The 1.34.9 master upgrade hard-failed `kubeadm upgrade apply` preflight: CoreDNS
is at v1.12.4 (Keel auto-bumped it 1.12.1 -> 1.12.4 on 2026-05-26 via a stale
kube-system out-of-band annotation), and 1.12.4 is ahead of kubeadm 1.34.9's
bundled corefile-migration table ("start version not supported").
- scripts/update_k8s.sh: master `kubeadm upgrade apply` now runs with
`--ignore-preflight-errors=CoreDNSMigration,CoreDNSUnsupportedPlugins
--skip-phases=addon/coredns`. A dry-run proved --ignore ALONE would overwrite
our custom split-horizon Corefile with kubeadm's default AND downgrade the
image; --skip-phases leaves CoreDNS 100% untouched while the control plane
upgrades. CoreDNS is pinned off Keel (keel.sh/policy=never) to stop the drift.
- stacks/k8s-version-upgrade/scripts/upgrade-step.sh: fix the preflight
quiet-baseline (settle-window) check, which silently no-op'd on the ghcr
claude-agent-service image's busybox `date` (can't parse ISO8601). Now tries
GNU then busybox `-D`, and warns+skips on parse failure (no silent fail-open).
- docs: runbook + architecture document the CoreDNS handling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Refines the new K8sUpgradeChainJobFailed alert from a bare failed-pod count to
the terminal job-condition reasons (BackoffLimitExceeded|DeadlineExceeded). A
phase whose first pod failed but whose retry SUCCEEDED must NOT fire: every
firing alert also halts kured, so a bare-count false-positive would block all
OS node reboots for the Job's 7-day TTL. Verified against kube-state-metrics:
the stuck preflight reports reason="BackoffLimitExceeded"; a Complete job has 0
for the terminal reasons.
Docs updated to match the behaviour change (per the same-commit docs rule):
- docs/runbooks/k8s-version-upgrade.md — new alert in the gates list; the
"kill a stuck Job" recovery now leads with retry-on-failure self-heal.
- docs/architecture/automated-upgrades.md — fourth Upgrade Gates alert;
retry-on-failure note on the deterministic-naming paragraph.
- .claude/skills/upgrade-state/SKILL.md — new "chain failed" status, legend
entry, and drill-down (also copied to the active ~/.claude copy).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
6d224861 came from a --no-checkout worktree whose empty index made the
commit drop every file except two. This restores 05b50d2b's full tree and
correctly adds stacks/stem95su/gdrive-sync.tf + the service-catalog stem95su
entry. Forward-only (parent=6d224861, no force-push); [ci skip] since the
live infra was never applied from the broken commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CronJob stem95su-gdrive-sync (*/10) mounts the content PVC RW and
rclone-syncs the read-only Drive folder "claude" (stem claude/files) onto
it (rclone/rclone:1.74.3, scope=drive.readonly, empty-source guard +
--max-delete 25). ESO ExternalSecret stem95su-rclone <- Vault
secret/stem95su. Requires the GCP OAuth app published to Production or the
refresh token expires ~weekly.
Lands the gdrive-sync stack on master (it had landed on a feature branch
by accident on the shared devvm checkout).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update authentication.md (structured multi-issuer AuthenticationConfiguration
+ dashboard SSO flow), multi-tenancy.md (web dashboard access), authentik-state
(new k8s-dashboard app + gheorghe groups), service-catalog (dashboard auth),
and the k8s-version-upgrade runbook (kubeadm wipes --authentication-config →
re-apply rbac post-upgrade). Design/plan addenda record the issuer-constraint
pivot from the original dual-aud approach. [ci skip]
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The weekday-only schedule was a 2026-03-16-incident-era guardrail when
the rest of the safety net was thin. Today's gates — halt-on-alert,
sentinel-gate Check 4 (24h soak via node Ready transitions), the
K8sUpgradeStalled alert, drainTimeout=30m, concurrency=1, and the
sentinel-path fix from earlier today — make weekend reboots safe and
just clear the backlog faster.
Effect: 5 pending node reboots clear in 5 calendar days instead of
queueing up over weekends. The K8s version-upgrade detection at Sun
12:00 UTC self-defers if a Sunday-morning kured reboot fires (the
RecentNodeReboot alert is in the Upgrade Gates ignore-less list for
the version-upgrade preflight — same mechanism kured uses).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The agent-based v1 ran inside claude-agent-service (replicas=1, no
nodeSelector) and self-evicted when it tried to drain its host (k8s-node4
on 2026-05-11). Cluster ended half-upgraded (master v1.34.7, workers
v1.34.2) until manual recovery.
Rewrite the pipeline as a chain of nodeSelector-pinned Jobs:
preflight (k8s-node1)
→ master (k8s-node1) drains k8s-master
→ worker × 4 (k8s-node1) drains k8s-node{4,3,2}
→ worker (k8s-master + control-plane toleration) drains k8s-node1
→ postflight (no pinning)
Each Job runs scripts/upgrade-step.sh (case-on-$PHASE) and ends by
envsubst-ing job-template.yaml into the next Job. Deterministic names
(k8s-upgrade-<phase>-<target_version>[-<node>]) make `kubectl apply`
idempotent — a failed Job can be re-created without duplicating
downstream.
Also lands `predrain_unstick`: deletes pods on the target node whose PDB
has 0 disruptionsAllowed. Without this, drain loops indefinitely on
single-replica deployments (e.g. every Anubis instance — discovered the
hard way during 2026-05-11 manual recovery of k8s-node3).
Adds K8sUpgradeStalled alert (in_flight + started_timestamp > 90 min).
Deprecates the agent prompt (renamed to *.deprecated.md with a header
pointer to the new code).
Apply order: k8s-version-upgrade first (consumes new SA + ConfigMaps),
then monitoring (loads the new alert). Both applied 2026-05-11.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a weekly detection CronJob (Sun 12:00 UTC) that probes apt-cache madison
on master for new patches + HEAD pkgs.k8s.io for next-minor availability,
then POSTs to claude-agent-service to dispatch the k8s-version-upgrade agent.
The agent (.claude/agents/k8s-version-upgrade.md) orchestrates:
pre-flight (5 nodes Ready + halt-on-alert + 24h-quiet + plan target match)
-> etcd snapshot save
-> optional master containerd skew fix
-> apt repo URL rewrite (minor bumps only)
-> drain/upgrade/uncordon master via ssh < update_k8s.sh
-> sequential workers k8s-node4 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1 with 10-min soak each
-> post-flight verification
Two new Upgrade Gates alerts catch failure modes:
- K8sVersionSkew (kubelet/apiserver gitVersion mismatch >30m)
- EtcdPreUpgradeSnapshotMissing (in_flight without snapshot_taken >10m)
update_k8s.sh refactored to take --role / --release args; the agent shells
it into each node via SSH pipe. update_node.sh annotated as OS-major path.
Operator-facing docs: docs/runbooks/k8s-version-upgrade.md and a new section
in docs/architecture/automated-upgrades.md.
Secrets: secret/k8s-upgrade/{ssh_key,ssh_key_pub,slack_webhook} (ed25519
keypair distributed to all 5 nodes via authorized_keys; slack_webhook
reuses kured webhook URL on initial deploy).
