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jakman85andClaude Opus 4.8 cbc2301b30 docs: reconcile docs/comments with post-upgrade cluster state
Text-only cleanup after the upgrade campaign. Updates stale version
strings, prose, and comments to the verified current facts; no
Kubernetes behavior or version pins changed except the kubectl
toolchain bump (below).

Verified facts applied: k3s v1.36.4+k3s1, Debian 13 trixie,
Cilium 1.20.1 / Gateway API v1.6.1, Longhorn 1.12.1, node RAM 24 GiB,
dedicated virtio2 SSD etcd disk per node, Velero chart 12.x / v1.18,
Grafana 13.2.0.

- Version strings across infra/ and platform/ READMEs + comments
- kubectl toolchain 1.31.4 -> 1.36.4 (devcontainer/ci/conformance
  versions.env; 1.31 vs a 1.36 cluster exceeded the +-1 skew)
- Retired-single-apps-Kustomization refs -> apps-wave-0/1/2 + apps-vms
  with per-wave SOPS decryption (flux/clusters docs + bootstrap.sh)
- COMPLETED/historical banners on the three executed plan docs
- Resolved TODO(WS-SEC) markers -> Renovate-maintained ranges
- Appended dated DECISIONS-LOG entry (2026-08-30) superseding the
  2026-08-26 LIVE STATE line

Left as revalidation items (not blind-edited): external-snapshotter
v8.2.0 vs 1.36, Cilium ext_authz/forward-auth relevance under 1.20.1,
conformance ImageVolume feature-gate assertions under 1.36.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
2026-08-30 15:13:12 -05:00
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platform/velero

Velero — off-cluster backup and DR of Kubernetes resource state + PVC data.

What this is (LIVE)

Flux HelmRelease (Velero chart 12.x / Velero 1.18.x) wired to the on-Proxmox MinIO S3 target:

  • Endpoint: http://192.168.1.9:9000 (plain HTTP, path-style, region us-east-1 placeholder)
  • BucketStorageLocation default: provider aws, bucket velero, s3ForcePathStyle=true.
  • AWS plugin (velero/velero-plugin-for-aws) loaded as an init container.
  • File System Backup (kopia): deployNodeAgent=true, uploaderType=kopia, snapshotsEnabled=false — storage-agnostic PVC backup, no CSI snapshot / data-mover.
  • Credentials: velero-cloud-credentials — a SOPS Secret (velero-cloud.sops.yaml) holding the cloud INI key, the scoped MinIO key limited to the velero+cnpg buckets. Kept in sync with the staging source of truth platform/backup/minio-credentials.sops.yaml and the Proxmox host ansible-vault.

Reconciled by its own non-gating Flux Kustomization clusters/base/backup.yaml (dependsOn: platform-config, wait:false) — a backup controller must never gate the platform graph.

Backup scope (what's included vs excluded)

Two daily Schedules (cadence ${VELERO_BACKUP_SCHEDULE}, retention ${VELERO_RETENTION}):

Schedule Namespaces Volumes (kopia FSB)
daily ALL except monitoring, unifi all PVC data (defaultVolumesToFsBackup:true, opt-out)
daily-resources-only monitoring, unifi none (defaultVolumesToFsBackup:false) — resources only

Excluded volume data (reconstructable, per the sizing decision):

  • monitoring — Prometheus TSDB PVC (ephemeral) + Loki 72h-log PVC. Grafana/Alertmanager are emptyDir (no PVC); Grafana dashboards are GitOps-provisioned.
  • unifi — the ~7.4 GiB KubeVirt VM disk (huge; UniFi is protected by its own config export).

Their Kubernetes resources are still captured (by daily-resources-only) to aid DR.

Included (the irreplaceable ~6 GiB): every other namespace's PVC data via kopia — Nextcloud data, Gitea, Plex/*arr config, PiHole, and the CNPG Postgres PVCs. (CNPG DBs additionally have native Barman PITR to the cnpg bucket — see the DB manifests.)

Post-deploy (PM)

  • velero backup-location get → default Available.
  • velero backup create --from-schedule daily → objects land under s3://velero/.
  • DR drill (R-STATE-03, Phase-4 gate): velero restore create --from-backup <name> into a scratch namespace and verify PVC data restores via the node-agent.