Velero was resumed on prod (live `flux resume`; suspension was never in git) and its BackupStorageLocation validated Available against Cloudflare R2 on the first try — bucket k3s-prod-backup, prefix `velero`, region auto, checksumAlgorithm "". Backups still failed, and a second, unrelated hazard was armed. Both are fixed here; both were measured on prod, not reasoned about. 1. velero-plugin-for-aws v1.14.2 cannot write to R2 at all. It sets PutObject's `Tagging` field unconditionally, so the SDK emits an empty `x-amz-tagging` header on every PUT. R2 does not implement object tagging in any form and answers HTTP 501 NotImplemented. Two separate Backups reproduced it on the write of velero/backups/<name>/velero-backup.json: kopia uploaded the volume data fine (it uses its own S3 client), then the backup went phase=Failed with no metadata object — i.e. unrestorable. No config avoids it; `config.tagging` with a real value sends a tag set R2 also rejects. Upstream PR #309 makes the field conditional and landed on release-1.14 after v1.14.2 was cut, so v1.14.3-rc.2 is the earliest build with the fix. Pinned to it, with the exit condition (v1.14.3 GA) stated at the pin. 2. The opt-out FSB schedule would have uploaded the NFS bulk tier. Schedule (1) runs defaultVolumesToFsBackup:true and excludes only monitoring and unifi. Since 2026-09-11 prod also carries four static NFS PVs — plex-media, sonarr-media and radarr-media all bound to the SAME export /mnt/Storage/plex (8.32 TiB measured via zfs list), plus nextcloud-legacy-archive at 270 GiB. The 03:00 run would have read that library three times over NFS and pushed ~8.6 TiB to R2 nightly, retained 720h. Namespace exclusion cannot express the fix: those four namespaces also hold real Longhorn PVCs (plex/sonarr/radarr config, nextcloud-data) whose loss is unrecoverable. So the opt-out is now per VOLUME, by SOURCE TYPE: a velero volume policy (ConfigMap velero-volume-policies) skips any volume whose source is NFS, and schedule (1) references it. That tests the property that makes a volume bulk-tier (R-STATE-04: the bulk tier IS the NFS export) instead of a name list the next PV would slip past. The per-pod backup-volumes-excludes annotation was rejected for failing OPEN — a new NFS mount would be backed up in full until someone remembered. PROVEN on prod (velero 1.18.1 / chart 12.1.0): a Backup of ns nextcloud with defaultVolumesToFsBackup:true plus this policy produced exactly ONE PodVolumeBackup — `data` (nextcloud-data, Longhorn, 875,417,102 bytes, Completed). The NFS `legacy-archive` volume produced none. Residual gap, stated rather than hidden: the rule matches NFS only. A future bulk volume on another out-of-cluster source needs its own condition. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
platform/
Cluster-wide platform services, Flux-managed (R-PLAT-01, R-GITOPS-01/02/03). Reconciled
by the platform Flux Kustomization defined in clusters/base/platform.yaml,
before apps/.
Governing spec: docs/05-gitops-and-delivery.md,
docs/01-architecture-overview.md.
Phase 0 scaffolding only. Every component here is a structurally-correct stub — a Flux HelmRelease and/or Kustomization with a values placeholder, a README citing the governing ADR/spec, and TODOs for the phase that fills it in. No cluster exists; nothing reconciles yet. Do not add working config, secrets, or provisioning under Phase 0 (spec
AGENTS.md§1/§5/§6,roadmap/phases.md).
Reconciliation flow (how a change lands)
git (source of truth)
│ operator PR → CI (lint · schema · Kyverno L0 · Chainsaw) → merge to tracked branch
▼
Flux GitRepository (clusters/base/flux-system.yaml)
▼
Flux Kustomization "platform" → ./platform (this dir) ── substituteFrom cluster-vars ──┐
│ prune=true (drift correction, R-GITOPS-03) · wait=true │ R-ENV-02
▼ │
Flux Kustomization "apps" → ./apps (dependsOn platform) ─ substituteFrom cluster-vars ──┘
Git is authoritative; the cluster conforms to git and drift is auto-corrected (R-GITOPS-01/03).
Manual kubectl apply of platform state is prohibited (spec AGENTS.md §5).
The dev ↔ prod overlay model (R-ENV-02)
Platform manifests are authored once. Every value that legitimately differs between environments
is a ${TOKEN} resolved from the cluster-vars ConfigMap via Flux postBuild.substituteFrom. The
clusters/dev and clusters/prod overlays differ only by the values they patch into
cluster-vars (issuer, replica counts, storage sizes, retention). See
clusters/README.md. Base manifests are never forked per environment.
Components (one directory each)
| Dir | Component | Governing ADR / spec | Serves |
|---|---|---|---|
cilium/ |
CNI + kube-proxy replacement + Gateway API + Egress Gateway + Hubble | ADR-0002, docs/03 | R-NET-* |
longhorn/ |
Replicated block storage; 3-replica default StorageClass + bulk tier | ADR-0003, docs/04 | R-STATE-* |
cert-manager/ |
TLS via Let's Encrypt DNS-01 (Cloudflare); staging + prod ClusterIssuers | ADR-0006, docs/08 | R-TLS-* |
externaldns/ |
Automatic DNS records for public services (Cloudflare) | docs/09 | R-DNS-* |
gateway/ |
Gateway API GatewayClass + shared HTTPS Gateway + wildcard cert | ADR-0002/ADR-0006, docs/09 | R-DNS-01, R-TLS-01 |
monitoring/ |
kube-prometheus-stack + Loki + Grafana Alloy + Alertmanager | docs/10 | R-OBS-* |
velero/ |
Off-cluster backup/DR of volumes + resource state | ADR-0003, docs/04 | R-STATE-03 |
kubevirt/ |
KubeVirt + CDI (IaaS: application VMs on the same K8s surface) | ADR-0005, docs/06 | R-PLAT-03 |
image-automation/ |
Flux image-update-automation (hands-off image tag advance) | ADR-0009, docs/11 | R-UPD-02 |
keycloak/ |
Platform IdP (OIDC + SAML), config-as-code, PostgreSQL on Longhorn | ADR-0014, docs/15 | R-IDP-* |
oauth2-proxy/ |
Forward-auth at the Gateway for non-OIDC apps → Keycloak | ADR-0014, docs/15 | R-IDP-* |
kyverno/ |
L0 policy-as-code gate — OWNED BY THE POLICY ENGINEER (WS-TEST). | ADR-0011, docs/14 | R-TEST-* |
⚠️ INTEGRATION TODO(PM): wire kyverno into the platform kustomization
platform/kyverno/ is authored by a different agent (the policy engineer, WS-TEST). This
workstream did not create any files under platform/kyverno/ and must not.
platform/kustomization.yaml intentionally omits - kyverno. Once the
policy engineer's files land, the PM must add - kyverno to that list (recommended first, so
policies are present before other components reconcile). The line is present as a commented TODO in
the kustomization.
Secrets
Every secret referenced below (Cloudflare API token, Velero backup-target creds, Keycloak admin/DB, oauth2-proxy cookie/client secrets) is referenced by name only and will be committed SOPS-encrypted (WS-SEC, ADR-0007). No plaintext secret appears anywhere in this tree.
Cross-workstream contracts surfaced by these stubs
- cilium (WS-NET ↔ WS-INFRA): Cilium's initial CNI install is done by Ansible at cluster bootstrap (docs/02, Phase 1). The HelmRelease here manages Cilium config thereafter; its Helm values MUST match the Ansible bootstrap values (kubeProxyReplacement, k8sServiceHost/Port, API server host) or reconciliation will fight the bootstrap. Contract owner: WS-NET + WS-INFRA.
- gateway + cert-manager + externaldns (WS-NET + WS-SEC): the shared Gateway listener, the
wildcard
*.home.keithjackson.devcert, and the ExternalDNS source all reference each other; they form the "Issuer + Gateway TLS" interface inroadmap/workstreams.md. - image-automation (WS-UPDATE): this dir holds only the cluster-wide ImageUpdateAutomation +
git write-back. Per-service
ImageRepository/ImagePolicyare rendered from each ServiceDefinition'supdateblock (WS-GITOPS/WS-UPDATE), living withapps/. - keycloak/oauth2-proxy (WS-SEC): the SSO/auth contract (
authblock → Keycloak client / oauth2-proxy protection) is owned by WS-SEC; these are placeholders pending that contract.