jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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INCIDENT FIX. Prod's external-dns DELETED EVERY ONE OF DEV'S PUBLIC DNS RECORDS. Both
clusters ran policy: sync against the SAME Cloudflare zone with the SAME implicit
txtOwnerId (`default`), so prod believed it owned dev's records, found no matching sources,
and removed them plus their TXT registry entries. Dev recovered ~30s after prod was scaled
to 0; verified restored against Cloudflare directly (my first check went through a pfSense
override and falsely showed healthy — local resolvers are not evidence about public DNS).
THE MISS WAS MINE, and it was a failure of imagination in how I briefed every agent. I put
"never touch dev" in brief after brief and enforced it — separate kubeconfigs, verified
--limit, sha-checked dev's kubeconfig before and after. Every one of those guards held. NONE
of them covered SHARED EXTERNAL RESOURCES. Prod reconciling its OWN correctly-authored
manifests reached across a third party and destroyed dev's state. Cluster-to-cluster
isolation was verified; the dependency that mattered was cluster-to-Cloudflare.
Operator's architecture: dev -> *.dev.home.keithjackson.dev, prod ->
*.prod.home.keithjackson.dev, apex CNAME <svc>.home -> <svc>.prod.home.
PHASE 1 ONLY (this commit): prod moves to its own subdomain. DEV IS NOT MIGRATED and its
effective hostname stays home.keithjackson.dev, so dev renders byte-identically and nothing
live moves. That alone ends the collision and unblocks prod. Phase 2 (dev -> dev.home. +
apex CNAMEs) is deferred to when the operator is present: it relocates Keycloak's issuer and
12 clients' redirect URIs, forces a rolling k3s restart and kubectl SSO re-issue for every
user, and moves gitea.home. — which is BOTH the GitOps source and the current push target.
BASE_DOMAIN WAS A DEAD KNOB — it existed in cluster-vars but the status report flagged it as
referenced by nothing, because hostnames were hardcoded throughout. Now real: 141 refs.
Searched the AUTHORITATIVE reconciled set by resolving each Flux spec.path transitively via
conformance/lib/status.py — the same resolver the L0 gate uses, so "what Flux reconciles"
has one definition. 185 occurrences across 47 files in 154 reconciled files. Tokenized:
Gateway listeners, the wildcard Certificate, coredns-custom, external-dns, Keycloak
instance/realm (26 redirect URIs), oauth2-proxy, Grafana OIDC, all HTTPRoutes, Homepage's 15
links, 30 runbook_urls, unifi cloud-init, render.py's ZONE constant (which drove
--oidc-issuer-url/--cookie-domain/--whitelist-domain on every forward-auth sidecar) and 11
catalog/ ServiceDefinitions re-rendered canonically. Left alone: 43 comment/prose
occurrences and non-reconciled paths.
TWO THAT CANNOT BE TOKENIZED, flagged not forced:
- headlamp's OIDC URLs live inside a SOPS-encrypted Secret; re-encrypting rewrites the MAC
over every value and the OFFLINE harness cannot verify it (kustomize does not decrypt),
so an error would break live-dev SSO with no pre-flight proof. Prod needs its own copy
anyway — client secrets are realm-scoped.
- kube-apiserver --oidc-issuer-url is a k3s SERVER FLAG, not a manifest, so Flux can never
reach it. Done on the inventory seam instead (k3s_base_domain -> k3s_oidc_issuer_url,
overridden in group_vars/k3s_prod). Verified per host: dev keeps the default, prod gets
prod.home.
EXTERNAL-DNS OWNER, the actual incident cause: txtOwnerId is now explicit per environment —
dev renders exactly `default` (the chart default it was already using, so its existing
records stay recognised) and prod gets `prod`. The BASE default is a NON-COLLIDING SENTINEL,
deliberately not `default`, so a future environment that forgets the knob owns nothing and
can delete nothing rather than silently inheriting dev's identity.
I OVERRODE ONE AGENT DECISION against our own prior finding: it narrowed prod's
domainFilters to prod.home.keithjackson.dev as defence in depth. FINDING F-DNS1
(DECISIONS-LOG 2026-08-17) already proved a subdomain filter DROPS THE PARENT ZONE —
ExternalDNS generates the record then skips it with "no hosted zone matching record DNS
Name". Prod would have published NOTHING. Set to the ZONE (keithjackson.dev) like dev.
Isolation comes from the subdomain split plus txtOwnerId, which is what the incident
actually needed and what a domain filter cannot provide.
DEV PROVEN UNCHANGED: 11 of 12 substituting paths byte-identical; the 12th differs by
exactly one line, `+ txtOwnerId: default` — the value dev was already using implicitly.
POSITIVE CONTROLS confirm the harness is not blind: perturbing BASE_DOMAIN moves 10 of 12
hashes (the 2 that don't provably contain no hostname), perturbing the owner id moves
exactly 1. Prod's rendered output has ZERO home.keithjackson.dev references outside prod.,
and its cert renders *.prod.home.keithjackson.dev — no overlap with dev's.
L0 substitution assertions 106 -> 254; BASE_DOMAIN is no longer flagged dead. Gate PASS.
PROD REMAINS SUSPENDED (platform + 10 downstream tiers) pending review; nothing applied.
Serves: R-ENV-02, R-DNS-01, R-DNS-02, R-DNS-03, R-TLS-01.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
platform/keycloak
Keycloak — the platform Identity Provider (SSO via OIDC + SAML), onboarded early (Phase 6 IdP).
- Governing ADR: ADR-0014 — IdP: Keycloak
- Spec: docs/15 — Identity & Access
- Serves: R-IDP-01..06
- Owner: WS-SEC
Image / tooling strategy (F-KY1 landmine avoided)
The original stub used the Bitnami Keycloak chart + bundled Bitnami PostgreSQL. Bitnami's free Docker Hub images were purged (DECISIONS-LOG F-KY1) → that path ImagePullBackOffs. Replaced with:
- Keycloak: the official Keycloak Operator (
quay.io/keycloak/keycloak-operator+quay.io/keycloak/keycloak, v26.0.6) driving aKeycloakCR + aKeycloakRealmImportCR for config-as-code (ADR-0014 permits Operator OR Helm; Operator gives clean CR-driven realm reconcile). - Database: CloudNativePG (
ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg, see../cnpg) — aClusteron the 3-replicalonghornStorageClass (DR-critical, R-IDP-05), with declarative backup hooks.
quay.io + ghcr.io are unaffected by the Bitnami purge. Operator manifests are pinned upstream release files pulled as remote kustomize bases (the kubevirt-stub pattern); Renovate maintains the version.
Layout (controllers / configs split — F-MON1)
| File | Applied by | What |
|---|---|---|
kustomization.yaml (namespace, operator CRDs+Deployment, admin secret, dashboard) |
platform | controllers |
keycloak-instance.yaml (Keycloak CR, ${KEYCLOAK_REPLICAS}) |
platform-config | config |
postgres-cluster.yaml (CNPG Cluster on longhorn) |
platform-config | config |
keycloak-realm-import.yaml (KeycloakRealmImport: realm/groups/clients/MFA) |
platform-config | config |
httproute.yaml (keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev) |
platform-config | config |
servicemonitor.yaml (Prometheus scrape) |
platform-config | config |
Realm config (groups platform-admins/media-users/viewers, OIDC clients grafana+oauth2-proxy,
brute-force ON, and a conditional MFA browser flow that REQUIRES OTP for platform-admins, R-IDP-04)
reconciles purely from git — no console clicking (R-IDP-03).
Admin credential + break-glass (R-IDP-04 / R-IDP-05)
The provisioned keycloak-admin-credentials.sops.yaml (keys admin-user/admin-password) is injected
as the temporary bootstrap/break-glass admin via KC_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_* env (podTemplate escape
hatch) — this consumes the secret as provisioned, without re-keying it (the operator's native
bootstrapAdmin wants username/password keys, which would require editing the encrypted file).
The Keycloak bootstrap admin is the documented break-glass path so an IdP/SSO outage does not lock the
operator out (ADR-0014); Grafana likewise keeps its local admin login until SSO is proven.
Operator hand-offs (fill before / during deploy)
keycloak-realm-clients.sops.yaml(keycloak ns) — from.sops.yaml.example. Two client secrets (grafana-client-secret,oauth2-proxy-client-secret),openssl rand -hex 32each. The realm import injects them into the Keycloak clients viaspec.placeholders. Add tokustomization.yamlonce filled. The realm import stays PENDING until this exists.../oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy-credentials.sops.yaml(oauth2-proxy ns) —client-id: oauth2-proxy,client-secret= the SAMEoauth2-proxy-client-secretabove,cookie-secret=openssl rand -base64 32.../monitoring/grafana-oidc-credentials.sops.yaml(monitoring ns) —client-secret= the SAMEgrafana-client-secretabove.
(Cross-namespace Secrets can't be shared, so each client secret is stored twice — once for the realm
import in keycloak, once for the consuming app.) See the two .sops.yaml.example templates for the
exact keys + steps. No plaintext secret is ever committed.
Exceptions that keep native auth (do not force SSO) — ADR-0014
Plex/Seerr (Plex auth), Minecraft (Mojang/Microsoft), UniFi (native).