Raise per-node RAM from 16 GiB to 24 GiB for proper failover headroom. Matches the live rolling resize of the three k3s-dev VMs on Proxmox (qm set --memory 24576 per node, one at a time, KSM enabled first). Single memory_mib var applies to all three nodes via for_each, so a future `tofu apply` would resize all three at once and break etcd quorum — the resize MUST be done live/rolling, not via apply. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
infra/tofu — dev/test cluster nodes (OpenTofu + Proxmox VE)
Provisions the "Create" lifecycle stage (docs/02): 3 cloud-init'd VMs on the
Proxmox VE box, each with an imported OS disk and a blank Longhorn data disk.
(Migrated from the old memory-constrained libvirt host; provider is now bpg/proxmox.)
APPLIED AND LIVE. These three VMs are the running dev cluster — k3s-dev-1/2/3, k3s
v1.31.5, carrying the whole platform. Treat any tofu apply/destroy here as an operation on
production-for-dev, and note the state file caveat below.
Serves R-ENV-01/02, R-PLAT-01, ADR-0001 (k3s substrate).
What it builds (defaults = the LIVE cluster, verified 2026-08-26)
| Resource | Value |
|---|---|
| Proxmox node | proxmox |
| Disk datastore | Storage (ZFS, 4.3TB) |
| Image/snippet datastore | local (dir; content = iso + snippets) |
| Bridge | vmbr0 (no VLAN) |
| Nodes | k3s-dev-1/2/3 at 192.168.1.50/.51/.52, gw 192.168.1.1, DNS 192.168.1.18 |
| Per node | 6 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM, cpu type host (nested virt for KubeVirt — real KVM confirmed in-guest) |
| OS disk | 64 GiB, virtio0 (/dev/vda, boot), imported from the Debian 12 cloud image |
| Data disk | 128 GiB, virtio1 (/dev/vdb) → /var/lib/longhorn (mounted by cloud-init; Longhorn reports ~125 GiB usable per node) |
| Cloud-init | native initialization (static IP + DNS) + user-data snippet for the baseline |
| Reserved | 192.168.1.53–.60 for Cilium L2 ingress VIPs (surfaced in outputs). In use: .53 shared Gateway, .54 UniFi |
⚠️ State file
terraform.tfstate is gitignored and lives only on the workstation that ran the apply. On a
fresh workstation it is absent — and a tofu apply with empty state will try to create three
VMs that already exist. Recover the state file (or tofu import the existing VMs) before running
anything that plans changes. tofu plan against empty state is itself harmless, but read the plan:
"3 to add" means you are missing state, not that the cluster is gone.
All sizing/IPs/counts/placement are variables — see variables.tf.
Files
versions.tf— OpenTofu1.9.0pin +bpg/proxmox ~> 0.66; provider block with endpoint scheme-normalization (see below).variables.tf— every knob (Proxmox placement, counts, sizing, IPs, image, SSH key).main.tf— cloud image download, per-node user-data snippet, and the 3 VMs.outputs.tf— node IPs/names,primary_node_ip,k3s_api_endpoint, renderedansible_inventory.terraform.tfvars.example— copy toterraform.tfvars; onlyssh_authorized_keyrequired.
Operator prerequisites (before tofu apply)
- Enable
snippetscontent on thelocaldatastore. The rich first-boot baseline (users, packages, kernel modules, Longhorn mount, swap-off) is shipped as a cloud-init user-data snippet. In the Proxmox UI: Datacenter → Storage →local→ Edit → Content → add Snippets. Without this theproxmox_virtual_environment_file(user-data) resource fails. (Alternatively pointimage_datastoreat any datastore that has snippets enabled.) - Endpoint scheme. If the operator env file exports
PROXMOX_VE_ENDPOINTwithouthttps://, the provider talks HTTP and eats a 301. Either fix the env file to include the scheme, or exportTF_VAR_proxmox_endpoint="$PROXMOX_VE_ENDPOINT"so tofu normalizes it (prependshttps://). - pfSense NAT — DONE, live. The workstation reaches the nodes and the kube-API
across it: SSH
192.168.2.102:2250/2251/2252→192.168.1.50/.51/.52:22, and kube-API192.168.2.50:6443→ kube-vip VIP192.168.1.49:6443.infra/ansible/inventory/hosts.iniis hand-maintained for this mapping — do not regenerate it fromtofu output -raw ansible_inventory, which knows nothing about the NAT and would overwrite it.
Auth (env only — never in tofu vars/state)
The provider reads these from the environment; the API token is never a tofu
variable, so it never enters state, vars, or plan output. You do NOT export these by hand —
they live encrypted in secrets.sops.env and the tf.sh wrapper decrypts + exports them
(and sets TF_VAR_proxmox_endpoint for scheme normalization) at runtime:
PROXMOX_VE_ENDPOINT=https://192.168.2.102:8006/
PROXMOX_VE_API_TOKEN=user@realm!tokenid=SECRET
PROXMOX_VE_INSECURE=true
See REMOTE-STATE.md for the encrypted-secrets + wrapper flow.
Usage (operator — NOT run here)
All secrets come from the encrypted secrets.sops.env via the tf.sh wrapper, run inside the
dev container (which has sops + the age key):
cp infra/tofu/terraform.tfvars.example infra/tofu/terraform.tfvars # set ssh_authorized_key
./infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run ./infra/tofu/tf.sh init
./infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run ./infra/tofu/tf.sh plan
./infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run ./infra/tofu/tf.sh apply
# hand the node IPs to Ansible:
./infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run ./infra/tofu/tf.sh output -raw ansible_inventory > infra/ansible/inventory/hosts.ini
Hand-off contract
primary_node_ip/k3s_api_endpoint(192.168.1.50:6443) is the value the Ansible Cilium bootstrap and the Fluxplatform/ciliumHelmRelease must BOTH use fork8sServiceHost/k8sServicePort(docs/02 parity contract).- Destroy/rebuild proof: name-keyed
for_eachmeanstofu destroy -target='proxmox_virtual_environment_vm.node["k3s-dev-2"]'thentofu applyre-creates just that node (stop_on_destroyallows the clean stop); Ansible re-joins it; Longhorn replicas reconverge (nodes are cattle).
Static validation (PM, offline)
tofu fmt -check -recursive
tofu init # fetches the bpg provider (network, read-only)
tofu validate