matrix-synapse: restart the delegation nginx when its ConfigMap changes

The delegation nginx serves the .well-known documents from an nginx.conf that
is rendered from ingress.domain and mounted with subPath. Changing the domain
rewrote the ConfigMap but left the running pod untouched: the pod template was
unchanged, so nothing rolled, and the kubelet never refreshes a subPath mount.
The pod kept serving the old delegation while looking perfectly healthy - the
failure mode from #82.

The pod template now carries checksum/config over the rendered delegation
ConfigMap, so a changed nginx.conf rolls the deployment.

Also documents the limit that remains for homeserver.yaml: it comes from a
1Password-backed Secret, whose content Helm never sees, and the operator's own
auto-restart only ever covers Deployments - not this StatefulSet. That case
needs a manual rollout restart, which the values.yaml now says out loud.

Major bump: runtime behavior changes - a delegation config change now costs a
restart of the nginx pod (a few seconds, no persistent state).
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: matrix-synapse
description: A Helm chart to deploy a Matrix Synapse server on Kubernetes
icon: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/element-hq/synapse/develop/docs/favicon.png
type: application
version: 5.0.0+upv1.159.0
version: 6.0.0+upv1.159.0
appVersion: "v1.159.0"
maintainers:
- name: jklein
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ spec:
metadata:
labels:
app: {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-delegation-nginx-deployment
annotations:
# Hash of the rendered delegation ConfigMap: a changed nginx.conf
# changes the pod template and thus rolls the pods. Without it the
# running nginx keeps serving the old .well-known documents - the
# config is mounted with subPath (never refreshed by the kubelet) and
# nginx reads it only at start.
checksum/config: {{ include (print $.Template.BasePath "/matrix-delegation-nginx.configmap.yaml") . | sha256sum }}
spec:
automountServiceAccountToken: false
securityContext:
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@@ -5,6 +5,18 @@
scaleDown: false
secrets:
# homeserver.yaml is mounted into the Synapse StatefulSet from the Secret the
# 1Password operator materializes from this item.
#
# Known limitation (#82): a change to the item in the vault does NOT restart
# Synapse. Helm cannot hash the content (it never sees it - the operator fills
# the Secret in-cluster after rendering), so the checksum/config mechanism the
# delegation nginx uses does not apply here. The operator's own
# "operator.1password.io/auto-restart" annotation is no help either: it only
# ever restarts Deployments, and this workload is a StatefulSet (verified
# against onepassword-operator 1.12.0). After changing the item, restart
# Synapse by hand:
# kubectl rollout restart statefulset <release>-matrix-synapse-sfs
configSecretRef: null
matrix: