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]>
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# The runbook static server. Deliberately the dumbest thing that can work.
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#
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# WHY A POD AT ALL, AND NOT A REDIRECT TO GITEA. The obvious cheaper option is an HTTPRoute whose
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# only job is a RequestRedirect into the in-cluster Gitea web UI, which already renders these files.
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# It was rejected for three reasons, in order of weight:
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# 1. DEPENDENCY DIRECTION. A runbook is read when the platform is broken. Gitea is an app-tier
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# workload on Longhorn; its own DR path and several of these runbooks' subjects sit UNDER it.
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# `runbooks/longhorn-faulted` must be readable while Longhorn is faulted, and
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# `runbooks/keycloak-db` while a CNPG database is down. Pointing the operator at Gitea makes
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# the documentation fail in exactly the conditions that produce the alert.
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# 2. NO SUFFIX REWRITE EXISTS. Gateway API's RequestRedirect path modifier offers ReplaceFullPath
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# and ReplacePrefixMatch only. There is no "append .md", so mapping 34 extensionless names onto
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# 34 `.md` blobs needs 34 hand-maintained ReplaceFullPath rules — MORE surface than this pod,
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# and a silent 404 for every runbook someone forgets to add a rule for.
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# 3. A 302 is not a document. The annotation's contract is that the URL returns the runbook; a
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# redirect chain through a second app's auth and rendering is a worse contract.
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# This pod reads only from a ConfigMap projected out of git. It depends on the CNI, the kubelet and
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# the Gateway, and on nothing else in the platform.
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#
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# WHY NOT THE SERVICE CATALOG (catalog/*.yaml + render.py). The catalog is the idiomatic onboarding
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# surface for a SERVICE, and it was the first thing checked — but its schema cannot express this
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# route. `ingressRoutes[].host` is pattern-bound to `^[a-z0-9-]+\.(\$\{BASE_DOMAIN\}|home\.keithjackson\.dev)$`:
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# a single DNS label plus the apex, so the BARE apex is unrepresentable, and there is no `path` field
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# at all, so a path-prefix route cannot be authored. Bending the schema for one docs server would be
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# the tail wagging the dog. The repo's OTHER established pattern is exactly right instead: a small
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# hand-authored platform component reconciled by its own non-gating Flux Kustomization — what
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# platform/homepage does for the apex `/` prefix, which this mirrors file for file.
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apiVersion: apps/v1
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kind: Deployment
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metadata:
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name: runbooks
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namespace: runbooks
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labels:
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app.kubernetes.io/name: runbooks
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spec:
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# TWO replicas with anti-affinity, unlike homepage's one. This is the only workload in the
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# cluster whose whole purpose is to be available during an incident, and a single replica is
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# unavailable for the minutes a node reboot or a drain takes — which is when it is wanted. It
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# costs 2 x 16Mi.
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replicas: 2
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revisionHistoryLimit: 3
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strategy:
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type: RollingUpdate
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rollingUpdate:
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maxUnavailable: 0
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maxSurge: 1
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selector:
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matchLabels:
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app.kubernetes.io/name: runbooks
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template:
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metadata:
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labels:
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app.kubernetes.io/name: runbooks
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spec:
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automountServiceAccountToken: false
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# Spread across nodes so losing one node never takes the runbooks with it. `preferred`, not
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# `required`: on a 3-node cluster with one node cordoned for the very incident being debugged,
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# a hard rule would leave a replica Pending instead of running somewhere.
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affinity:
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podAntiAffinity:
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preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
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- weight: 100
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podAffinityTerm:
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topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
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labelSelector:
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matchLabels:
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app.kubernetes.io/name: runbooks
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# Tolerate a node that is under memory/disk pressure or unreachable for a while. An operator
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# reading `runbooks/node-disk` is by definition dealing with a node under pressure, and the
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# default 300s unreachable toleration is long enough; these exist so eviction pressure does
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# not silently remove the last replica while the cluster is sick.
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tolerations:
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- key: node.kubernetes.io/unreachable
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operator: Exists
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effect: NoExecute
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tolerationSeconds: 900
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securityContext:
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runAsNonRoot: true
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runAsUser: 101 # `nginx` in nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged
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runAsGroup: 101
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fsGroup: 101
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seccompProfile:
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type: RuntimeDefault
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containers:
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- name: nginx
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# Renovate maintains this pin. nginx-unprivileged (not nginx) so the container can honour
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# runAsNonRoot: the stock nginx image's entrypoint needs root to drop privileges and to
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# bind :80. `stable-alpine` branch, pinned exactly.
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image: nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged:1.30.4-alpine
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imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
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ports:
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- name: http
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containerPort: 8080
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protocol: TCP
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resources:
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requests:
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cpu: 10m
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memory: 16Mi
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limits:
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memory: 64Mi
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securityContext:
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allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
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capabilities:
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drop:
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- ALL
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# Achievable here, unlike homepage/headlamp: nginx only needs /tmp (its pid file, on the
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# unprivileged image) and /var/cache/nginx writable, and both are emptyDirs below.
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readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
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livenessProbe:
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httpGet: { path: /healthz, port: http }
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initialDelaySeconds: 3
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periodSeconds: 15
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readinessProbe:
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# Probe a REAL runbook, not just /healthz. nginx answers /healthz from its own config
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# even if the ConfigMap volume failed to project, so /healthz alone would report a pod
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# that serves 404 for every runbook as Ready. `node-down` is the canonical alert link
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# (NodeExporterDown, platform/monitoring/alerts.yaml), so if this path 404s the pod is
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# useless and must not take traffic.
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httpGet: { path: /runbooks/node-down, port: http }
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initialDelaySeconds: 3
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periodSeconds: 15
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volumeMounts:
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- name: nginx-config
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mountPath: /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
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subPath: default.conf
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readOnly: true
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# The runbooks themselves, one extensionless file per key. Whole-volume mount (NOT
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# subPath): subPath mounts do not update when the ConfigMap changes, and here the
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# ConfigMap name carries kustomize's content hash so a content change rolls the pod
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# anyway — the whole-volume mount just means a stale projection is impossible.
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- name: runbooks
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mountPath: /usr/share/nginx/html/runbooks
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readOnly: true
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- name: tmp
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mountPath: /tmp
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- name: cache
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mountPath: /var/cache/nginx
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volumes:
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- name: nginx-config
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configMap:
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name: runbooks-nginx
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- name: runbooks
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configMap:
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# Generated by ../kustomization.yaml's configMapGenerator from runbooks/*.md. kustomize
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# rewrites this reference to the hashed name, so the pods roll whenever a runbook changes.
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name: runbooks-content
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- name: tmp
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emptyDir: {}
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- name: cache
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emptyDir: {}
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