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]>
catalog — ServiceDefinition entries (the onboarding surface)
One YAML file per service. Each file is a ServiceDefinition conforming to
../schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json. Adding or
editing a service here is the only onboarding step — the platform renders compute, storage, network
policy, egress, TLS, DNS, monitoring, and update policy from it (see
../schemas/renderer-contract.md). Serves R-GITOPS-02.
Source of truth for the initial catalog: spec
docs/13-service-catalog.md (14-service table +
SSO/egress/dependency intent).
Current examples
| File | docs/13 row | exposure | egress | auth | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pihole.yaml |
6 | internal | internet | forward-auth | admin UI behind oauth2-proxy; config on Longhorn (DR-critical); also platform DNS |
keycloak.yaml |
0 | public | internet | native | the IdP itself (own admin login + MFA); PostgreSQL on Longhorn; DR-critical |
The remaining catalog services (plex, sonarr, radarr, jackett, seerr, nextcloud, minecraft, unifi, semaphore, kasm, gitea, qbittorrent) are onboarded in later phases; they follow the same schema and inherit every guarantee automatically.
Authoring rules
- Only
nameandsourceare mandatory; every other field defaults to docs/13's default posture (kind: container,exposure: internal,egress: internet,auth.mode: forward-auth, stable auto-update, DNS-only default-deny). Set a field only to override the default. - Any exposed UI must have an
authblock:forward-auth(default) oroidc, each with a non-emptyauth.groups;native/noneare documented exceptions only. - Irreplaceable state (
class: longhornconfigs/DBs) must setbackup.policyto an off-cluster schedule — neverreacquirable(R-STATE-03). Only bulk media may bereacquirable. - Shell braces must be escaped
$${...}. Anything rendered verbatim onto the workload — alifecyclepostStart script, anenvvalue — lands underapps/wave-<N>/, and everyapps-wave-<N>Flux Kustomization declarespostBuild.substituteFrom: cluster-vars. Flux runs envsubst over the WHOLE manifest at reconcile time, so an unescaped${VAR:-}meant for the shell is replaced with the empty string before the container ever starts (this silently killed gitea's and nextcloud's OIDC registration for days). Bare$VARand$(cmd)are left alone and need no escaping; a genuine environment knob is declared inclusters/base/cluster-vars.yamland written bare${KNOB}. Full contract:../clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml.render.pyREFUSES to emit a manifest that breaks this rule (Flux's strict substitution mode cannot: it deliberately exempts the${V:-}/${V:=x}/${V:?}default-operator forms).
Validate before commit — single command, no cluster (R-TEST-02)
check-jsonschema --schemafile schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json catalog/*.yaml
See ../schemas/README.md for install/pinning and a pure-Python fallback.
This is the L0/L1 schema gate (spec docs/14); CI (.gitea/) runs it on every change.
Rendering — render.py (the ServiceDefinition renderer, T-0.3)
render.py compiles a ServiceDefinition into the concrete manifest set defined
by ../schemas/renderer-contract.md: a Namespace (with the
app-namespace/gateway-access labels), the default-deny baseline (R-NET-01), a
Deployment+Service or a KubeVirt VirtualMachine + CDI DataVolume (R-PLAT-02/03), PVCs
(R-STATE), one CiliumNetworkPolicy egress-allow per dependency (R-NET-02), the
egress-class steering label (R-NET-05), HTTPRoute(s) on the shared Gateway (R-TLS/R-DNS),
ServiceMonitor + SLI alerts (R-OBS-01), the Flux ImageRepository/ImagePolicy update plumbing
(R-UPD), and the auth-mode / backup wiring hints (R-IDP/R-STATE-03).
python3 catalog/render.py catalog/pihole.yaml # render one SD to stdout
python3 catalog/render.py --all catalog -o out/ # render every SD to out/<name>.yaml
python3 catalog/render.py --selftest # deterministic self-test (no cluster)
- Deterministic: identical input → byte-identical output (golden-diffable). The L1 render
conformance tests (
conformance/tests/l1-rendering/*) diff the output against committed goldens — run offline byconformance/run.sh --layer l1andci/l1.sh(no cluster). - How CI/Flux consume it: CI invokes
render.pyin the L1 stage; a GitOps flow renders--all catalog -o <rendered-dir>and Flux reconciles the rendered directory. Design choice (renderer-contract is silent on mechanism): a render-then-consume script is the simplest reproducible option — see the header ofrender.py. - Dependency: PyYAML (the renderer's single dependency; the conformance harness stays stdlib-only and only shells out to this script + diffs text).