jakman85andClaude Opus 5 32d67660a6 feat(backup): move off-cluster DR to Cloudflare R2 (operator decision 2026-09-05)
"That's where backups will go for the time being until a better on-prem backup
solution is created." Two reasons beyond the (negligible) cost:

  1. Prod CANNOT reach the on-Proxmox MinIO. Prod is on the SOHO network
     192.168.2.0/24 — pfSense's WAN — while that MinIO sits inside pfSense's LAN.
     Measured from a pod inside prod: connection timed out after 15s. R2 needs no
     firewall change.
  2. That MinIO runs on the SAME Proxmox host as dev's VMs, so dev's
     "off-cluster" backup shared a physical failure domain with dev — one host
     loss took the cluster AND its backups. R2 is genuinely off-site.

COST, measured rather than estimated (read straight out of the buckets):
  velero  4.0 GiB / 6,264 objects  (7d retention; 8.65 GB live -> kopia dedup)
  cnpg    211 MiB / 1,755 objects  (keycloak 66Mi/331, nextcloud 87Mi/1329,
                                    semaphore 58Mi/95; ~7d of a 30d window)
Both clusters project to ~13-15 GiB and ~30k writes/month => pennies on R2, and
free egress means restore REHEARSALS cost nothing, so R-STATE-03 has no financial
disincentive to stay proven. Wasabi/Hetzner are 50-200x worse here purely because
of 1 TB minimums; Glacier tiers are a trap (90-day minimum billing against a
7-day Velero retention plus early-delete fees on 30-day WAL pruning).

*** THE R2 GOTCHA, WIRED UP FRONT: checksumAlgorithm: "" ***
velero-plugin-for-aws v1.14.2 bundles an AWS SDK that sends
x-amz-sdk-checksum-algorithm / x-amz-checksum-crc32 on every PUT. R2 REJECTS
those with HTTP 400 InvalidArgument, so every backup and every kopia blob upload
would fail. Set unconditionally — MinIO ignores it, so it needs no fork.

`region` was hardcoded us-east-1 inside the Velero HelmRelease: correct-by-
accident for MinIO (which ignores it) and WRONG for R2 (which demands exactly
`auto`). Now the S3_BACKUP_REGION knob.

PREFIXES ARE NOW SYMMETRIC (dev/prod), reversing the reasoning from two commits
ago. While the target was MinIO, dev HAD to keep the bucket root or it would
orphan the backups its proven restore depends on. R2 starts BOTH clusters on an
empty bucket, so there is no history to orphan — and leaving the bucket root
unused means a misrendered prefix lands somewhere obviously wrong instead of
silently colliding with a real environment.

NEITHER OVERLAY PINS THE ENDPOINT ANY MORE — a deliberate reversal of this
repo's "prod must never inherit base" rule. That rule exists because base
defaults are dev's LAN addresses; R2 is a single environment-INDEPENDENT endpoint,
so under R-ENV-02 it belongs in base, and two copies of one URL is a rotation
waiting to drift. Isolation comes from the path knobs, not the URL. Caught while
verifying: dev's overlay DID still pin MinIO, so dev would have taken the new
`dev` prefix while writing to the old endpoint — orphaning its MinIO backups for
no benefit. That is why the endpoint and the prefixes must move in ONE commit.

*** MERGING THIS RESETS DEV'S PITR WINDOW. *** Dev's R2 prefix starts empty:
Velero writes a fresh kopia repo, CNPG takes new base backups, the 30-day Barman
window rebuilds from zero. The MinIO copy is NOT deleted and stays restorable by
pointing the endpoint back. Do not merge while dev's proven restore is the only
recovery path you rely on.

STILL BLOCKED ON THE OPERATOR: the endpoint is the loud placeholder
https://TBD-R2-ACCOUNT-ID.r2.cloudflarestorage.com. Creating the R2 buckets and
an API token needs Cloudflare account access I do not have (the token in this
repo is Zone:DNS scoped). Velero+R2 and CNPG-barman+R2 are also UNPROVEN here and
must be verified by an actual backup AND restore, not just an upload.

VERIFIED: full CI gate PASS. Rendered both overlays — dev dev/s3://cnpg/dev,
prod prod/s3://cnpg/prod, region auto, one shared endpoint.

Refs R-STATE-03, R-ENV-02, R-IDP-05.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-05 11:29:22 -05:00

home-network-k3s-impl

Implementation of the home k3s + Longhorn platform. This repo holds the reconciled artifacts (Flux config, Kustomize overlays, KubeVirt/Helm manifests, ServiceDefinitions, Kyverno policies, Chainsaw conformance tests, CI). It is driven by — and subordinate to — the read-only specification at ../home-network-k3s.

Rules (from the spec — non-negotiable)

  • The spec is read-only. Never modify anything under ../home-network-k3s. Implement against it; escalate spec problems, don't edit them (spec AGENTS.md §11, R-TEST-06).
  • Done = a green, reproducible, requirement-tagged conformance test — never "merged," never a manual demo (spec docs/14, agents/definition-of-done.md).
  • No work on main. Every change is a feature branch merged into main (spec CONTRIBUTING.md).
  • No plaintext secrets — SOPS-encrypted only (spec docs/07).
  • Phase discipline — only build what the active roadmap phase authorizes (spec roadmap/phases.md).

Layout

infra/          node provisioning: OpenTofu (Proxmox VE) + cloud-init + Ansible, and the
                pinned dev container that carries the whole toolchain
bootstrap/      one-time cluster bootstrap: Flux install, SOPS/age key, host Gitea
platform/       platform CONTROLLERS (Flux HelmReleases / operator bases): kyverno, cilium,
                longhorn, external-snapshotter, cert-manager, externaldns, gateway, coredns,
                vpn-egress, monitoring, cnpg, keycloak, oauth2-proxy, kubevirt
platform-config/ platform CONFIGS — the custom resources of the CRDs installed above
                (ClusterIssuers, Gateway, Kyverno policies, KubeVirt/CDI CRs, Keycloak CRs).
                Split out because CRs and the CRDs they use cannot apply in one pass.
apps/           application tier, reconciled as dependency-ordered WAVES:
                  wave-0/ wave-1/ wave-2/   rendered container apps (see DESIGN-waves.md)
                  vms/                      KubeVirt VirtualMachines (non-gating tier)
catalog/        ServiceDefinition entries (the onboarding surface) + render.py
schemas/        ServiceDefinition JSON Schema + renderer contract
clusters/       Flux entrypoints + dev/ and prod/ overlays
conformance/    Chainsaw behavior/conformance suite + harness + coverage report
ci/             the gate as scripts (lint · schema · Kyverno L0 · L1 render · decision)
.gitea/         Gitea Actions CI running that gate on an in-cluster runner

Status

Roadmap phases 0–6 are delivered and deployed on the dev cluster; Phase 7 (prod) is not open — clusters/prod is a design-only overlay.

Phase Delivered
0 Foundations ServiceDefinition schema + renderer, Kyverno L0 gate, conformance harness, CI
1 Cluster bring-up 3-node k3s HA on Proxmox VE (192.168.1.50/.51/.52), Cilium, Flux, SOPS
2 Platform core Cilium · Longhorn · cert-manager (LE-prod wildcard) · ExternalDNS · Gateway API · split-horizon CoreDNS
3 Egress / VPN ADR-0015 node-level OpenVPN split-tunnel + Cilium egress-gateway steering + host kill-switch
4 Observability kube-prometheus-stack · Loki · Alloy · Alertmanager. Velero still blocked on OQ-BKP; image-automation authored but disabled
5 IaaS KubeVirt + CDI on real nested KVM; live-migratable RWX VM storage. The UniFi VM runs, but UniFi OS Server is not yet installed in the guest
6 Identity + CI Keycloak (Operator + CNPG) · oauth2-proxy forward-auth · Grafana OIDC · kubectl OIDC SSO with group→RBAC · in-cluster Gitea Actions merge gate

Conformance: 36 / 51 requirements covered (70.6%), 15 gaps, 1 safety-critical gap (R-STATE-02, Longhorn node-loss). Regenerate with ./conformance/run.sh --coverage-only; the full report is conformance/_artifacts/coverage/coverage.md.

The running narrative — decisions, root causes, incidents, follow-ups — is DECISIONS-LOG.md. It, not this table, is the authoritative record.

Working on this repo

Everything the gate needs is baked into the pinned dev container — do not install the toolchain on the host:

infra/devcontainer/dev.sh build            # once
infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run make -C ci gate   # the same gate CI runs
infra/devcontainer/dev.sh                  # interactive shell (sops, flux, kubectl, tofu, ansible)

The container mounts the repo at /work, your age keyring, and the sibling spec repo read-only so the spec-immutability check can actually run. See infra/devcontainer/README.md.

A green run prints MERGE GATE: PASS. The L2/L3 conformance layers stay SKIPPED unless CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true — the static gate never pretends to have run them.

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