Two symptoms after the publishing fix landed:
1. LAN clients were reported as Remote. Measured root cause:
LanNetworksBandwidth was ABSENT, so Plex had no notion of a local
network and classified everything WAN -- 468 requests logged
"Allowed Network (WAN)", ZERO "(LAN)", including Seerr from inside the
cluster. allowedNetworks only waives AUTH; it does not make a client
local. Two settings, and only one has an env hook.
2. The advertised URL hard-coded both the VIP and the server's cert hash
into a cluster-var -- two values nothing kept in sync.
Operator design: ONE hostname, plex-vip.${BASE_DOMAIN}, split-horizon --
PiHole answers it with ${PLEX_L4_VIP} on the LAN, Cloudflare answers it
publicly with the WAN address NATed to the same VIP.
- catalog/plex.yaml: ADVERTISE_IP -> https://plex-vip.${BASE_DOMAIN}:32400,
plus a level-triggered postStart hook (pihole/qbittorrent idiom) that
re-asserts LanNetworksBandwidth and the three customCertificate* prefs
every start, converting PEM -> PKCS#12 so cert renewals need no extra part.
- apps/wave-0/plex-cert.yaml: cert-manager Certificate for exactly that
name from letsencrypt-prod, so the advertised https URL is servable.
- schema 1.11.0: `optional` on secretKeyRef/configMapKeyRef. Load-bearing --
the cert is issued INTO the plex namespace, which the rendered plex.yaml
itself creates, so it lands in the same reconcile; hard refs would have
held Plex in CreateContainerConfigError and, since apps-wave-0 is
wait:true, stalled the whole app tier on a slow DNS01 challenge.
- catalog/pihole.yaml: the plex-vip split-horizon answer. Required --
measured, the name resolved to the Gateway VIP where nothing listens
on 32400 (http=000).
- PLEX_ADVERTISE_URL deleted; the hostname removes the cert-hash fragility.
Corrects my own earlier claim that a SAN match is REQUIRED: it is not
(httpsRequired=0, secureConnections defaults to Preferred, so clients can
fall back to cleartext). A matching cert keeps the remote leg ENCRYPTED.
Hence: obtain a real cert for the advertised name rather than pick the name
to suit Plex's built-in one.
UNVERIFIED, and stated plainly in the handoff: nothing here has run. Cert
issuance for this name is inferred from the wildcard's success, and whether
Plex accepts an OpenSSL-3 PKCS#12 bundle is untested -- the largest risk.
Touches clusters/** -> sensitive paths -> needs a non-author approval or the
operator's /approve-override; deliberately not self-posted (CLAUDE.md 1).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
schemas — the ServiceDefinition contract
This directory holds the ServiceDefinition interface — the highest-traffic contract in the
platform (spec agents/coordination-protocol.md §2). Onboarding a service is adding/editing one
ServiceDefinition under ../catalog/; the platform compiles it into concrete
resources. Operators declare what; the platform provides the how.
Source of truth: the read-only spec
docs/13-service-catalog.md. This schema matches
docs/13 exactly. Do not diverge from it here — escalate spec problems, don't fork the contract.
Files
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
servicedefinition.schema.json |
Formal JSON Schema (draft 2020-12) for a ServiceDefinition. Enforces enums, required fields, patterns, and cross-field invariants. |
renderer-contract.md |
Authoritative field → rendered-resource mapping, with requirement IDs. The contract other workstreams consume. |
Schema version: 1.8.0 (in the schema description, which carries the full per-version changelog — this line had said 1.0.0 since 1.1.0 and is now synced). Treat any change as an interface change:
propose on the task board, update dependent renderers/tests in the same change, never silently break a
consumer (coordination-protocol §2).
Required vs. defaulted fields
- Required:
name,source(withsource.imageforkind: container,source.vmTemplateforkind: vm). - Everything else is optional and carries a default matching docs/13's "default posture"
(
kind: container,exposure: internal,egress: internet,auth.mode: forward-auth,update.channel: stable,update.autoRollbackOnFailedHealth: true,observability.metrics: true,dependencies: []⇒ DNS-only). A renderer MUST materialize defaults before rendering — seerenderer-contract.md§"Default posture".
Cross-field rules the schema enforces
kind: vm⇒source.vmTemplaterequired; otherwisesource.imagerequired.auth.mode: oidc | forward-auth⇒auth.groupspresent and non-empty (R-IDP-06 — access is "in an authorized group," not merely authenticated).ingressRoutes[].hostmust match<label>.home.keithjackson.dev.storage[].class ∈ {longhorn, bulk};exposure ∈ {internal, public};egress ∈ {internet, vpn};auth.mode ∈ {oidc, forward-auth, native, none}.hardware.gpu ∈ {intel-quicksync}— a host capability class, never a device path. The enum is the contract: the mechanism that satisfies it lives only incatalog/render.py(seerenderer-contract.md§hardware).additionalProperties: falseeverywhere — unknown keys are rejected (catches typos in review/CI).
Validate examples against the schema — L1, no cluster (R-TEST-02)
Reproducible, single command, no cluster required. Canonical tool: check-jsonschema (YAML-native, pins the schema file, pin the tool version for determinism):
# one-time (pin the version for reproducibility)
pip install check-jsonschema==0.38.0
# validate every catalog entry against the contract
check-jsonschema --schemafile schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json catalog/*.yaml
# -> "ok -- validation done"
Fallback with no extra tool (Python jsonschema + pyyaml only):
python3 - <<'PY'
import json, yaml, glob, sys
from jsonschema import Draft202012Validator
schema = json.load(open('schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json'))
Draft202012Validator.check_schema(schema)
v = Draft202012Validator(schema); bad = False
for f in sorted(glob.glob('catalog/*.yaml')):
errs = sorted(v.iter_errors(yaml.safe_load(open(f))), key=lambda e: list(e.path))
print(('PASS ' if not errs else 'FAIL ') + f)
for e in errs: print(' ', list(e.path), e.message); bad = True
sys.exit(1 if bad else 0)
PY
Both are pure manifest/schema checks (L0/L1 in spec docs/14, table row "L1 Rendering") — they run in
CI with no cluster and are wired into the .gitea/ schema-validation gate by WS-TEST.
See also
renderer-contract.md— what each field renders into (Deployment/VM, PVC, CiliumNetworkPolicy, egress steering, HTTPRoute/Certificate/DNS, ServiceMonitor/alerts, ImagePolicy, Keycloak/oauth2-proxy).- Example ServiceDefinitions:
../catalog/pihole.yaml,../catalog/keycloak.yaml.