oauth2-proxy is a leaf forward-auth service that depends on Keycloak + trusted wildcard TLS + split-horizon DNS. It lived in the gating `platform` Flux Kustomization (wait:true), so on a cold start it Failed until those dependencies existed, keeping the whole `platform` tier not-Ready. That in turn blocked `platform-config` — which brings up the very Keycloak instance, wildcard Certificate and L2 VIP oauth2-proxy needs (and previously carried oauth2-proxy's own httproute/servicemonitor) — from ever reconciling. A self-gating cold-start deadlock, twice-proven (DECISIONS-LOG sessions 7 & 9). Break the cycle by moving the whole oauth2-proxy component out of the `platform` tier into its own non-gating post-platform Flux Kustomization: - clusters/base/oauth2-proxy.yaml: new Kustomization -> ./platform/oauth2-proxy, dependsOn platform-config, wait:false, substituteFrom cluster-vars. - clusters/base/kustomization.yaml: reference the new Kustomization. - platform/kustomization.yaml: drop the oauth2-proxy component (no longer in the gating tier). - platform/oauth2-proxy/kustomization.yaml: pull in httproute + servicemonitor so the full component travels together. - platform-config/kustomization.yaml: drop the in-place oauth2-proxy httproute/servicemonitor refs (moved with the controller). - clusters/dev/kustomization.yaml: add the SOPS decryption patch for the new oauth2-proxy Kustomization (it now owns the encrypted credentials Secret that the `platform` Kustomization used to decrypt). Now `platform` reaches Ready without oauth2-proxy; platform-config brings up Keycloak/TLS/DNS; then oauth2-proxy reconciles against dependencies that already exist. wait:false guarantees its health can never gate anything above it. No config of oauth2-proxy itself changed — only its reconciliation tier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
clusters/
Flux entrypoints and the environment-overlay model (R-ENV-02, R-GITOPS-01/02/03).
Governing spec: docs/05-gitops-and-delivery.md,
docs/02-environments-and-provisioning.md,
ADR-0004 (Flux).
Phase 0 scaffolding only. These are structurally-correct stubs. No cluster exists — nothing here reconciles until WS-INFRA delivers a cluster and bootstraps Flux (roadmap Phase 1).
Layout — base + overlay (never fork the base)
clusters/
base/ shared Flux objects (one authoring, both environments)
flux-system.yaml GitRepository — the reconciliation source (bootstrap → Gitea)
platform.yaml Flux Kustomization → ./platform (reconciles first)
apps-wave-0.yaml Flux Kustomization → ./apps/wave-0 (dependsOn platform-config)
apps-wave-1.yaml Flux Kustomization → ./apps/wave-1 (dependsOn apps-wave-0)
apps-wave-2.yaml Flux Kustomization → ./apps/wave-N (dependsOn apps-wave-N-1)
cluster-vars.yaml ConfigMap of overlay knobs (BASE defaults)
kustomization.yaml
dev/ ACTIVE build target — patches cluster-vars with dev values only
kustomization.yaml
prod/ DESIGN-ONLY until roadmap Phase 7 — patches cluster-vars with prod values only
kustomization.yaml
How the overlay model satisfies R-ENV-02
The base authors the reconciliation graph once. platform.yaml and apps.yaml (Flux
Kustomizations) both declare postBuild.substituteFrom the cluster-vars ConfigMap. Platform and
app manifests use ${TOKEN} placeholders for every value that legitimately differs between
environments (issuer, replica counts, storage sizes, retention, node placement).
clusters/dev and clusters/prod differ ONLY by the values they patch into cluster-vars —
they add no resources of their own and never copy/fork a base manifest. Promotion to prod
(docs/02) is a change to the
prod overlay's variables, nothing else.
How Flux is pointed at an environment
flux bootstrap (run by WS-INFRA in Phase 1) targets one environment's path per cluster:
# dev cluster
flux bootstrap ... --path=clusters/dev
# prod cluster (Phase 7 only — design-only until then)
flux bootstrap ... --path=clusters/prod
Bootstrap materializes the flux-system Kustomization that renders the chosen overlay, which pulls
in base/ and applies the env-scoped cluster-vars.
Reconciliation order
GitRepository (flux-system)
│
▼
Kustomization: platform (./platform, substituteFrom cluster-vars)
│ healthy
▼
Kustomization: apps-wave-0 (./apps/wave-0, dependsOn platform-config, substituteFrom cluster-vars)
│ healthy
▼
Kustomization: apps-wave-1 (./apps/wave-1, dependsOn apps-wave-0)
│ healthy
▼
Kustomization: apps-wave-N (./apps/wave-N, dependsOn apps-wave-N-1)
Wave 0 dependsOn platform-config (transitively platform) so CNI/storage/TLS/DNS/gateway
exist before any workload reconciles. The app tier is split into dependency-ordered WAVES
(catalog/render.py --emit-waves): each apps-wave-<N> health-gates (wait:true) ONLY its own
wave, so a crashloop in a later wave can no longer stall an earlier wave or block new revisions.
See DESIGN-waves.md for the wave table + cutover runbook.
TODOs (later phases — do not action in Phase 0)
- Source cutover (WS-GITOPS, Phase 6):
base/flux-system.yamlcurrently points at the bootstrap source. After Gitea is onboarded, repointspec.urltogitea.home.keithjackson.devand keep an off-cluster mirror (specdocs/05"Source-of-truth",CONTRIBUTING.md). - SOPS decryption (WS-SEC, Phase 1): add
spec.decryption.provider: sops(age secret name only, never plaintext) to the platform/apps Kustomizations once the age key is bootstrapped (ADR-0007). - Split ordered Flux Kustomizations if intra-platform ordering needs to be explicit (e.g. a
separate
cilium/longhornKustomization othersdependsOn).