Vault DB engine rotates passwords weekly but 5 stacks baked passwords
at Terraform plan time, causing stale credentials until next apply.
- real-estate-crawler: add vault-database ESO, use secret_key_ref in 3 deployments
- nextcloud: switch Helm chart to existingSecret for DB password
- grafana: add vault-database ESO, use envFromSecrets in Helm values
- woodpecker: use extraSecretNamesForEnvFrom, remove plan-time data source chain
- affine: add vault-database ESO, use secret_key_ref in deployment + init container
Replaced data "vault_kv_secret_v2" with:
1. ExternalSecret (ESO syncs Vault KV → K8s Secret)
2. data "kubernetes_secret" (reads ESO-created secret at plan time)
This removes the Vault provider dependency at plan time for these
stacks — they now only need K8s API access, not a Vault token.
Stacks: actualbudget, affine, audiobookshelf, calibre, changedetection,
coturn, freedify, freshrss, grampsweb, navidrome, novelapp, ollama,
owntracks, real-estate-crawler, servarr, ytdlp
Vault KV stores notification_settings as nested JSON ({"slack":{"webhook_url":""}}).
TF code was passing the map object directly as a string env var value.
Fix: access ["slack"]["webhook_url"] with try() fallback.
Kyverno ClusterPolicy reads dependency.kyverno.io/wait-for annotation
and injects busybox init containers that block until each dependency
is reachable (nc -z). Annotations added to 18 stacks (24 deployments).
Includes graceful-db-maintenance.sh script for planned DB maintenance
(scales dependents to 0, saves replica counts, restores on startup).
SQLite backup via Online Backup API + copy of RSA keys,
attachments, sends, and config. 30-day retention with rotation.
Pod affinity ensures co-scheduling with vaultwarden for RWO PVC access.
- Set memory requests = limits across 56 stacks to prevent overcommit
- Right-sized limits based on actual pod usage (2x actual, rounded up)
- Scaled down trading-bot (replicas=0) to free memory
- Fixed OOMKilled services: forgejo, dawarich, health, meshcentral,
paperless-ngx, vault auto-unseal, rybbit, whisper, openclaw, clickhouse
- Added startup+liveness probes to calibre-web
- Bumped inotify limits on nodes 2,3 (max_user_instances 128->8192)
Post node2 OOM incident (2026-03-14). Previous kubelet config had no
kubeReserved/systemReserved set, allowing pods to starve the kernel.
- Add vault provider to root terragrunt.hcl (generated providers.tf)
- Delete stacks/vault/vault_provider.tf (now in generated providers.tf)
- Add 124 variable declarations + 43 vault_kv_secret_v2 resources to
vault/main.tf to populate Vault KV at secret/<stack-name>
- Migrate 43 consuming stacks to read secrets from Vault KV via
data "vault_kv_secret_v2" instead of SOPS var-file
- Add dependency "vault" to all migrated stacks' terragrunt.hcl
- Complex types (maps/lists) stored as JSON strings, decoded with
jsondecode() in locals blocks
Bootstrap secrets (vault_root_token, vault_authentik_client_id,
vault_authentik_client_secret) remain in SOPS permanently.
Apply order: vault stack first (populates KV), then all others.
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.
Remove the module "xxx" { source = "./module" } indirection layer
from all 66 service stacks. Resources are now defined directly in
each stack's main.tf instead of through a wrapper module.
- Merge module/main.tf contents into stack main.tf
- Apply variable replacements (var.tier -> local.tiers.X, renamed vars)
- Fix shared module paths (one fewer ../ at each level)
- Move extra files/dirs (factory/, chart_values, subdirs) to stack root
- Update state files to strip module.<name>. prefix
- Update CLAUDE.md to reflect flat structure
Verified: terragrunt plan shows 0 add, 0 destroy across all stacks.
Move all 88 service modules (66 individual + 22 platform) from
modules/kubernetes/<service>/ into their corresponding stack directories:
- Service stacks: stacks/<service>/module/
- Platform stack: stacks/platform/modules/<service>/
This collocates module source code with its Terragrunt definition.
Only shared utility modules remain in modules/kubernetes/:
ingress_factory, setup_tls_secret, dockerhub_secret, oauth-proxy.
All cross-references to shared modules updated to use correct
relative paths. Verified with terragrunt run --all -- plan:
0 adds, 0 destroys across all 68 stacks.
Generated individual stack directories for all 66 services under stacks/.
Each stack has terragrunt.hcl (depends on platform) and main.tf (thin
wrapper calling existing module). Migrated all 64 active service states
from root terraform.tfstate to individual state files. Root state is now
empty. Verified with terragrunt plan on multiple stacks (no changes).
