The Keycloak OIDC postStart registration for gitea and nextcloud ran but never persisted, leaving `gitea admin auth list` empty and nextcloud's user_oidc with "No providers configured" despite the apps installing/ enabling and the client secret being present. Two distinct root causes, confirmed by running the registration manually against the live warm pods: - nextcloud: a QUOTING BUG, not a race. The OCC() wrapper runs `su -c "php occ $*"`, which word-split `--scope="openid email profile"` back into three tokens, so occ saw `email profile` as extra positional args -> "Too many arguments to user_oidc:provider" -> exit 1, swallowed by `|| echo failed`. Failed on EVERY boot. Fixed by running the provider call as ONE `su -c` with the scope single-quoted so www-data's shell keeps it a single argument; keep the OCC() wrapper only for single-token subcommands. - gitea: a first-boot RACE. The direct `admin auth add-oauth` persists once the app/network is warm (verified live), but fired too early at postStart and its failure was swallowed (`|| echo ... >&2`, exit 0). Hardening applied to both catalog sources (rendered into apps/wave-*): - wait (bounded ~90s) for the Keycloak discovery doc to return HTTP 200; - nextcloud also waits for `installed: true` AND `maintenance: false`; - register idempotently (create-or-update) then VERIFY the source/provider actually persisted, retrying the whole cycle (guards exit-0-but-nothing- stuck); - on give-up, log LOUDLY to stderr AND a marker file on the persistent volume (/data, /var/www/html) instead of swallowing — next failure is visible; - never crashloop: missing-secret guard retained, break-glass local admin stays usable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
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 (Phase 0)
| 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
nameandsourceare 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
authblock:forward-auth(default) oroidc, each with a non-emptyauth.groups;native/noneare documented exceptions only. - Irreplaceable state (
class: longhornconfigs/DBs) must setbackup.policyto an off-cluster schedule — neverreacquirable(R-STATE-03). Only bulk media may bereacquirable.
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 byconformance/run.sh --layer l1andci/l1.sh(no cluster). - How CI/Flux consume it: CI invokes
render.pyin 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 ofrender.py. - Dependency: PyYAML (the renderer's single dependency; the conformance harness stays stdlib-only and only shells out to this script + diffs text).