{{- $replicas := include "paperless-ngx.replicas" (dict "scaleDown" .Values.scaleDown "replicas" .Values.paperless.replicas) -}} {{- $startup := fromYaml (include "paperless-ngx.startupProbe" .Values.paperless.startupProbe) -}} {{- $barcodes := fromYaml (include "paperless-ngx.barcodes" .Values.paperless.files.barcodes) -}} {{- $pod := printf "%s-%s-sfs-0" .Release.Name .Chart.Name -}} {{- $scripts := .Values.paperless.scripts | default dict -}} {{- $valkeySub := (.Values.valkeySubchart | default dict).enabled -}} {{- $valkeyAuth := ((.Values.valkey | default dict).secrets | default dict).authSecretRef -}} {{- $valkeySvc := printf "%s-valkey-service" .Release.Name -}} {{- $pre := default (list) $scripts.preConsumptionScripts -}} {{- $post := default (list) $scripts.postConsumptionScripts -}} {{- $cron := fromYaml (include "paperless-ngx.cron.scheduling" .Values.smbConnection.cron) -}} {{- $cronPinned := $cron.pinToServerNode -}} {{- $cronDeadline := include "paperless-ngx.formatNumber" $cron.activeDeadlineSeconds -}} {{- $httpRoute := .Values.httpRoute | default dict -}} {{- $hostnames := $httpRoute.hostnames | default list -}} {{- if not $hostnames -}} {{- $hostnames = list .Values.ingress.domain -}} {{- end -}} Paperless-ngx {{ .Chart.AppVersion }} — release {{ .Release.Name }} in namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }}. {{- if .Values.ingress.enabled }} ACCESS — INGRESS MODE (ingress.enabled: true, httpRoute.enabled: false) https://{{ .Values.ingress.domain }} The certificate is requested by cert-manager through the "{{ .Values.ingress.clusterIssuer }}" cluster issuer; until it has been issued the browser shows a warning. Follow it with kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} get certificate tls-{{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-ingress ingress.domain is more than the Ingress host: the chart also hands it to the container as PAPERLESS_URL ("https://{{ .Values.ingress.domain }}"), and that is the only origin this release declares. While DNS or the certificate are still missing: kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} port-forward svc/{{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-service 8000:80 Pages then load over http://localhost:8000, but expect the login POST to be refused as a CSRF failure — that origin is not PAPERLESS_URL. Forward the port to look around, use the domain to log in, or add PAPERLESS_CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS through paperless.env for as long as you need it. Changing ingress.domain later changes PAPERLESS_URL with it, and the pods have to restart before they notice. {{- else if $httpRoute.enabled }} ACCESS — GATEWAY MODE (httpRoute.enabled: true, ingress.enabled: false) {{- range $hostnames }} https://{{ . }} {{- end }} This release renders an HTTPRoute ({{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-httproute) and NOTHING else of the routing path — no Gateway, no class, no Certificate. Three things therefore belong to the cluster and not to this chart, and if any is missing the address above does not answer: 1. The Gateway-API CRDs. Without them this install would have failed. 2. The Gateway named in httpRoute.parentRefs {{- range $httpRoute.parentRefs }} {{ .name }}{{ if .namespace }} in namespace {{ .namespace }}{{ end }}{{ if .sectionName }}, listener {{ .sectionName }}{{ end }} {{- end }} must exist AND its listener must allow routes from this namespace ({{ .Release.Namespace }}) in allowedRoutes. A rejected attachment shows up only in the route's status: kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} get httproute {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-httproute -o yaml Read status.parents[].conditions — "Accepted: True" and "ResolvedRefs: True" is a working attachment. An empty status means no controller has looked at the route at all. 3. The TLS certificate for the hostname, on the Gateway's listener. ingress.clusterIssuer is NOT used in this mode and is not required: the chart renders no Certificate, so there is no tls-{{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-ingress secret and nothing for cert-manager to do. ingress.domain is still required in this mode and is {{ .Values.ingress.domain }}: it is also PAPERLESS_URL ("https://{{ .Values.ingress.domain }}"), the only origin this release declares to Django, and the route does not replace it. If you set httpRoute.hostnames to a name ingress.domain does not carry, the route publishes one host while Django trusts another — pages load and every login POST is refused as a CSRF failure. Set both together, and remember the pods have to restart before they notice a changed domain. YOUR WEB-UI UPLOAD LIMIT IS NOT paperless.files.maxUploadFileSize ANY MORE. That value ({{ .Values.paperless.files.maxUploadFileSize }}) is NOT ENFORCED in this mode. The chart renders it into nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size, and the Gateway API has NO counterpart — it knows no body size at all, that is implementation-specific policy — so this chart deliberately renders no policy object, which would bind it to one implementation. Whatever limit the Gateway enforces caps uploads through the web UI, and the symptom is the proxy's error rather than a message from paperless. Set it at the Gateway or through its implementation's own policy object, next to the Gateway and not here. The consume directory is unaffected: it passes no proxy and has no size limit in any mode, so a document too large for the web UI still gets in that way. ingress.annotations is inert in this mode for the same reason — the Gateway API has no annotation channel. {{- else }} ACCESS — NEITHER INGRESS NOR HTTPROUTE ingress.enabled and httpRoute.enabled are both false, so this release is not published: no Ingress, no HTTPRoute and no certificate, and ingress.clusterIssuer is not needed. ingress.domain IS still required and is {{ .Values.ingress.domain }}: the chart hands it to the container as PAPERLESS_URL ("https://{{ .Values.ingress.domain }}"), the only origin this release declares. Reach the instance inside the cluster with kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} port-forward svc/{{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-service 8000:80 Pages then load over http://localhost:8000, but expect the login POST to be refused as a CSRF failure — that origin is not PAPERLESS_URL. Add PAPERLESS_CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS through paperless.env for as long as you need it. paperless.files.maxUploadFileSize ({{ .Values.paperless.files.maxUploadFileSize }}) does nothing in this mode: it exists only as an ingress-nginx annotation. {{- end }} {{ if eq $replicas "0" }} SCALED TO ZERO {{ if .Values.scaleDown }}scaleDown: true{{ else }}paperless.replicas: 0{{ end }} — the StatefulSet runs with replicas: 0, so the URL above does not answer until you set it back and upgrade again. PVCs, Secrets, Service{{ if .Values.ingress.enabled }} and Ingress stay in place, so neither the documents nor the certificate are touched.{{ else if $httpRoute.enabled }} and HTTPRoute stay in place, so the documents are not touched — the route then resolves to a Service with no endpoints and the Gateway answers its own error.{{ else }} stay in place, so the documents are not touched.{{ end }} {{- if .Values.smbConnection.enabled }} {{- if .Values.scaleDown }} scaleDown also suspends the SMB consume CronJob, so nothing is moved off the share while the release is down. {{- else }} The SMB consume CronJob is NOT suspended by this: only scaleDown sets suspend: true. It keeps moving PDFs off the share onto a consume volume that nothing is reading — they are gone from the share and not yet in paperless. {{- end }} {{- end }} {{ end }} WHAT THE 1PASSWORD ITEMS MUST CONTAIN The chart creates OnePasswordItem CRs that carry an item path only; the operator turns each into a Kubernetes Secret whose keys are the FIELD NAMES of the item. Those names are decided here and appear nowhere in 1Password, so they are exactly what you would otherwise read out of the templates. A missing field does not fail the install — the release goes through and the pod then hangs in CreateContainerConfigError naming the key it could not find (kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} describe pod {{ $pod }}). secrets.databaseSecretRef → {{ .Values.secrets.databaseSecretRef }} Secret {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-db-secret, fields: server database host — the field is called "server", not "host" port database port database database name username database user password database password The engine is pinned to postgresql; there is no value to change it. secrets.redisSecretRef → {{ .Values.secrets.redisSecretRef }} Secret {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-redis-secret, fields: redis-connection-url e.g. redis://:PASSWORD@redis:6379 key-prefix PAPERLESS_REDIS_PREFIX — set this per release when several releases share one Redis, or two instances will consume each other's task queue auth-conf the COMPLETE line "requirepass PASSWORD", not a bare password. Read by the bundled Valkey only, so it is {{ if $valkeySub }}REQUIRED for this release — see the Valkey section below{{ else }}unused while valkeySubchart.enabled is false, and the item needs it only once you switch the bundled Valkey on{{ end }}. secrets.paperlessSecretRef → {{ .Values.secrets.paperlessSecretRef }} Secret {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-secret, fields: username used TWICE: as PAPERLESS_ADMIN_USER and as PAPERLESS_ADMIN_MAIL, so it has to work as both a login name and an address password PAPERLESS_ADMIN_PASSWORD paperless-secret-key Django's SECRET_KEY PAPERLESS_ADMIN_* is only acted on while that superuser does not exist yet. Editing the password field after the first start changes nothing; reset it in the pod instead: kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} exec -it {{ $pod }} -- \ python3 /usr/src/paperless/src/manage.py changepassword {{- if .Values.smbConnection.enabled }} secrets.smbConnectionSecretRef → {{ .Values.secrets.smbConnectionSecretRef }} Secret {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-smb-secret. This one is not read by any pod: it is wired into the PersistentVolume as nodeStageSecretRef, and the smb.csi.k8s.io driver reads the fields itself — usually username and password, plus domain where the server wants one. The chart names no key here, so a wrong field name surfaces as a mount failure on the CronJob's pod — a describe on that pod, never a missing variable. {{- end }} {{- /* The warning that used to stand here - "secrets.oidcSecretRef IS SET AND IS READ BY NOTHING" - is gone with the value itself (13.0.0, Gitea #11). It cannot be printed any more and would not be reached: the key is out of values.schema.json too, so a release that still sets it fails BEFORE any template renders, with "additional properties 'oidcSecretRef' not allowed". The fix is to delete the key; values.yaml says why it is not coming back. */}} CHANGING A SECRET'S CONTENT RESTARTS NOTHING Helm never sees the content of a OnePasswordItem, so it cannot hash it, and this chart carries no checksum annotation at all. Pointing a *SecretRef at a DIFFERENT item rolls the pods; editing a value INSIDE the same item does not — the operator updates the Kubernetes Secret while the running container keeps the old value in its environment. After such a rotation: kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} rollout restart statefulset/{{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-sfs Rotating paperless-secret-key logs every session out. Rotating the database fields points the release at whatever that new endpoint contains, empty or not, and the next start migrates it. POSTGRES IS NOT PART OF THIS CHART{{ if not $valkeySub }}, AND NEITHER IS REDIS{{ end }} {{ if $valkeySub }}The database{{ else }}Both{{ end }} ha{{ if $valkeySub }}s{{ else }}ve{{ end }} to exist and be reachable before the first start.{{ if not $valkeySub }} They fail in opposite ways, and only one of them is loud:{{ end }} - Without the database paperless does not come up at all. All three probes ask for "/" on port 8000, so you get no useful error: the pod never turns Ready and the startup probe kills it after {{ $startup.periodSeconds }}s x {{ $startup.failureThreshold }} = {{ mul $startup.periodSeconds $startup.failureThreshold }}s. Read the container log, not the pod events. - Without Redis the web UI comes up and looks healthy. Redis is the Celery broker: consumption, OCR, the scheduled tasks and the index updates simply never run, and documents dropped into the consume directory stay there. A wrong redis-connection-url costs you the whole processing side and nothing turns red.{{ if $valkeySub }} This release brings its own Valkey (below), so the address is in your hands — which is exactly why the url is the one thing to check first.{{ end }} {{ if $valkeySub }} THIS RELEASE BRINGS ITS OWN VALKEY — ONE MANDATORY STEP IS IN THE VAULT valkeySubchart.enabled is true, so the release contains a Valkey of its own: StatefulSet {{ .Release.Name }}-valkey-sfs, Service {{ $valkeySvc }}, its own NetworkPolicy, and a PersistentVolumeClaim (persistence is on — this is a queue, see below). 1. THE CONNECTION URL MUST POINT AT IT. This is a step, not a hint: the url lives in the vault and the chart cannot write it. In the item "{{ .Values.secrets.redisSecretRef }}", field redis-connection-url: redis://:PASSWORD@{{ $valkeySvc }}:6379 Pointing elsewhere is not an error anywhere: paperless talks to that other Redis, the Valkey next to it runs along unused, and nothing reports it. 2. THE PASSWORD IS IN THE ITEM TWICE — once inside redis-connection-url and once in the "requirepass PASSWORD" line of auth-conf. Both are the same password, and a rotation has to touch BOTH fields. Change only one and paperless can no longer authenticate against its own Valkey. After any such change, restart both workloads by hand (Helm cannot see inside a 1Password item, so nothing rolls automatically): kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} rollout restart statefulset/{{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-sfs kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} rollout restart statefulset/{{ .Release.Name }}-valkey-sfs 3. AUTH-CONF IS A CONFIGURATION LINE, NOT A PASSWORD. The Valkey mounts the field as a file and includes it, so the password never reaches a process list or an environment variable. An init container refuses to start the pod unless a line beginning with "requirepass " is really there — without that check a typo would leave a Valkey running with NO password and looking perfectly healthy. {{- if and $valkeyAuth (ne ($valkeyAuth | toString) ($.Values.secrets.redisSecretRef | toString)) }} NOTE: valkey.secrets.authSecretRef points at a DIFFERENT item than secrets.redisSecretRef: valkey.secrets.authSecretRef → {{ $valkeyAuth }} secrets.redisSecretRef → {{ .Values.secrets.redisSecretRef }} That is supported and may well be deliberate — the bundled Valkey is then fed from its own item. It is only worth knowing that you now keep TWO items in step: the password in auth-conf over there and the one inside redis-connection-url here have to stay identical. {{- end }} BOTH ITEMS' FIELDS LAND IN BOTH SECRETS. A OnePasswordItem materializes every field of the item it names, so with one shared item the Valkey's Secret also carries redis-connection-url and key-prefix, and this chart's redis Secret also carries auth-conf. Untidy and harmless — nothing mounts a field it does not reference. It is mentioned so it does not get "cleaned up". IT IS CONFIGURED AS A QUEUE, and that is a decision: persistence on, eviction policy "noeviction". PAPERLESS_REDIS is the Celery broker, so its contents are work that must not vanish — "allkeys-lru" would evict across the whole keyspace and a backlog of waiting tasks is exactly what LRU reads as cold. The price: the same instance also serves the Django cache, so when it fills, writes are REFUSED rather than old keys dropped — new tasks included. The answer is to give it more memory (valkey.valkey.resources.requests.memory), never to switch the policy. values.yaml argues this in full. SCALEDOWN DOES NOT REACH IT. scaleDown: true scales paperless to zero and leaves the Valkey running, which is the right way round for a queue: the backlog stays where it is. {{- end }} THE FIRST START MIGRATES, AND THE STARTUP PROBE IS THE CLOCK Every start runs the database migrations before the server answers, and the first start after an upgrade to 3.x also rebuilds the search index from scratch (Whoosh → Tantivy). The startup probe grants {{ $startup.failureThreshold }} x {{ $startup.periodSeconds }}s = {{ mul $startup.periodSeconds $startup.failureThreshold }}s before the kubelet restarts the container — and a restart lands in the middle of a migration. On a large archive, raise paperless.startupProbe.failureThreshold BEFORE the app-version jump, not after the crash loop has started. Migrations are one-way. "helm rollback" puts the old image back on a database the new one has already rewritten. Back up before bumping the app version, and back up both halves — the metadata lives in Postgres, the documents on the PVC. HOW DOCUMENTS GET IN Everything in /usr/src/paperless/consume is picked up by the consumer. That directory is its own volume, {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-consume-volume-claim, and its size is NOT paperless.files.storage: the claim is hardcoded to 1Gi (ReadWriteMany) in the template, and both PVCs are hardcoded to storage class "longhorn". paperless.files.storage ({{ .Values.paperless.files.storage }}) sizes only the main volume, which holds data/, media/ and export/ as subPaths. {{- if .Values.ingress.enabled }} Uploads through the web UI take the second route and pass the Ingress, where the chart sets a body-size cap of {{ .Values.paperless.files.maxUploadFileSize }} (paperless.files.maxUploadFileSize, rendered into both the nginx.ingress and nginx.org annotations). A larger file is rejected by the ingress controller with a 413 before paperless ever sees it — the consume directory has no such limit. {{- else if $httpRoute.enabled }} Uploads through the web UI take the second route, and in GATEWAY MODE paperless.files.maxUploadFileSize ({{ .Values.paperless.files.maxUploadFileSize }}) is NOT ENFORCED: it exists only as an ingress-nginx annotation and the Gateway API has no body-size field, so the cap is whatever the Gateway enforces. The consume directory has no limit in either mode. {{- else }} Uploads through the web UI take the second route, but nothing publishes this release and paperless.files.maxUploadFileSize ({{ .Values.paperless.files.maxUploadFileSize }}) is rendered nowhere: it exists only as an ingress-nginx annotation. The consume directory has no limit either way. {{- end }} {{- if .Values.smbConnection.enabled }} SMB CONSUME IS ON — AND IT MOVES ONLY TOP-LEVEL PDFs CronJob {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-consume-cronjob, schedule "{{ .Values.smbConnection.cronJob }}", mounts //{{ .Values.smbConnection.server }} and runs, once per firing: find /mnt/smb -maxdepth 1 -name "*.pdf" → mv into the consume volume Read that literally. Anything in a SUBDIRECTORY of the share is never touched, and anything that is not *.pdf — an image, an .eml, a .PDF in capitals — stays on the share forever with nothing reporting it. It is a move, not a copy: once the job has run, the share no longer holds the file and the only copy is on the consume volume. The schedule is quoted on the way into the manifest since 13.0.0, so any cron notation works — one starting with "*" or an "@daily" macro included. Before that such a schedule aborted the render with a YAML parse error pointing at the template, and the advice here was to avoid it; if you are carrying a workaround schedule from that era ("5,20,35,50 * * * *" instead of every 15 minutes), you can write what you meant now. {{- if $cronPinned }} PLACEMENT: the mover runs on the NODE OF THE STATEFULSET POD, via a required podAffinity on its label (Gitea #101). Without that it lands anywhere, and because it mounts the consume volume — RWX, from Longhorn — the kubelet of the StatefulSet's node then retries the mount every two minutes with "no Pending workload pods for volume ... to be mounted". It was measured at 291 such events in 10 hours. THE PRICE, and it is the one thing to know before scaling down: with no StatefulSet pod the mover CANNOT BE SCHEDULED. scaleDown: true suspends this CronJob outright, so that case is covered — but paperless.replicas: 0 with SMB still on is not, and there the job fails once per schedule after activeDeadlineSeconds ({{ $cronDeadline }}s) with reason DeadlineExceeded. That is deliberate: a bounded, visible failure rather than a Pending pod per schedule that nobody sees. Switch smbConnection.cron.pinToServerNode to false to go back to unpinned placement — and to the mount errors. What the pinning does NOT fix: the consume volume stays RWX with a share-manager behind it. Co-locating the two consumers removes the cross-node mount, not the second consumer. {{- else }} PLACEMENT IS OFF (smbConnection.cron.pinToServerNode: false). The mover will be scheduled wherever there is room, and when that is not the node of the StatefulSet pod, Longhorn refuses to mount the shared RWX consume volume there: the kubelet of the StatefulSet's node retries every two minutes with "no Pending workload pods for volume ... to be mounted" (Gitea #101, measured at 291 events in 10 hours). The errors stop when the StatefulSet pod is deleted and comes back Pending, and return with the next firing of this job. {{- end }} The job has NO probes (the documented exception to the chart conventions), and it cannot fail usefully either: with nothing to move it exits 0, which is indistinguishable from a successful run. Judge it by what arrives, not by the Job's status: kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} get jobs --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} logs job/ The share is reached through the smb.csi.k8s.io driver, which this chart does not install. The PersistentVolume {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-smb-pv is CLUSTER-scoped with reclaim policy Retain and its volumeHandle is derived from smbConnection.server alone — two releases pointing at the same server collide on that handle, and a Retained PV outlives helm uninstall and blocks the next install of the same name until it is deleted by hand. {{- else }} smbConnection.enabled is false, so nothing fills that directory on its own — the web UI is the only way in. To hand a file over directly: kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} cp {{ $pod }}:/usr/src/paperless/consume/ {{- end }} WHAT A GREEN POD DOES NOT PROVE One container runs the web server and the Celery worker and scheduler side by side under s6-overlay, and all three probes only ask the web server for "/". A worker that died, a consumer that is not watching and a broken Redis connection all leave the pod Ready and the rollout green. The honest check is a document going in and coming out the other side, plus: kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} logs {{ $pod }} | grep -i -e error -e celery A read-only root filesystem is part of that picture too: only /tmp and /run are writable. Anything the app would install at runtime — an extra tesseract language pack, for instance — cannot be written, no matter which variable asks for it. OCR AND BARCODES AS THIS RELEASE HAS THEM language "{{ .Values.paperless.ocr.languages }}" · mode {{ .Values.paperless.ocr.mode }} · archive {{ .Values.paperless.ocr.archiveFileGeneration }} · output {{ .Values.paperless.ocr.output_type }} · rotate {{ .Values.paperless.ocr.rotate_pages }} paperless.ocr.languages sets PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE — which language to use. The chart does not set the plural PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGES that makes the image fetch further packages at start, and with the read-only rootfs above it could not work anyway: a language the image does not already carry needs a different image, not a different value. In 3.x the OCR mode values "skip" and "skip_noarchive" no longer exist — "auto" replaces them, and archive generation is a separate setting. barcodes: {{ if $barcodes.enabled }}enabled, separator "{{ $barcodes.barcodeString }}", split pages {{ if $barcodes.retainBarcodePage }}retained{{ else }}discarded{{ end }}, ASN {{ if $barcodes.asn.enabled }}on{{ else }}off{{ end }}{{ else }}disabled{{ end }} A childless "barcodes:" key in a values file is YAML null and means "chart defaults apply" here (issue #61) — it does NOT switch barcodes off. Deleting the sub-keys gets you the defaults back; only barcodes.enabled: false disables it. {{- if .Values.paperless.files.deleteDuplicates }} paperless.files.deleteDuplicates is on: a document that matches one already in the archive is DELETED on consume instead of being kept. That is the 2.x behaviour, which 3.0 dropped as a default. {{- end }} {{- if .Values.paperless.files.tikaGotenberg.enabled }} TIKA AND GOTENBERG — THE ENDPOINTS CARRY NO SCHEME tika http://{{ .Values.paperless.files.tikaGotenberg.tikaEndpoint }} gotenberg http://{{ .Values.paperless.files.tikaGotenberg.gotenbergEndpoint }} The chart prefixes "http://" itself, so these two values are bare host:port. A value written with a scheme renders as http://http://… and every Office document fails to convert while everything else keeps working. Neither service is part of this chart or checked at startup. {{- end }} {{- if .Values.oidc.enabled }} OIDC IS ON, AND IT IS PKCE-ONLY Register this redirect URI at the provider: https://{{ .Values.ingress.domain }}/accounts/oidc/{{ .Values.oidc.provider.id }}/login/callback/ The chart enables PKCE and configures NO client secret — the client has to be registered as one that can complete the flow without one. Nothing about OIDC is exercised before someone actually signs in, so a wrong discovery URL, client id or redirect URI surfaces as a failed login on a perfectly healthy pod. {{- if not .Values.oidc.provider.tokenAuthMethod }} oidc.provider.tokenAuthMethod is unset. Since the allauth update in 3.0 some providers need it spelled out, and the symptom when they do is a login that dies at the callback with invalid_client. The only value this chart accepts is "none" — it states the public client explicitly. A method that authenticates WITH a client secret cannot work here and is rejected by the schema (13.0.0, Gitea #11): this release configures no client secret and cannot, because paperless reads the whole OIDC configuration out of one json environment variable with no _FILE variant. {{- end }} {{- if or .Values.oidc.autoLoginWithProvider .Values.oidc.disableRegularLogin }} {{ if .Values.oidc.autoLoginWithProvider }}autoLoginWithProvider{{ end }}{{ if and .Values.oidc.autoLoginWithProvider .Values.oidc.disableRegularLogin }} and {{ end }}{{ if .Values.oidc.disableRegularLogin }}disableRegularLogin{{ end }} — the app's own login form is bypassed or gone. Before you rely on that, make sure at least one local superuser still has a usable password and check that Django's admin login at /admin/ still lets that account in; it is the only way back when the provider is unreachable. {{- end }} {{- end }} {{- if or $pre $post }} paperless.scripts IS SET AND DOES NOTHING {{ len $pre }} pre- and {{ len $post }} post-consumption script(s) are configured. The ConfigMap that would carry them is disabled in this chart ({{ "{{- if false }}" }} at the top of the template), no volume mounts it, and neither PAPERLESS_PRE_CONSUME_SCRIPT nor PAPERLESS_POST_CONSUME_SCRIPT is set on the container. These values render no object and change no behaviour. {{- end }} {{- if .Values.paperless.env }} paperless.env ADDS {{ len .Values.paperless.env }} VARIABLE(S) — AND AN OVERRIDE ONLY BITES AT INSTALL {{ range $i, $e := .Values.paperless.env }}{{ if $i }}, {{ end }}{{ $e.name }}{{ end }} These are appended AFTER the variables the chart sets itself, so at INSTALL an entry repeating one of those names wins. On an upgrade of an EXISTING release the same entry is lost: Kubernetes merges env by name, the pair collapses to the chart's own value, and helm upgrade still reports success. Read the value back off the StatefulSet, never off the upgrade's exit code: kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} get statefulset {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-sfs \ -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[0].env}' {{- end }} {{- if gt (int $replicas) 1 }} paperless.replicas IS {{ $replicas }} — EXPECT ONE POD TO WORK AND THE REST TO WAIT The main volume is a plain ReadWriteOnce PVC shared by the whole StatefulSet, not a volumeClaimTemplate, so the second pod stays Pending on "Multi-Attach error for volume" unless the storage class is genuinely RWX — and where it does start, two consumers watch the same directory and two schedulers run the same periodic tasks. {{- end }} BACKUP IS TWO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME Postgres holds the metadata, the tags and one row per document; the PVC {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-volume-claim holds the files under data/, media/ and export/. Restoring one without the other gives you an archive full of references to documents that are not there. Snapshot them together. Both PVCs are rendered by this chart, so helm uninstall deletes them and the documents with them unless the storage class reclaim policy says otherwise. The external database survives that — which makes an accidental uninstall look recoverable while the files are already gone. {{- if .Values.paperless.env }} paperless.env adds {{ len .Values.paperless.env }} variable(s), rendered after the ones the chart sets itself, so they win on a name the chart also sets. {{- end }} {{- if .Values.networkPolicy.enabled }} NETWORKPOLICY IS ACTIVE — WHAT IT CAPS, AND WHAT IT DOES NOT {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-networkpolicy selects this workload's pods. Inbound: TCP 8000 only. Outbound: DNS, TCP 5432 (Postgres), 6379 (Redis/Valkey), 443{{ if .Values.paperless.files.tikaGotenberg.enabled }}, 9998 and 3000 (the Tika and Gotenberg POD ports) plus 80{{ end }}{{ with .Values.networkPolicy.egress }}{{ if .mailImport }}, 993 (IMAPS, mail import){{ end }}{{ with .extraPorts }}, plus TCP {{ join ", " . }}{{ end }}{{ end }}. {{- if .Values.paperless.files.tikaGotenberg.enabled }} THE TIKA/GOTENBERG RULE NAMES POD PORTS, AND THAT IS THE FIX FROM GITEA #136. It named the Services' 80 alone until chart 14.1.0, which cut Paperless off from both services: kube-proxy does a ClusterIP Service's destination NAT BEFORE the egress policy is evaluated at the pod's interface, so the policy sees podIP:targetPort. The symptom was a TIMEOUT and not "connection refused", and no error mentioned a NetworkPolicy. If this release reaches a Tika or Gotenberg that listens on some other port, that port goes into networkPolicy.egress.extraPorts. {{- end }} {{- if (.Values.networkPolicy.egress).mailImport }} MAIL IMPORT IS PERMITTED on 993 (IMAPS), because networkPolicy.egress.mailImport is on. Plain IMAP (143) and POP3 are NOT covered — add them to networkPolicy.egress.extraPorts if an account uses them. {{- else }} MAIL FETCHING IS NOT PERMITTED. Paperless' mail accounts are rows in its database, configured in the web UI, so this chart cannot see them. A release that fetches mail needs networkPolicy.egress.mailImport: true for IMAPS (993), or 143/POP3 in networkPolicy.egress.extraPorts — otherwise a mail rule silently stops importing, with a healthy pod behind it. {{- end }} AND TWO PODS OF THIS RELEASE ARE NOT COVERED BY THIS OBJECT: - the valkey subchart's pod, which carries its own labels. It needs no cover from here: the valkey chart ships its own NetworkPolicy, and a tighter one. - the consume CronJob's pods, whose pod template carries NO labels at all, so no podSelector can match them. They move files between mounted volumes and reach the SMB share through a CSI volume the NODE mounts, so the pod opens no connection of its own — but the gap is real and is named here rather than left to be discovered. Three limits belong in the same breath, because none of them is visible in the object itself: - EGRESS IS BY PORT, NEVER BY DESTINATION. A NetworkPolicy matches CIDRs and selectors and cannot express a hostname, so every egress rule permits its port to ANY address. That is a limit of the object, not a shortcut — this cluster's CNI (Canal: Flannel plus Calico) has no FQDN rule either. An outbound port the chart does not know about is BLOCKED: add it to networkPolicy.egress.extraPorts, and expect to find out through an application-level connection error rather than through this object. {{- if .Values.networkPolicy.probeSources }} - THE PROBE PATH IS RESTRICTED in this release, because networkPolicy.probeSources is set to {{ join ", " .Values.networkPolicy.probeSources }} Probes come from the IP of the WORKER NODE running the pod. If none of those CIDRs covers the node this pod lands on, the kubelet's probes are dropped and THE POD NEVER BECOMES READY — the rollout then times out and the symptom looks like a broken application. Compare kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} describe pod -l app={{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-sfs against `kubectl get node -o wide`. {{- else }} - THE PROBED PORT IS OPEN INSIDE THE CLUSTER. networkPolicy.probeSources is empty, so that rule carries no source selector at all and any pod the CNI routes to can reach it. Not from the internet — but this is NOT pod-level isolation. Narrowing it means listing the worker node IPs in networkPolicy.probeSources, because the kubelet probes from the node's own address and the chart cannot know it; a wrong guess there leaves the pod permanently un-Ready. {{- end }} - IT IS ONLY A BOUNDARY WHERE THE CNI ENFORCES POLICIES. Where it does not, this object is accepted and filters nothing, so everything reads as configured while nothing is filtered. `kubectl -n {{ .Release.Namespace }} get networkpolicy` shows the object exists; only a connection attempt from an unrelated namespace shows that it bites. Switch it off with networkPolicy.enabled: false. {{- end }}