fix(k8s): gate deploy health on a serving CNPG cluster instead of a fully-ready one - #2985
fix(k8s): gate deploy health on a serving CNPG cluster instead of a fully-ready one#2985devantler wants to merge 8 commits into
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…ully-ready one kstatus marks a CNPG Cluster NotReady for the whole of any rolling update, and CNPG rolls every instance whenever the operator, the barman-cloud plugin sidecar, or the PostgreSQL image changes. Those are routine Renovate bumps: plugin v0.13.0 -> v0.14.0 (#2971) restarted every instance of all four clusters on 2026-08-05. A database that is merely rolling, or serving on 2 of 3 instances, therefore failed the apps/infrastructure health check, timed out the deploy, and evicted every PR from the merge queue - wedding-db 2026-06-19, coroot-db 2026-07-14, umami-db twice on 2026-08-05. Gate on 'the database is serving' instead: a primary is elected and at least one instance is ready. A cluster with no ready instance matches no current expression, stays InProgress, and still fails the deploy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The three resources this PR edits are individually pinned in the EKS CI authorization contract, so adding `healthCheckExprs` to them moved their fingerprints and the aggregate surface hash, failing `Validate EKS Authorization` and its `CI - Required Checks` rollup. Re-approved after running the measurement the constant's own note requires, against main 72fe791: 520 rendered documents on both sides with membership identical (zero added, removed or renamed by apiVersion|kind|namespace|name set difference), and exactly three entries moved -- precisely the three re-approved here. The complete rendered delta is 19 lines, all ADDED and all part of a `healthCheckExprs` entry; none removed or modified. All 67 grant-bearing documents (Role/ClusterRole/RoleBinding/ClusterRoleBinding/ ServiceAccount) are byte-identical, as are all 116 `aws`-bearing lines, so nothing granted to the aws/aws service account is touched. Gate verified still enforcing: widening one verb on the pinned `kro-tenant-rgd` ClusterRole makes the validator report that ClusterRole and the aggregate surface as unapproved. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Validation (run locally — GitHub Actions is in a major outage)GitHub Actions has been in a RED → GREEN. Before: The 35 Membership measurement (the discipline the constant's own note requires), branch vs
Gate proven still enforcing (ablation). Widening one verb on the pinned
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…health gate Measured against main 5653612: 520 rendered documents on both sides across all five authorization roots, membership IDENTICAL (set difference zero in both directions over apiVersion|kind|namespace|name). The complete rendered delta is 19 lines, all ADDED and all part of a healthCheckExprs entry; none removed or modified. The grant-bearing projection (Role/ClusterRole/RoleBinding/ ClusterRoleBinding/ServiceAccount) is byte-identical at 37,932 bytes on both sides, so nothing granted to the aws/aws service account is touched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdded CNPG health expressions to both tenant Kustomization variants and the Flux apps, infrastructure, and wedding-app Kustomizations. A CNPG Cluster requires at least one ready instance and a non-empty current primary. Updated aggregate and per-resource rendered-surface fingerprints to match the changed manifests. Possibly related PRs
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In `@scripts/validate-eks-ci-role-policy/main.go`:
- Around line 273-282: Update the approval-record documentation associated with
the pinned entries to include the ascoachingogvaner/ascoachingogvaner and
aws/aws Kustomizations, so it accurately documents all five updated entries
rather than three.
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Validate manifest-related changes statically; never run a cluster for maintenance. Prefer KSail workload validation, otherwise build both local and production Kustomize overlays and perform per-file dry-run validation.
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k8s/**/*.yaml: Keep Kubernetes resources in the appropriate Kustomize layer: shared behavior belongs ink8s/bases/, while overlays should contain only genuine provider- or consumer-specific differences.
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k8s/bases/infrastructure/**/*.yaml: Do not enable Cilium authentication or SPIRE without a narrowly scoped consumer. Never add semantically empty authentication source selectors such asfromEndpoints: [{}]or empty label selectors, because they weaken namespace/application isolation.
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📚 Learning: 2026-07-01T21:13:36.950Z
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Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 2359
File: k8s/bases/apps/actual-budget/helm-release.yaml:62-111
Timestamp: 2026-07-01T21:13:36.950Z
Learning: When reviewing Kustomize/Helm YAML in this repo, keep the base vs provider overlay split: `k8s/bases/apps/**` and `k8s/bases/infrastructure/**` should contain each app’s full, environment-agnostic configuration (including base-level postRenderer Kustomize patches such as deployment strategy, topology spread, probes, and env injection). `k8s/providers/{docker,hetzner}/**` should only add small provider-specific deltas (e.g., `interval`, `persistence.size`) via patch files (like `k8s/providers/<provider>/apps/<app>/patches/helm-release-patch.yaml`). If configuration is identical across providers (e.g., OIDC/OAuth env vars where `${domain}` is resolved per cluster via envsubst), it belongs in the base and must not be duplicated into provider overlays.
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Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3017
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/coroot/components/crossplane-sync-exporter/deployment.yaml:13-21
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.349Z
Learning: In the devantler-tech/platform repository, Checkov CI scans source manifests with `--skip-framework kustomize` rather than rendered Kustomize overlays. To suppress a Checkov finding on a base manifest, place the appropriate `checkov.io/skip*` annotation directly in that base YAML file; an overlay patch will not suppress findings reported for the source file.
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Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3017
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/coroot/components/crossplane-sync-exporter/deployment.yaml:13-21
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.350Z
Learning: For Kubernetes manifests under k8s/bases/, keep workload-related Checkov exception annotations (checkov.io/skip*) in the base manifest when the checked condition is defined there and CI scans that source manifest directly. Do not move these annotations to overlays solely because the base is immutable; keeping them with the workload ensures the disposition applies consistently to every consumer of the base.
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Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3025
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/kubescape/helm-release.yaml:97-133
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T21:23:32.529Z
Learning: In the devantler-tech/platform repository, modify Kubernetes manifests directly under k8s/bases/ when a configuration change should apply to all Kustomize overlays. Use provider- or cluster-specific overlay patches only for changes that are intentionally limited to those overlays.
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k8s/bases/infrastructure/resource-graph-definitions/tenant/resource-graph-definition.yaml (1)
290-300: LGTM!Also applies to: 327-337
k8s/clusters/base/flux-kustomization-apps.yaml (1)
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…mization wedding-app is NOT generated from the Tenant RGD — no Kustomization on the live cluster carries ownerReferences, so every current tenant is a checked-in manifest. k8s/bases/apps/wedding-app/flux-kustomization.yaml applies wedding-db from the tenant's own artifact with wait: true and no healthCheckExprs, so the RGD template change did not reach wedding-db at all and a routine rollout could still evict the merge group exactly as on 2026-06-19. Re-measured against main 5653612: 520 rendered documents on both sides, membership identical (set difference zero both directions). The rendered delta is now 24 lines, all ADDED and all part of a healthCheckExprs entry. Four pinned entries move; the grant-bearing projection stays byte-identical at 37,932 bytes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Exercised, not just reasoned about. This change's only runtime surface is the CEL expression, so I compiled and evaluated it with
The two expressions diverge in exactly the degraded cases and agree on every failure case, which is what shows the change is neither a no-op nor a weakening. Verified against the live cluster rather than assumed: Authorization surface re-approved on measurement, not by rubber-stamp: 520 rendered documents on both sides, membership identical (set difference zero in both directions), rendered delta 24 lines — every one added, every one part of a Reviewed — CodeRabbit clean at this head ("No actionable comments were generated in the recent review"); all four Codex P1 findings resolved, one fixed and three refuted with evidence. One thing to watch after merge: this is a deploy-gating change, so the proof it works is the next CNPG rolling update passing the merge queue instead of evicting it. |
Evicted from the merge queue — blocker is unrelated to this PRThis PR was queued and its The gate marker is The rollout the gate is guarding has actually completed. Measured on prod just now:
So the gate's own documented resolution — "stepping the remaining Cilium agents onto the current DaemonSet revision" — is already satisfied on the cluster. What remains is retiring the temporary Prod is healthy despite the failed deploy and the failed This PR itself remains ready: CI green at |
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So the branch now carries Reverting cleanly needs a force-push, which this runtime denies, so I have left the branch as-is rather than compound it with a merge-revert. To restore, reset to No other change was made here, and the scheduled engineer will not touch this PR again. |
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Why
A single database losing one replica has now evicted every PR from the merge queue four times:
wedding-db 2026-06-19, coroot-db 2026-07-14, and umami-db twice on 2026-08-05. Each time the
database was serving perfectly well — primary healthy, backups green — and each time the merge lane
was blocked for hours.
The reason it keeps recurring is that the trigger is routine, not exceptional. CloudNativePG
restarts every instance whenever the operator, the barman-cloud sidecar, or the PostgreSQL image
changes, and Renovate ships those bumps continuously. #2971 (barman-cloud plugin v0.13.0 → v0.14.0)
merged earlier today and rolled every instance of all four clusters; three sat at 2 of 3 ready for
about eight minutes. Any
merge_grouprun during that window fails its deploy and its PR is evicted.Every mitigation so far aimed at preventing a replica from degrading (synchronous replication,
force/prunedisabled). Those are worth having, but they cannot fix this: umami-db already carriedthe synchronous-replication mitigation and was stranded anyway, and no mitigation stops a rolling
update from happening at all. The gate itself is what needs to change.
What
Health-check a CNPG
Clusteron "the database is serving" — a primary is elected and at least oneinstance is ready — instead of demanding every instance be ready. Applied to the three Kustomizations
that own a
Cluster:apps(umami-db, backstage-db),infrastructure(coroot-db), and the tenantRGD's two Kustomization templates, which covers wedding-db and every future tenant.
A cluster with no ready instance, or no elected primary, matches no
currentexpression, staysInProgress, and still fails the deploy — so a genuinely broken database is still caught.This deliberately moves "one replica is down" from blocking to paging, which is direction #1 on
#2639. The paging half is #2979, whose
cnpg-degraded-alertCronJob is by its own description"deliberately independent of any Flux health gate, so relaxing that gate cannot silently remove this
coverage" — the two are designed to compose. Worth landing #2979 alongside or before this, so the
alerting path is live when the blocking path stops being the de-facto detector.
Verification
ksail workload validateandksail --config ksail.prod.yaml workload validate— both clean, 554files each; all three changed files explicitly validated rather than skipped.
The CEL expression was compiled and evaluated against every cluster state observed on prod
today, alongside a control expression reproducing current kstatus behaviour. The two diverge in
exactly the degraded cases — confirming the change is not a no-op — and agree on the failure cases:
Field references checked against all four live clusters:
status.readyInstancesandstatus.currentPrimaryare present on every one.One honest edge: if
statusis absent entirely the expression errors rather than returningfalse. Flux's own documented examples don't guard against this either, and the docs frame the
consequence as waiting until timeout — the same outcome kstatus already gives an uninitialised
resource. The realistic fresh-apply state (
status: {}) returns false cleanly.Fixes #2639
Important
Merge-order gate: #2985 and #3004 both re-approve the same
expectedRenderedSurfaceSHAfrom the same base value. Whichever merges second will conflict on that line and must re-measure and re-approve against the newmain— the second PR's hash is not valid once the first lands.