The chart bundles nine independently versioned upstreams, and eight of them
were already pinned in values.yaml while only gluetun took its tag from
appVersion. That split had no upside: it made gluetun the one image Renovate
could not reach through the built-in helm-values manager, and it implied a
"main app" the stack does not have.
gluetun now carries gluetun.image.repository/tag like every other image, and
the StatefulSet renders it from there. No tag comes from appVersion any more.
Renovate picks all nine up through helm-values - the manager the repo already
relies on for sidecar images - and ci/renovate-bump-chart.sh bumps the chart
version with each update.
Consequences, all documented where they bite:
- renovate.json5 deliberately gets no app-version block for this chart. One
would either duplicate the helm-values updates or rewrite an appVersion that
selects no image. The absence is commented so it does not read as an
oversight.
- freesailarr leaves the change-app-version.yml choice list. That workflow
rewrites appVersion and republishes, which for this chart would change no
deployed image at all.
- appVersion becomes a hand-maintained marker for the gluetun line. Since
renovate-bump-chart.sh bumps the patch level on an unchanged appVersion, a
gluetun update has to be paired with a hand edit of appVersion, or the +up
suffix stops describing what the chart deploys. Noted in Chart.yaml,
values.yaml and README.
FIREWALL_INPUT_PORTS does not open the app ports inside a pod network. gluetun
detects the pod's own subnet and inserts an INPUT accept for it ahead of the
per-port rules, and every packet arriving at the pod IP matches that rule by
destination. Measured with the packet counters: 50 fresh requests moved the
subnet rule from 306 to 356 packets while every --dport rule stayed at 0 since
container start. A port that listens but is not in the list (gluetun's control
server on 8000) is reachable from another pod all the same.
The variable is kept - it is the explicit statement of which ports are meant to
be reachable, and the subnet detection is gluetun's behaviour rather than a
guarantee of this chart - but the comments no longer claim the traffic would be
dropped without it.
Second correction, same run: the /tmp/gluetun emptyDir fixed the "open ...
permission denied" failure, but gluetun also chowns the file, which needs
CAP_CHOWN. With all capabilities but NET_ADMIN dropped that logs "chown
/tmp/gluetun/ip: operation not permitted" on every VPN restart. The file is
written and the public IP is persisted, so this is a log line rather than a
failure, and granting CHOWN to silence it would widen the container's
capabilities for nothing. Noted where the mount is declared.
The runtime test contradicted the assumption behind the change. Kubernetes
turns every volumeMount into its own bind mount, and link()/rename() across two
mount points fails with EXDEV even when both sides are the same claim on the
same device: in the radarr container /downloads and /movies both report device
65025 and resolve to the same PV directory, yet linking between them fails with
"Cross-device link", while the identical link succeeds when the claim root is
mounted once and the categories are sub-directories under it.
It is not a property of subPath - two plain mounts of the same claim without
any subPath fail the same way, so the chart never supported cross-category
hardlinks and this change does not regress anything. But the comment claimed a
benefit the chart does not deliver, so it now states the measurement instead:
subPath buys the layout (one claim, one sub-directory per category), not
hardlinked imports. Getting those needs a single mount containing all
categories, which is a change to the mount layout rather than a values setting.
Three review changes to the freesailarr chart.
Ingress: the chart no longer derives hosts as <app>.<ingress.domain> from one
Ingress object. The global ingress.domain is gone; every app carries its own
<app>.ingress.host and renders its own Ingress <release>-<chart>-<app>-ingress
with its own TLS secret tls-<release>-<chart>-<app>-ingress. The hosts are
therefore independent and may live in unrelated domains. The host is required,
but the required() call sits inside the loop over the *enabled* app ingresses,
so switching an app's ingress off must not make the chart demand a host for it.
clusterIssuer, className and annotations stay global defaults and are
overridable per app; an explicitly set per-app value wins (nil check instead of
"default", so an empty override is honoured).
Media: media.<category>.subPath mounts a sub-directory of the claim instead of
its root, default null (claim root = previous behaviour). The same
existingClaim may back all three categories with different subPaths. That is
the point rather than cosmetics: Radarr and Sonarr import by moving, and a move
within one filesystem can be a hardlink instead of a copy - across volume
boundaries every import duplicates the file.
Services: the collective Service with named ports is replaced by one ClusterIP
Service <release>-<chart>-<app>-service per enabled app that listens on a port,
flaresolverr included; recyclarr serves no port in daemon mode and gets none.
Each ingress points at its own app's service. All containers share gluetun's
network namespace, so the services differ only in their port - they provide
stable per-app DNS names, not network separation. The StatefulSet's governing
serviceName no longer names a removed object.
gluetun logs "clearing public IP data: open /tmp/gluetun/ip: permission
denied" every few seconds and never persists its public IP. It creates
/tmp/gluetun with mode 0644, i.e. without the execute bit needed to enter
the directory; it runs as root, but with all capabilities except
NET_ADMIN dropped there is no DAC_OVERRIDE left to paper over the missing
bit. An emptyDir provides the path with usable permissions.
qBittorrent had no network interface configured, so libtorrent listened
and announced on every interface of the shared pod network namespace -
including eth0 (the pod IP) and loopback. gluetun's kill switch drops
exactly those packets, so trackers answered with "skipping tracker
announce (unreachable)" or timed out, no peers were found and torrents
stalled at 0 bytes in stalledDL. Beyond the stall this is a leak: without
the binding qBittorrent also listens on the pod IP, i.e. reachable past
the tunnel.
The setting only exists in the persisted config file, which qBittorrent
creates itself on first start, so an init container seeds it before the
app comes up. The edit is idempotent and preserves existing user
settings: it replaces the keys if present, inserts them into the
[BitTorrent] section if missing, and creates file or section if needed.
The interface is configurable via qbittorrent.networkInterface (default
tun0); emptying it drops the init container.
With readOnlyRootFilesystem the s6-overlay init cannot rewrite
/etc/passwd, so the containers silently kept the image's built-in
uid/gid 911 instead of the configured PUID/PGID (verified at runtime) -
breaking ownership on the shared media volumes. Drop the now-unneeded
/run and /tmp emptyDirs; deviation documented in values.yaml.
Short tunnel re-negotiations recover internally; a kubelet restart only
prolongs the outage while the kill switch already blocks all egress.
Liveness budget 60s, readiness stays at 30s.
Replace the upstream-recommended postStart hook, which runs
concurrently with the entrypoint and loses the race (observed: it
deleted the ip rule the restarted gluetun had just created, leaving the
container in a permanent CrashLoop behind the kill switch). A command
wrapper now removes stale table-51820 rules and the leftover tun
device deterministically before exec'ing /gluetun-entrypoint, covering
container restarts after unclean exits.
An uncleanly exited gluetun leaves its ip rule in the shared pod
network namespace; the restarted container then fails forever with
'adding ip rule 101: file exists' while the kill switch keeps blocking
all egress. Apply the upstream-recommended Kubernetes fix: a postStart
hook dropping table-51820 rules.
The image copies and patches the chromedriver binary to the hardcoded
path /app/chromedriver at startup (no env override exists) and writes
chromedriver caches under /app, so readOnlyRootFilesystem cannot hold;
deviation documented in values.yaml. Reverts the HOME=/tmp workaround,
which only covered the cache path, not the binary patching.
The image's home is /app on the read-only root filesystem, but
flaresolverr writes chromedriver caches under $HOME (/app/.local);
pointing HOME at the /tmp emptyDir keeps the root filesystem read-only.
The image declares its non-root user by name only, which the kubelet's
runAsNonRoot check cannot verify (CreateContainerConfigError); pinning
the uid/gid numerically satisfies the check.
The issue plan listed qmcgaw/gluetun:3.41.1, but the published tag is
v3.41.1. appVersion is the exact image tag per the style guide, so
appVersion becomes v3.41.1 and the chart version 1.0.0+upv3.41.1
(precedent: matrix-synapse, satisfactory, calibre-web-automated).
jklein