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fix(plex): unblock the app tier — drop the Certificate that stalled apps-wave-0, advertise http
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
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2026-09-19 02:49:16 +00:00

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App-tier manifests, rendered from catalog/*.yaml ServiceDefinitions by catalog/render.py and split into dependency-ordered waves (wave-<N>/).

  • Each wave-<N>/ is reconciled by its own Flux Kustomization apps-wave-<N> (clusters/base/apps-wave-<N>.yaml), which dependsOn wave N-1 (wave 0 dependsOn platform-config) and health-gates (wait: true) ONLY that wave. A crashlooping workload in a later wave can no longer stall an earlier wave or block new revisions.
  • wave-<N>/kustomization.yaml and clusters/base/apps-wave-<N>.yaml are generated — run python3 catalog/render.py --emit-waves after onboarding a service; do not hand-edit them.
  • Wave assignment = longest dependency-path depth over the catalog dependencies: graph; a co-located CNPG database <svc>-db is a leaf and always lands strictly below its consumer.

See ../DESIGN-waves.md for the wave table, Flux topology, and the cutover runbook.