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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 7880d84bce fix(cnpg): grant cnpg_metrics_exporter CONNECT on the nextcloud database
The CNPG metrics exporter could not CONNECT to the `nextcloud` application
database, so every user-defined collector query against that target failed on
all three instances:

  FATAL: permission denied for database "nextcloud" (SQLSTATE 42501)
  DETAIL: User does not have CONNECT privilege.

The whole cnpg_pg_stat_* / pg_settings / pg_postmaster family was therefore
MISSING for nextcloud-db while the scrape target still reported up=1 — the blind
spot platform/cnpg/alerts.yaml's CNPGMetricsCollectorErroring was written to
catch. It had been firing on all three pods; measured before this change,
cnpg_pg_settings_setting had 765 series for keycloak, 765 for semaphore-db and
ZERO for nextcloud-db. Nextcloud's database had never been monitored.

Root cause is the live ACL, not the spec — all three Cluster specs bootstrap
identically:

  nextcloud : datacl = {nextcloud=CTc/nextcloud}   <- explicit, no PUBLIC entry
  keycloak  : datacl = NULL
  semaphore : datacl = NULL

A NULL datacl means PostgreSQL's defaults, which include CONNECT for PUBLIC, so
keycloak and semaphore admit the exporter only by inheriting PUBLIC's implicit
CONNECT. On `nextcloud` something ran the equivalent of REVOKE ALL ON DATABASE
nextcloud FROM PUBLIC, which materialises datacl and drops that implicit entry.
That REVOKE is in neither this repo nor DECISIONS-LOG.md — it was applied out of
band, which is why the remedy has to be declarative rather than another hand-run
psql.

CNPG 1.30.0 cannot express a database-level GRANT (verified against the live
CRDs): `Database` has no ACL field (`allowConnections` is the datallowconn flag,
not a per-role grant), and managed.roles/DatabaseRole cover role attributes plus
`inRoles` membership only — and membership would hand the exporter the owner's
CREATE/TEMP and all table access to buy one CONNECT. postInitApplicationSQL runs
once at bootstrap, so it cannot repair the already-bootstrapped instances that
are actually broken. So this follows the pattern the repo already uses for state
Flux cannot reach: the level-triggered CronJob reconciler alongside
platform/keycloak/client-secret-reconciler.yaml. A one-shot Job is deliberately
avoided — a completed Job never re-runs, so a rebuild or PITR restore would
silently reopen the blind spot.

Exactly one privilege, and nothing else:

  GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE nextcloud TO cnpg_metrics_exporter;

giving `cnpg_metrics_exporter=c/nextcloud` — CONNECT only, no CREATE, no
TEMPORARY, no ownership, no superuser, no table or schema grants. Nothing more is
needed because CNPG already creates the role as a member of the built-in
pg_monitor role (verified on all three clusters), which carries the read access
the collector's pg_catalog queries want. It runs as the database OWNER, not a
superuser: enableSuperuserAccess stays off, and a database owner holds the grant
option on its own database.

Verified live on prod:
  * the grant issued under SET ROLE nextcloud, proving no superuser is needed;
  * permission-denied and "Error collecting user query" both went to 0 on
    nextcloud-db-1/-2/-3, i.e. every collector query now succeeds;
  * cnpg_pg_settings_setting now 765 series for nextcloud-db, matching the other
    two, and cnpg_pg_postmaster_start_time present on all three instances;
  * cnpg_last_error = 0 on all NINE instances, so keycloak-db and semaphore-db
    are unaffected and their datacl is still NULL;
  * convergence proven by revoking the grant again and letting the committed
    CronJob restore it, then re-running it against a converged database to show
    idempotence;
  * CNPGMetricsCollectorErroring, firing on all three pods beforehand, has
    cleared (`for: 6h` delays firing, not resolution).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-12 23:22:27 -05:00

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---
# Nextcloud's PostgreSQL — a CloudNativePG Cluster (CR of the CNPG CRDs from platform/cnpg), modeled
# on platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml. This is the first CNPG-DB in apps/ and establishes the
# reusable pattern for later DB-backed services (semaphore, unifi, ...).
#
# WHY A DEDICATED `nextcloud-db` NAMESPACE (not co-located in `nextcloud`):
# The app->db edge in catalog/nextcloud.yaml (`dependencies: to: nextcloud-db`) compiles to a
# CiliumNetworkPolicy whose egress selector pins BOTH the destination pod label
# (app.kubernetes.io/name=nextcloud-db) AND its namespace (k8s:io.kubernetes.pod.namespace=
# nextcloud-db) — cross-namespace Cilium selectors must name the namespace (catalog/render.py
# r_dependency_policies). So the DB MUST live in a namespace literally named `nextcloud-db` and its
# pods MUST carry app.kubernetes.io/name=nextcloud-db, injected below via inheritedMetadata.
#
# DEFAULT-DENY POSTURE — mirrors keycloak (platform/keycloak/namespace.yaml): this namespace is
# INTENTIONALLY not homelab.keithjackson.dev/app-namespace=true, so Kyverno does NOT generate the app
# default-deny baseline here and CNPG runs under Cilium's cluster-wide default-allow — the SAME posture
# the verified keycloak-db uses. The nextcloud SIDE keeps its default-deny; its rendered egress-allow
# opens ONLY nextcloud -> nextcloud-db:5432, and the DB side's default-allow accepts that reciprocal
# ingress. No app-namespace policy (auth-mode/host-namespace/secret-provenance) is weakened.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
name: nextcloud-db
labels:
# Match the Cilium egress selector's namespace pin; NOT an app-namespace (see header).
app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud-db
---
# Owner credentials for the CNPG cluster. SOPS-encrypted (age); type basic-auth so CNPG's initdb
# consumes it as the `nextcloud` role's password instead of generating a random one — this lets the
# SAME password be mirrored into ns nextcloud (nextcloud-bootstrap/db-password) for the app's env,
# since a Pod cannot read a Secret in another namespace. Provided as apps/nextcloud-db-app.sops.yaml.
#
# CNPG Cluster (CR of postgresql.cnpg.io installed by platform/cnpg).
apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
kind: Cluster
metadata:
name: nextcloud-db
namespace: nextcloud-db
spec:
# THREE instances — one primary + two hot standbys (2026-09-07), same as keycloak-db; see
# platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml for the full rationale. Short version: Longhorn's 3-way
# replication saves the DATA on node loss, not the SERVICE, and with `instances: 1` all three CNPG
# primaries had drifted onto k3s-prod-2, so one node took Nextcloud down alongside SSO and
# Semaphore. A streaming standby lets CNPG promote in seconds and repoint the -rw Service.
# Gated on the Barman archive below actually working (ContinuousArchiving=True with a real
# firstRecoverabilityPoint) — standbys replicate corruption, they are not a backup.
#
# Scaling out is non-disruptive: CNPG creates -2 then -3 sequentially, each seeded by
# pg_basebackup from the running primary, which is neither restarted nor disconnected.
instances: 3
imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16.4
# Stamp app.kubernetes.io/name=nextcloud-db onto every generated pod/service so the rendered
# nextcloud egress CiliumNetworkPolicy's toEndpoints selector matches the primary pod (R-NET-02).
inheritedMetadata:
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud-db
# HARD anti-affinity — the three instances MUST land on three DIFFERENT nodes; and roll the
# primary by SWITCHOVER rather than CNPG's default in-place `restart`, which would delete and
# recreate the primary pod. Full rationale in platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml. Short
# version: CNPG's default `preferred` is a scheduler hint, so when CNPG recreates an instance
# after a node loss it may stack two instances on one node — which is how `instances: 3` decays
# back into the single-node failure domain this change removes. `required` makes it a constraint;
# the cost is that an instance whose node is gone stays Pending, which is correct (2 of 3 still
# serve). Satisfiable on both clusters: prod and dev each have 3 schedulable, untainted nodes.
#
# APPLYING THIS CHANGES THE POD SPEC, so CNPG rolls the instances: standbys first, then one
# switchover. Expect a single brief connection reset for Nextcloud.
affinity:
enablePodAntiAffinity: true
podAntiAffinityType: required
primaryUpdateMethod: switchover
# SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION — quorum of ONE standby, PREFERRED durability (2026-09-07). Full
# rationale in platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml. Short version: async replication loses the
# last few transactions when a primary dies before its standbys catch up, and `method: any` +
# `number: 1` makes COMMIT wait for one standby to confirm. dataDurability MUST stay `preferred`,
# never `required` — `required` blocks writes outright when fewer than `number` healthy standbys
# are available, which on a 3-node cluster sharing nodes with etcd and the CNI turns one degraded
# standby into a total write outage. `preferred` relaxes to async instead.
#
# NON-DISRUPTIVE: compiles to `synchronous_standby_names`, a reload-only PostgreSQL parameter —
# no restart, no switchover, no client disconnect. Land it after the anti-affinity roll.
postgresql:
synchronous:
method: any
number: 1
dataDurability: preferred
storage:
storageClass: longhorn
size: 5Gi
bootstrap:
initdb:
database: nextcloud
owner: nextcloud
# Use the pre-provisioned owner secret (basic-auth) so its password is known + reusable by the
# app in the other namespace, instead of the random CNPG-generated one.
secret:
name: nextcloud-db-app
# Emit Postgres metrics so Prometheus scrapes DB health (R-OBS-01). The CNPG operator creates the
# PodMonitor at runtime (CRD present from Phase-4 monitoring).
monitoring:
enablePodMonitor: true
resources:
requests:
cpu: 100m
memory: 256Mi
limits:
memory: 512Mi
# --- Off-cluster DR backup (R-STATE-03) — CNPG-native Barman → object storage ---
# Continuous WAL archiving + periodic base backups = proper Postgres PITR (realises the SD's
# backup.policy daily-offcluster). CNPG appends serverName (defaults to the Cluster name) to
# destinationPath, so objects land under ${CNPG_BACKUP_PATH}/nextcloud-db/ — dev
# s3://cnpg/nextcloud-db/ on the on-Proxmox MinIO, prod
# s3://k3s-prod-backup/barman/nextcloud-db/ on Cloudflare R2. Both endpointURL and
# destinationPath are cluster-vars knobs (R-ENV-02), substituted by `apps-wave-0`.
# Credentials: PER-ENVIRONMENT (2026-09-07). dev reads nextcloud-db-backup-credentials (the
# scoped MinIO key), prod reads nextcloud-db-backup-credentials-prod (the Cloudflare R2
# token). BOTH Secrets are applied to BOTH clusters by apps/wave-0/kustomization.yaml (a
# generated golden — render.py places the -prod sidecar in this DB's wave); the
# cluster-vars knob ${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX} (dev "" | prod "-prod") chooses which
# one this Cluster reads. Both are in-namespace, which is all a pod can read. They were
# ONE shared Secret until the split, so giving prod its R2 token would have left dev
# signing MinIO requests with an R2 key id — 403 on every archive command, i.e. the
# disk-full clock below rather than a merely missing backup.
#
# archive_mode is ON, so a FAILING archive command is a disk-full clock, not a degraded backup:
# Postgres refuses to recycle a WAL segment it has not archived, and the pgdata PVC fills until
# the primary PANICs. Prod demonstrated this from bootstrap to 2026-09-07 with a placeholder
# endpoint. Treat ContinuousArchiving=False here as an availability incident.
backup:
retentionPolicy: "30d"
barmanObjectStore:
destinationPath: ${CNPG_BACKUP_PATH}
endpointURL: ${S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT}
s3Credentials:
accessKeyId:
name: nextcloud-db-backup-credentials${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX}
key: ACCESS_KEY_ID
secretAccessKey:
name: nextcloud-db-backup-credentials${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX}
key: ACCESS_SECRET_KEY
wal:
compression: gzip
maxParallel: 2
data:
compression: gzip
---
# Daily base backup of nextcloud-db (WAL archived continuously by the barmanObjectStore above). CNPG
# cron is 6-field (sec min hour dom mon dow); immediate:true seeds the first base backup. 02:00 slot.
apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
kind: ScheduledBackup
metadata:
name: nextcloud-db-daily
namespace: nextcloud-db
spec:
immediate: true
schedule: "0 0 2 * * *"
backupOwnerReference: self
cluster:
name: nextcloud-db
method: barmanObjectStore
---
# =============================================================================
# CNPG METRICS-EXPORTER CONNECT RECONCILER (R-OBS-01)
#
# THE BUG THIS CLOSES (true positive, verified live on prod 2026-09-12, and the
# condition platform/cnpg/alerts.yaml already recorded on BOTH clusters 2026-09-06):
# the `nextcloud` database's ACL had been narrowed out-of-band so that PUBLIC held
# nothing, and CNPG's metrics exporter role therefore could not even CONNECT:
#
# nextcloud-db-1/-2/-3, every scrape:
# FATAL: permission denied for database "nextcloud" (SQLSTATE 42501)
# DETAIL: User does not have CONNECT privilege.
# msg="Error collecting user query" targetDatabase=nextcloud
#
# CONSEQUENCE: `cnpg_last_error` = 1 on all three instances and the ENTIRE
# cnpg_pg_stat_* / pg_settings / pg_postmaster family MISSING for this database,
# while the scrape target still reported up=1 — a blind spot that looks like health.
# Measured before the fix: cnpg_pg_settings_setting had 765 series for keycloak and
# 765 for semaphore-db and ZERO for nextcloud-db. Nextcloud's database had never
# been monitored.
#
# ROOT CAUSE, AND WHY ONLY THIS DATABASE. All three Cluster specs are identical in
# their bootstrap; the difference is entirely in the live ACL:
#
# nextcloud : datacl = {nextcloud=CTc/nextcloud} <-- explicit, no PUBLIC entry
# keycloak : datacl = NULL
# semaphore : datacl = NULL
#
# A NULL datacl means "PostgreSQL defaults", which include CONNECT and TEMP for
# PUBLIC — so keycloak and semaphore let the exporter in only by inheriting PUBLIC's
# implicit CONNECT. On `nextcloud` something ran the equivalent of
# `REVOKE ALL ON DATABASE nextcloud FROM PUBLIC`, which MATERIALISES datacl and
# drops the implicit PUBLIC entry with it. That REVOKE is not in this repo and not
# in DECISIONS-LOG.md — it was applied out of band, which is exactly why a
# git-declared fix is needed rather than another hand-run psql.
#
# WHY THE GRANT IS EXPLICIT RATHER THAN "RE-GRANT CONNECT TO PUBLIC": restoring
# PUBLIC's CONNECT would undo whatever hardening that REVOKE intended and would
# leave the exporter depending on an implicit default again — the precise fragility
# that broke here and that keycloak/semaphore are still relying on. Naming the
# exporter role makes the dependency explicit and survives a future REVOKE FROM
# PUBLIC on any of the three databases.
#
# WHY A CronJob AND NOT A CNPG FIELD — CNPG 1.30.0's API GENUINELY CANNOT EXPRESS
# THIS. Checked against the live CRDs on prod:
# * `Database` (databases.postgresql.cnpg.io) has no database-ACL field at all.
# `allowConnections` is the pg_database.datallowconn FLAG (open/closed to
# everyone), not a per-role GRANT; its only grant/revoke verbs are the `usage`
# lists on `fdws` and `servers`.
# * `spec.managed.roles` and `DatabaseRole` manage ROLE ATTRIBUTES (login,
# superuser, connectionLimit, ...) plus `inRoles` MEMBERSHIP. Membership is the
# wrong tool: the only local role holding CONNECT here is the OWNER, so
# `inRoles: [nextcloud]` would hand the exporter the owner's CREATE and TEMP on
# the database and read/write on every application table — the opposite of
# least privilege, to buy one CONNECT.
# * `bootstrap.initdb.postInitApplicationSQL` runs ONCE, at bootstrap. It cannot
# repair these three already-bootstrapped instances (the actual bug), and on a
# FRESH cluster the grant is unnecessary anyway (datacl starts NULL). Adding it
# would be a second mechanism that fixes nothing this one does not.
# So the SQL has to be applied by something, and this repo already has the pattern
# for state Flux cannot reach: the level-triggered CronJob reconciler in
# platform/keycloak/client-secret-reconciler.yaml, whose reasoning transfers
# verbatim — the drifted state lives inside PostgreSQL, not in a Kubernetes object,
# so no admission or mutation policy can see it. A one-shot Job is deliberately NOT
# used: a completed Job is never re-run, so a DB rebuild or a PITR restore would
# silently reopen the blind spot. A loop converges instead.
#
# PRIVILEGE GRANTED — EXACTLY ONE, AND NOTHING ELSE:
# GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE nextcloud TO cnpg_metrics_exporter;
# Resulting ACL entry is `cnpg_metrics_exporter=c/nextcloud` — the `c` is CONNECT;
# there is no `C` (CREATE) and no `T` (TEMPORARY). No ownership, no superuser, no
# write, no table or schema grants. Nothing further is needed because CNPG already
# creates this role as a member of the built-in `pg_monitor` role (verified on all
# three prod clusters), and pg_monitor already carries the read access every
# collector query wants — they read pg_catalog views (pg_stat_database,
# pg_stat_archiver, pg_settings, pg_postmaster) and no application tables. Proof
# that CONNECT alone is sufficient: after this grant, `Error collecting user query`
# went to ZERO on all three pods, i.e. every collector query now succeeds.
#
# IT RUNS AS THE DATABASE OWNER, NOT AS A SUPERUSER. `enableSuperuserAccess` is off
# on this Cluster (there is no nextcloud-db-superuser Secret), and it stays off: the
# owner of a database holds the grant option on that database's privileges, so
# `nextcloud` can issue this GRANT itself. Verified live before committing, by
# running the statement under `SET ROLE nextcloud`. Credentials come from the
# in-namespace SOPS Secret nextcloud-db-app that already exists for the app.
#
# NETWORKING: nextcloud-db is intentionally NOT an app-namespace (see this file's
# header), so Kyverno generates no default-deny baseline here and this same-namespace
# pod -> nextcloud-db-rw:5432 connection needs no rendered allow.
#
# THE POD LABEL IS DELIBERATELY *NOT* app.kubernetes.io/name=nextcloud-db. That
# label is what `inheritedMetadata` stamps on the CNPG instance pods and what the
# rendered nextcloud egress CiliumNetworkPolicy selects; reusing it here would quietly
# make this reconciler a permitted destination for the Nextcloud app. It gets its own
# name so that selector keeps meaning "the database".
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
namespace: nextcloud-db
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
app.kubernetes.io/part-of: nextcloud-db
spec:
# Every 15 minutes, matching the keycloak reconciler's cadence. A converged
# database makes this one idempotent GRANT and exits; the cost is negligible, and
# after a rebuild or PITR restore monitoring is blind for at most one interval
# (well inside the alert's `for: 6h`).
schedule: "*/15 * * * *"
# A run still waiting on the primary must not be lapped by the next tick.
concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
startingDeadlineSeconds: 300
successfulJobsHistoryLimit: 1
failedJobsHistoryLimit: 3
jobTemplate:
spec:
backoffLimit: 2
activeDeadlineSeconds: 300
ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 3600
template:
metadata:
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
app.kubernetes.io/part-of: nextcloud-db
spec:
restartPolicy: Never
# Talks only to PostgreSQL; its one input is a mounted Secret, so it needs
# no Kubernetes API access at all (R-SEC-02, least privilege).
automountServiceAccountToken: false
securityContext:
runAsNonRoot: true
# uid/gid 26 is `postgres` in the CNPG PostgreSQL image.
runAsUser: 26
runAsGroup: 26
seccompProfile:
type: RuntimeDefault
containers:
- name: grant
# The SAME image the instances above run, pinned to the same tag. psql
# is already in it and it is already present on every node, so this
# adds no new image and no new supply-chain surface. Keep the tag in
# step with spec.imageName above when Renovate bumps it.
image: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16.4
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
command:
- psql
# -w never prompts; -X skips ~/.psqlrc; ON_ERROR_STOP makes the Job
# FAIL LOUDLY rather than reporting success on a refused grant.
- "-w"
- "-X"
- "-v"
- "ON_ERROR_STOP=1"
- "-f"
- /etc/grant/grant.sql
env:
# libpq connection, assembled from the owner Secret. Target the -rw
# Service: GRANT is a write and must reach the primary.
- name: PGHOST
value: nextcloud-db-rw.nextcloud-db.svc.cluster.local
- name: PGPORT
value: "5432"
# Connecting to the application database itself is deliberate: the
# owner has CONNECT on it, and a successful connection is the same
# check the exporter was failing.
- name: PGDATABASE
value: nextcloud
- name: PGUSER
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: nextcloud-db-app
key: username
# Read by libpq from the environment and never logged; psql echoes
# no connection parameters.
- name: PGPASSWORD
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: nextcloud-db-app
key: password
- name: PGCONNECT_TIMEOUT
value: "10"
volumeMounts:
- name: sql
mountPath: /etc/grant
readOnly: true
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
capabilities:
drop:
- ALL
resources:
requests:
cpu: 10m
memory: 32Mi
limits:
memory: 128Mi
volumes:
- name: sql
configMap:
name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
defaultMode: 0444
---
# The desired state, as SQL. Idempotent: re-granting an existing privilege is a
# no-op, so a converged run changes nothing. The DO block is the ASSERTION — it
# turns "the grant did not take" into a failed Job instead of a silent success.
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
namespace: nextcloud-db
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
app.kubernetes.io/part-of: nextcloud-db
data:
grant.sql: |
-- The ONE privilege the CNPG metrics exporter is missing on this database.
-- CONNECT only: no CREATE, no TEMPORARY, no ownership, no table/schema grants.
-- Read access for the collector's pg_catalog queries already comes from the
-- built-in pg_monitor role, which CNPG grants this role when it creates it.
GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE nextcloud TO cnpg_metrics_exporter;
-- Fail the Job if the privilege is somehow still absent, so a broken
-- reconciler surfaces as a failed Job rather than as a quiet blind spot.
DO $$
BEGIN
IF NOT has_database_privilege('cnpg_metrics_exporter', 'nextcloud', 'CONNECT') THEN
RAISE EXCEPTION 'cnpg_metrics_exporter still lacks CONNECT on database nextcloud';
END IF;
RAISE NOTICE 'converged: cnpg_metrics_exporter has CONNECT on database nextcloud';
END
$$;