The static nginx stub at chrome.viktorbarzin.me wasn't useful for
debugging anti-bot interactions. Swap it for a live noVNC HTML5 view
of the headed Chromium session: x11vnc taps Xvfb's :99 over localhost
TCP (added `-listen tcp -ac` to Xvfb), websockify wraps it as a WS
endpoint, and noVNC's vendored web client serves it on :6080.
The ingress chain is unchanged — chrome.viktorbarzin.me stays
Authentik-gated, dns_type=proxied, port 3000 (the Playwright WS) stays
internal-only behind the NetworkPolicy + token. Custom image
`registry.viktorbarzin.me/chrome-service-novnc:v4` (ubuntu:24.04 +
x11vnc + websockify + novnc apt packages) needs imagePullSecrets, so
also added registry-credentials reference to the deployment spec.
x11vnc flags: `-noshm -noxdamage -nopw -shared -forever`. SHM is
disabled because each container has its own /dev/shm so the X server
can't grant access; XDAMAGE isn't compiled into the noble Xvfb. The
sidecar entrypoint waits up to 30s for both Xvfb (:6099) and x11vnc
(:5900) to bind before exec'ing websockify.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The f1-stream verifier's in-process headless Chromium kept tripping
hmembeds' disable-devtool.js Performance detector (CDP latency on
console.log vs console.table) and getting redirected to google.com.
This adds a single-replica chrome-service stack running Playwright
launch-server under Xvfb so callers can connect via WS+token to a
shared headed browser. f1-stream's _ensure_browser now prefers
chromium.connect(CHROME_WS_URL/CHROME_WS_TOKEN) and adds a vendored
stealth init script (webdriver/plugins/languages/Permissions/WebGL
spoofs + querySelector hijack to disarm disable-devtool-auto) on
every new context. Falls back to in-process headless if the env
vars aren't set.
Encrypted PVC for profile + npm cache, NetworkPolicy to TCP/3000
gated by client-namespace label, 6h tar.gz backup CronJob to NFS,
Authentik-gated nginx sidecar at chrome.viktorbarzin.me for human
liveness checks. Image pinned to playwright:v1.48.0-noble in
lockstep with the Python client's playwright==1.48.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
