jakman85andClaude Opus 5
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The prod nodes already have a working Intel render device — measured by hand on
all three on 2026-09-30. Nothing here installs, loads or changes anything; the
point is that the measurement now re-runs on every health run instead of decaying
silently in a handoff note.
The failure being hunted is silent by construction: Plex hardware-transcodes
through /dev/dri/renderD128, and if that node stops existing (node rebuild, a BIOS
change that disables the onboard IGD, a kernel that binds a different DRM driver)
Plex falls back to software transcoding on its own and the only symptom is a hot
CPU.
All of it is in the UNPRIVILEGED collector pass: lstat() on /dev/dri/*,
grp.getgrgid() for the owning group name, the /sys/class/drm/card*/device/driver
symlink for the bound driver, /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/class for display-class
devices whether or not a driver is bound, /sys/class/drm/card*/engine/* for the
vcs*/vecs* media engines, /proc/modules and /proc/cmdline. lspci and vainfo are
probed but never depended on — neither is in node_baseline's package floor.
Three checks, in the role's existing PASS/WARN/FAIL/SKIP/INFO shape:
graphics.render_device the outcome — a usable character-special renderD* node.
FAIL only when a display device IS on the PCI bus and
there is still no render node. SKIP when the machine has
no display device at all (a VM guest), which is why the
PCI scan is separate from the DRM scan: /sys/class/drm/
card* exists only once a driver has BOUND.
graphics.drm_driver what is bound, against the new
node_health_graphics_expected_driver default (i915), so
the comparison is data and not task logic. `xe` bound in
place of i915 is a WARN, not a FAIL: the device works but
the userspace media stack differs.
graphics.media_stack INFO only, deliberately. GuC/HuC off (i915.enable_guc=0)
is an accepted state that costs low-power H.264 encode
quality only, and no host vainfo is not a defect at all
because Plex ships its own libva inside its container.
The render node's owning group and GID are REPORTED, never asserted: `render` is a
systemd dynamic allocation rather than a Debian static gid, so a rebuild can
legitimately move it off the 992 measured today, and Plex's container entrypoint
stats the device and joins whichever group owns it. Drift stays visible without
being an error.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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.