customConnections held two hand-typed URLs and neither could ever complete, so Plex had nothing publishable and the server disappeared from the account: - https://192.168.2.24:32400 -- the server's cert is *.130072f20c334d6c8f63d0dfef87309b.plex.direct with NO IP SAN, so bare-IP https fails TLS for every client. Measured: a continuous storm of "CERT: incomplete TLS handshake ... certificate unknown" from real LAN clients arriving through the plex-l4-tcp VIP. - https://plex.home.keithjackson.dev:32400 -- nothing listens; the Gateway serves that host on 443 (measured http=000 against 192.168.2.20:32400). With no completable connection plex.tv published nothing ("Mapped - Not Published"), Plex fell back to Relay, and clients reported "not authorized". Fix: advertise <dashed-ip>.<serverhash>.plex.direct -- public DNS that resolves to the embedded address, so it points at the LAN VIP and matches the wildcard cert. Verified with full TLS validation (no curl -k): 200 + verify OK, where the bare-IP form fails to connect. Declared as ADVERTISE_IP so git owns the value instead of a web form: the image's 40-plex-first-run writes it into customConnections on every pod start, outside the claim guard. Does NOT fix off-LAN access -- the advertised address is RFC1918 and the WAN tcp/32400 forward remains unverified. ManualPortMappingMode=1 with an absent port is left as-is (no GitOps path exists for it). Touches clusters/** -> sensitive paths -> needs the operator's /approve-override, deliberately not self-posted (CLAUDE.md 1). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
catalog — ServiceDefinition entries (the onboarding surface)
One YAML file per service. Each file is a ServiceDefinition conforming to
../schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json. Adding or
editing a service here is the only onboarding step — the platform renders compute, storage, network
policy, egress, TLS, DNS, monitoring, and update policy from it (see
../schemas/renderer-contract.md). Serves R-GITOPS-02.
Source of truth for the initial catalog: spec
docs/13-service-catalog.md (14-service table +
SSO/egress/dependency intent).
Current examples
| File | docs/13 row | exposure | egress | auth | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pihole.yaml |
6 | internal | internet | forward-auth | admin UI behind oauth2-proxy; config on Longhorn (DR-critical); also platform DNS |
keycloak.yaml |
0 | public | internet | native | the IdP itself (own admin login + MFA); PostgreSQL on Longhorn; DR-critical |
The remaining catalog services (plex, sonarr, radarr, jackett, seerr, nextcloud, minecraft, unifi, semaphore, kasm, gitea, qbittorrent) are onboarded in later phases; they follow the same schema and inherit every guarantee automatically.
Authoring rules
- Only
nameandsourceare mandatory; every other field defaults to docs/13's default posture (kind: container,exposure: internal,egress: internet,auth.mode: forward-auth, stable auto-update, DNS-only default-deny). Set a field only to override the default. - Any exposed UI must have an
authblock:forward-auth(default) oroidc, each with a non-emptyauth.groups;native/noneare documented exceptions only. - Irreplaceable state (
class: longhornconfigs/DBs) must setbackup.policyto an off-cluster schedule — neverreacquirable(R-STATE-03). Only bulk media may bereacquirable. - Shell braces must be escaped
$${...}. Anything rendered verbatim onto the workload — alifecyclepostStart script, anenvvalue — lands underapps/wave-<N>/, and everyapps-wave-<N>Flux Kustomization declarespostBuild.substituteFrom: cluster-vars. Flux runs envsubst over the WHOLE manifest at reconcile time, so an unescaped${VAR:-}meant for the shell is replaced with the empty string before the container ever starts (this silently killed gitea's and nextcloud's OIDC registration for days). Bare$VARand$(cmd)are left alone and need no escaping; a genuine environment knob is declared inclusters/base/cluster-vars.yamland written bare${KNOB}. Full contract:../clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml.render.pyREFUSES to emit a manifest that breaks this rule (Flux's strict substitution mode cannot: it deliberately exempts the${V:-}/${V:=x}/${V:?}default-operator forms).
Validate before commit — single command, no cluster (R-TEST-02)
check-jsonschema --schemafile schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json catalog/*.yaml
See ../schemas/README.md for install/pinning and a pure-Python fallback.
This is the L0/L1 schema gate (spec docs/14); CI (.gitea/) runs it on every change.
Rendering — render.py (the ServiceDefinition renderer, T-0.3)
render.py compiles a ServiceDefinition into the concrete manifest set defined
by ../schemas/renderer-contract.md: a Namespace (with the
app-namespace/gateway-access labels), the default-deny baseline (R-NET-01), a
Deployment+Service or a KubeVirt VirtualMachine + CDI DataVolume (R-PLAT-02/03), PVCs
(R-STATE), one CiliumNetworkPolicy egress-allow per dependency (R-NET-02), the
egress-class steering label (R-NET-05), HTTPRoute(s) on the shared Gateway (R-TLS/R-DNS),
ServiceMonitor + SLI alerts (R-OBS-01), the Flux ImageRepository/ImagePolicy update plumbing
(R-UPD), and the auth-mode / backup wiring hints (R-IDP/R-STATE-03).
python3 catalog/render.py catalog/pihole.yaml # render one SD to stdout
python3 catalog/render.py --all catalog -o out/ # render every SD to out/<name>.yaml
python3 catalog/render.py --selftest # deterministic self-test (no cluster)
- Deterministic: identical input → byte-identical output (golden-diffable). The L1 render
conformance tests (
conformance/tests/l1-rendering/*) diff the output against committed goldens — run offline byconformance/run.sh --layer l1andci/l1.sh(no cluster). - How CI/Flux consume it: CI invokes
render.pyin the L1 stage; a GitOps flow renders--all catalog -o <rendered-dir>and Flux reconciles the rendered directory. Design choice (renderer-contract is silent on mechanism): a render-then-consume script is the simplest reproducible option — see the header ofrender.py. - Dependency: PyYAML (the renderer's single dependency; the conformance harness stays stdlib-only and only shells out to this script + diffs text).