jakman85andClaude Opus 4.8 eb31d2ef58 fix(monitoring): cap Prometheus TSDB by size to stop false absent()/==0 alerts
The 7 falsely-firing platform alerts (KeycloakDown, KeycloakDatabaseDown,
KubeAPIDown, KubeletDown, VPNTunnelDown, KubeVirtControlPlaneDown,
CDINoDefaultStorageClass) share ONE root cause, not per-rule label mismatches:
the Prometheus PVC is 100% full ("no space left on device" on every WAL commit).

Evidence from the live dev cluster:
- /prometheus is 4.8G/5Gi, 0 bytes free; every scrape logs "Scrape commit
  failed ... write to WAL: no space left on device". Scrapes still return 200
  (targets show healthy, lastScrape=now) but samples are never stored, so the
  TSDB head froze at 2026-08-28 13:45 UTC while the pod clock reads ~19:33 UTC.
- Instant queries at "now" therefore return an EMPTY vector, so every
  absent()/==0 platform rule trips. Evaluated at the last-good-sample time each
  expr is correctly FALSE (keycloak-0/keycloak-db-1 ready=1, apiserver+kubelet
  up=1 x3, tun0 series present, kubevirt control-plane expr empty, CDI default
  present) — the rules are correct; the monitor was simply blind.

`retention` alone prunes only by AGE: this cluster is 3d2h old with 3d dev
retention, so time-pruning has NEVER run and 3d of block churn (~1.2Gi/day) plus
a WAL that ballooned past 1Gi overran the 5Gi disk. Fix adds a size-based
retention cap (new MONITORING_PROMETHEUS_RETENTION_SIZE knob) kept below each
env's PVC so Prometheus drops oldest blocks before the disk fills, and bumps the
dev PVC 5Gi->8Gi for real WAL/head/compaction headroom.

- platform/monitoring/kube-prometheus-stack.yaml: retentionSize: ${knob}
- clusters/base/cluster-vars.yaml: knob default 8GiB (base 10Gi PVC)
- clusters/dev/kustomization.yaml: PVC 5Gi->8Gi, retentionSize 5GiB
- clusters/prod/kustomization.yaml: retentionSize 45GiB (50Gi PVC)
- platform/monitoring/README.md: knob table + rationale

Deploy note (PM): the PVC is already 100% full, so Prometheus cannot self-prune
until it can write. The 5Gi->8Gi bump must land as a Longhorn online expansion
(operator PVC expansion / manual patch); once free space returns, retentionSize
keeps it healthy. Watchdog left untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
2026-08-28 14:38:12 -05:00

home-network-k3s-impl

Implementation of the home k3s + Longhorn platform. This repo holds the reconciled artifacts (Flux config, Kustomize overlays, KubeVirt/Helm manifests, ServiceDefinitions, Kyverno policies, Chainsaw conformance tests, CI). It is driven by — and subordinate to — the read-only specification at ../home-network-k3s.

Rules (from the spec — non-negotiable)

  • The spec is read-only. Never modify anything under ../home-network-k3s. Implement against it; escalate spec problems, don't edit them (spec AGENTS.md §11, R-TEST-06).
  • Done = a green, reproducible, requirement-tagged conformance test — never "merged," never a manual demo (spec docs/14, agents/definition-of-done.md).
  • No work on main. Every change is a feature branch merged into main (spec CONTRIBUTING.md).
  • No plaintext secrets — SOPS-encrypted only (spec docs/07).
  • Phase discipline — only build what the active roadmap phase authorizes (spec roadmap/phases.md).

Layout

infra/          node provisioning: OpenTofu (Proxmox VE) + cloud-init + Ansible, and the
                pinned dev container that carries the whole toolchain
bootstrap/      one-time cluster bootstrap: Flux install, SOPS/age key, host Gitea
platform/       platform CONTROLLERS (Flux HelmReleases / operator bases): kyverno, cilium,
                longhorn, external-snapshotter, cert-manager, externaldns, gateway, coredns,
                vpn-egress, monitoring, cnpg, keycloak, oauth2-proxy, kubevirt
platform-config/ platform CONFIGS — the custom resources of the CRDs installed above
                (ClusterIssuers, Gateway, Kyverno policies, KubeVirt/CDI CRs, Keycloak CRs).
                Split out because CRs and the CRDs they use cannot apply in one pass.
apps/           application tier, reconciled as dependency-ordered WAVES:
                  wave-0/ wave-1/ wave-2/   rendered container apps (see DESIGN-waves.md)
                  vms/                      KubeVirt VirtualMachines (non-gating tier)
catalog/        ServiceDefinition entries (the onboarding surface) + render.py
schemas/        ServiceDefinition JSON Schema + renderer contract
clusters/       Flux entrypoints + dev/ and prod/ overlays
conformance/    Chainsaw behavior/conformance suite + harness + coverage report
ci/             the gate as scripts (lint · schema · Kyverno L0 · L1 render · decision)
.gitea/         Gitea Actions CI running that gate on an in-cluster runner

Status

Roadmap phases 0–6 are delivered and deployed on the dev cluster; Phase 7 (prod) is not open — clusters/prod is a design-only overlay.

Phase Delivered
0 Foundations ServiceDefinition schema + renderer, Kyverno L0 gate, conformance harness, CI
1 Cluster bring-up 3-node k3s HA on Proxmox VE (192.168.1.50/.51/.52), Cilium, Flux, SOPS
2 Platform core Cilium · Longhorn · cert-manager (LE-prod wildcard) · ExternalDNS · Gateway API · split-horizon CoreDNS
3 Egress / VPN ADR-0015 node-level OpenVPN split-tunnel + Cilium egress-gateway steering + host kill-switch
4 Observability kube-prometheus-stack · Loki · Alloy · Alertmanager. Velero still blocked on OQ-BKP; image-automation authored but disabled
5 IaaS KubeVirt + CDI on real nested KVM; live-migratable RWX VM storage. The UniFi VM runs, but UniFi OS Server is not yet installed in the guest
6 Identity + CI Keycloak (Operator + CNPG) · oauth2-proxy forward-auth · Grafana OIDC · kubectl OIDC SSO with group→RBAC · in-cluster Gitea Actions merge gate

Conformance: 36 / 51 requirements covered (70.6%), 15 gaps, 1 safety-critical gap (R-STATE-02, Longhorn node-loss). Regenerate with ./conformance/run.sh --coverage-only; the full report is conformance/_artifacts/coverage/coverage.md.

The running narrative — decisions, root causes, incidents, follow-ups — is DECISIONS-LOG.md. It, not this table, is the authoritative record.

Working on this repo

Everything the gate needs is baked into the pinned dev container — do not install the toolchain on the host:

infra/devcontainer/dev.sh build            # once
infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run make -C ci gate   # the same gate CI runs
infra/devcontainer/dev.sh                  # interactive shell (sops, flux, kubectl, tofu, ansible)

The container mounts the repo at /work, your age keyring, and the sibling spec repo read-only so the spec-immutability check can actually run. See infra/devcontainer/README.md.

A green run prints MERGE GATE: PASS. The L2/L3 conformance layers stay SKIPPED unless CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true — the static gate never pretends to have run them.

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