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docs: the §2 shared-device measurement came back, and it does not hold
infra/PROD-PROVISIONING.md §2 recorded the etcd/Longhorn shared-partition risk as
"accepted to be MEASURED, not assumed", with an exit condition. The measurement
arrived on 2026-09-07 in production, 2 d 7 h after bring-up, as an outage.

§2 now carries "THE MEASUREMENT CAME BACK": the journal evidence, the three-node
IO PSI table (11.36 / 0.75 / 1.29), and the honest verdict that the section's own
premise — "every prod node is SSD or NVMe, where rebuild I/O costs latency rather
than collapsing it" — was right about node 2 and wrong about node 1. A 2011 C400
with 61,440 reallocated sectors and no power-loss protection is not the "SSD" that
reasoning assumed, and §0 had already named the three-way drive asymmetry as the
fault line. The exit condition is OPEN and the second bullet (dedicated device)
applies; that remains the operator's.

Also records what the three software mitigations in this branch do and do not buy,
including the point that no cgroup or scheduler control arbitrates the ext4 journal
both tenants share — and the gap that etcd's own fsync histograms, which the exit
condition literally asks for, are not collected because kubeEtcd is disabled for
k3s. PSI is the signal that exists.

DECISIONS-LOG gains the full entry: the four I/O mechanisms found INERT on these
nodes (IOSchedulingClass, IOSchedulingPriority, io.latency, bare IOWeight), the
finding that concurrentReplicaRebuildPerNodeLimit was already set and already held
during the outage, the third instance of config that looked applied and was not
(orphanAutoDeletion), and the three things still requiring the operator.

infra/ansible/README.md: CORRECTED a stale claim that k3s-prod-2/-3 "stay commented
out" of the inventory. They have been live in [k3s_prod_secondary] since
2026-09-03. That sentence is exactly the kind used to reason about blast radius —
`-e k3s_hosts=k3s_prod` targets THREE hosts, not one — so it is replaced with the
--list-hosts command that settles it. The new etcd-io-priority play is added to the
run order, the layer table and the prod command list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit a00a27a2567ea6a805c8c196b75df2c92a7c63a4)
2026-09-07 02:46:26 -05:00
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infra/ — node provisioning and the toolchain

OpenTofu (Proxmox VE) + cloud-init + Ansible bring up the 3-node k3s/Cilium dev cluster. Spec: ../home-network-k3s/docs/02-environments-and-provisioning.md.

Path What
tofu/ The "Create" stage: 3 cloud-init'd VMs on the Proxmox box (bpg/proxmox provider)
cloud-init/ First-boot baseline shipped as a Proxmox user-data snippet
ansible/ The "Baseline"/"Configure" stages: k3s HA, Cilium, kube-vip, the VPN egress gateway
devcontainer/ The pinned toolchain (tofu, ansible, sops, age, flux, kubectl, helm and the whole CI gate toolchain)
cluster.sh RETIRED — drove the old libvirt VMs; does not work against Proxmox
PHASE1-STATUS.md Current state of the cluster and how to reconnect to it
PHASE1-SCOPE.md Historical Phase-1 scoping doc (libvirt era — superseded)

Where the cluster actually lives

The dev cluster is not on this workstation. It runs on a Proxmox VE host; the nodes sit on the Proxmox LAN and are reached across a pfSense NAT:

Nodes k3s-dev-1/2/3 at 192.168.1.50/.51/.52 — 6 vCPU, 24 GiB, Debian 13, k3s v1.36.4
kube-API kube-vip VIP 192.168.1.49:6443, reached from the workstation via NAT 192.168.2.50:6443
Node SSH pfSense NAT 192.168.2.102:2250/2251/2252 → node :22 (Ansible only)
Ingress VIP 192.168.1.53 (Cilium L2, shared Gateway); .53–.60 reserved for LB VIPs

The earlier libvirt/KVM cluster on 10.73.0.0/24 is retired. Any doc or command referencing virsh, qemu:///system, or 10.73.0.x for the cluster is historical.