authentik: zero-endpoints alert + upgrade-validation checklist

Add `AuthentikForwardAuthFallbackActive` Prometheus alert: fires on
sustained 401/s spike on the websecure entrypoint (>5/s for 5m), which
is the symptom of the auth-proxy Emergency-Access fallback firing —
in turn caused by zero ready endpoints on the outpost service.

Why this rule and not `kube_endpoint_address_available == 0`:
kube-state-metrics endpoint metrics exist as series names but never
have current values in this Prometheus pipeline (something is dropping
them silently). Detecting the failure at the edge via Traefik is more
reliable than instrumenting the broken middle.

Also fix the pre-existing `AuthentikOutpostForwardAuth400Spike` regex
— the service label is `authentik-ak-outpost-...`, not
`authentik-authentik-outpost-...`, so the alert never matched any
series and never could have fired. Verified in Prometheus before/after
the fix.

Add an "Upgrade Validation Checklist" section to
`.claude/reference/authentik-state.md` with the seven-step smoke test
to run after Authentik chart bumps, provider bumps, or outpost pod
recreation. Covers the brittle surfaces (Service selector, JSON
patches, postgres backend wiring, access_token_validity TTL, edge
auth flow, plan-to-zero).
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Viktor Barzin 2026-05-10 16:54:48 +00:00
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@ -138,3 +138,54 @@ Notes:
- `ProxyProvider.remember_me_offset` stays UI-managed via `ignore_changes`.
- The Authentik provider's resource schema does **not** expose the `Outpost.managed` field. We rely on TF's "write only fields it knows about" semantic: the server-set `goauthentik.io/outposts/embedded` value is preserved across applies because Terraform never writes `managed`. Don't change the resource provider schema expectations without verifying this assumption holds.
- The `unauthenticated_age` env var is injected via `server.env` / `worker.env` (not `authentik.sessions.unauthenticated_age`) because we set `authentik.existingSecret.secretName: goauthentik`, which makes the chart skip rendering its own `AUTHENTIK_*` Secret. The `authentik.*` value block is therefore inert in this stack — anything new under `authentik.*` must use the `*.env` arrays instead. The same applies to the existing `authentik.cache.*`, `authentik.web.*`, `authentik.worker.*` blocks (currently inert; live values come from the orphaned, helm-keep-policy `goauthentik` Secret created by chart 2025.10.3 before `existingSecret` was introduced).
## Upgrade Validation Checklist
Run after **any** of these:
- Authentik chart version bump in `stacks/authentik/modules/authentik/main.tf` (the `version = "..."` line on `helm_release.authentik`).
- `goauthentik/authentik` Terraform provider version bump.
- Outpost pod recreation (kured reboot, eviction, manual `rollout restart`, scheduler move).
The fragile surfaces are the `kubernetes_json_patches` and the `Outpost.managed` field — both rely on assumptions that can silently break across upgrades. The checklist exercises the same path the alerts watch, so it doubles as a smoke test for the alerts.
```bash
# 1. Service routes to the outpost pod (NOT the server pods).
# Empty endpoints => auth-proxy fallback fires; expected: ONE pod IP, ports 9000/9300/9443.
kubectl -n authentik get endpoints ak-outpost-authentik-embedded-outpost
# 2. Service selector still excludes the server pods. Expected: includes
# `app.kubernetes.io/name: authentik-outpost-proxy`. If it flips to
# `name: authentik`, the goauthentik upstream bug came back or our
# JSON patch was unset.
kubectl -n authentik get svc ak-outpost-authentik-embedded-outpost -o jsonpath='{.spec.selector}'
# 3. Outpost mode + session backend. Expected log lines on startup:
# {"embedded":true,"event":"Outpost mode",...}
# {"event":"using PostgreSQL session backend",...}
# If embedded=false or `using filesystem session backend`, the postgres
# fix is broken — likely `Outpost.managed` got cleared, or the upstream
# schema started exposing `managed` and TF reset it.
kubectl -n authentik logs deploy/ak-outpost-authentik-embedded-outpost | grep -E '"Outpost mode"|"session backend"' | head -3
# 4. /dev/shm is essentially empty (postgres backend = no filesystem use).
# A row count > a few dozen indicates filesystem fallback is firing.
kubectl -n authentik exec deploy/ak-outpost-authentik-embedded-outpost -- sh -c 'df -h /dev/shm; ls /dev/shm | wc -l'
# 5. Postgres session table is growing with traffic. Expected: rows with
# `expires` ~28 days out (matches access_token_validity = weeks=4).
kubectl -n authentik exec deploy/goauthentik-server -- ak shell -c "
from django.db import connection; c = connection.cursor()
c.execute('SELECT COUNT(*), MAX(expires) FROM authentik_providers_proxy_proxysession')
print(c.fetchone())"
# 6. Edge auth flow: should be 302 → authentik. NOT 401 with WWW-Authenticate.
curl -sS -o /dev/null -D - 'https://terminal.viktorbarzin.me/' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0' \
| grep -iE '^HTTP|^location|x-auth-fallback|www-authenticate'
# 7. Terraform plan-to-zero on the whole authentik stack.
( cd stacks/authentik && /home/wizard/code/infra/scripts/tg plan ) | grep -E 'No changes|Plan:'
```
Steps 1, 3, 6 cover the failure modes the Prometheus alerts trigger on (`AuthentikForwardAuthFallbackActive`, `AuthentikOutpostForwardAuth400Spike`). Steps 4 and 5 cover the silent-regression case (filesystem fallback) where the alerts don't fire but the system loses its postgres-backed session persistence on the next pod restart.
If step 2 shows the controller restored `app.kubernetes.io/name=authentik`, watch goauthentik/authentik issue tracker for fixes around `internal/outpost/controllers/k8s/service.py:52` — the upstream patch might let us drop our `kubernetes_json_patches.service` workaround.