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fix(plex): unblock the app tier — drop the Certificate that stalled apps-wave-0, advertise http
I broke the app tier with #48. Two faults, both mine, both measured after merge:

1. KYVERNO BLOCKS cert-manager IN APP NAMESPACES. The temporary private-key
   Secrets (plex-vip-<random>) were denied by
   secret-provenance/secrets-must-be-flux-managed, which matches every Secret in
   a namespace labelled homelab.keithjackson.dev/app-namespace=true and excludes
   only those labelled secret-managed-by=controller or carrying a Flux label.
   `plex` HAS that label; `gateway` -- where the working wildcard cert lives --
   does NOT. That asymmetry is why the existing Certificate was never affected
   and mine was, and I did not check it. secretTemplate cannot fix it: those
   Secrets come from the keymanager controller, not the Certificate template. So
   no CertificateRequest, Order or Challenge was ever created.

2. FLUX HEALTH-CHECKS THE CERTIFICATE. `optional: true` did its job -- the pod
   rolled and ran fine without the Secret -- but apps-wave-0 is wait:true, so
   Flux waits on the Certificate OBJECT:
     timeout waiting for: [Certificate/plex/plex-vip status: 'InProgress']
   apps-wave-0 never went Ready; wave-1/-2 and everything downstream of
   platform-config sat in DependencyNotReady behind it. I guarded the pod and
   missed the object. That distinction is the whole bug.

Third, independent: the advertised URL was https with no servable certificate --
Plex answers 32400 with its *.plex.direct cert, which cannot cover plex-vip --
the exact failure mode of the outage earlier the same day.

So: delete the Certificate (pruning it clears the health gate) and advertise
http://plex-vip:32400, which is MEASURED to work today -- PiHole answers the
name with the Plex VIP (verified against pihole-0) and Plex serves 32400 there.
http is explicitly temporary and only tolerable because remote access does not
work yet; the restore condition is written at the call site.

DELETED, not merely unregistered: my first attempt kept the file as "tracked but
not onboarded" and the gate rejected it -- tls-lifecycle-automated (R-TLS-02)
fails any Certificate no Flux path reconciles. Legal for a Deployment, not for a
TLS object. The re-enable recipe (Kyverno exemption + a wait:false Kustomization
+ the https flip, as ONE change) is recorded in catalog/plex.yaml.

Kept and verified working from #48: the hostname design, PiHole's split-horizon
answer, and the postStart hook -- LanNetworksBandwidth is now set live.

Gate: rc 3, all substantive stages pass (first attempt was rc 1 BLOCKED).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-10-04 17:10:25 -05:00
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catalog — ServiceDefinition entries (the onboarding surface)

One YAML file per service. Each file is a ServiceDefinition conforming to ../schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json. Adding or editing a service here is the only onboarding step — the platform renders compute, storage, network policy, egress, TLS, DNS, monitoring, and update policy from it (see ../schemas/renderer-contract.md). Serves R-GITOPS-02.

Source of truth for the initial catalog: spec docs/13-service-catalog.md (14-service table + SSO/egress/dependency intent).

Current examples

File docs/13 row exposure egress auth Notes
pihole.yaml 6 internal internet forward-auth admin UI behind oauth2-proxy; config on Longhorn (DR-critical); also platform DNS
keycloak.yaml 0 public internet native the IdP itself (own admin login + MFA); PostgreSQL on Longhorn; DR-critical

The remaining catalog services (plex, sonarr, radarr, jackett, seerr, nextcloud, minecraft, unifi, semaphore, kasm, gitea, qbittorrent) are onboarded in later phases; they follow the same schema and inherit every guarantee automatically.

Authoring rules

  • Only name and source are mandatory; every other field defaults to docs/13's default posture (kind: container, exposure: internal, egress: internet, auth.mode: forward-auth, stable auto-update, DNS-only default-deny). Set a field only to override the default.
  • Any exposed UI must have an auth block: forward-auth (default) or oidc, each with a non-empty auth.groups; native/none are documented exceptions only.
  • Irreplaceable state (class: longhorn configs/DBs) must set backup.policy to an off-cluster schedule — never reacquirable (R-STATE-03). Only bulk media may be reacquirable.
  • Shell braces must be escaped $${...}. Anything rendered verbatim onto the workload — a lifecycle postStart script, an env value — lands under apps/wave-<N>/, and every apps-wave-<N> Flux Kustomization declares postBuild.substituteFrom: cluster-vars. Flux runs envsubst over the WHOLE manifest at reconcile time, so an unescaped ${VAR:-} meant for the shell is replaced with the empty string before the container ever starts (this silently killed gitea's and nextcloud's OIDC registration for days). Bare $VAR and $(cmd) are left alone and need no escaping; a genuine environment knob is declared in clusters/base/cluster-vars.yaml and written bare ${KNOB}. Full contract: ../clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml. render.py REFUSES to emit a manifest that breaks this rule (Flux's strict substitution mode cannot: it deliberately exempts the ${V:-} / ${V:=x} / ${V:?} default-operator forms).

Validate before commit — single command, no cluster (R-TEST-02)

check-jsonschema --schemafile schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json catalog/*.yaml

See ../schemas/README.md for install/pinning and a pure-Python fallback. This is the L0/L1 schema gate (spec docs/14); CI (.gitea/) runs it on every change.

Rendering — render.py (the ServiceDefinition renderer, T-0.3)

render.py compiles a ServiceDefinition into the concrete manifest set defined by ../schemas/renderer-contract.md: a Namespace (with the app-namespace/gateway-access labels), the default-deny baseline (R-NET-01), a Deployment+Service or a KubeVirt VirtualMachine + CDI DataVolume (R-PLAT-02/03), PVCs (R-STATE), one CiliumNetworkPolicy egress-allow per dependency (R-NET-02), the egress-class steering label (R-NET-05), HTTPRoute(s) on the shared Gateway (R-TLS/R-DNS), ServiceMonitor + SLI alerts (R-OBS-01), the Flux ImageRepository/ImagePolicy update plumbing (R-UPD), and the auth-mode / backup wiring hints (R-IDP/R-STATE-03).

python3 catalog/render.py catalog/pihole.yaml        # render one SD to stdout
python3 catalog/render.py --all catalog -o out/      # render every SD to out/<name>.yaml
python3 catalog/render.py --selftest                 # deterministic self-test (no cluster)
  • Deterministic: identical input → byte-identical output (golden-diffable). The L1 render conformance tests (conformance/tests/l1-rendering/*) diff the output against committed goldens — run offline by conformance/run.sh --layer l1 and ci/l1.sh (no cluster).
  • How CI/Flux consume it: CI invokes render.py in the L1 stage; a GitOps flow renders --all catalog -o <rendered-dir> and Flux reconciles the rendered directory. Design choice (renderer-contract is silent on mechanism): a render-then-consume script is the simplest reproducible option — see the header of render.py.
  • Dependency: PyYAML (the renderer's single dependency; the conformance harness stays stdlib-only and only shells out to this script + diffs text).