After node2 OOM incident, right-size memory across the cluster by setting
requests=limits based on max_over_time(container_memory_working_set_bytes[7d])
with 1.3x headroom. Eliminates ~37Gi overcommit gap.
Categories:
- Safe equalization (50 containers): set req=lim where max7d well within target
- Limit increases (8 containers): raise limits for services spiking above current
- No Prometheus data (12 containers): conservatively set lim=req
- Exception: nextcloud keeps req=256Mi/lim=8Gi due to Apache memory spikes
Also increased dbaas namespace quota from 12Gi to 16Gi to accommodate mysql
4Gi limits across 3 replicas.
CPU limits cause CFS throttling even when nodes have idle capacity.
Move to a request-only CPU model: keep CPU requests for scheduling
fairness but remove all CPU limits. Memory limits stay (incompressible).
Changes across 108 files:
- Kyverno LimitRange policy: remove cpu from default/max in all 6 tiers
- Kyverno ResourceQuota policy: remove limits.cpu from all 5 tiers
- Custom ResourceQuotas: remove limits.cpu from 8 namespace quotas
- Custom LimitRanges: remove cpu from default/max (nextcloud, onlyoffice)
- RBAC module: remove cpu_limits variable and quota reference
- Freedify factory: remove cpu_limit variable and limits reference
- 86 deployment files: remove cpu from all limits blocks
- 6 Helm values files: remove cpu under limits sections
Add Kubernetes ingress annotations for Homepage auto-discovery across
~88 services organized into 11 groups. Enable serviceAccount for RBAC,
configure group layouts, and add Grafana/Frigate/Speedtest widgets.
Phase 5 — CI pipelines:
- default.yml: add SOPS decrypt in prepare step, change git add . to
specific paths (stacks/ state/ .woodpecker/), cleanup on success+failure
- renew-tls.yml: change git add . to git add secrets/ state/
Phase 6 — sensitive=true:
- Add sensitive = true to 256 variable declarations across 149 stack files
- Prevents secret values from appearing in terraform plan output
- Does NOT modify shared modules (ingress_factory, nfs_volume) to avoid
breaking module interface contracts
Note: CI pipeline SOPS decryption requires sops_age_key Woodpecker secret
to be created before the pipeline will work with SOPS. Until then, the old
terraform.tfvars path continues to function.
- Kyverno policy: VPA mode set to 'off' for all namespaces (was 'initial'
for non-core). Terraform is now sole authority for container resources.
Goldilocks provides recommendations only.
- Ollama: add explicit CPU/memory resources (500m/4Gi req, 4/12Gi limit)
alongside GPU allocation. Fixes OOMKill from VPA scaling down resources.
- MySQL InnoDB Cluster: bump memory limit from 2Gi to 3Gi.
- Remove redundant per-namespace VPA opt-out labels from onlyoffice,
openclaw, trading-bot (now handled globally by Kyverno policy).
VPA Auto mode modifies Deployment specs at runtime, causing conflicts
with Terraform on every apply (drift -> reset -> VPA evict loop).
Initial mode only mutates Pod resource requests at creation time via
the admission webhook, leaving the Deployment spec unchanged. This
means terraform plan shows no drift while pods still get VPA-optimized
resources on every restart.
- 171 VPAs switched from Auto to Initial
- 20 VPAs remain Off (tier-0 critical services)
- Goldilocks dashboard continues to show recommendations
- Reduce Kyverno LimitRange default limits ~4x across all tiers to fix
800-900% memory overcommitment on worker nodes
- Add cluster health check #25: per-node resource overcommitment
showing requests and limits vs allocatable capacity
- Add Kyverno policy for Goldilocks VPA mode by tier: tier-0 namespaces
get VPA Off mode (recommend only, no evictions) to prevent downtime
on critical infra (traefik, cloudflared, authentik, technitium, etc.)
- Non-tier-0 namespaces get VPA Auto mode for active right-sizing
Add Vertical Pod Autoscaler (recommender, updater, admission-controller)
and Goldilocks dashboard to monitor resource recommendations across all
namespaces. Dashboard at goldilocks.viktorbarzin.me behind Authentik.
