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jakman85andClaude Opus 4.8 ebe0371b1b platform: move Headlamp out of the gating platform tier + fix -session-ttl crashloop
Headlamp's HelmRelease sat in the wait:true `platform` Flux tier. Its pod
crashlooped (`flag provided but not defined: -session-ttl` — chart 0.40.1
renders a container arg the appVersion v0.40.1 backend lacks; upstream
kubernetes-sigs/headlamp#4883), and because it gated `platform`, the whole
chain stalled: platform Ready=Unknown -> platform-config, oauth2-proxy,
apps-wave-0/1/2 and apps-vms all Ready=False "dependency not ready".

Part A (unblock + durable lesson): a leaf UI must never gate the chain. Move
all Headlamp resources into a new non-gating Flux Kustomization
clusters/base/headlamp.yaml (dependsOn platform-config, wait:false, SOPS
decryption patched per-env in clusters/dev) — mirroring oauth2-proxy exactly.
The new Kustomization owns the whole platform/headlamp component; its HTTPRoute
moves from platform-config into platform/headlamp/kustomization.yaml. Removed
headlamp from platform/kustomization.yaml and its httproute from
platform-config/kustomization.yaml. Now a crashlooping Headlamp can never stall
platform/platform-config/apps.

Part B (make it start): pin the chart to 0.41.0 (`>=0.41.0 <0.42.0`). The
backend added `f.Int("session-ttl", …)` in v0.41.0 and chart 0.41.0 pins that
same image (appVersion == chart version), so chart+image realign; every arg the
chart renders for our values is supported. OIDC config + per-user RBAC
(clusterRoleBinding.create:false) unchanged.

Gate: `make -C ci gate` PASS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
2026-08-28 12:01:01 -05:00

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---
# Headlamp — the Kubernetes web dashboard, served at headlamp.home.keithjackson.dev with Keycloak
# native-OIDC login and PER-USER RBAC (ADR-0014, docs/15). Official kubernetes-sigs/headlamp Helm
# chart via a Flux HelmRelease (same pattern as platform/monitoring's kube-prometheus-stack).
#
# ── PER-USER RBAC (the whole point) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Headlamp is configured for OIDC, so its backend forwards the LOGGED-IN USER's OIDC id_token as the
# bearer to the k3s API server. The apiserver validates that token (oidc-issuer-url = this realm,
# oidc-client-id=kubernetes, oidc-username-claim=email, oidc-groups-claim=groups; see
# infra/ansible roles/k3s_server) and RBAC is applied per user via the EXISTING group bindings
# (platform/keycloak/k8s-oidc-rbac.yaml: oidc:platform-admins -> cluster-admin, oidc:viewers -> view).
# So every user gets exactly their own rights — NOT a shared identity.
#
# clusterRoleBinding.create=false ← DELIBERATE. The default chart binds Headlamp's ServiceAccount
# to cluster-admin; that would let the backend act as cluster-admin. We do NOT want that: user
# requests ride the user's forwarded id_token, so the SA needs no cluster rights. Removing the
# binding means an unauthenticated backend can do nothing — the secure posture for per-user RBAC.
#
# ── AUDIENCE NUANCE ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# The apiserver only accepts ID tokens whose `aud` CONTAINS `kubernetes` (oidc-client-id=kubernetes).
# A `headlamp` client would issue aud=[headlamp]. The Keycloak `headlamp` client therefore carries an
# AUDIENCE protocol mapper that ADDS `kubernetes` to the token audience (keycloak-realm-import.yaml),
# giving aud=[headlamp, kubernetes]: Headlamp's own verifier accepts it (aud contains headlamp) AND
# the apiserver accepts it (aud contains kubernetes). This keeps the apiserver config untouched.
apiVersion: helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v2
kind: HelmRelease
metadata:
name: headlamp
namespace: headlamp
spec:
interval: 30m
chart:
spec:
chart: headlamp
# 0.41.x, NOT 0.40.x. Chart 0.40.1 shipped the `-session-ttl=86400` container arg BEFORE the
# backend flag existed: its image (appVersion v0.40.1) has no `session-ttl` flag, so the pod
# crashlooped with `flag provided but not defined: -session-ttl` (upstream issue #4883). The
# backend gained `f.Int("session-ttl", …)` in v0.41.0, and chart 0.41.0 pins that same image
# (appVersion == chart version), so chart+image realign: every arg the chart renders for our
# values (-session-ttl + the -oidc-* args from the externalSecret; useCookie stays default-false
# so `-oidc-use-cookie` is NOT emitted) is supported by the v0.41.0 backend. Renovate maintains
# within 0.41.x; the appVersion continues to pin the Headlamp image.
version: ">=0.41.0 <0.42.0"
sourceRef:
kind: HelmRepository
name: headlamp
namespace: headlamp
install:
remediation:
retries: 3
upgrade:
remediation:
retries: 3
values:
replicaCount: 1
# In-cluster mode: Headlamp discovers the apiserver from the pod's in-cluster config, then
# OVERRIDES the bearer with the user's OIDC id_token for authenticated requests.
config:
inCluster: true
oidc:
# OIDC config (clientID / clientSecret / issuerURL / scopes / callbackURL) is supplied via an
# EXISTING SOPS-encrypted Secret consumed by name only (R-IDP-04) — the chart envFrom's it.
# (The chart's `externalSecret` path reads OIDC_* env from this Secret; nothing sensitive is
# rendered into the HelmRelease.)
externalSecret:
enabled: true
name: headlamp-oidc
hasScopes: true
# PER-USER RBAC: do NOT grant Headlamp's ServiceAccount cluster-admin. User requests are
# authorized by their forwarded OIDC token against the existing oidc:* group bindings.
serviceAccount:
create: true
clusterRoleBinding:
create: false
# Hardened pod defaults from the chart (runAsNonRoot, uid 100). Kept explicit for clarity.
securityContext:
runAsNonRoot: true
runAsUser: 100
runAsGroup: 101
privileged: false
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
capabilities:
drop:
- ALL
# NOTE: readOnlyRootFilesystem intentionally left unset (chart default). Enabling it needs a
# writable /tmp (+ plugins dir) emptyDir; deferred as a runtime-verified follow-up hardening.
resources:
requests:
cpu: 50m
memory: 128Mi
limits:
memory: 256Mi
service:
type: ClusterIP
port: 80