# Scale the whole chart down without uninstalling it: scaleDown: true renders # every Deployment/StatefulSet with replicas: 0 (and suspends CronJobs) and # takes precedence over any per-workload replicas value. PVCs, Secrets and # Services stay in place; scaleDown: false brings the workloads back up. 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 -matrix-synapse-sfs configSecretRef: null matrix: # Replica count for this workload; 0 is allowed and scales it down. # The chart-global scaleDown flag takes precedence. replicas: 1 serverName: null timezone: UTC # The upstream image (ghcr.io/element-hq/synapse) only drops privileges # itself (via gosu, driven by UID/GID env vars) when started as root; with # an explicit non-root runAsUser it skips that step and runs directly as # that user. Synapse writes to /data and /media_store (both on the PVC) and # to /tmp (mounted as an emptyDir by the chart), so the root filesystem # stays read-only. The uid/gid 1000 matches the previous gosu default, so # existing PVC data stays accessible. securityContext: pod: runAsNonRoot: true runAsUser: 1000 runAsGroup: 1000 fsGroup: 1000 fsGroupChangePolicy: Always container: allowPrivilegeEscalation: false readOnlyRootFilesystem: true runAsNonRoot: true capabilities: drop: - ALL livenessProbe: httpGet: path: /health port: http scheme: HTTP periodSeconds: 10 timeoutSeconds: 5 failureThreshold: 3 readinessProbe: httpGet: path: /health port: http scheme: HTTP periodSeconds: 10 timeoutSeconds: 5 failureThreshold: 3 # The startup probe gates liveness/readiness. Synapse can take a # while to start (migrations, cache warmup): budget 10s * 30 = 300s. startupProbe: httpGet: path: /health port: http scheme: HTTP periodSeconds: 10 timeoutSeconds: 5 failureThreshold: 30 # Extra environment variables, appended to the ones the chart always sets. # Values are rendered through tpl; value, secretKeyRef and configMapKeyRef # forms are supported. env: [] resources: # Limits are optional: memory and ephemeral-storage limits default to # limitFactor x the request, an explicitly set limit always wins, and a # CPU limit is only set when configured explicitly under "limits". limitFactor: 3 requests: memory: "1Gi" cpu: "1" ephemeralStorage: "1Gi" delegation: # Replica count for this workload; 0 is allowed and scales it down. # The chart-global scaleDown flag takes precedence. replicas: 1 enabled: false serverUrl: null # Auxiliary image, pinned independently of appVersion (which tracks # Synapse). Reviewed alongside every app-version update round. image: repository: nginx tag: 1.30.4 # The delegation nginx runs as the image's unprivileged nginx user # (uid 101) and listens on the unprivileged port 8080; pid file and temp # paths are redirected to the /tmp emptyDir by the mounted nginx.conf. securityContext: pod: runAsNonRoot: true runAsUser: 101 runAsGroup: 101 container: allowPrivilegeEscalation: false readOnlyRootFilesystem: true runAsNonRoot: true capabilities: drop: - ALL livenessProbe: httpGet: path: /.well-known/matrix/server port: http scheme: HTTP periodSeconds: 10 timeoutSeconds: 3 failureThreshold: 3 readinessProbe: httpGet: path: /.well-known/matrix/server port: http scheme: HTTP periodSeconds: 10 timeoutSeconds: 3 failureThreshold: 3 # The startup probe gates liveness/readiness. Startup budget = 5s * 30 = 150s. startupProbe: httpGet: path: /.well-known/matrix/server port: http scheme: HTTP periodSeconds: 5 timeoutSeconds: 3 failureThreshold: 30 resources: # Limits are optional: memory and ephemeral-storage limits default to # limitFactor x the request, an explicitly set limit always wins, and a # CPU limit is only set when configured explicitly under "limits". limitFactor: 3 requests: memory: "64Mi" cpu: "125m" ephemeralStorage: "50Mi" storage: amount: 10Gi storageClass: longhorn-encrypted ingress: # Set to false to omit the Ingress entirely. Note that ingress.domain is also # read by the delegation nginx, which serves it in the /.well-known/matrix/* # endpoints, so it stays required whenever matrix.delegation.enabled is true. # Only clusterIssuer becomes unnecessary. # # MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE WITH httpRoute.enabled - the render aborts when both are # true, and the message names both value paths. enabled: true domain: null clusterIssuer: null className: nginx # Extra annotations for the Ingress; merged with the cert-manager # cluster-issuer annotation the chart always sets. # # INERT IN GATEWAY MODE - the Gateway API has no annotation channel for # controller behaviour. For THIS chart that is not a formality: read the # httpRoute block below for what this installation actually has in here and # which half of it matters. annotations: {} # THE GATEWAY-API ALTERNATIVE TO THE INGRESS (Gitea #114). # # Mutually exclusive with ingress.enabled - the render aborts when both are # true. The chart renders ONLY HTTPRoutes with parentRefs: no Gateway, no # class, no Certificate, and no implementation-specific policy object. Class # and certificate sit on the Gateway and its listeners and belong to the # platform (cluster-config), which is what keeps the Gateway implementation # replaceable without touching this chart again. # # TWO ROUTES, not one. The Ingress is a single object with two HOST rules - the # homeserver on ingress.domain at "/", and the delegation nginx on # matrix.delegation.serverUrl at "/.well-known/matrix". An HTTPRoute's # hostnames apply to the whole object, so two hostnames wanting different paths # and different backends must be two objects. (#114 describes this chart as # rendering its Ingresses in a loop over several apps; it does not - that is # freesailarr.) # # ONE THING THIS MODE MAKES EASIER, and it is the awkward part of Matrix # delegation: the server name is usually an apex domain that already serves a # website. Under ingress-nginx two Ingress objects cannot both claim one # hostname - the admission webhook rejects the second - which is why the # delegation rule has to live inside this chart's single Ingress object. # HTTPRoutes attached to the same listener for the same hostname are MERGED by # the implementation, longest match winning, so here the /.well-known/matrix # route can sit beside whatever owns that apex without either side knowing. # # WHAT THIS MODE COSTS, MEASURED ON THE LIVE OBJECT ON 2026-10-12, where the # Ingress carried - all of it OPERATOR-supplied through ingress.annotations, # since this chart sets none of it: # # nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size: 50m # nginx.org/client-max-body-size: 50m # nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet: | # more_set_headers "X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr"; # more_set_headers "X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme"; # more_set_headers "Host $host:$server_port"; # # 1. THE BODY SIZE IS THE REAL LOSS. Synapse's media repository takes uploads # and its own ceiling is max_upload_size in homeserver.yaml - which this # chart cannot see, because the whole config comes from 1Password through # secrets.configSecretRef. The effective limit is the smaller of the two, # and in this mode the proxy half becomes THE GATEWAY'S default: neither # number anyone can point at is necessarily the one that decides. The # Gateway API has no body-size field, so per decision 2 of #114 this is # documented rather than rebuilt. Set it next to the Gateway, in that # implementation's own object, and set it to match max_upload_size. # (nginx.org/client-max-body-size is the same limit spelled for NGINX Inc's # ingress controller rather than ingress-nginx - a hedge across both - and # it goes for the same reason.) # # 2. THE SNIPPET IS NOT LOAD-BEARING, WHICH TOOK CHECKING. It looks like what # Synapse's x_forwarded setting depends on - client IP for rate limiting, # and federation. It is not: more_set_headers is the OUTPUT-header directive # of headers-more-nginx-module ("Replaces (if any) or adds (if not any) the # specified output headers"), while the request-side directive is # more_set_input_headers. These three headers are therefore added to the # RESPONSE TO THE CLIENT; Synapse never sees them, and what it reads with # x_forwarded: true is the REQUEST's X-Forwarded-For, which ingress-nginx # sets itself. # # So for the migration: not translatable, and not needed. The Gateway API's # ResponseHeaderModifier can set static response headers but knows no nginx # variables ($remote_addr, $scheme, $host), so rebuilding it is impossible # anyway - and pointless. Do NOT re-create it at the Gateway in the belief # that Synapse needs it. # # Stated as what it is: a reading of the directive's documented semantics. # Nothing here observed a Synapse instance with and without the snippet. # # THE GATEWAY-API CRDs MUST BE PRESENT. The chart cannot detect them # (.Capabilities.APIVersions is unreliable at template time) and an HTTPRoute # without them fails at install, so this is a value and not a guess. httpRoute: enabled: false # The Gateway(s) the HOMESERVER route attaches to - a platform object, # usually in another namespace, whose listener must allow this namespace in # allowedRoutes. Entries are the Gateway API's ParentReference (name, and # optionally namespace, sectionName, port, group, kind), passed through # unchanged: # # parentRefs: # - name: public # namespace: gateway # sectionName: https # # REQUIRED while httpRoute.enabled is true - the render aborts on an empty # list, because a route without a parent is created, is valid and routes # nothing, with no event to say so. parentRefs: [] # Empty means [ingress.domain], so the homeserver hostname has one source of # truth. Set explicitly only to publish under a different or an additional # name - which is how a migration from the Ingress runs: the HTTPRoute takes # a second hostname while the Ingress keeps ingress.domain. # # THE DELEGATION HOST IS NOT COVERED BY THIS LIST, deliberately - see below. hostnames: [] delegation: # The delegation route's own parent. Empty falls back to # httpRoute.parentRefs. Worth setting when the SERVER NAME is published by # a different Gateway than the homeserver host, which is the normal case: # the server name is an apex domain somebody else's website usually owns. parentRefs: [] # Empty means [matrix.delegation.serverUrl], and it deliberately does NOT # fall back to httpRoute.hostnames. The server name is a different thing # from the homeserver's hostname - it is what REMOTE homeservers resolve - # and the migration order depends on telling them apart: move the # homeserver host first, confirm it answers, move the server name last. # A chart-global hostname list covering both would erase that distinction. # Set this only when the server name itself has to move. hostnames: [] # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # NetworkPolicy (Gitea #5). On by default. TWO objects, one per workload - see # the template for why they are not one. The reference implementation with the # full reasoning is template-chart; the convention is in README, "Chart style # guidelines". # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- networkPolicy: # WHAT THESE POLICIES ALLOW. Synapse: inbound 8008 only, outbound DNS plus TCP # 5432 (Postgres), 443 and 8448 (federation, remote media, push gateways, # identity servers). The delegation nginx: inbound 8080 only, outbound DNS and # NOTHING else - it serves two static JSON documents and calls nobody. # # THAT ASYMMETRY IS THE REASON THERE ARE TWO. One policy selecting both pods # would have to permit the union of what each needs, which would hand # Synapse's full federation reach and its database port to an nginx whose # whole job is to return a constant - and it would look like one decision # rather than a widening. # # WHAT THEY DO NOT DO: federation cannot be narrowed. 443 and 8448 go to ANY # destination, because a federating homeserver may contact any other # homeserver on the internet and this object matches CIDRs and selectors but # never hostnames. And 5432 is the STANDARD Postgres port, not the configured # one - the connection lives inside secrets.configSecretRef, which this chart # never parses. # # Both probe ports stay open inside the cluster by default (see probeSources), # and a policy is only a boundary where the CNI enforces one. enabled: true # Namespaces whose pods may reach either workload, in addition to the # release's own namespace, which is always allowed. Empty means: own namespace # only. Matched on the "kubernetes.io/metadata.name" label Kubernetes sets on # every namespace itself, so no labelling work is needed - and no typo # protection either: a name that does not exist matches nothing and is # silently ineffective. An entry opens the port to EVERY pod in that # namespace. allowedNamespaces: [] # Source CIDRs allowed to reach the two probe ports (Synapse's 8008 and the # delegation server's 8080). ONE VALUE GOVERNS BOTH POLICIES. # # EMPTY MEANS OPEN, NOT BLOCKED. With no entry both rules are rendered WITHOUT # a "from" selector, so the ports are reachable from anywhere the CNI routes # to - inside the cluster, since neither carries a NodePort. # # The kubelet's probes originate from the IP of the WORKER NODE running the # pod, an address this chart cannot know and must not guess: a CIDR that # excludes the real node blocks every probe, the pod never becomes Ready, the # rollout times out, and the symptom reads as a broken application rather # than as a policy. # # AND MIND WHAT ELSE THESE TWO PORTS CARRY. Inbound federation arrives at # 8008 through the Ingress, and every remote homeserver that wants to # federate fetches /.well-known/matrix from 8080. Narrowing this list without # ingressController below therefore does not merely hide a web UI: it stops # federation, inbound and discoverable, and the failure shows up on OTHER # people's servers before it shows up here. probeSources: [] # The ingress controller allowed to reach both ports once probeSources # restricts them. Rendered only while ingress.enabled or httpRoute.enabled is # true, and only in the restricted branch - with the default (open) rules the # controller reaches both ports anyway. # # The two keys become ONE "from" entry and are therefore an AND: pods carrying # podLabels IN namespace. That is the point of having them here - the # controller's namespace in allowedNamespaces would open both ports to every # pod in kube-system. # # MEASURED ON THIS CLUSTER, NOT ASSUMED (2026-10-14): ingress-nginx is gone, # the only IngressClass is "traefik" and it is the default, and the controller # is the DaemonSet rke2-traefik in kube-system. The same Traefik serves the # Gateway API here, so this one source covers the Ingress and the HTTPRoute # path alike. A policy written against the wrong controller is accepted, looks # strict, and silently blocks all web traffic - and ingress.className says # nothing about it, because a class names an implementation, not the pods the # traffic comes from. ingressController: namespace: kube-system podLabels: app.kubernetes.io/name: rke2-traefik egress: # Additional outbound TCP ports FOR SYNAPSE ONLY. These deliberately do NOT # widen the delegation server's policy: an entry meant for Synapse's # database has no business reaching a workload that serves a constant. # # DNS is always allowed and has no switch - a knob whose only other setting # breaks every name lookup is a trap, not a feature, and Synapse resolves a # name for every server it federates with. # # PORTS, NOT DESTINATIONS: a NetworkPolicy matches CIDRs and selectors and # never hostnames, so each entry permits its port to ANY destination. # # The usual entries here: a Postgres that is not on 5432, a TURN/coturn # server for voice (3478 and its relay range), or SMTP (587 or 465) if this # release sends mail - Synapse's mail configuration lives inside # secrets.configSecretRef, which this chart never reads. extraPorts: []