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jakman85andClaude Opus 4.8 ebe0371b1b platform: move Headlamp out of the gating platform tier + fix -session-ttl crashloop
Headlamp's HelmRelease sat in the wait:true `platform` Flux tier. Its pod
crashlooped (`flag provided but not defined: -session-ttl` — chart 0.40.1
renders a container arg the appVersion v0.40.1 backend lacks; upstream
kubernetes-sigs/headlamp#4883), and because it gated `platform`, the whole
chain stalled: platform Ready=Unknown -> platform-config, oauth2-proxy,
apps-wave-0/1/2 and apps-vms all Ready=False "dependency not ready".

Part A (unblock + durable lesson): a leaf UI must never gate the chain. Move
all Headlamp resources into a new non-gating Flux Kustomization
clusters/base/headlamp.yaml (dependsOn platform-config, wait:false, SOPS
decryption patched per-env in clusters/dev) — mirroring oauth2-proxy exactly.
The new Kustomization owns the whole platform/headlamp component; its HTTPRoute
moves from platform-config into platform/headlamp/kustomization.yaml. Removed
headlamp from platform/kustomization.yaml and its httproute from
platform-config/kustomization.yaml. Now a crashlooping Headlamp can never stall
platform/platform-config/apps.

Part B (make it start): pin the chart to 0.41.0 (`>=0.41.0 <0.42.0`). The
backend added `f.Int("session-ttl", …)` in v0.41.0 and chart 0.41.0 pins that
same image (appVersion == chart version), so chart+image realign; every arg the
chart renders for our values is supported. OIDC config + per-user RBAC
(clusterRoleBinding.create:false) unchanged.

Gate: `make -C ci gate` PASS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
2026-08-28 12:01:01 -05:00

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---
# Flux Kustomization: headlamp dashboard — reconciles ./platform/headlamp.
#
# POST-PLATFORM TIER (dependsOn platform-config). Headlamp is a LEAF Kubernetes-dashboard UI that
# depends on Keycloak (native-OIDC login) + the trusted wildcard TLS cert + split-horizon DNS + the
# Gateway API CRDs — all brought up by `platform` (controllers) and `platform-config` (Keycloak
# instance/realm CRs, the wildcard Certificate, cilium L2 VIP, Gateway). It therefore MUST NOT live
# inside the gating `platform` tier: a UI HelmRelease whose image/chart can crashloop (e.g. the
# upstream headlamp-0.40.1 `-session-ttl` chart/image desync, issue #4883) would keep `platform`
# not-Ready, and while `platform` is not-Ready NOTHING downstream reconciles — platform-config,
# oauth2-proxy, every apps-wave and apps-vms all stall on "dependency not ready". That is exactly
# how a single leaf UI stalled the whole chain (DECISIONS-LOG: "Headlamp gating stall"). This is the
# same lesson oauth2-proxy already encodes: a leaf that can be legitimately unhealthy must reconcile
# in its OWN post-platform Kustomization so its health can never gate the graph.
#
# NON-GATING (wait:false): nothing in the graph dependsOn headlamp (apps waves gate on
# platform-config, not on this), and a dashboard pod can be long-not-Ready during a cold start while
# it waits on Keycloak/DNS/TLS — same rationale as oauth2-proxy and apps-vms. wait:false guarantees
# its health can NEVER gate anything, even if a future resource is (mistakenly) pointed dependsOn it.
apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
kind: Kustomization
metadata:
name: headlamp
namespace: flux-system
spec:
interval: 10m
retryInterval: 2m
timeout: 5m
prune: true
wait: false
dependsOn:
- name: platform-config # Keycloak instance/realm + wildcard TLS + split-horizon VIP + Gateway first
sourceRef:
kind: GitRepository
name: flux-system
path: ./platform/headlamp
# Same cluster-vars ConfigMap the platform tier fed it before the move (headlamp itself references
# no ${VARS} today, but the substitution is retained for parity with the other tiers/future knobs).
postBuild:
substituteFrom:
- kind: ConfigMap
name: cluster-vars
# SOPS decryption for headlamp-oidc-credentials.sops.yaml is layered per-environment by the overlay
# (clusters/dev patches THIS Kustomization by name), identical to how it was decrypted via the
# `platform` Kustomization before the move. See clusters/dev/kustomization.yaml.