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docs(runbooks): two more uncited "4-minute" claims the first pass missed
A systematic grep for the TTL assertion found it still in runbooks/README.md and in runbooks/kustomization.yaml, outside the page being rewritten. Same correction: the countdown on plex.tv/claim is the authority, not a number in our tree. README.md also now records that the server is CLAIMED and points at claim-ship.sh with the measured ~2m45s loop, rather than describing a push-based sequence that no longer exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> |
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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feat(plex): wire PLEX_CLAIM from a SOPS Secret so the server can be claimed
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]> |
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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a3f4ddb971 |
merge: feat/egress-gateway-staleness-alert — finished so it can actually pass the gate
Brings the two alerts for the silent egress-gateway failure: VPNEgressSteeringStale
(critical) and VPNEgressUplinkLabelMissing (warning), plus the kube-state-metrics
allowlist entry that makes them non-inert.
WHY THE BRANCH SAT IN THE BACKLOG: it could not pass the merge gate. Three
whole-repo checks failed on it, and each one was a real gap rather than a nuisance:
* alert-runbooks-resolvable — both alerts link to /runbooks/vpn-egress-stale,
which did not exist. An alert firing now would hand the operator a 404.
* alert-rules-unit-tested — alerts.yaml is already a covered file, so new rules
in it must be tested or a "tested" file quietly grows untested rules.
* alert-metrics-have-scrape-targets — see the guard bug below.
WHAT THE ALERTS CATCH. egress-class=vpn pods leave through one gateway node's tun0;
Cilium resolves it to an ifindex and caches it. An OpenVPN reconnect destroys and
re-creates tun0 with a NEW ifindex, and the node label
homelab.keithjackson.dev/egress-uplink=<addr>-<ifindex> is what forces Cilium to
re-resolve. If the label does not follow the tunnel, the cache points at a destroyed
interface and every vpn-class pod is silently dropped — while tun0 stays up and
VPNTunnelDown says nothing. That ran ~80 minutes undetected on the dev gateway.
Verified this is live on prod, not inert: k3s-prod-3 carries egress-gateway=true and
egress-uplink=10.150.192.86-139, and vpn-egress-steering has been in place 14 days.
The label was exported on 0 series before this change, so the allowlist entry is
what switches the alerts on.
runbooks/vpn-egress-stale.md — written and wired into the configMapGenerator, with
the four required operator sections. It leads with proving egress from a pod the
policy selects, because the symptom is "outbound traffic silently disappears", and
it says plainly not to "fix" this by deleting the policy: that does not restore
egress, it sends vpn-class traffic out of the real ISP connection, which is the leak
the class exists to prevent.
platform/monitoring/tests/vpn-egress.test.yaml — four promtool fixtures. 1 and 2 are
the SAME tunnel reconnect with and without the label following it, which isolates the
mechanism the rule actually keys on: a label VALUE change is not a changing sample,
it retires one series and starts another. 3 is the inert case (gateway node, no uplink
label) where the critical rule CANNOT fire, which is why the warning exists.
Two fixes the branch needed that were defects in the checks themselves:
1. alert-metrics-have-scrape-targets asserted the KSM allowlist matched
`nodes=[...egress-gateway]` with a literal closing bracket — i.e. that the list
contained EXACTLY that one label. Adding a second label correctly (egress-uplink,
which these alerts need) therefore FAILED the check while the property it guards
was perfectly satisfied. Loosened to `[,\]]`: in the list, not the whole list. A
guard that breaks when you correctly extend the thing it guards teaches people to
edit the guard, which is how it stops guarding.
2. UNTESTED_ALERTS listed VPNTunnelDown, and the check flagged it as stale because
"asserted on" is a bare word match over the test file — my header COMMENT
mentioning VPNTunnelDown was enough to count as coverage. Rather than delete the
register entry and claim coverage that did not exist, the fixtures now assert
VPNTunnelDown QUIET in all four cases. That required making them faithful: they
had no node_network_receive_bytes_total{device="tun0"} at all, so VPNTunnelDown
would have been firing throughout unnoticed, because promtool only checks the
alertnames you name. A healthy tun0 passes traffic, and that silence IS the claim
these rules exist for.
NOTE FOR LATER, not fixed here: that word-match means any alert named in prose counts
as tested. Tightening it to `alertname:` positions could reveal other prose-only
"coverage", and the register is shrink-only, so the cascade wants doing deliberately
rather than at 01:00 unattended.
Conflicts resolved: kept HEAD's Velero custom-resource-state block and took only the
branch's one-line allowlist change (14 lines down to 1); inserted the branch's
2026-09-12 DECISIONS-LOG entry in date order rather than appending it out of sequence.
Gated: offline l0,l1 --include-scope whole-repo — 24 cases, 0 failures, 0 skips,
0 unwired. The new unit tests pass under the pinned promtool 3.14.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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docs(runbooks): node-memory-swap — replacing k3s-prod-1's mismatched DIMM pair
The operator has a matched 32 GB pair to install. k3s-prod-1 is the node that needs it: DIMM1 is a Micron 8ATF2G64HZ-3G2E1 (16 GB, DDR4-3200, 1Rx8) and DIMM3 a 16ATF2G64HZ-2G6E1 (16 GB, DDR4-2667, 2Rx8), so capacity is correct at 32 GB but the pair runs at the slower 2667. Nothing is faulty. k3s-prod-3 is a matched Crucial pair. The procedure exists because this node is the awkward one to take down: it held 24 Longhorn replicas, it is one of three etcd members (so the drain leaves quorum at 2 of 3 with no further margin), and its rebuilds are the load that starved etcd once already. So the runbook front-loads the checks that decide whether to start at all, and treats a BLOCKED drain as the safety property working rather than an obstacle to force past. Two things it deliberately does not assert: - node-drain-policy is not pinned in platform/longhorn/helmrelease.yaml, so the runbook has the operator READ the live Setting and set it before draining if it is not block-if-contains-last-replica, instead of assuming the default. - Configured Memory Speed, not Speed, is named as the field that proves the swap worked — a matched pair being clocked down still reports the rated Speed. It also flags the capacity decision as a decision: 2x16 GB keeps the three nodes symmetric as PROD-PROVISIONING.md §2 assumes, while 2x32 GB makes node 1 the asymmetric one on memory as well as disk. Recorded caveats: the node-health artifacts de-duplicate DIMM part numbers, so they can prove "two different modules" but cannot distinguish one module from two identical ones — verification therefore collects dmidecode live. And node 2's inventory is stale and self-contradictory (documented as the only single-DIMM node at 16 GB, yet reporting ~31.1 GiB), so it needs re-inventory before anyone claims three-way symmetry. This is NOT the §0b "do not buy RAM" case, which was an EFI memattr kernel bug on node 2. Wired into the configMapGenerator so it is served at /runbooks/node-memory-swap rather than existing only in git. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> |
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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fix(runbooks): declare whole-repo scope, drop the bespoke l0 stage, +cnpg-primary-spread
Three corrections after rebasing onto main. 1. THE GUARD CAUGHT A REAL ONE ON ITS FIRST CONTACT WITH main. main had gained `CNPGPrimariesCoLocated` (platform/cnpg/alerts.yaml) pointing at /runbooks/cnpg-primary-spread, with no runbook. The check failed the rebase exactly as designed — 46 annotations, 35 names, 34 present — naming both the missing file AND the missing configMapGenerator entry. runbooks/cnpg-primary-spread.md now exists: what co-located primaries actually cost here (blast radius, not an outage, because instances: 3 + required anti-affinity), why the drift is uncorrectable-by-declaration (CNPG has no primary-placement field), the readiness gate that keeps the rule quiet during a real node outage, and the ~9s-per-database switchover rebalance, one cluster at a time. The 2026-09-07 outage in which all three primaries sat on one node is the reason the alert exists at all. 2. WHOLE-REPO SCOPE, NOT A HAND-WRITTEN STAGE. main's refactor replaced ci/l0.sh's per-check "UNCONDITIONAL" stages with a declaration: `conformance.home.k3s/scope: "whole-repo"`, unioned into every gate run by Stage 3b's `--include-scope`. My +38-line Stage 3f is removed (ci/l0.sh is now byte-identical to main) and the annotation is declared instead. Assertion (7) of the check was rewritten to match: it no longer asserts its own path appears in ci/l0.sh — it asserts the test DECLARES the scope and that ci/l0.sh still passes --include-scope, since neither half alone makes the check load-bearing. That matters here because ci/touched-requirements.sh maps platform/monitoring/* to "R-OBS-01 R-OBS-02", not R-OBS-04, and maps platform/kubevirt/* and runbooks/* to nothing at all. 3. A FACTUAL CORRECTION IN ALL 35 RUNBOOKS. Every page claimed `dev.sh` defaults its current-context to k3s-dev. main's `9b4744d fix(devcontainer): dev.sh defaults to prod` made that false, and a runbook that misstates which cluster a command talks to is worse than one that says nothing. The pages now say what is durably true: the default has already changed once, so naming `--context k3s-prod` is what makes a command mean the same thing next month, and the per-invocation banner is there to be read. The check's own failure message was corrected the same way. Re-verified after all three: check green at 374 assertions (46 annotations, 35/35 runbooks present, 35/35 projected), re-applied to prod, and re-probed in-cluster through the Gateway — node-down, keycloak-down, keycloak-client-secrets, cnpg-archiving, longhorn-faulted, vpn-down, node-io and cnpg-primary-spread all HTTP 200 with text/plain; charset=utf-8 and 8.9-12.1 KB of real body; /runbooks/ index 200; an unknown name 404s with a pointer rather than a blank page; and homepage still answers the apex `/`, confirming Gateway API longest-path precedence. Full merge gate: PASS (spec-immutability, lint, l0, render-golden, l1 all green; prom-rules SKIPPED for want of promtool in the image; L2/L3 SKIPPED, no cluster). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> |
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jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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feat(runbooks): make the 42 alert runbook_url annotations resolve
Every platform-health alert rule carries `runbook_url: "https://${BASE_DOMAIN}/runbooks/<name>"` — 42 annotations over 34 distinct names, across platform/monitoring/alerts.yaml, platform/monitoring/pvc-capacity-alerts.yaml, platform/cnpg/alerts.yaml and platform/kubevirt/alerts.yaml. There was no runbooks/ directory and no HTTPRoute serving that path: an in-cluster probe of https://home.keithjackson.dev/runbooks/node-down returned HTTP 404. Every alert that reached a human handed them a dead link at the exact moment the documentation is read, and the annotation made it look solved — the same green-surface-over-absent-mechanism class as the import Job that reported success while storing placeholder secrets. No alerts.yaml is touched and no runbook_url value changes. The existing URL scheme is made to resolve instead. WHAT LANDS - runbooks/<34>.md — one per name, each grounded in this cluster's real topology and, where one exists, its real incident history: the 2026-09-07 k3s-prod-1 etcd I/O starvation (measured PSI 11.36 vs 0.75/1.29, the exact journal lines, the four mechanisms proven inert), the Longhorn reboot tax and the freeze/thaw of concurrent-replica-rebuild-per-node-limit, Cilium's once-resolved egress interface cache (Ifindex 3 against a live 1780) and the absence of OSS failover, the CNPG 38-hour ContinuousArchiving=False with its measured 6.8 MiB/h disk-full clock and the 2026-09-12 aggregation-scope fix, the 2026-09-06 Keycloak lockout in which all 12 clients held literal placeholder secrets behind an entirely green cluster, the Velero R2 x-amz-tagging NotImplemented incompatibility and its v1.14.3-rc.2 pin, and swap re-enabling itself across reboots via systemd-gpt-auto-generator. Each page states what the alert means HERE, the first diagnostic commands, likely causes ordered by probability with a remediation each, and when to escalate or stop. - Every page uses FULLY-QUALIFIED resource names and says why: three CRDs register the kind `Backup` here, the bare short name resolves to Longhorn's (zero objects), so `kubectl get backup -A` prints "No resources found" on a cluster holding 6 Velero and 27 CNPG backups. Acting on that false negative is how a CLI quirk becomes data loss. - Every page states that kubectl only works via `infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run bash -c '...'` with an explicit `--context k3s-prod`, because dev.sh defaults its current-context to k3s-dev. - Pages also record which alert groups are INERT today (measured 2026-09-13: no Longhorn, cert-manager, Flux-controller or Hubble scrape job exists, so 13 rules evaluate against nothing) so nobody reads their silence as health. SERVING — runbooks/serving/ plus clusters/base/runbooks.yaml A two-replica nginx-unprivileged serving a ConfigMap generated from runbooks/*.md, at the apex `/runbooks` prefix, in its own non-gating post-platform Flux tier (dependsOn platform-config, wait:false) — the platform/homepage pattern, file for file. - The service catalog cannot express this route: ingressRoutes[].host is pattern-bound to a single DNS label plus the apex, so the bare apex is unrepresentable, and there is no path field. - Rejected: redirecting to the Gitea web UI. A runbook is read when the platform is broken, and Gitea is an app-tier workload whose own dependencies several of these runbooks document; Gateway API's RequestRedirect also has no "append .md" modifier, so it would need 34 hand-maintained ReplaceFullPath rules. - configMapGenerator maps each file to an EXTENSIONLESS key (node-down=node-down.md), so /runbooks/node-down is a plain static lookup with no rewrite rule. Served as text/plain: the namespace has DNS-only egress, so a CDN markdown renderer could not load anyway. - The tier declares NO postBuild.substituteFrom, deliberately: envsubst would run over the prose and silently empty every ${...} shell example (it fails open — the 2026-09-01 emptied Cilium k8sServiceHost). The HTTPRoute omits `hostnames:` and inherits the https-apex listener's, so nothing needs substituting. AUTH — PUBLIC, deliberately auth-mode=none. Gating these pages behind oauth2-proxy/Keycloak would make runbooks/keycloak-down unreadable when Keycloak is down and runbooks/keycloak-client-secrets unreadable during the exact 2026-09-06 failure mode. An operator who cannot log in is this route's primary reader. Content is operational procedure only, no secrets. The rationale is recorded in an annotation on the HTTPRoute so the route is left OUT of the Gateway ext-authz attachment when forward-auth enforcement lands. PROVEN — in-cluster probe through the Gateway on prod /runbooks/node-down HTTP 200 8613 bytes text/plain; charset=utf-8 /runbooks/keycloak-down HTTP 200 9378 bytes text/plain; charset=utf-8 /runbooks/cnpg-archiving HTTP 200 11729 bytes text/plain; charset=utf-8 /runbooks/longhorn-faulted HTTP 200 9135 bytes text/plain; charset=utf-8 /runbooks/vpn-down HTTP 200 11092 bytes text/plain; charset=utf-8 /runbooks/backup-failure HTTP 200 9604 bytes text/plain; charset=utf-8 HTTPRoute Accepted by io.cilium/gateway-controller on sectionName https-apex; the `/runbooks` prefix wins over homepage's apex `/` by Gateway API longest-path precedence. GUARD — conformance/tests/l0-static/alert-runbooks-resolvable (R-OBS-04) 363 offline assertions. It checks BOTH halves, because the regression is silent in both directions: an alert with a new runbook_url and no runbook links to a 404, AND a runbook committed without its configMapGenerator entry is in git, reviewed, merged, and still 404s in the cluster. Also asserts a quality floor so a stub cannot make the link look fixed, and that route/listener/nginx prefix agree with the annotations. Proven to fail, then reverted: a bogus runbook_url (2 FAIL), a runbook removed from the generator (1 FAIL), and a 31-byte stub (7 FAIL). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> |