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Viktor Barzin cfd0f5bcc9 [mailserver] Add liveness/readiness TCP probes [ci skip]
## Context

The mailserver container (Postfix + Dovecot in one pod) had no liveness, readiness, or startup probes declared. If either daemon deadlocked or hung on a socket, Kubernetes had no way to detect it and restart. The only external canary was the email-roundtrip-monitor CronJob which runs on a 20-minute interval, giving a detection lag of 20-60 minutes — long enough for real delivery failures before an alert fires.

Tracked as bd code-ekf out of the mailserver probe audit. Both port 25 (SMTP) and port 993 (IMAPS) are cheap, reliable up-signals — the existing e2e probe already hits IMAPS, so TCP probes on those ports are a close proxy for user-visible service health without the cost of full SMTP/IMAP handshakes every 10s.

## This change

Adds a readiness_probe (TCP :25, initial_delay=30s, period=10s) and a liveness_probe (TCP :993, initial_delay=60s, period=60s, timeout=15s) to the mailserver deployment's primary container.

Design choices:
- **TCP over exec/HTTP**: the daemons do not expose HTTP health; exec probes would require shelling into the container with auth for SMTP/IMAP banner checks, which is both costly and flaky. TCP accept is sufficient — if postfix cannot accept a TCP connection on :25 it is unambiguously broken.
- **Split ports per probe**: readiness on :25 (the public SMTP surface — if this is down, external delivery is broken) and liveness on :993 (IMAPS, the other critical daemon — catches Dovecot deadlocks independently of Postfix).
- **30s readiness delay**: Postfix needs ~20-30s to warm up including chroot setup and DKIM key loading; probing earlier would cause bogus NotReady cycles on deploy.
- **60s liveness delay + 60s period + 15s timeout**: generous so transient blips (brief CPU spike, RBL timeout, slow NFS unmount during rotation) do not trigger a restart loop. With failure_threshold=3 (default), a real deadlock is detected in ~3 minutes; false positives on transient load are suppressed.
- **No startup_probe**: the 60s liveness initial_delay is enough cover for the warmup window; adding a startup probe would be redundant machinery.

## What is NOT in this change

- No startup_probe (liveness initial_delay_seconds=60 handles warmup)
- No exec-based probes (banner-check probes are out of scope and not needed)
- No changes to the opendkim or other sidecars
- Pre-existing drift in other stacks (dawarich namespace label, owntracks dawarich-hook wiring) is deliberately left out — those are separate workstreams

## Test Plan

### Automated

Applied via `tg apply -target=kubernetes_deployment.mailserver` before this commit. Current pod state:

```
$ kubectl get pod -n mailserver -l app=mailserver
NAME                          READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
mailserver-6c6bf77ffb-w7nl5   2/2     Running   0          2m26s

$ kubectl describe pod -n mailserver -l app=mailserver | grep -E "(Liveness|Readiness|Restart Count|Status:|Ready:)"
Status:               Running
    Ready:          True
    Restart Count:  0
    Ready:          True
    Restart Count:  0
    Liveness:   tcp-socket :993 delay=60s timeout=15s period=60s #success=1 #failure=3
    Readiness:  tcp-socket :25 delay=30s timeout=1s period=10s #success=1 #failure=3
```

Pod has run >120s (two full liveness cycles) with RESTARTS=0 and Ready=True.

### Manual Verification

1. Confirm probes are declared on the live pod:
   ```
   kubectl describe pod -n mailserver -l app=mailserver | grep -E "(Liveness|Readiness)"
   ```
   Expected: `Liveness: tcp-socket :993 ...` and `Readiness: tcp-socket :25 ...`

2. Confirm pod stays Ready under normal load for 5+ minutes:
   ```
   kubectl get pod -n mailserver -l app=mailserver -w
   ```
   Expected: RESTARTS stays at 0, READY stays at 2/2.

3. (Optional) Failure-simulate by dropping :993 inside the pod and observing liveness failure + restart within ~3 minutes (3 × period_seconds).

## Reproduce locally

1. `cd infra/stacks/mailserver`
2. `tg plan -target=kubernetes_deployment.mailserver`
3. Expected: no drift (or only the probe additions if rolling forward a stale state)
4. `kubectl get pod -n mailserver -l app=mailserver` — pod Ready, RESTARTS=0
5. `kubectl describe pod -n mailserver -l app=mailserver | grep -E "(Liveness|Readiness)"` — both probes present

Closes: code-ekf

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