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Viktor Barzin b28c76e371 [infra] Wire drift detection to Pushgateway + alert on stale/unaddressed drift
## Context

Wave 7 of the state-drift consolidation plan. The drift-detection pipeline
(`.woodpecker/drift-detection.yml`) already ran terragrunt plan on every
stack daily and Slack-posted a summary, but its output was ephemeral —
nothing persisted in Prometheus, so there was no historical view of which
stacks drift, when, or for how long. Following the convergence work in
waves 1–6 (168 KYVERNO_LIFECYCLE_V1 markers, 4 stacks adopted, Phase 4
mysql cleanup), the baseline is clean enough that *new* drift should
stand out. That only works if we have observability.

## This change

### `.woodpecker/drift-detection.yml`

Enhances the existing cron pipeline to push a batched set of metrics to
the in-cluster Pushgateway (`prometheus-prometheus-pushgateway.monitoring:9091`)
after each run:

| Metric | Kind | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| `drift_stack_state{stack}` | gauge, 0/1/2 | 0=clean, 1=drift, 2=error |
| `drift_stack_first_seen{stack}` | gauge (unix seconds) | Preserved across runs for drift-age tracking |
| `drift_stack_age_hours{stack}` | gauge (hours) | Computed from `first_seen` |
| `drift_stack_count` | gauge (count) | Total drifted stacks this run |
| `drift_error_count` | gauge (count) | Total plan-errored stacks |
| `drift_clean_count` | gauge (count) | Total clean stacks |
| `drift_detection_last_run_timestamp` | gauge (unix seconds) | Pipeline heartbeat |

First-seen preservation: on each drift hit, the pipeline queries
Pushgateway for the existing `drift_stack_first_seen{stack=<stack>}`
value. If present and non-zero, reuse it; otherwise stamp with `NOW`.
That means age-hours grows monotonically until the stack goes clean
(at which point state=0 resets first_seen by omission).

Atomic batched push: all metrics for a run are POST'd in a single
HTTP request. Pushgateway doesn't support atomic multi-metric updates
natively, but batching at the pipeline layer prevents half-updated
state if the curl is interrupted mid-run (the second call would just
fail the entire run and alert on `DriftDetectionStale`).

### `stacks/monitoring/.../prometheus_chart_values.tpl`

New `Infrastructure Drift` alert group with three rules:

- **DriftDetectionStale** (warning, 30m): fires if
  `drift_detection_last_run_timestamp` is older than 26h. Gives a 2h
  grace window on top of the 24h cron so transient Pushgateway or
  cluster unavailability doesn't false-alarm. Guards against the
  pipeline silently failing or the cron not firing.
- **DriftUnaddressed** (warning, 1h): fires if any stack has
  `drift_stack_age_hours > 72` — three days of unacknowledged drift.
  Three days is long enough to absorb weekends + typical review cycles
  but short enough to force follow-up before drift compounds.
- **DriftStacksMany** (warning, 30m): fires if `drift_stack_count > 10`
  in a single run. Sudden wide drift usually signals systemic causes
  (new admission webhook, provider version bump, cluster-wide CRD
  upgrade) rather than individual configuration errors, and the alert
  body nudges toward that diagnosis.

Applied to `stacks/monitoring` this session — 1 helm_release changed,
no other drift surfaced.

## What is NOT in this change

- The Wave 7 **GitHub issue auto-filer** — the full plan included
  filing a `drift-detected` issue per drifted stack. Deferred because
  it requires wiring the `file-issue` skill's convention + a gh token
  exposed to Woodpecker, both of which need separate setup. The Slack
  alert covers the same need at lower fidelity in the meantime.
- The Wave 7 **PG drift_history table** — would provide the richest
  historical view but adds a new DB schema dependency for a CI
  pipeline. Pushgateway + Prometheus handle the 72h window we care
  about; PG history is nice-to-have for quarterly reviews.
- Auto-apply marker (`# DRIFT_AUTO_APPLY_OK`) — premature until the
  baseline has been stable for a few cycles.

Follow-ups tracked: file dedicated beads items for GH-issue filer + PG
drift_history.

## Verification

```
$ cd stacks/monitoring && ../../scripts/tg apply --non-interactive
Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 1 changed, 0 destroyed.

# After next cron run (cron expr: "drift-detection" in Woodpecker UI):
$ curl -s http://prometheus-prometheus-pushgateway.monitoring:9091/metrics \
    | grep -c '^drift_'
# expect a positive number
```

## Reproduce locally
1. `git pull`
2. Check Prometheus rules: `curl -sk https://prometheus.viktorbarzin.lan/api/v1/rules | jq '.data.groups[] | select(.name == "Infrastructure Drift")'`
3. Manually trigger the Woodpecker cron and watch Pushgateway populate.

Refs: Wave 7 umbrella (code-hl1)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This repo contains my infra-as-code sources.

My infrastructure is built using Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD is done using Woodpecker CI.

Read more by visiting my website: https://viktorbarzin.me

Documentation

Full architecture documentation is available in docs/ — covering networking, storage, security, monitoring, secrets, CI/CD, databases, and more.

Adding a New User (Admin)

Adding a new namespace-owner to the cluster requires three steps — no code changes needed.

1. Authentik Group Assignment

In the Authentik admin UI, add the user to:

  • kubernetes-namespace-owners group (grants OIDC group claim for K8s RBAC)
  • Headscale Users group (if they need VPN access)

2. Vault KV Entry

Add a JSON entry to secret/platformk8s_users key in Vault:

"username": {
  "role": "namespace-owner",
  "email": "user@example.com",
  "namespaces": ["username"],
  "domains": ["myapp"],
  "quota": {
    "cpu_requests": "2",
    "memory_requests": "4Gi",
    "memory_limits": "8Gi",
    "pods": "20"
  }
}
  • username key must match the user's Forgejo username (for Woodpecker admin access)
  • namespaces — K8s namespaces to create and grant admin access to
  • domains — subdomains under viktorbarzin.me for Cloudflare DNS records
  • quota — resource limits per namespace (defaults shown above)

3. Apply Stacks

vault login -method=oidc

cd stacks/vault && terragrunt apply --non-interactive
# Creates: namespace, Vault policy, identity entity, K8s deployer role

cd ../platform && terragrunt apply --non-interactive
# Creates: RBAC bindings, ResourceQuota, TLS secret, DNS records

cd ../woodpecker && terragrunt apply --non-interactive
# Adds user to Woodpecker admin list

What Gets Auto-Generated

Resource Stack
Kubernetes namespace vault
Vault policy (namespace-owner-{user}) vault
Vault identity entity + OIDC alias vault
K8s deployer Role + Vault K8s role vault
RBAC RoleBinding (namespace admin) platform
RBAC ClusterRoleBinding (cluster read-only) platform
ResourceQuota platform
TLS secret in namespace platform
Cloudflare DNS records platform
Woodpecker admin access woodpecker

New User Onboarding

If you've been added as a namespace-owner, follow these steps to get started.

1. Join the VPN

# Install Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/download
tailscale login --login-server https://headscale.viktorbarzin.me
# Send the registration URL to Viktor, wait for approval
ping 10.0.20.100  # verify connectivity

2. Install Tools

Run the setup script to install kubectl, kubelogin, Vault CLI, Terraform, and Terragrunt:

# macOS
bash <(curl -fsSL https://k8s-portal.viktorbarzin.me/setup/script?os=mac)

# Linux
bash <(curl -fsSL https://k8s-portal.viktorbarzin.me/setup/script?os=linux)

3. Authenticate

# Log into Vault (opens browser for SSO)
vault login -method=oidc

# Test kubectl (opens browser for OIDC login)
kubectl get pods -n YOUR_NAMESPACE

4. Deploy Your First App

# Clone the infra repo
git clone https://github.com/ViktorBarzin/infra.git && cd infra

# Copy the stack template
cp -r stacks/_template stacks/myapp
mv stacks/myapp/main.tf.example stacks/myapp/main.tf

# Edit main.tf — replace all <placeholders>

# Store secrets in Vault
vault kv put secret/YOUR_USERNAME/myapp DB_PASSWORD=secret123

# Submit a PR
git checkout -b feat/myapp
git add stacks/myapp/
git commit -m "add myapp stack"
git push -u origin feat/myapp

After review and merge, an admin runs cd stacks/myapp && terragrunt apply.

5. Set Up CI/CD (Optional)

Create .woodpecker.yml in your app's Forgejo repo:

steps:
  - name: build
    image: woodpeckerci/plugin-docker-buildx
    settings:
      repo: YOUR_DOCKERHUB_USER/myapp
      tag: ["${CI_PIPELINE_NUMBER}", "latest"]
      username:
        from_secret: dockerhub-username
      password:
        from_secret: dockerhub-token
      platforms: linux/amd64

  - name: deploy
    image: hashicorp/vault:1.18.1
    commands:
      - export VAULT_ADDR=http://vault-active.vault.svc.cluster.local:8200
      - export VAULT_TOKEN=$(vault write -field=token auth/kubernetes/login
          role=ci jwt=$(cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token))
      - KUBE_TOKEN=$(vault write -field=service_account_token
          kubernetes/creds/YOUR_NAMESPACE-deployer
          kubernetes_namespace=YOUR_NAMESPACE)
      - kubectl --server=https://kubernetes.default.svc
          --token=$KUBE_TOKEN
          --certificate-authority=/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
          -n YOUR_NAMESPACE set image deployment/myapp
          myapp=YOUR_DOCKERHUB_USER/myapp:${CI_PIPELINE_NUMBER}

Useful Commands

# Check your pods
kubectl get pods -n YOUR_NAMESPACE

# View quota usage
kubectl describe resourcequota -n YOUR_NAMESPACE

# Store/read secrets
vault kv put secret/YOUR_USERNAME/myapp KEY=value
vault kv get secret/YOUR_USERNAME/myapp

# Get a short-lived K8s deploy token
vault write kubernetes/creds/YOUR_NAMESPACE-deployer \
  kubernetes_namespace=YOUR_NAMESPACE

Important Rules

  • All changes go through Terraform — never kubectl apply/edit/patch directly
  • Never put secrets in code — use Vault: vault kv put secret/YOUR_USERNAME/...
  • Always use a PR — never push directly to master
  • Docker images: build for linux/amd64, use versioned tags (not :latest)

git-crypt setup

To decrypt the secrets, you need to setup git-crypt.

  1. Install git-crypt.
  2. Setup gpg keys on the machine
  3. git-crypt unlock

This will unlock the secrets and will lock them on commit