -> 1.9.0: optional
      `auth.apiRoutes`, a list (radarr needs two, and --api-route is natively
      repeatable) of anchored path regexes. Plus the shape invariant that a
      non-empty list requires mode: forward-auth, since no sidecar is rendered
      for oidc/native/none and declaring it there would be a SILENT NO-OP.
  catalog/render.py  emits one --api-route per entry, in order, and RAISES on
      an unanchored entry. The flag is SINGULAR -- verified against the pinned
      v7.8.1 binary's own --help; --api-routes does not exist and the proxy
      refuses to start with it.
  catalog/{jackett,radarr}.yaml  the two measured apps.
  catalog/{pihole,sonarr,qbittorrent}.yaml  comments recording that they get
      NOTHING, and why. Sonarr and qBittorrent were measured (0 unauthenticated
      requests in 23h) and left alone: that is evidence of no TRAFFIC, not of no
      need, and sonarr being nearly radarr's codebase is what makes the guess
      tempting and still a guess.
  apps/wave-0/jackett.yaml, apps/wave-1/radarr.yaml  regenerated. Only TWO
      goldens change; pihole/qbittorrent/sonarr are byte-identical to main,
      which is the per-app property proving itself on the real tree.

BREADTH IS THE DANGEROUS DIRECTION AND IT IS NOT SYMMETRIC. A missing
--api-route is a silent 302. A too-broad one answers a plain PAGE LOAD with
401, so a logged-out operator gets a bare error page and is never offered a
sign-in -- the service looks permanently broken. Each entry must therefore
match `^\^/[A-Za-z0-9._~/-]+(\.\*|\$)?$`: anchored at ^/ then literal path
characters. `^/`, `^/.*`, `.*`, `/api/` and `^/api/|^/` are all rejected, all
five provoked. Alternation is refused rather than supported because the flag is
repeatable, so one entry per route costs nothing.

NEW GATE CHECK: conformance/tests/l0-static/oauth2-proxy-api-routes-per-app
(whole-repo scope, so ci/l0.sh's --include-scope union runs it on every
invocation; no bespoke stage, which whole-repo-invariants-wired would fail).
It is a SIBLING of oauth2-proxy-cookie-names-distinct, not an extension of it:
that check's subject is cookie IDENTITY and shares neither inputs nor failure
mode with this, so bundling them would make its name a lie and let a future
api-route decision be expressed only by weakening a COOKIE check.

The check exists for one reason the other gates cannot cover: render-golden
compares the render to the goldens, so a RENDERER CONSTANT plus regenerated
goldens AGREE WITH EACH OTHER while both being wrong. Provoked: the regen exits
0 -- render-golden is happy -- and this check exits 1 with 15 failures naming
pihole, qbittorrent, radarr and sonarr individually. It also asserts the
anchoring pattern is the SAME in the schema and the renderer, because three
surfaces guard this and if they drift the loosest wins silently.

Tested in both directions on throwaway trees outside the repo: compliant tree
rc 0 / 43 assertions / 6 sidecars; pre-change tree rc 1 / 11 failures; and four
targeted mutations (hand-edited golden, widened regex, renderer constant,
deleted schema pattern) each firing their own assertion class and nothing else.

ALSO FOLDED IN (coordinator's request; defect is in the file I own). _selftest()
reached _cookie_name() through a bare `next(genexpr)` with NO default, so
deleting the --cookie-name emission -- the exact mutation that assertion exists
to catch -- raised StopIteration, which escaped _selftest() BEFORE its collected
`SELFTEST FAIL:` lines were printed. Right verdict, zero diagnostics, and it
masked every other assertion the same mutation broke (found by Desmond Oyelaran
while wiring the selftest into the render-golden stage; his PR #33 is not in this
base -- origin/main @ cdf3e14 drives the selftest from no stage, checked). Fixed
with `next(..., None)` plus an explicit check(), so a missing flag reports as a
NAMED assertion. Provoking it exposed three more instances of the same class in
the same block -- `side = fa_containers[1]`, `side["env"][0]`, and the fa_svc
lookup all raise rather than assert when the sidecar is absent -- so all four are
now None-tolerant, and the two fixtures added for --api-route were written that
way from the start. Measured on throwaway copies:
  --cookie-name deleted:  before rc 1 / 0 FAIL lines / StopIteration
                          after  rc 1 / 3 FAIL lines / no traceback
  sidecar not appended:   before rc 1 / 0 FAIL lines / IndexError
                          after  rc 1 / 20 FAIL lines / no traceback
Goldens are unchanged by this part; it touches _selftest() only.

NOT verified, in full in the handoff entry: no browser round-trip by anyone for
this flag -- that a 401 REPAIRS the operator's experience is reasoned from HTTP
semantics, not watched. `^/api/` on radarr is PR #30's measurement of radarr's
pre-fix pod, not mine; the current pod has zero /api/ traffic. Sonarr and
qBittorrent are UNMEASURED, not cleared. --cookie-refresh is still unexercised
(0 AuthSuccess on all five pods). Nothing was applied; the live pods are still
the pre-change spec.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 22:07:08 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 0fee584e3a feat(plex): opt into hardware.gpu: intel-quicksync, and write the runbook for the step GitOps cannot reach
Plex has been transcoding in software on hardware that can do it in the iGPU. This
opts its ServiceDefinition into the `hardware` capability from #27 and re-renders.

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

    hardware:
      gpu: intel-quicksync

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

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

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

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

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

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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 21:05:17 -05:00
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Widens the cookie-collision fix to the whole sidecar contract, because all three
defects live in the same function and land on the same five goldens, so they are one
atomic change or they are five conflicting ones.

Added to _oauth2_sidecar_container(), on top of the cookie-name/cookie-domain fix:

  --cookie-refresh=2m30s
      The session died FIVE MINUTES after sign-in. Keycloak's homelab realm issues
      300-second access tokens (MEASURED on a live session: expires - created =
      300.000s exactly, with refresh_token:true on the same line), and
      --cookie-refresh defaults to 0 -- which the pinned binary's own help spells
      "0 to disable". So the proxy held a refresh token it was never told to spend.
      Refresh at HALF the lifetime: two chances to renew before expiry.
      This, not the collision, is what dominates the rejection VOLUME -- ~95% of
      radarr's 155 rejections in 12h carry no cookie at all.

  --metrics-address=0.0.0.0:44180 + a `metrics` container port
      Without the flag the /metrics listener never starts, so no per-app sidecar was
      serving metrics at all (`ports` was ['http'] on all six). 44180 is the
      platform's existing convention, measured not chosen: the shared proxy already
      runs the same flag and port with 2 ready endpoints.
      PREREQUISITE ONLY -- NOT scraped. A container port is not a Service port, and
      each namespace's default-deny baseline is `ingress: []`, so this is unreachable
      until a Service port (or PodMonitor), a monitoring allow and a ServiceMonitor
      land. Do not read this as "the sidecars have metrics now".

EVERY FLAG VERIFIED AGAINST THE PINNED v7.8.1 BINARY (`--help`), not against docs or
the shared proxy -- which runs v7.15.3 and could not have vouched for v7.8.1:
  * --metrics-address exists in 7.8.1, so this cannot crashloop the pods
  * --cookie-refresh ... "0 to disable" confirms the default
  * --cookie-name ... (default "_oauth2_proxy") -- this confirms from the
    IMPLEMENTATION the constant the new L0 check is built on
  * --api-route is SINGULAR; the plural does not exist and the proxy refuses to start
  * --session-cookie-minimal exists and is mutually exclusive with --cookie-refresh,
    so dropping --pass-access-token is a least-privilege argument, never a size fix

NOT done, deliberately: --api-route=^/api/ renderer-wide. It was measured on jackett
and PiHole does not serve /api/, so a renderer constant would apply one app's path
shape to five. It needs a per-app hook the `auth` schema forbids
(additionalProperties: false) -- a schema change, separate PR.

Also records the mechanism that made this INTERMITTENT, as a renderer comment, because
nobody would reconstruct it from the flags: the loser does not just fail to read the
cookie, it calls ClearSession, which expires the cookie on its own --cookie-domain --
the whole zone. The *arr UIs poll (/api/v3/command, /api/v3/queue/details,
/signalr/negotiate), so every poll carrying an undecryptable cookie clears it again:
A LEFT-OPEN RADARR TAB DELETED JACKETT'S COOKIE EVERY FEW SECONDS, from another
namespace, with no user action. That is why signing in again never helped for longer
than the gap between two polls.

Crafty's counter-evidence resolved: the 81:1 ratio was a 24h window straddling a
13h52m-old pod. Bounded to the fixed process, crafty's ENTIRE life is 3 rejections in
6743 log lines, with ZERO `removing session` and ZERO `cookie signature not valid`
against unfixed radarr's 8 and 8. The eviction fingerprint is gone where the fix is
deployed. It logged 0 AuthSuccess too, so that is absence-of-the-failure-mode rather
than a session watched working -- stated as such in the handoff.

Renderer selftest gains six assertions, including a --cookie-refresh check that PARSES
the duration and requires 0 < refresh < 300s (so 2m30s/150s/2.5m all stay green while a
silent widening past the token lifetime does not). NOTE, and it is in the handoff as the
top follow-up: NOTHING IN ci/ RUNS `render.py --selftest`, so those assertions are
dev-time only. conformance/tests/l0-static/auditability-proofs-producible/check.sh:291
already drives other tools' selftests for exactly this reason and is the one-line fix.

Gate (toolbox, worktree shim with the spec repo mounted at /home-network-k3s): rc 3
UNDETERMINED. Green: spec-immutability, decisions-log, lint, l0, render-golden, l1,
approval-policy. Skipped: gitea-settings (no local token), conformance (declared).
The new L0 check PASSES on this branch -- all five apps fixed in one commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 13:07:43 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 9a4489b733 fix(auth): five oauth2-proxy sidecars shared one cookie and evicted each other
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Every oauth2-proxy on this platform is an independent instance with its OWN
cookie-secret. Measured on prod 2026-09-30: seven `*-oauth2-proxy` Secrets, seven
DISTINCT cookie-secret values (compared in-cluster, never printed). So no instance
can DECRYPT another's cookie -- it can only OVERWRITE it.

All of them were emitting oauth2-proxy's DEFAULT names (`_oauth2_proxy`,
`_oauth2_proxy_csrf`) scoped to `.${BASE_DOMAIN}`, so the browser kept ONE cookie
pair for SIX live instances (jackett, pihole, qbittorrent, radarr, sonarr, and the
shared forward-auth proxy). Whichever authenticated last clobbered the rest; the
loser logged `No valid authentication in request`, bounced to Keycloak, and -- the
SSO session still being live -- was redirected straight back and clobbered it again.
The symptom is "I signed into Keycloak but I'm still not signed in", which sends you
hunting in Keycloak, where nothing is wrong. Crafty was fixed on its own side on
2026-09-29 (#22); this is that fix generalized to the pattern.

THE DEFECT WAS NOT IN THE MANIFESTS. apps/wave-*/{jackett,pihole,qbittorrent,radarr,
sonarr}.yaml are GENERATED goldens; one function emits all five. So the fix is in
catalog/render.py::_oauth2_sidecar_container(), and both flags are now DERIVED from
the ServiceDefinition rather than defaulted:

    --cookie-name=_oauth2_proxy_{s['name']}     unique by construction
    --cookie-domain={host}                      the app's own host, not the zone

A per-service table was rejected for the reason twelve ServiceMonitors once acquired
one identical wrong port name in a single edit: it would leave the NEXT app onboarded
defaulting straight back into the collision. --whitelist-domain stays zone-wide; it
governs post-login REDIRECT targets, not cookie scope.

Host-scoping is defence in depth and is asserted deliberately: a zone-wide cookie is
transmitted by the browser to every host in the zone, so each app's session token was
being sent to every sibling -- and it is what would make a FUTURE name collision
platform-wide instead of contained.

New gate check (whole-repo scope, so it runs on EVERY gate invocation, not only when
a touched path happens to attribute an identity requirement):

    conformance/tests/l0-static/oauth2-proxy-cookie-names-distinct/

It resolves each instance's EFFECTIVE cookie name -- declared, or oauth2-proxy's
built-in default when omitted, because an omitted flag is not an absence but a CLAIM
on a name, and reading it as an absence is exactly why this survived five reviews.
Then: no two collide; none is another's name + `_csrf` (oauth2-proxy derives the CSRF
cookie that way); the default has exactly ONE owner, registered with its reason in a
shrink-only register -- the SHARED proxy, which MUST keep `_oauth2_proxy` because
renaming it signs every other gated surface out at once; every other instance is
host-scoped; render.py derives rather than lists; and the SHIPPED renderer is proven
end-to-end on two synthetic ServiceDefinitions, so the check stays falsifiable once
the tree is clean.

Tested in both directions: rc 0 on this tree (39 assertions, 7 instances), rc 1 with
26 failures against the pre-fix tree, plus one targeted mutation per assertion class
(duplicate name, CSRF derivation, zone-wide domain, unregistered default heir, stale
register entry) -- each fired, and nothing else did.

Also regenerates the three L1 rendering goldens, which are expected-output fixtures
of the same renderer.

UNVERIFIED: no browser round-trip. The collision has still never been REPRODUCED in a
browser -- doing so needs two gated apps visited in one session -- so this is reasoned
from measured configuration and from the mechanism, not from a failure anyone watched.
Nothing was applied; merging rolls five Deployments and invalidates every existing
session on them once. See decisions/2026-09-30-oauth2-proxy-cookie-collision-fleet.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-30 10:55:06 -05:00
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
jakman85 bbd4f682a6 chore(plex): fresh plex.tv claim token
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Injected inside the plex.tv claim window per runbooks/plex-claim.md.
2026-09-29 01:31:24 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 4fd75ccdaa feat(plex): wire PLEX_CLAIM from a SOPS Secret so the server can be claimed
gate / gate (pull_request) Successful in 1m58s
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Plex cannot create libraries over the already-mounted 8.33T NFS bulk share while
the server is UNCLAIMED. catalog/plex.yaml carried a long argument for leaving
PLEX_CLAIM unwired; the operator has decided to override it. This implements the
wiring in the way that respects the half of that argument which is still true.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-28 22:26:44 -05:00
jakman85 b184a42729 merge: internal services stop advertising themselves in public DNS
Six exposure:internal services published A records into the public Cloudflare
zone answering 192.168.2.20, disclosing the internal subnet, the Gateway VIP
and a full service inventory, and forming a DNS-rebind primitive that is why
the SOHO router strips these answers in the first place.

The renderer now stamps external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/controller: none on
every HTTPRoute it renders for an internal service, derived from the exposure
field alone — so a service that omits exposure defaults to internal and is
likewise unpublishable. Established against the deployed v0.21.0's own source,
where the controller check runs before hostname resolution in both configured
sources, then proven live on a throwaway hostname including that adding the
annotation to an existing record triggers the DELETE.

Deletes exactly 12 records: the A and TXT pair for jackett, pihole,
qbittorrent, radarr, semaphore and sonarr. A 39-record recovery baseline is
committed alongside.

Safe to land before the DHCP change, contrary to my earlier caution: the
router returns NOTHING for all six names today, so these records serve nobody
on the LAN, while Pi-hole at 192.168.2.23 already answers for anyone pointed
at it.

The five exposure:public services are untouched. They remain unreachable
publicly, which is a separate problem: the legacy edge at 136.51.115.252
returns HTTP 403 for our hostnames and serves a placeholder certificate, so
nothing is reverse-proxying them today.
2026-09-18 20:50:43 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 fd43f332d6 feat(pihole): authoritative LAN DNS for the zone on udp/53 + tcp/53 at a pinned VIP
platform/coredns/coredns-custom.yaml has always said its split-horizon is for
PODS and deferred LAN clients to "PiHole split-horizon". PiHole served no DNS:
its Service was ClusterIP with ports 80 and 4180 only. The LAN half of R-DNS-03
that docs/09 and the README's Phase 2 row both claim did not exist, so LAN
clients ran on hand-maintained per-client dnsmasq files - one went stale after
the dev decommission and cost the operator sonarr.home.keithjackson.dev. The
SOHO router that owns 192.168.2.0/24 cannot cover for it either: it strips
RFC1918 answers for public domains as rebind protection and returns NOERROR
with no answer.

EXPOSURE (apps/wave-0/pihole-dns.yaml, hand-written, placed into wave 0 by
render.py's EXTRA_UNITS - the schema has no field for a LoadBalancer Service, a
pinned lbipam VIP, a sharing key, source ranges or UDP, the same reason
apps/vms/unifi and platform/crafty hand-write theirs):
  - two Services, udp/53 and tcp/53, sharing one pinned VIP
    ${PIHOLE_DNS_VIP} = 192.168.2.23 on prod, the next free address in the
    .20-.30 pool (pool status IPsUsed 3 of 11; .20 Gateway, .21 unifi, .22
    crafty; arping from a LAN host got no reply).
  - no external-dns hostname annotation: nothing public is created, and
    platform/externaldns/ is untouched.

ANSWERS (catalog/pihole.yaml env - declarative, no reconciler): PiHole v6 takes
every FTL setting as an FTLCONF_ environment variable and treats it as
env-forced, applied ahead of pihole.toml on every cold start and read-only in
the UI. That is a real declarative entry point, which the Keycloak and CNPG
CronJob reconcilers exist precisely because their state lacks, so a reconciler
here would be ceremony. misc.dnsmasq_lines carries a wildcard
address=/<zone>/<GATEWAY_VIP> plus one longer-domain override per L4 service
(unifi, crafty-mc, pihole-dns); dnsmasq resolves overlaps by longest matching
domain, so precedence is structural and a newly onboarded Gateway-fronted
service needs no DNS change. dns.upstreams is declared too - the live pod
carried hand-set upstreams that no manifest knew about and that every restart
discarded.

externalTrafficPolicy Cluster, NOT Local, and loadBalancerSourceRanges for the
LAN restriction. Measured on prod, Cilium 1.20.1: the L2 announcer does not
filter lease candidates by which nodes hold a backend - the two Services landed
on k3s-prod-3 and k3s-prod-2 while the pod ran on k3s-prod-1 - and it keeps
renewing after the pod moves away, so with Local a reschedule leaves LAN DNS
dead indefinitely. Cluster serves the VIP from any node; the LAN restriction
moves to loadBalancerSourceRanges, which Cilium enforces in eBPF on the VIP
before load-balancing (verified by narrowing the range to exclude the test
client and back). The cost is SNAT: forwarded queries reach PiHole from the
ingress node, so PiHole's per-client rate limit is disabled in the catalog or
the whole LAN would count as one client against its 1000-per-60s default.

Proven from a LAN host (192.168.2.132) against 192.168.2.23 with the pod and
both leases on three DIFFERENT nodes: sonarr/grafana/nextcloud/keycloak/apex
-> 192.168.2.20, unifi -> .21, crafty-mc -> .22, pihole-dns -> .23, recursion
(cloudflare.com, github.com, debian.org) intact over both udp and tcp, AAAA
NODATA, NXDOMAIN outside the zone, and still answering after a forced
prod-1 -> prod-2 reschedule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-14 00:57:58 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 4080065aa7 feat(dns): exposure: internal can no longer publish a public record
docs/09 R-DNS-03 and schemas/renderer-contract.md both said an `internal`
service renders no public DNS record. Nothing enforced either sentence.
ExternalDNS's `gateway-httproute` source admitted EVERY HTTPRoute on the shared
Gateway, so six `exposure: internal` services — jackett, pihole, qbittorrent,
radarr, semaphore, sonarr — published `<name>.home.keithjackson.dev` into the
public authoritative Cloudflare zone answering with the Gateway VIP
192.168.2.20. That published the internal subnet, the Gateway VIP and a full
service inventory to anyone who could guess a label, and made each of those
names a DNS-rebind primitive — which is why the SOHO router strips RFC1918
answers and LAN clients need per-client dnsmasq overrides to reach their own
services.

THE MECHANISM, established against the DEPLOYED version rather than from
memory. The live prod Deployment runs
registry.k8s.io/external-dns/external-dns:v0.21.0. In v0.21.0,
source/annotations/processors.go IsControllerMismatch() skips a source object
whose `external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/controller` annotation is present and
!= its own `dns-controller`, and source/gateway.go applies that check inside
Endpoints() BEFORE any hostname is resolved; source/service.go applies the
identical check, covering the second configured source. catalog/render.py now
emits that annotation on every HTTPRoute it renders for an `internal` service,
derived from `exposure` alone — no per-service list — so a service that omits
`exposure` inherits the internal default and is unpublishable too. Verified
LIVE on prod on a throwaway hostname with no existing record at risk: the
annotated route published nothing, and adding the annotation to a route that
already had a record produced action=DELETE for both its A record and its `a-`
TXT registry entry one ~60s reconcile later, moving nothing else in the zone.

WHY PER-RESOURCE AND NOT A CLUSTER-WIDE OPT-IN FILTER. `labelFilter` is the
stronger default posture and v0.21.0 supports it for both configured sources,
but nine publishing objects here are hand-authored platform/apps manifests with
no `exposure` field, seven of which hold live records (auth, crafty, crafty-mc,
grafana, headlamp, the apex, unifi). An opt-in filter deletes all seven at
once, and whether each should be publicly resolvable is an operator decision
per name. Per-resource exclusion has exactly the blast radius of the defect;
the seven are enumerated in a shrink-only register so the unadjudicated set
cannot grow silently, and the filter stays available as hardening afterwards.

`policy: sync`, `txtOwnerId` and `domainFilters` are UNTOUCHED. Per-resource
exclusion only ever removes an object from this instance's view, so nothing
here makes prod capable of deleting a record it does not own.

WHAT THIS DELETES, and it is not reversible by a revert alone: 12 records — the
A record and the `a-`-prefixed TXT registry entry for each of jackett, pihole,
qbittorrent, radarr, semaphore and sonarr. The zone has no
`*.home.keithjackson.dev` wildcard and `*.keithjackson.dev` does not match two
labels, so each becomes a public NXDOMAIN with no fallback. The complete
pre-state is captured at the authority and committed as a recovery baseline
(.standup-dns/dns-20260914-pre-externaldns-scope.txt), with the restore
procedure for both halves of a record.

MERGE ORDER IS NOT OPTIONAL: feat/pihole-lan-dns-authority must land and be
verified first. Removing these records while the LAN still depends on them,
with the router stripping RFC1918 and no internal authority yet, breaks name
resolution outright.

The five `exposure: public` services are LEFT UNCHANGED and still answer with
the Gateway VIP, so they remain publicly unreachable. That is two open operator
decisions, both written up in platform/externaldns/helmrelease.yaml: what
address they should answer with (136.51.115.252 is the legacy non-k3s stack
serving a placeholder cert, not established as correct for this cluster), and
how to separate them from the non-public names that share the Gateway —
because in v0.21.0 the target annotation is read only from the GATEWAY and a
ListenerSet, never from an HTTPRoute, so a per-service override is not
expressible while they all attach to `shared`. No knob is added for it yet: one
that cannot take effect invites someone to set it and expect one.

Guard: conformance/tests/l0-static/internal-services-publish-no-public-dns, a
whole-repo-scoped L0 static check (no ci/l0.sh stage — the
whole-repo-invariants-wired meta-test forbids one). It asserts both directions
(present on internal, absent on public), the `service`-source half, that the
renderer DERIVES the annotation from `exposure` and cannot emit external-dns's
own claiming value, proves the shipped renderer end-to-end on
internal/public/omitted-field fixtures, and ratchets the non-catalog register.
Proven to fail on the pre-fix tree (9 of 53 assertions, naming all six
services) and pass after (56/56).

Schema 1.6.0 -> 1.7.0: no field changes, a mapping change to `exposure`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-14 00:43:12 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 cf7d97e546 fix(obs): twelve app SLI rules read a signal that exists; kill the dead ServiceMonitors
Twelve `<app>-down` SLI rules were STRUCTURALLY INERT. Each read `up{job="<app>"} == 0`,
and the ServiceMonitor rendered beside it named `endpoints[].port: metrics` — a port NO
rendered app Service defined. Every monitor discovered ZERO targets, so no `up{job="<app>"}`
series existed and the rule could not fire. Verified on prod before this change:
`count by (job) (up)` listed 24 jobs and not one of the twelve appeared; `up{job="plex"}`
and `up{job="gitea"}` both returned nothing. `PrometheusTargetsMissing` could not see it
either — a target that was never discovered has no `up` series to be 0.

THE PORT NAME WAS NEVER THE MISSING PIECE. Ground truth per app: Plex, Pi-hole, Jackett,
qBittorrent, Sonarr, Radarr, Seerr, Semaphore and Nextcloud export NO Prometheus metrics
without a separate exporter sidecar; Gitea can but only with app.ini metrics enabled;
Keycloak does, on the operator's management port, already scraped by
platform/keycloak/servicemonitor.yaml; vm-demo is a KubeVirt VM with no Service at all, so
its monitor selected nothing whatsoever. `metrics: true` was asserting a fact none of them
had. There was also a THIRD layer of inertness nobody had hit yet: every app namespace ships
default-deny with `ingress: []` and the renderer emitted no monitoring allow, so even a
correct port would have been dropped by policy — while renderer-contract.md claimed the
baseline carried such an allow.

FIXED IN THE GENERATOR, not in twelve rendered files:
  * `slis: [up]` now renders a `<app>-down` alert against kube-state-metrics readiness of the
    service's own workload object —
    `kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace,deployment} == 0 or absent(...)`,
    `kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready` for a StatefulSet, and
    `absent(kubevirt_vmi_info{namespace,name,phase="running"})` for a VM. The same idiom
    KeycloakDown has used since it was fixed. kube-state-metrics IS scraped, so this needs no
    exporter and no new target. The `or absent(...)` half is load-bearing: the signal
    DISAPPEARING now fires the alert instead of silencing it.
  * schema 1.6.0 adds `observability.metricsEndpoint` — WHERE metrics are served. A
    ServiceMonitor is rendered ONLY from it, and it renders all three halves of a working
    scrape together: the named Service port, the monitor endpoint, and the
    monitoring-namespace CiliumNetworkPolicy allow. No catalog entry declares one, so twelve
    dead ServiceMonitors are gone. `metrics: true` keeps meaning logs-to-Loki plus
    kube-state-metrics liveness.
  * schema 1.6.0 also adds `observability.livenessWorkload`, and catalog/keycloak.yaml uses
    it. Keycloak's server is a StatefulSet run by the operator; the default Deployment shape
    would have made its `absent()` half fire FOREVER — the other failure mode this repo has
    shipped.
  * renderer selftest gains cases 9/9a/9b/9c: no metricsEndpoint => no monitor; the up SLI
    must not read `up{job=...}`; endpoint port must exist on the Service; the metrics port
    must NOT reach the Gateway allow; an unknown livenessWorkload.kind is REFUSED.

PROOF, both directions, for all twelve (apps/wave-{0,1,2}/tests/app-slis.test.yaml, run by
platform/monitoring/tests/run.sh over the RENDERED manifests):
  * quiet on the healthy state; firing on no-ready-replica; firing when the series is ABSENT;
    the VM asserted both gone and in a non-running phase; per-app isolation asserted, and
    keycloak asserted un-maskable by its neighbours (keycloak-operator Deployment,
    keycloak-db StatefulSet ready in the same namespace).
  * mutation-checked: six mutations, each turning its suite red — reverting plex to
    `up{job=...} == 0`; dropping seerr's `absent()` half; pointing keycloak at a Deployment;
    capitalising the VMI phase to `Running`; widening keycloak's matcher to the namespace;
    inverting plex's `== 0` to `!= 0`. Control run green.
  * live on prod with `promtool query instant`: all ten deployed app Deployments export
    `kube_deployment_status_replicas_available`,
    `kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready{namespace="keycloak",statefulset="keycloak"}` = 2,
    `kubevirt_vmi_info` present with a lowercase `phase="running"`; and evaluating the twelve
    SHIPPED expressions returns no series for eleven (quiet, not permanently firing). The
    twelfth is vm-demo, which is not in apps/wave-0/kustomization.yaml and so is not deployed
    — its rule is not applied either.

DELETION WAS NOT THE ANSWER, and the evidence is recorded rather than assumed:
kube-prometheus-stack's `kubernetes-apps` group IS live on prod (17 rules, KubePodNotReady /
KubeDeploymentReplicasMismatch among them), so app pods are not unmonitored — but that is a
generic warning keyed to a namespace, not the per-service CRITICAL SLI R-OBS-01 declares.
platform/monitoring/alerts.yaml carries no generic app-readiness rule at all.

GUARD SO IT CANNOT RECUR SILENTLY: new whole-repo L0 invariant
conformance/tests/l0-static/servicemonitor-ports-resolve. It walks the MONITORS, not the
alerts, so it needs no `up{job=...}` rule to reach one, and resolves each endpoint by SELECTOR
across the whole tree rather than by same-file adjacency. Fixing the alerts DELETED the only
thing that made the broken monitors visible to the sibling check, which is exactly why this
axis needed its own home. It declares `conformance.home.k3s/scope: whole-repo` and adds no
ci/l0.sh stage. Proven to FAIL on the pre-fix tree: 15 failures — eleven port disagreements,
vm-demo's monitor matching no Service at all, and the three generator/contract assertions —
and to pass after. Its resolver is additionally proven on in-check fixtures (agreeing pair
accepted, disagreeing pair rejected, target-less endpoint rejected), because after the fix
there are zero in-repo monitors left for it to judge and a guard whose only evidence is
"nothing failed" cannot be told apart from one that stopped working. It also asserts
r_servicemonitor does not HARDCODE a port name — the mechanism by which one edit gave twelve
services the same wrong one.

Also fixed, found on the way:
  * platform/monitoring/tests/run.sh discovered the SUITE convention only inside
    platform/monitoring/tests/ while documenting it as general — a suite added anywhere else
    was never run and still looked like coverage. Now discovered tree-wide; a misplaced
    *.test.yaml fails loudly instead of vanishing.
  * KNOWN_UNWIRED_JOBS in alert-metrics-have-scrape-targets is now EMPTY, and the twelve
    apps/* entries in alert-rules-unit-tested's UNTESTED_FILES are gone — both because the
    gaps were CLOSED, not waived. Both registers are shrink-only and a stale entry fails.
  * renderer-contract.md claimed the default-deny baseline carried a standing monitoring
    scrape allow. It never did; the claim is corrected and the allow is now real, per declared
    metrics endpoint and scoped to that one port.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-13 17:11:30 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 72f0ba4e1f fix(qbittorrent): the comment warning about doubled dollars contained one
gate / gate (push) Has been cancelled
gate / conformance (push) Has been cancelled
The new flux-postbuild-substitution guard failed the merge on
apps/wave-0/qbittorrent.yaml:155 — a run of two dollars in a substituted
path that nothing justifies. It was inside the postStart hook's own comment
EXPLAINING the hazard: prose about what envsubst does to a doubled dollar,
written with a literal doubled dollar.

Functionally harmless — it is a bash comment, and collapsing it changes no
behaviour — but the guard cannot distinguish a comment from content that
reaches the workload, and it is right not to try: that is precisely how the
nextcloud-db break slipped through. Reworded in words instead.

Worth recording that this is the second time today the same trap caught an
explanation of itself: my own fix for the nextcloud-db incident (16b7fcd)
also shipped dollars inside the comment describing the danger, and I only
caught it because I re-read the file. This time the guard caught it, on work
merged minutes earlier — which is the guard earning its place.

Re-rendered so the golden matches the catalog.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-13 16:38:14 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 e4bd76070e fix(qbittorrent): a durable WebUI credential, and the two bugs the WIP hid
Finishes the inherited WIP. qBittorrent 5.x had no WebUI\Username or
WebUI\Password_PBKDF2 in its conf, so it minted a NEW random admin password on
every process start. Both consequences had ALREADY fired: measured before this
change, `POST /api/v3/downloadclient/testall` returned isValid:false with
"Authentication Failure" on BOTH Sonarr and Radarr, so Completed Download
Handling was silently broken, and no human had a stable login either.

Mechanism: the SOPS/age qbittorrent-bootstrap Secret is the single source of
truth; a lifecycle.postStart hook derives qBittorrent's own stored form
(PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512, 100000 iterations, 16-byte salt, 64-byte digest) and
asserts it into the conf on EVERY container start, then logs in to the WebUI to
prove it. Level-triggered like the repo's CronJob reconcilers, but triggered by
the container start because the failure it closes IS a container start: a cron
would leave a window after every restart in which the app serves a random
password, and would have to edit an RWO PVC from outside, under a running
process. AuthSubnetWhitelist was rejected — authentication is not weakened.

Two real bugs found in the WIP, both the postBuild-substitution trap:

  * PORT came from a doubled-dollar WEBUI_PORT expansion. Correct on the cluster
    (envsubst collapses it) and the renderer accepts it, but run any other way
    bash reads the doubled dollar as its PID, so every curl got an unparseable
    URL and the hook logged "the WebUI rejected the durable credential" three
    times having never asked it anything — see the marker log at 05:35Z. Now a
    literal PORT=8080; the script contains no braced expansion at all and
    behaves identically however it is run.
  * One shared wait budget covered both the s6 wait and the API wait, so the
    first consumed all 90s and attempts 2-3 fired instantly. Separate counters
    now; "the API never answered" is reported as a distinct fault from "the
    password was rejected"; and a rejection restarts qbittorrent-nox so a retry
    can actually change its outcome.

apps/wave-0/kustomization.yaml did not list the SOPS secret, so Flux would never
have applied it and the adoption of the live-only, kubectl-client-side-apply
qbittorrent-bootstrap Secret would silently not have happened. Listed now; the
decrypted values are SHA-256-identical to the live Secret's, so adopting it
cannot change the password.

Proven on prod: testall flipped isValid false -> true on both apps; after
deleting and recreating the pod the conf still held both keys, the WebUI answered
Ok. to a login with the credential decrypted from git, and both arrs still
reported isValid:true. The post-envsubst manifest was audited as `flux build
kustomization` emits it (no doubled dollar, no braced expansion, PORT=8080,
bash -n clean) and the hook's write path was exercised in-container against a
scratch conf: exit 10 when the keys are absent, exit 0 and a byte-identical file
on a second run, digest verified by an independent PBKDF2.

NOT proven, and recorded as such in DECISIONS-LOG: the hook has not yet run as a
real postStart on prod — the Deployment is Flux-owned from main and both routes
to the live object were refused by the session's permission classifier. Verify
on merge that the marker log gains a VERIFIED line on the next pod start.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-13 16:31:58 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 204f0ec28e WIP: durable qBittorrent WebUI credential
INCOMPLETE — preserved by the PM after the authoring agent hit the session
rate limit mid-task. Do not merge without finishing and gating it.

Problem: qBittorrent 5.1.2 has no WebUI\Username or WebUI\Password_PBKDF2 in
its config, so it mints a NEW temporary admin password on every process start
and announces it only on stdout. Two consequences, both real: the Sonarr and
Radarr download clients configured earlier will silently stop working at the
next pod restart, and a human operator has no stable login either.

Adds a SOPS-encrypted qbittorrent-bootstrap Secret (verified encrypted: both
values are ENC[AES256_GCM]) plus the catalog/rendered wiring to consume it.

WHAT REMAINS:
  - The agent's last note: the postStart hook works, but its output never
    reaches kubectl logs, so it was switching to the marker-file logging
    pattern gitea's hook already uses. That change is NOT here.
  - The Secret exists on prod as kubectl-client-side-apply, i.e. live-only;
    merging adopts it into git.
  - Sonarr's and Radarr's stored download-client passwords were to be updated
    to the durable value — NOT done, so the chain may break on restart until
    it is.
  - The required proof is unfinished: restart the pod, then show the WebUI
    accepts the credential AND both arrs still report isValid: true.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-13 15:57:42 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 16b7fcd677 fix(cnpg): the grant reconciler died on every Flux-managed run
gate / gate (push) Has been cancelled
gate / conformance (push) Has been cancelled
The SQL asserted convergence in a dollar-quoted PL/pgSQL DO block. That
cannot survive this delivery path: the ConfigMap is rendered through Flux's
postBuild substitution, and envsubst collapses a doubled dollar into one, so
Postgres received a half-quoted DO and failed with a syntax error. Three
scheduled runs had left nine Error pods in nextcloud-db.

It passed verification because it was hand-applied with kubectl, which runs
no envsubst — the defect only existed once Flux owned the object. The GRANT
on the first line still succeeded, so the privilege held and the blind spot
stayed closed; what was broken was the assertion meant to prove it, which is
the part that makes a silent regression visible.

Rewritten in plain SQL with no dollar sign anywhere in the file, comments
included. Escaping by doubling again would also work and would be the next
person's trap. has_database_privilege()::int is 1 or 0, so the division
raises division_by_zero and ON_ERROR_STOP=1 fails the Job; the divisor is
not constant so it cannot be folded away at plan time.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-13 00:19:49 -05:00
jakman85 78d76fa089 merge: qBittorrent can finally write where the arrs can see it
gate / gate (push) Has been cancelled
gate / conformance (push) Has been cancelled
qBittorrent's SavePath was /downloads and no such directory existed in the
container, so the download client had no working destination and nothing
downstream could see its output. It now mounts the same NFS export the arrs
use, narrowed to the downloads subtree via subPath — one mount, so the
EXDEV hardlink trap the bulk-tier test guards stays closed. PUID/PGID are
load-bearing: the export is owned 1000:1000 and the image's default 911 is
denied.
2026-09-12 23:36:48 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 78bc53afc7 feat(qbittorrent): attach the downloads area of the bulk export — the chain was broken end to end
qBittorrent was the one member of the download chain with NO media volume.
Its live config said

    Session\DefaultSavePath=/downloads/
    Session\TempPath=/downloads/incomplete/
    Downloads\SavePath=/downloads/

while `ls /downloads` in the container returned "No such file or directory".
The catalog entry declared exactly one volume — config at /config on longhorn —
and carried a comment deferring the downloads volume "until OQ-2 is resolved".
OQ-2 WAS resolved (schema 1.5.0 static bulk NFS PVs); plex, sonarr, radarr and
nextcloud all took their mounts and qBittorrent's was simply never added. So the
download client was writing, or failing to write, a path that did not exist —
and anything it did create would have been invisible to sonarr/radarr, lost on
every pod recreation, and consuming the node's ephemeral disk until then.

WHAT THIS ADDS to catalog/qbittorrent.yaml (rendered into apps/wave-0):

  * storage[downloads]: class bulk, export /mnt/Storage/plex, subPath downloads,
    mountPath /downloads, 9Ti advisory. ONE mount of the SAME export sonarr,
    radarr (rw) and plex (ro) already consume, narrowed to the handoff subtree.
  * env PUID=1000 / PGID=3000. LOAD-BEARING, not cosmetic: the container ran as
    uid 911 and /mnt/Storage/plex/downloads is 0755 owned 1000:1000, so the
    export would have mounted cleanly and then failed every write with EACCES.
    Measured both ways on prod: a write as uid 1000 succeeded, the same write as
    uid 911 was denied.
  * podSecurityContext.fsGroup 3000, for the LONGHORN config PVC only, exactly as
    sonarr/radarr set it — fsGroup is a no-op on an in-tree NFS volume.

WHY subPath AND NOT THE EXPORT ROOT AT /media (sonarr/radarr's shape): a download
client has no business writing the library. The arrs need the root mount because
THEY hardlink downloads/ -> tv/|movies/ and link() is a same-MOUNT operation;
qBittorrent performs no such link, so narrowing to downloads/ removes movies/,
tv/ and photos/ from its mount namespace without removing any operation it
performs. It is still ONE mount of the export, so the L0 assertion that no
workload mounts one export twice (the EXDEV trap) holds — and the arrs' own
link() stays intra-mount. Proven live: nlink 1 -> 2, same inode, no EXDEV, every
step executed as uid 1000.

NETWORK: nothing to grant and nothing to steer. An NFS PersistentVolume is
mounted by the NODE KERNEL in the host netns — the established socket to
192.168.2.102:2049 is on the node's own LAN address, the pod netns has no socket
to 2049 at all, and no CiliumNetworkPolicy on this cluster names that host or
port. `ip route get 192.168.2.102` picks eno1 even on the tunnel-owning node, and
Cilium's own egress map lists 192.168.0.0/16 as an Excluded CIDR for every
vpn-class pod while 0.0.0.0/0 goes to the gateway. Public egress still exits the
PIA address; the VPN guarantee is untouched.

NOT CLOSED BY THIS COMMIT, deliberately: absolute paths still differ between this
pod (/downloads/x) and the arrs (/media/downloads/x), so Completed Download
Handling needs one Remote Path Mapping per arr. That lives in the arrs' own
databases, not in git.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-12 23:32:03 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 7880d84bce fix(cnpg): grant cnpg_metrics_exporter CONNECT on the nextcloud database
The CNPG metrics exporter could not CONNECT to the `nextcloud` application
database, so every user-defined collector query against that target failed on
all three instances:

  FATAL: permission denied for database "nextcloud" (SQLSTATE 42501)
  DETAIL: User does not have CONNECT privilege.

The whole cnpg_pg_stat_* / pg_settings / pg_postmaster family was therefore
MISSING for nextcloud-db while the scrape target still reported up=1 — the blind
spot platform/cnpg/alerts.yaml's CNPGMetricsCollectorErroring was written to
catch. It had been firing on all three pods; measured before this change,
cnpg_pg_settings_setting had 765 series for keycloak, 765 for semaphore-db and
ZERO for nextcloud-db. Nextcloud's database had never been monitored.

Root cause is the live ACL, not the spec — all three Cluster specs bootstrap
identically:

  nextcloud : datacl = {nextcloud=CTc/nextcloud}   <- explicit, no PUBLIC entry
  keycloak  : datacl = NULL
  semaphore : datacl = NULL

A NULL datacl means PostgreSQL's defaults, which include CONNECT for PUBLIC, so
keycloak and semaphore admit the exporter only by inheriting PUBLIC's implicit
CONNECT. On `nextcloud` something ran the equivalent of REVOKE ALL ON DATABASE
nextcloud FROM PUBLIC, which materialises datacl and drops that implicit entry.
That REVOKE is in neither this repo nor DECISIONS-LOG.md — it was applied out of
band, which is why the remedy has to be declarative rather than another hand-run
psql.

CNPG 1.30.0 cannot express a database-level GRANT (verified against the live
CRDs): `Database` has no ACL field (`allowConnections` is the datallowconn flag,
not a per-role grant), and managed.roles/DatabaseRole cover role attributes plus
`inRoles` membership only — and membership would hand the exporter the owner's
CREATE/TEMP and all table access to buy one CONNECT. postInitApplicationSQL runs
once at bootstrap, so it cannot repair the already-bootstrapped instances that
are actually broken. So this follows the pattern the repo already uses for state
Flux cannot reach: the level-triggered CronJob reconciler alongside
platform/keycloak/client-secret-reconciler.yaml. A one-shot Job is deliberately
avoided — a completed Job never re-runs, so a rebuild or PITR restore would
silently reopen the blind spot.

Exactly one privilege, and nothing else:

  GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE nextcloud TO cnpg_metrics_exporter;

giving `cnpg_metrics_exporter=c/nextcloud` — CONNECT only, no CREATE, no
TEMPORARY, no ownership, no superuser, no table or schema grants. Nothing more is
needed because CNPG already creates the role as a member of the built-in
pg_monitor role (verified on all three clusters), which carries the read access
the collector's pg_catalog queries want. It runs as the database OWNER, not a
superuser: enableSuperuserAccess stays off, and a database owner holds the grant
option on its own database.

Verified live on prod:
  * the grant issued under SET ROLE nextcloud, proving no superuser is needed;
  * permission-denied and "Error collecting user query" both went to 0 on
    nextcloud-db-1/-2/-3, i.e. every collector query now succeeds;
  * cnpg_pg_settings_setting now 765 series for nextcloud-db, matching the other
    two, and cnpg_pg_postmaster_start_time present on all three instances;
  * cnpg_last_error = 0 on all NINE instances, so keycloak-db and semaphore-db
    are unaffected and their datacl is still NULL;
  * convergence proven by revoking the grant again and letting the committed
    CronJob restore it, then re-running it against a converged database to show
    idempotence;
  * CNPGMetricsCollectorErroring, firing on all three pods beforehand, has
    cleared (`for: 6h` delays firing, not resolution).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-12 23:22:27 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 d617983e83 feat(gitea): render gitea-allow-flux-ingress — prod's GitOps source, in git at last
The CNP that lets flux-system's source-controller clone from the in-cluster Gitea
Service was APPLIED LIVE on prod on 2026-09-13 and existed nowhere in this repo. It
carried a provenance annotation saying so. Until now it could not be authored: the
gitea CNPs are GENERATED from the catalog entry, and the contract had no field for
"also admit this in-cluster client" (fixed in the previous commit).

Why it matters more than a missing allow normally would. prod's GitRepository points
at the Service, not a public name (clusters/prod/kustomization.yaml:
`url: http://gitea.gitea.svc.cluster.local:3000/Home-Network/home-network-k3s-impl.git`),
deliberately, so prod's GitOps depends on neither public DNS, Cloudflare, prod's own
Gateway nor ${BASE_DOMAIN}. But gitea-allow-gateway-ingress admits only
`fromEntities: [ingress]`, so source-controller's clone was dropped — and the
HTTPRoute that would have served the post-apex-flip public name instead lives in a
DOWNSTREAM tier that cannot apply while the source is down. Source down -> routes
never rename -> source stays down. Every `kubectl delete cnp` and every cluster
rebuild re-armed that deadlock, and it would have been extremely hard to diagnose
cold.

The rendered object is EQUIVALENT to the live one — same apiVersion/kind, same
name/namespace/labels, and a byte-identical spec (endpointSelector
app.kubernetes.io/name=gitea; fromEndpoints matchLabels
k8s:io.kubernetes.pod.namespace=flux-system; toPorts 3000/TCP), verified against
`kubectl --context k3s-prod -n gitea get cnp gitea-allow-flux-ingress -o json`. The
name matches, so Flux ADOPTS the live object in place: no spec change, so no policy
recompute and no flap on prod's own source. The only difference is that the rendered
object carries no `homelab.keithjackson.dev/provenance` annotation — the reasoning now
lives where the object is authored, in catalog/gitea.yaml, next to the field that
generates it.

Golden re-rendered with the canonical command; the whole apps/ diff is the one new
document.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-12 22:46:57 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 5da116b34d fix(oauth2-proxy): platform-admins may reach the media UIs — the immediate 403
The four forward-auth media UIs (jackett, qbittorrent, radarr, sonarr) gate on
`--allowed-group=media-users` alone. On prod the `homelab` realm has exactly one
user — the operator's `jakman85` — and it is a member of `platform-admins` ONLY.
`media-users` has zero members, so those four hosts were reachable by nobody:
oauth2-proxy completed OIDC discovery, redirected to Keycloak, got a token whose
`groups` claim is `["platform-admins"]`, found no allowed group in it, and
answered 403. No login form appeared because the browser already held a Keycloak
SSO session from a platform-admins login — hence "403 immediately".

pihole and crafty were unaffected: they already gate on platform-admins.

`--allowed-group` is repeatable and OR-ed, so listing both groups means "media
consumers OR platform operators". This grants no real privilege — platform-admins
already maps to cluster-admin via k8s-oidc-rbac.yaml (oidc:platform-admins), so a
member can already exec into these pods — and it keeps media-users meaningful for
non-admin household accounts.

Ruled out while diagnosing: client-secret drift (all 7 sidecar secrets hash-match
keycloak-realm-clients), stale apex URLs (every live sidecar carries
keycloak.prod.home.keithjackson.dev), missing group mappers (all 7 clients emit
claim=groups, full.path=false), and the central oauth2-proxy pod restarts — those
were Keycloak returning 503 "no healthy upstream" to OIDC discovery at startup, a
consequence of the Keycloak roll, not a cause.

Goldens re-rendered with the canonical command:
  python3 catalog/render.py --all catalog -o apps --wave-layout --no-image-automation

R-IDP-06

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-12 17:12:05 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 6b953cc56b fix(arrs): the config PVC was mounted where the app never looks
gate / gate (push) Has been cancelled
gate / conformance (push) Has been cancelled
sonarr, radarr, jackett and qbittorrent all mounted their Longhorn config PVC at
the renderer's default /data/config, but every one of these images runs with
`-data=/config`. So the PVC held nothing but lost+found while the app wrote its
entire configuration to the container's EPHEMERAL writable layer — destroyed on
every pod recreation: restart, reschedule, image bump.

Measured in-cluster before fixing, per app, rather than inferred:
  /data/config  dev=2080  [lost+found]                      <- the Longhorn PVC
  /config       dev=2053  [Sentry asp config.xml logs ...]   <- the node's own disk
and a marker file written to /config did not appear in /data/config, so they are
demonstrably different storage. qbittorrent's /config sat on dev=66309
(/dev/nvme0n1p5), i.e. whichever node it happened to land on.

This is the SAME failure catalog/plex.yaml:54 already records having fixed for
Plex; plex was the only one of the five that was right.

The live /config contents were copied onto each PVC BEFORE this landed, so
jackett's API key and qbittorrent's credentials — which other apps reference —
survive the move rather than being regenerated.

catalog/sonarr.yaml:61 documented this as a latent bug and deliberately left it
because it changes live on-disk state. It is being fixed now because all four pods
had just been recreated, so their configs were freshly generated and nothing had
accumulated to lose.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-12 16:35:18 -05:00
jakman85 f5e62d9169 merge: bulk NFS volumes for plex, sonarr, radarr and nextcloud
gate / gate (push) Has been cancelled
gate / conformance (push) Has been cancelled
2026-09-12 16:26:31 -05:00
jakman85 cac413e87a feat(cnpg): synchronous replication, quorum of 1, dataDurability preferred
gate / gate (push) Has been cancelled
gate / conformance (push) Has been cancelled
Three instances replicating ASYNCHRONOUSLY still lose data on failover: COMMIT
returns as soon as the primary has flushed locally, so a primary that dies
before its standbys catch up takes the last few transactions with it and the
promoted standby comes up quietly missing them. On keycloak-db that is a
just-created user, a rotated credential or a consent vanishing at exactly the
moment of a failover.

`method: any` + `number: 1` makes COMMIT wait for ONE of the two standbys to
confirm — the point of having them.

dataDurability: preferred, NEVER required. `required` is a strict quorum:
fewer than `number` healthy standbys and writes BLOCK. Postgres here shares
three nodes with etcd and the CNI, so one degraded standby — a node reboot, a
Longhorn replica rebuild, a Cilium restart — would turn a partial degradation
into a total write outage, and on the SSO database that takes kubectl OIDC,
Grafana, Headlamp, Gitea and forward-auth with it. `preferred` keeps
synchronous commit while a healthy standby is there and relaxes the required
count dynamically when one is not. dataDurability is only honoured while
standbyNamesPre/standbyNamesPost are unset — both are.

NON-DISRUPTIVE: this compiles to `synchronous_standby_names`, a reload-only
PostgreSQL parameter. No pod restart, no switchover, no client disconnect.
It is the last of the three commits because it wants standbys that already
exist and are already on their final nodes.

Field shape verified against the live clusters.postgresql.cnpg.io CRD before
relying on it (CNPG 1.30.0, byte-identical schema on k3s-prod and k3s-dev):
spec.postgresql.synchronous requires `method` (enum any|first) and `number`
(x-kubernetes-validation self > 0); `dataDurability` is enum required|
preferred. None of the three Clusters previously had a `postgresql:` block,
so this adds one rather than merging into existing parameters.

DEV IMPACT: identical and non-disruptive, same reload-only path.

Verified: yamllint clean; both tiers render the block.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit f1ce19461415e77eb2f1ca5109ebab49edf0860b)
2026-09-07 23:54:19 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 82aff4d053 feat(apps): attach the media library and the legacy Nextcloud dataset over NFS
plex, sonarr, radarr and nextcloud each gain one bulk volume. Authored in the catalog and
re-rendered, never hand-edited into apps/ (render-golden: 10/10). Layout, the export change the
operator must apply, the uid analysis and the validation probes are in docs/BULK-NFS-STORAGE.md;
everything there was measured on the host over read-only SSH, not assumed.

WHAT THE LAYOUT TURNED OUT TO BE, AND WHY IT DECIDED THE DESIGN
/mnt/Storage/plex holds movies/ tv/ photos/ AND downloads/ as SIBLINGS in one dataset — so the
arrs' import source and their libraries are one filesystem on the server, and the download client's
completed folders are already named radarr/ and tv-sonarr/. The k3s arrs are joining a tree an arr
stack has been driving for a long time.

That sibling fact is the whole argument for the arrs mounting the export ROOT rather than a
subPath per directory. Sonarr and Radarr import by hardlinking or atomically renaming, both
same-filesystem operations, and to the kernel "same filesystem" means SAME MOUNT. Two subPath
mounts of one export are two mounts: link() across them returns EXDEV regardless of what the
server knows, and the arrs do not fail loudly — they degrade to copy-then-delete, rewriting every
file over NFS and destroying the seeding copy. The smallest subtree containing both tv/ and
downloads/ IS the export root, so the root mount is the MINIMAL mount that preserves hardlinks.
Least privilege bounded below by a hard requirement. The cost is stated, not hidden: sonarr can
also write /media/movies.

  plex       /mnt/Storage/plex      -> /media                 ro   ReadOnlyMany
  sonarr     /mnt/Storage/plex      -> /media                 rw   ReadWriteMany
  radarr     /mnt/Storage/plex      -> /media                 rw   ReadWriteMany
  nextcloud  /mnt/Storage/nextcloud -> /mnt/legacy-nextcloud  ro   ReadOnlyMany  (subPath: nextcloud)

Plex is read-only because it indexes and streams; every write on that tree belongs to the arrs, and
saying so removes Plex from the set of things that can damage 8.33 T. All three media consumers use
the SAME mountPath deliberately: when qbittorrent is eventually given this export, the arrs and the
download client will already agree on absolute paths, which is the other precondition for hardlinked
imports.

*** /media AND NOT /data — A COLLISION CAUGHT WHILE RENDERING. *** The arrs' Longhorn config PVC
renders at the renderer default /data/config. A media mount at /data is mounted OVER it and MASKS
the config volume: the pod comes up with its app database shadowed by an 8 T media tree. That
discovery also exposed a SEPARATE PRE-EXISTING BUG, reported and deliberately NOT fixed here:
LinuxServer arr images run with -data=/config, so /data/config is very likely the wrong home for
that PVC and the app has been writing its EPHEMERAL layer — the exact failure catalog/plex.yaml's
mountPath comment records already having been bitten by. Plex was fixed; sonarr, radarr, qbittorrent
and jackett were not. Fixing it starts those apps from an empty config volume, so it needs its own
change with the operator present. This change does not make it worse.

UID/GID — THE FAILURE THIS TIER ALWAYS HAS
The export is sec=sys + no_root_squash, so the client's numeric uid passes through verbatim and the
server's ownership is the entire access story. The tree is 0755 owned 1000:3000, so ONLY uid 1000
can write it. LinuxServer images default to 911. Without intervention sonarr and radarr would have
mounted cleanly, gone Ready, and failed EVERY import with EACCES.

And fsGroup cannot fix that — the in-tree NFS plugin does NO ownership management, so
podSecurityContext.fsGroup is a no-op on an NFS volume. Reaching for it is how this gets
misdiagnosed. So PUID=1000/PGID=3000 are added to both arrs (PGID 3000 keeps what they write
group-readable to the live non-k3s consumers of the same export), and fsGroup: 3000 is added for
the LONGHORN config PVC only, so changing PUID does not depend on the image re-chowning /config.
plex already runs as 1000 and reads a 0755 tree; nextcloud reads as www-data. Neither needs work.

NEXTCLOUD IS MOUNTED READ-ONLY, WHICH IS A DEVIATION FROM THE BRIEF — ON EVIDENCE
The task said nextcloud writes. The dataset says otherwise: of 270 G, 267 G is config_backup/, the
rest is config/ (103 M) and config_old/ (3.4 G). There is NO data/ directory. This is the OLD
non-k3s instance's configuration plus a backup blob — an archive — and that instance is STILL LIVE
on it (exported rw to 192.168.1.6 and .5, which the operator has said must stay active). Two
Nextclouds writing one instance's config directory, each with its own database and therefore its own
oc_filecache, is unrecoverable corruption. "Do not grant more than needed" lands on ro, and ro is
the trivially reversible choice. If the intent is in fact a MIGRATION, that is a larger and more
deliberate change than a mount; the one-line flip is documented.

Read-only for nextcloud can additionally be enforced SERVER-side (only nextcloud consumes that
dataset from k3s), and the sharenfs value in the doc uses ro= for the k3s clients. The media tree
cannot: plex and the arrs may land on any node, so the server sees the same addresses for reader
and writers. Plex's ro is therefore a client-side guarantee — stated as a limitation, not left
implied.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-07 23:54:13 -05:00
jakman85 e8d8601ca6 feat(cnpg): required pod anti-affinity + switchover primary rolls
gate / gate (push) Has been cancelled
gate / conformance (push) Has been cancelled
`instances: 3` alone does not keep the three instances apart. All three
Clusters used CNPG's default `podAntiAffinityType: preferred`, which is a
scheduler HINT — two instances may share a node whenever that scores better,
and they WILL on the path that matters: when CNPG recreates an instance after
a node loss, the surviving nodes are the only candidates and one of them
already runs an instance. `preferred` is how a 3-instance cluster decays back
into the single-node failure domain the previous commit exists to remove.

`required` makes it a scheduling constraint. On a 3-node cluster with no
spare, the cost is that an instance whose node is gone stays Pending until a
node returns. That is correct: a replacement squeezed onto an already-occupied
node dies with that node while making the cluster LOOK three-way replicated.
2 of 3 instances still serve and CNPG still promotes.

ALSO SETS primaryUpdateMethod: switchover. This is not cosmetic. Changing the
affinity changes the instance pod spec, so CNPG performs a rolling update, and
the CRD default for primaryUpdateMethod is `restart` (verified against the
live CNPG 1.30.0 CRD on both clusters) — a delete-and-recreate of the PRIMARY
pod, i.e. tens of seconds of no Postgres. On keycloak-db that is an SSO
outage, which also means kubectl OIDC, Grafana, Headlamp, Gitea and
forward-auth. With standbys now present, `switchover` promotes an
already-updated streaming replica instead, reducing the roll to a connection
reset. Known constraint documented in the manifest: under `switchover` the
operator rejects an update that changes imageName and a postgresql parameter
in the same reconcile.

Verified satisfiable before merge (read-only): k3s-prod and k3s-dev each have
3 Ready, schedulable, untainted nodes, and every pgdata PVC already has a
Longhorn replica on all three (replica-soft-anti-affinity=false), so any
instance can attach from any node.

DEV IMPACT: identical, and dev can absorb it. Longhorn dev nodes are 124.9 GiB
each with 152.0 GiB already scheduled under a 200% over-provisioning ceiling
(249.8 GiB); the six new 5Gi volumes add 30 GiB scheduled per node -> 182.0,
still inside the ceiling, and only ~600 MiB per volume is really consumed.
Prod is far looser: 239 -> 269 GiB scheduled against a 829 GiB ceiling.

THIS IS THE DISRUPTIVE COMMIT of the three. Land it on its own reconcile,
after the scale-out has produced two Ready standbys per Cluster, so the blast
radius is one clean switchover per database rather than a scale-out and a roll
at once. Expect a brief SSO interruption for keycloak-db.

Verified: yamllint clean; both tiers render the new fields; field names,
types and enum values checked against the live clusters.postgresql.cnpg.io
CRD (CNPG 1.30.0, identical on prod and dev).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit e1d364238d73e6ee99c9a50108fe8b4e09481a7e)
2026-09-07 23:48:32 -05:00
jakman85 f338e91770 feat(cnpg): instances 3 on all three Clusters — a standby to fail over to
gate / gate (push) Has been cancelled
gate / conformance (push) Has been cancelled
All three CNPG Clusters ran `instances: 1`. Longhorn's 3-way replication
saves the DATA when a node dies; it does not save the SERVICE — a single
instance has to be rescheduled, re-attach its volume and replay WAL before
Postgres accepts a connection again.

With nothing in the spec keeping them apart, all three primaries had drifted
onto ONE node (k3s-prod-2 on prod, k3s-dev-3 on dev). On 2026-09-07 that node
took SSO, Nextcloud and Semaphore down together, and with SSO went kubectl
OIDC, Grafana, Headlamp, Gitea and forward-auth.

Three instances give each Cluster a streaming standby CNPG can promote in
seconds, repointing the -rw Service with no volume re-attach and no restore.

UNBLOCKED BY WORKING BACKUPS, NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THEM. Standbys replicate
corruption and deletions faithfully; only the Barman archive is a backup, and
adding standbys while archive_mode=on with a failing archive_command would
have multiplied the disk-full clock, not hedged it. All three Clusters on
both k3s-prod and k3s-dev now report ContinuousArchiving=True with a real
firstRecoverabilityPoint (verified read-only, 2026-09-07).

Scaling out is non-disruptive on its own: CNPG creates -2 then -3
sequentially, each seeded by pg_basebackup from the RUNNING primary. The
primary is not restarted and clients are not disconnected. The anti-affinity
change that DOES cause a switchover is deliberately the next commit.

DEV IMPACT: identical — dev is on the same shape (three single-instance DBs,
all on k3s-dev-3) and gets the same scale-out. Dev has three untainted nodes
and Longhorn headroom for it (see the next commit's message for the numbers).

Cost: 2 extra 5Gi PVCs per Cluster; ~30 GiB provisioned cluster-wide against
live pgdata of ~600 MiB each, on Longhorn with 200% over-provisioning.

Verified: yamllint clean; `kubectl kustomize --load-restrictor
LoadRestrictionsNone platform-config` and `kubectl kustomize apps/wave-0`
both render `instances: 3`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit ed6fe6cb019b96f677a92448a0347f979d1a6d02)
2026-09-07 23:41:31 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 161430d915 feat(backup): the overlay picks the credential — BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX
The previous commit created the two halves. This one wires the choice, so dev renders MinIO
credentials and prod renders R2 credentials from the SAME base manifests (R-ENV-02: the
overlay patch is the entire difference between environments; no base manifest is forked).

    cluster-vars  BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX   base ""  |  dev ""  |  prod "-prod"

    velero HelmRelease  credentials.existingSecret: velero-cloud-credentials${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX}
    3x CNPG Cluster     s3Credentials.*.name:      <db>-backup-credentials${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX}

ONE SUFFIX, NOT FOUR SECRET-NAME KNOBS. Four independent knobs can be updated three-quarters
of the way, leaving one consumer reading the OTHER environment's key with nothing rendering
wrong — and StrictPostBuildSubstitutions cannot catch that: strict mode fails on an UNDEFINED
variable, never on a defined-but-stale one. With one suffix the four move together or not at
all. The cost is that the rendered Secret name is not greppable from the consumer, so both
kustomizations spell the two names out in full beside the resources.

THE BASE DEFAULT IS "" AND THAT IS LOAD-BEARING. It renders the UNSUFFIXED names — objects
that exist in every render, and that dev is running today. The alternative failure mode is
strictly worse than the shared-Secret state this replaces: velero's pod hangs in
ContainerCreating forever when `existingSecret` names a missing Secret (the volume never
mounts), and a CNPG Cluster whose s3Credentials Secret is absent stops archiving WAL — which
under archive_mode=on is a filling pgdata PVC, not a missing backup. So an unresolvable
default breaks the referencing cluster HARDER than a wrong key does. Both overlays state the
value explicitly anyway, so neither inherits it silently.

Prod's overlay change is a cluster-vars op only. The velero Flux Kustomization patch is
untouched (it stays decryption-only, and velero stays suspended on prod).

VERIFIED — `kubectl kustomize --load-restrictor LoadRestrictionsNone` on clusters/dev and
clusters/prod for the cluster-vars values, then on each of the four affected tiers (platform,
platform-config, platform/velero, apps/wave-0) piped through `flux envsubst --strict` with
that environment's variables:

  strict envsubst              PASSES for all 8 (env x tier) combinations
  dev   velero existingSecret  velero-cloud-credentials
  dev   keycloak/nextcloud/semaphore-db  <db>-backup-credentials         (both key refs each)
  prod  velero existingSecret  velero-cloud-credentials-prod
  prod  keycloak/nextcloud/semaphore-db  <db>-backup-credentials-prod    (both key refs each)
  both  all EIGHT Secret objects present in the rendered output (dev and prod alike)
  no `${...}` survives in any rendered tier except gitea's three DELIBERATE `$${...}` shell
    escapes in apps/wave-0, which are pre-existing and unrelated.

Read alongside the endpoints the same overlays already set, the two environments are now
isolated on credential AND target:
  dev   velero s3://velero (root) + cnpg s3://cnpg      @ http://192.168.1.9:9000  region us-east-1
  prod  velero k3s-prod-backup/velero + barman prefix   @ https://<acct>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com  region auto

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-07 01:41:56 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 e7c4a95c2d feat(backup): the four backup credentials become TWO objects each, one per environment
The four backup-credential SOPS Secrets are SHARED BASE manifests: platform/ and apps/ are
rendered by the same Flux tiers on both clusters, and the ONLY per-environment difference in
this repo is cluster-vars substitution (R-ENV-02). So writing the R2 token into all four
(0a6a862) did not "give prod credentials" — it REPLACED DEV'S. Merging that as-is would have
handed dev's Velero and all three dev CNPG Clusters an R2 key id to sign MinIO requests with:
403 on every WAL segment, and archive_mode=on turns that into a disk-full clock on the pgdata
PVC, not a degraded backup. Dev's PROVEN DR restore (R-STATE-03) is the thing that would have
broken.

This commit splits the material. Each credential is now TWO Secret objects, both applied to
BOTH clusters, differing only in name suffix:

    dev  -> velero-cloud-credentials              keycloak/nextcloud/semaphore-db-backup-credentials
    prod -> velero-cloud-credentials-prod         ...-db-backup-credentials-prod

The consumer picks one by name; that wiring is the NEXT commit, so this one changes no
rendered reference and is a no-op for both live clusters.

WHY DEV KEEPS THE UNSUFFIXED NAME. Dev is live. Renaming its Secret would change
`s3Credentials.accessKeyId.name` on three running CNPG Clusters — which projects into the
instance pods' environment and therefore ROLLS keycloak-db, nextcloud-db and semaphore-db —
and would roll the velero Deployment, all to rename an object whose contents do not change.
This repo already makes exactly this call for dev's live identifiers (EXTERNALDNS_TXT_OWNER_ID
"default", VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX ""): the live cluster keeps the name it is running, and the
NEW environment takes the new one. The asymmetry is deliberate and documented at each
kustomization.

WHERE THE MATERIAL CAME FROM. Neither side is invented:
  - the four unsuffixed files are restored byte-for-byte from `main` (the MinIO material as
    it stood before 0a6a862), so dev's Secrets are IDENTICAL to what dev is running;
  - the four `-prod` files carry the R2 token from 0a6a862 (already on this branch as
    9739e9b), re-encrypted only because metadata.name changed.

RE-ENCRYPTION, AND WHY A COPY+SED IS NOT ENOUGH. `.sops.yaml` sets
`encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$`, so metadata.name stays cleartext — but SOPS MACs the
WHOLE document (there is no `mac_only_encrypted` here), so editing that cleartext line
invalidates the MAC and `sops -d` then refuses the file. The `-prod` files were therefore
produced inside the dev toolbox (infra/devcontainer, which has sops 3.9.4 and the age key
mounted) by decrypt -> rename -> re-encrypt, with the plaintext never leaving a container
tmpfile. Note for the next person: `sops -e --output NEW OLD` matches creation rules against
the INPUT path, so encrypting a tmpfile into a repo path needs `--filename-override NEW` or
it dies with "no matching creation rules found".

Verified: all eight files `sops -d` cleanly; the four dev files hash to dev's material and the
four prod files to R2's, and the two sets differ. `.sops.yaml` needed no new rule — the
existing `(platform|apps|catalog)/.*(secret|sops)\.ya?ml$` rule already matches
`*-prod.sops.yaml`, so the new files encrypt to the same age recipient.

apps/wave-0/kustomization.yaml is GENERATED, so render.py learns the `-prod` sidecar rather
than the golden being hand-edited: `<db>-backup-credentials-prod.sops.yaml` now places into
the DB's wave alongside its unsuffixed twin (both must exist before the Cluster that names
one), and the selftest asserts it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-07 01:38:22 -05:00
jakman85andClaude Opus 5 0a0527e7db feat(backup): prod's off-cluster DR lands on R2 — and stops the WAL clock
Prod has been archiving WAL to `TBD-PROD-S3-BACKUP-ENDPOINT` since bootstrap.
Verified live 2026-09-07 on all three CNPG Clusters: ContinuousArchiving=False,
"unexpected failure invoking barman-cloud-wal-archive: exit status 4". Because
archive_mode is ON, that is not a degraded backup — it is a DISK-FULL CLOCK.
Postgres will not recycle a segment it has not archived, so keycloak-db's pgdata
PVC is at 579 MiB used / 4360 MiB free and climbing monotonically. When it fills,
the primary PANICs and takes SSO down, and with it kubectl OIDC, Grafana,
Headlamp, Gitea and forward-auth. Wiring the endpoint is what lets Postgres drain
the whole accumulated backlog in one pass.

THE KNOB LAYOUT (three new, one repurposed) and why it is shaped this way.

The operator created exactly ONE R2 bucket, `k3s-prod-backup`, but the two backup
tools want differently-SHAPED values: the Velero chart takes `bucket` and `prefix`
as separate fields, while CNPG's barmanObjectStore.destinationPath is one full
s3:// URL whose first path segment IS the bucket. So:

  S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT     dev http://192.168.1.9:9000   prod https://<acct>.r2...
  S3_BACKUP_REGION       dev us-east-1                 prod auto
  VELERO_BACKUP_BUCKET   dev velero                    prod k3s-prod-backup
  VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX   dev ""                        prod velero
  CNPG_BACKUP_PATH       dev s3://cnpg                 prod s3://k3s-prod-backup/barman

There is deliberately NO separate `S3_BACKUP_BUCKET`: CNPG's bucket already lives
inside CNPG_BACKUP_PATH, and a second knob holding the same bucket name twice is a
rotation waiting to drift. Three knobs, each shaped for its own consumer, and no
two of them can contradict each other.

TENANCY. Inside k3s-prod-backup, velero and barman get disjoint TOP-LEVEL
prefixes — s3://k3s-prod-backup/velero/ and s3://k3s-prod-backup/barman/<cluster>/
— with the bucket ROOT left empty so a misrendered prefix lands somewhere
obviously wrong instead of silently colliding. This is not tidiness: Velero ADOPTS
every backup under its location and TTL-DELETES it on retention, so an overlapping
prefix would let it reap WAL segments; and interleaving two Postgres servers' WAL
into one prefix corrupts the chain outright. Dev↔prod isolation is doubly
independent — different endpoint AND different bucket names — so neither cluster
can reach the other's objects even with a mis-substituted prefix.

DEV IS UNCHANGED, BYTE-FOR-BYTE, and that is asserted rather than assumed. Base
defaults are dev's LIVE values (verified against the running cluster: BSL
bucket=velero with NO prefix, region us-east-1; all three CNPG Clusters
ContinuousArchiving=True at s3://cnpg on the MinIO), and the dev overlay now
restates all five explicitly for the same reason LONGHORN_DATA_PATH is restated —
a silent drift in base would ORPHAN the backups dev's PROVEN restore depends on.
The empty-prefix case was the one real risk, and it is settled empirically: with
prefix "" the chart omits objectStorage.prefix from the rendered
BackupStorageLocation ENTIRELY (helm template, chart 12.1.0), so dev's live BSL is
unchanged, not merely equivalent.

R2's TWO GOTCHAS, both wired up front:
  - region must be exactly `auto`. head-bucket answers {"BucketRegion":"WNAM"},
    which is a PHYSICAL LOCATION HINT, not a signing region. This was hardcoded
    us-east-1 inside the Velero HelmRelease — correct-by-accident for MinIO, wrong
    for anything else — so it is a knob now.
  - checksumAlgorithm: "". velero-plugin-for-aws v1.14.2 bundles an AWS SDK with
    flexible checksums on by default and sends x-amz-sdk-checksum-algorithm /
    x-amz-checksum-crc32 on every PUT; R2 rejects those with HTTP 400
    InvalidArgument, failing every backup and every kopia blob upload. It must be
    PRESENT-but-empty (the plugin branches on the key existing), and the chart does
    emit an empty value — verified by rendering it. Harmless against MinIO, so it
    is unconditional rather than a fourth knob.

WHAT THIS DOES NOT DO. Velero stays SUSPENDED on prod. `spec.suspend: true` is
owned by field manager `flux` (verified: kustomize-controller's managedFields do
not include f:suspend), so server-side apply will not strip it, and nothing here
declares suspension — which would also trip R-ENV-03, since a prod overlay may
patch only cluster-vars and a Flux Kustomization's `decryption`. Unsuspending is
the operator's, after `standup.sh --s3-endpoint <r2> s3check` proves a round trip.

NO DNS KNOB IS TOUCHED. BASE_DOMAIN stays prod.home.keithjackson.dev and every
EXTERNALDNS_* value is untouched. The apex inversion on work/prod-standup-campaign
was deliberately NOT carried: this branch ports that branch's R2 reasoning knob by
knob, and merges nothing.

VERIFIED: ci/l0.sh green (flux-postbuild-substitution 272 assertions, 0 hazards,
33 knobs defined / 28 referenced, every new token resolved in BOTH overlays);
render-golden, lint, schema, spec-immutability green; touched requirement
R-STATE-03 covered.

Refs R-STATE-03, R-IDP-05, R-ENV-02, R-ENV-03.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-07 01:14:29 -05:00