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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 3484955903 fix(sso): gitea + nextcloud OIDC bootstrap was DEAD CODE — envsubst ate the guard
Both ServiceDefinitions guarded their Keycloak OIDC registration with an UNESCAPED
braced expansion:

    if [ -z "${GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}" ]; then      # gitea
    if [ -z "${NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}" ]; then  # nextcloud, then exit 0

apps-wave-0/1 both declare postBuild.substituteFrom: cluster-vars, and neither name is a
cluster-vars key — so Flux's envsubst substituted them away AT RECONCILE TIME, long
before the container ever ran. Verified in the LIVE cluster: the deployed Deployments
literally contain

    if [ -z "" ]; then

which is always true. The entire OIDC registration block has been skipped on EVERY boot
of both apps.

WHY NOBODY NOTICED: both apps DO have the provider registered — `gitea admin auth list`
shows keycloak/OAuth2/true and `occ user_oidc:provider` shows the keycloak provider.
Those live in each app's own database, persisted from an earlier successful registration.
SSO works today and DECISIONS-LOG is not wrong. But the idempotent re-registration is
dead, so any PVC rebuild, DB restore, or fresh cluster build comes up with NO OIDC and
only the break-glass local admin. A PROD BUILD FROM THIS REPO WOULD SILENTLY HAVE NO SSO
on gitea or nextcloud.

The irony: the surrounding code was hardened twice — see its own comments about a "silent
first-boot RACE", the verify-then-retry loops, the marker files. All of that hardening was
unreachable, because the guard above it always evaluated true.

Not a regression from the recent R-ENV-02 tokenization — introduced 2026-08-27 (8738871).

FIXED AT THE RIGHT SEAM: apps/wave-0/gitea.yaml and apps/wave-1/nextcloud.yaml are
RENDER-GENERATED, so the fix is in catalog/*.yaml and the goldens are regenerated.
Escaped to $${...}, the convention documented in clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml. Post-envsubst
the container now receives the intended `${VAR:-}` instead of `""`.

STRICT MODE WOULD NEVER HAVE CAUGHT THIS. Flux deliberately exempts default-providing
operators (-, :-, +, :+, =, :=, ?, :?) from StrictPostBuildSubstitutions, because they
"intentionally handle the unset case". So a targeted check was required.

MADE UN-REPEATABLE IN THE RENDERER: catalog/render.py gains a substitution-safety section
wired into emit(), so every render path refuses to emit a manifest containing a braced
expansion that is not exactly ${KNOWN_KEY} for a key read LIVE from cluster-vars (no
hardcoded copy to drift; unreadable => empty set => fail-closed). Dollar-runs are counted
properly ($$ is a literal $ to envsubst, so odd runs are flagged and even runs are not),
and indexed forms get their own hard-error message. Nine new --selftest assertions,
including the exact regression. Proven to bite: rendering the pre-fix catalog files from
HEAD now exits 1 with the precise diagnosis.

Sweep: the complete substituted surface was enumerated from every Kustomization's path.
catalog/ contains exactly TWO braced expansions and both were these bugs; every other
braced expansion on a substituted path is a declared cluster-vars key (zero typos, zero
undeclared names); existing $${UOS_URL} escapes verified intact.

Verified: --selftest PASS; canonical render is byte-identical to the committed apps/ for
all 10 onboarded services; the three L1 render checks pass.

NEXT RECONCILE: both pod templates change, so gitea (wave 0) and nextcloud (wave 1) roll —
strategy: Recreate on RWO Longhorn PVCs, so expect a brief single-pod outage each. The
OIDC block then executes for the first time in these apps' deployed lifetime. Both paths
are idempotent (gitea takes auth update-oauth on the existing id; nextcloud's
user_oidc:provider is create-or-update), so the expected result is a no-op re-write plus
the verify loop logging success. If the SOPS client secret ever diverged from Keycloak's,
this is when it gets corrected instead of silently left stale. Tail both pods after merge.

Serves: R-IDP-02, R-IDP-06, R-ENV-02, R-GITOPS-02.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-01 01:29:40 -05:00

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# ServiceDefinition: nextcloud
# Source of truth: spec docs/13-service-catalog.md row 7; docs/15-identity-and-access.md; docs/04.
# public file-sync | egress internet | data on Longhorn (irreplaceable, DR-critical) | auth oidc.
#
# DR-critical (docs/13 "DR-critical data"): the user data lives on the 3-replica `longhorn` tier and
# is backed up off-cluster (backup.policy daily-offcluster; R-STATE-03). Nextcloud is stateless code
# over (a) its /var/www/html Longhorn PVC and (b) an external PostgreSQL — the first CNPG-DB app,
# establishing the reusable pattern (its DB is a CloudNativePG Cluster, apps/nextcloud-db.yaml).
#
# DB WIRING (schema >=1.2.0 env/envFrom): the app reaches its PostgreSQL cross-namespace at
# nextcloud-db-rw.nextcloud-db:5432 (the CNPG read-write Service). Its owner credentials are the
# SAME password held in two SOPS secrets — nextcloud-db-app (basic-auth, ns nextcloud-db; consumed by
# the CNPG Cluster's initdb) and nextcloud-bootstrap (ns nextcloud; consumed here as db-password).
# A Pod can only read Secrets in its OWN namespace, so the shared password is duplicated across the
# two encrypted files rather than replicated cross-namespace (documented in apps/nextcloud-db.yaml).
# Validates against schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json.
name: nextcloud
kind: container
source:
image: nextcloud:31-apache # apache variant serves on :80 (docs/13 row 7); pinned recent stable
# major (R-UPD-01); update.range governs advancement within the line
env:
# --- PostgreSQL connection (the CNPG-DB pattern). HOST/DB/USER are literals; PASSWORD is sourced
# from the in-namespace SOPS secret (the CNPG -app secret lives in ns nextcloud-db, unreachable
# by a Pod secretKeyRef, so the same value is mirrored into nextcloud-bootstrap here). ---
- name: POSTGRES_HOST
value: nextcloud-db-rw.nextcloud-db.svc.cluster.local
- name: POSTGRES_DB
value: nextcloud
- name: POSTGRES_USER
value: nextcloud
- name: POSTGRES_PASSWORD
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: nextcloud-bootstrap
key: db-password
# --- Break-glass local admin (docs/15 availability caveat): created on first-boot install so the
# operator is never locked out by an IdP outage. Sourced from the SOPS nextcloud-bootstrap secret. ---
- name: NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_USER
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: nextcloud-bootstrap
key: admin-username
- name: NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORD
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: nextcloud-bootstrap
key: admin-password
# --- Public exposure behind the TLS-terminating shared Gateway (docs/08/09). TRUSTED_DOMAINS lets
# the vhost answer for the public FQDN; OVERWRITE* make Nextcloud emit https:// self-URLs even
# though it speaks plain HTTP behind the proxy. ---
- name: NEXTCLOUD_TRUSTED_DOMAINS
value: nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
- name: OVERWRITEHOST
value: nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
- name: OVERWRITEPROTOCOL
value: https
- name: OVERWRITECLIURL
value: https://nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
# --- Keycloak native OIDC SSO (auth.mode oidc; docs/15 "Native OIDC"; R-IDP-02/06). The confidential
# `nextcloud` realm client's secret is mirrored into this namespace's nextcloud-bootstrap Secret
# (oidc-client-secret; same value SOPS-held in keycloak-realm-clients). The postStart hook reads it
# via user_oidc's --clientsecret-env (never on argv) to register the "keycloak" provider. The LOCAL
# admin above stays as the break-glass path (docs/15). ---
- name: NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: nextcloud-bootstrap
key: oidc-client-secret
lifecycle:
postStart:
exec:
command:
- /bin/sh
- -c
- |
# Idempotent Keycloak OIDC wiring (R-IDP-02/06). Runs alongside the nextcloud entrypoint
# (which installs/upgrades on first boot). Installs+enables the user_oidc app and creates OR
# updates the "keycloak" login provider (occ user_oidc:provider is create-or-update by
# identifier). Auto-discovery pulls the realm's endpoints; the `groups` claim drives Nextcloud
# group provisioning. occ runs as www-data (owns config.php); the client secret is passed via
# --clientsecret-env so it never lands on a command line. Safe to re-run every start; a missing
# secret or not-yet-installed instance is skipped so the pod never crashloops (the local
# break-glass admin still works).
set -u
# OCC runs occ as www-data (owns config.php). NOTE: this wrapper word-splits its args via $*,
# so it is used ONLY for single-token subcommands (status/app:list/app:install/...). The
# provider call below carries a MULTI-WORD value (--scope 'openid email profile') and is run as
# ONE su -c with the scope single-quoted, so the inner shell keeps it a single argument.
OCC() { su -s /bin/sh www-data -c "php /var/www/html/occ $*"; }
NEXTCLOUD_DISCOVERY_URL=https://keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev/realms/homelab/.well-known/openid-configuration
nextcloud_oidc_fail() {
echo "[nextcloud-oidc] FAILED to configure 'keycloak' provider: $1" >&2
{ echo "$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ) [nextcloud-oidc] FAILED: $1"; } >> /var/www/html/nextcloud-oidc-bootstrap.log 2>/dev/null || true
}
# (a) Wait for the instance to be installed AND out of maintenance mode. The entrypoint holds
# maintenance mode during first-boot install/upgrade; occ writes made in that window do not
# stick — a second race on top of the quoting bug fixed at (c).
i=0
until OCC status 2>/dev/null | grep -q "installed: true" && ! OCC status 2>/dev/null | grep -q "maintenance: true"; do
i=$((i + 1))
[ "$i" -ge 300 ] && { echo "[nextcloud-oidc] occ not ready (installed/maintenance) after wait; skipping" >&2; exit 0; }
sleep 2
done
# Let Nextcloud's OWN server-side HTTP client reach the private-network IdP. The Keycloak
# FQDN resolves (split-horizon) to the PRIVATE Cilium gateway VIP (RFC1918), and Nextcloud's
# SSRF guard otherwise REFUSES that request — OCP\Http\Client\LocalServerException "violates
# local access rules" — during user_oidc's discovery/JWKS/token fetch AT LOGIN, surfacing to
# the user as "Could not reach the provider". (The (b) curl check below uses system libcurl,
# NOT this guard, so it passes while the browser login still failed.) Idempotent; re-applied
# every start so it survives pod rolls / PVC rebuilds. Confirmed root cause 2026-08-27.
OCC config:system:set allow_local_remote_servers --value=true --type=boolean >/dev/null 2>&1 \
|| echo "[nextcloud-oidc] WARN: failed to set allow_local_remote_servers" >&2
# NOTE the `$$` escape below — it is load-bearing. apps-wave-1 declares postBuild.
# substituteFrom cluster-vars, so Flux envsubst rewrites this whole manifest at RECONCILE
# time, before any container runs. Written unescaped, `$${NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}` is
# not a cluster-var, so envsubst blanked it and the guard reconciled as `[ -z "" ]` — ALWAYS
# TRUE — so this hook `exit 0`d here on EVERY boot since 8738871 (2026-08-27), never
# installing/enabling user_oidc nor registering the provider. SSO kept working only because
# the provider was already in the DB; a PVC rebuild or fresh cluster would have come up with
# NO OIDC at all. Flux STRICT substitution cannot catch this — it EXEMPTS default-operator
# forms by design. `$${VAR}` is the escape: envsubst emits it back as a plain brace expansion
# for the shell. Bare `$VAR` and `$(cmd)` are left alone and need NO escaping — which is why
# `--clientsecret-env` and the bare uses below always worked and only the guard broke.
# Contract: clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml. Enforced at render time by catalog/render.py.
if [ -z "$${NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}" ]; then
echo "[nextcloud-oidc] client secret unset; skipping OIDC (break-glass admin only)"
exit 0
fi
if ! OCC app:list 2>/dev/null | grep -q "user_oidc"; then
OCC app:install user_oidc || echo "[nextcloud-oidc] app:install user_oidc failed" >&2
fi
OCC app:enable user_oidc >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
# (b) Wait up to ~90s for the Keycloak discovery doc to be reachable (HTTP 200) before registering.
d=0; disc_ok=0
while [ "$d" -lt 45 ]; do
if [ "$(curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --max-time 5 "$NEXTCLOUD_DISCOVERY_URL" 2>/dev/null)" = "200" ]; then
disc_ok=1; break
fi
d=$((d + 1)); sleep 2
done
[ "$disc_ok" = 1 ] || nextcloud_oidc_fail "Keycloak discovery endpoint not reachable (HTTP 200) within timeout"
# (c) Configure (create-or-update by identifier) then VERIFY it persisted; retry the whole cycle.
# HARDENED: run as ONE su -c so www-data's shell parses --scope='openid email profile' as a
# single argument. The previous `OCC user_oidc:provider ... --scope="openid email profile"`
# form fed the value back through the wrapper's $*, which SPLIT it into extra positionals ->
# occ "Too many arguments" -> silent failure on EVERY boot. Secret via --clientsecret-env
# (never on argv). The verify-then-retry loop guarantees the provider actually persisted.
r=0; reg_ok=0
while [ "$r" -lt 10 ]; do
su -s /bin/sh www-data -c "php /var/www/html/occ user_oidc:provider keycloak \
--clientid=nextcloud \
--clientsecret-env=NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET \
--discoveryuri=$NEXTCLOUD_DISCOVERY_URL \
--scope='openid email profile' \
--unique-uid=0 \
--mapping-uid=preferred_username \
--mapping-email=email \
--mapping-display-name=name \
--group-provisioning=1 \
--mapping-groups=groups" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
if OCC user_oidc:provider 2>/dev/null | grep -q "keycloak"; then
reg_ok=1; break
fi
r=$((r + 1)); sleep 3
done
if [ "$reg_ok" = 1 ]; then
echo "[nextcloud-oidc] provider 'keycloak' configured and verified"
else
nextcloud_oidc_fail "user_oidc:provider ran but the provider did not persist after retries"
fi
# (d) Promote Keycloak 'platform-admins' members to Nextcloud admins (#5). user_oidc 8.11 has
# NO native group->admin mapping (occ user_oidc:provider offers group PROVISIONING and a
# login WHITELIST only), so mirror the provisioned 'platform-admins' membership into the
# built-in 'admin' group (the sole source of admin rights in Nextcloud). Idempotent every
# start: occ group:adduser is a no-op for an existing member. A user is promotable only
# AFTER their first OIDC login provisions them into the group, so a brand-new admin gains
# rights on their next login + the following pod start (or run `occ group:adduser admin
# <uid>` once). The LOCAL break-glass admin is unaffected (docs/15). The group name is
# passed to php as argv (never interpolated) so group:list JSON parses robustly.
ADMIN_SRC_GROUP=platform-admins
# HARDENED (verify-and-retry, like step (c)): the previous single pass ran `occ group:adduser`
# exactly once with its output swallowed (>/dev/null 2>&1) and NO retry, so an early-boot
# transient failure (DB / maintenance race in the first seconds after container start) silently
# dropped the promotion until the NEXT pod restart. This loop re-reads group:list and re-adds
# any platform-admins member still missing from 'admin' until all are verified (bounded ~30s);
# it is a no-op for members already in 'admin'. Group names are passed to php as argv (never
# interpolated) so the JSON parses robustly.
parse_group() { su -s /bin/sh www-data -c "php /var/www/html/occ group:list --output=json" 2>/dev/null | php -r '$d=json_decode(stream_get_contents(STDIN),true);$g=$argv[1];if(is_array($d)&&!empty($d[$g])&&is_array($d[$g])){foreach($d[$g] as $u){echo $u,"\n";}}' -- "$1" 2>/dev/null; }
p=0
while [ "$p" -lt 15 ]; do
current_admins=$(parse_group admin)
missing=0
for uid in $(parse_group "$ADMIN_SRC_GROUP"); do
if printf '%s\n' "$current_admins" | grep -qxF -- "$uid"; then
continue
fi
missing=1
if OCC group:adduser admin "$uid" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "[nextcloud-oidc] ensured '$uid' is a Nextcloud admin (member of $ADMIN_SRC_GROUP)"
fi
done
[ "$missing" = 0 ] && break
p=$((p + 1)); sleep 2
done
[ "$p" -ge 15 ] && nextcloud_oidc_fail "could not promote all $ADMIN_SRC_GROUP members into 'admin' after retries"
exposure: public # edge port-forward + public DNS (docs/09; R-DNS/R-NET)
egress: internet # normal WAN egress (docs/03; R-NET-05) — app store, integrity checks
storage:
- name: data
size: 20Gi
class: longhorn # ALL Nextcloud state (config/, data/, apps/, custom_apps/) on the
mountPath: /var/www/html # 3-replica tier; irreplaceable, DR-critical (docs/04; R-STATE-02).
# The whole html dir is persisted so config.php + user data survive a
# rebuild (the default /data/<name> would strand them on ephemeral rootfs).
dependencies:
- to: nextcloud-db # explicit allow: Nextcloud -> its PostgreSQL (docs/13 graph; R-NET-02).
port: 5432 # Renders the egress half; the DB namespace mirrors keycloak-db (no
protocol: tcp # default-deny), so Cilium's default-allow accepts the reciprocal ingress.
ingressRoutes:
- host: nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
port: 80 # apache HTTP; wildcard TLS terminates at the shared Gateway (docs/08/09)
auth:
mode: oidc # native Keycloak OIDC client (docs/13 SSO row, docs/15 "Native OIDC"; R-IDP-02)
groups:
- platform-admins # access scoped to an authorized group (R-IDP-06)
# WIRED (native OIDC): the Keycloak `nextcloud` confidential client (platform/keycloak/keycloak-realm-
# import.yaml + live kcadm) is registered as a user_oidc login provider ("keycloak") by the postStart
# hook (occ user_oidc:provider), using the client secret mirrored into nextcloud-bootstrap
# (oidc-client-secret; same value SOPS-held in keycloak-realm-clients). The `groups` claim drives
# user_oidc group provisioning (R-IDP-06). Members of `platform-admins` are ELEVATED to Nextcloud
# admins by the postStart hook step (d) — user_oidc 8.11 has no native group->admin mapping, so the
# provisioned membership is mirrored into the built-in `admin` group idempotently on every start; a
# user is promoted after their first login provisions them + the next pod start. Nextcloud KEEPS its
# LOCAL admin as the break-glass path so an IdP outage never locks the operator out (docs/15
# "Availability caveat"). Reachability to the IdP at login requires allow_local_remote_servers=true
# (set by the hook): the Keycloak FQDN resolves to the private gateway VIP, which Nextcloud's SSRF
# guard blocks by default ("Could not reach the provider"). No secret is embedded here.
update:
channel: stable # R-UPD-01
range: ">=31.0.0 <32.0.0" # stay on the 31.x stable line
cadence: "0 4 * * *"
autoRollbackOnFailedHealth: true # R-UPD-03
observability:
metrics: true
slis:
- up # file-sync down is a critical alert (docs/10; R-OBS-01)
backup:
policy: daily-offcluster # DR-critical: data backed up off-cluster (docs/13, docs/04; R-STATE-03)