Files
jklein b39f36ff5c
Publish Helm Chart with patched Application Version / publish-helm-chart (push) Successful in 7s
Publish Bulwark Helm Chart / Publish Bulwark Helm Chart (push) Successful in 7s
SonarQube Analysis / SonarQube Analysis (push) Successful in 27s
feat(bulwark): new chart for Bulwark Webmail (1.0.0+up1.12.0)
A JMAP webmail client for the stalwart chart (Gitea #65): StatefulSet, one PVC
at /app/data, Service plus headless Service, Ingress at a host root, two
OnePasswordItems, three probes, computed limits, replicas plus scaleDown, strict
values.schema.json.

Everything below was measured against the source at tag 1.12.0 rather than read
out of the documentation, which was wrong about three of them.

THE DEFINING PROPERTY: THE VOLUME BEATS THE CHART, FOR EVERY VALUE, SILENTLY.
configManager.get resolves "admin override > env var > default", the admin
dashboard may write any key of CONFIG_ENV_MAP, and nothing reports that it just
disconnected the chart - so a helm upgrade can succeed and change nothing.
Upstream documents this for the server URL only; it is true of everything.
Exactly three values escape it (SESSION_SECRET(_FILE), ADMIN_PASSWORD,
BULWARK_TELEMETRY). The value that closes it, bulwark.adminConfigReadOnly,
defaults to false because its price is threefold: it freezes the settings policy
(and with it the only way to move Web Push off the vendor relay), it freezes an
override that ALREADY exists instead of removing it, and on a fresh install it
stops admin.json from being written at all - so the admin dashboard never comes
up and its login answers HTTP 500 while the pod stays Ready.

OIDC-only sign-in, with the real way back out of a lockout: not helm upgrade
with OAUTH_ONLY=false (oauthOnly goes through the same precedence chain) but
removing the override in the admin dashboard. That is why ADMIN_PASSWORD is set
- the dashboard is the door. It generates no random password and logs nothing,
so the #65 analogy does not apply.

SESSION_SECRET_FILE and OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET_FILE are both used - the better path
garage (#81) and keycloak (#83) did not have - in one projected volume mounted
WITHOUT subPath, because both are re-read on every use and a subPath mount is
never refreshed, and at mode 0440 because secret files are owned by root and
fsGroup only supplies the group.

Two backup statements, both at the value: without the session secret the
synchronized settings are unreadable out of an intact volume, and if the
dashboard's OAuth setup was ever used the client secret sits in config.json on
that volume in cleartext.

Probes: all three a plain GET on /api/health, with the limit written at the
readiness value - it carries process, HTTP acceptance, a free event loop and
Next.js routing, and nothing about the reported state or about Stalwart.

No ConfigMap, so the checksum/config rule (#82) has nothing to attach to, and
values.yaml says so explicitly; the op:// paths are covered by
checksum/secret-ref.

Renovate: no versioningTemplate, measured rather than assumed. 315 tags in eight
shapes (releases, a second v-prefixed family of the same images, an -always
flavour, floating minors and names, commit SHAs, betas, attestations) and plain
docker versioning excludes all six unwanted ones. Dry runs at 1.12.0, 1.11.0 and
1.10.0 are recorded in the block.

Part of #89 - deliberately not "Fixes", because one binding decision of the
issue was changed out of necessity and wants ratification rather than an
automatic close: the plan specifies HEAD /api/health for all three probes, and a
Kubernetes probe cannot send HEAD at all (HTTPGetAction has no method field; the
kubelet always issues GET). The alternative, an exec probe, would mean starting a
Node process every few seconds in an image that carries no curl and no wget. GET
is used instead and is marginally more capable than HEAD, so every limit the
issue argues is unchanged - but the decision is the maintainer's to confirm.
2026-10-06 10:15:27 +00:00

51 lines
2.2 KiB
YAML

{{- /*
ONE claim, mounted at /app/data, holding all FOUR of Bulwark's directories as
subdirectories of it:
admin config.json, policy.json, admin.json (the password hash),
plugin-config/, plugins/, themes/, branding uploads
admin-state admin-state.json (login timestamps), audit.log, the bootstrap
setup token
settings the encrypted per-account user settings
telemetry consent and instance id
ONE VOLUME AND NOT FOUR, because a snapshot is atomic per volume and never
across volumes - the durability lesson garage (#81) was built on. Split up, a
backup can capture an audit log that records logins the configuration does not
know about yet, or settings encrypted against a secret the configuration has
since been repointed from. There is no argument on the other side here: this is
a few hundred kilobytes of JSON plus an append-only log, not an object store.
Bulwark creates all four subdirectories itself on start (ensureConfigDir and
ensureStateDir, both mkdir -p). It has to: the image's own `mkdir -p
/app/data/...` ran in a layer that this mount covers. fsGroup is what makes the
freshly provisioned volume writable for uid 1001.
DELIBERATELY NOT null-SAFE: an erased size yields an invalid PVC that is
rejected at apply time, which is loud. A chart-side fallback would silently size
somebody's volume - and on an existing release it could not help anyway, because
a PVC cannot shrink. Same reasoning as garage's storage block and satisfactory's
documented exception (Gitea #39).
NEVER RENAMED. A renamed PVC makes Kubernetes provision a new, empty volume and
orphans the data - here that means admin.json, the only copy of the admin
password hash, and audit.log, which by its nature cannot be reconstructed.
*/ -}}
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
name: {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-pvc
labels:
app: {{ .Release.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Name }}-sfs
spec:
accessModes:
# ReadWriteOnce, and the single replica follows from it rather than the other
# way round - see the bulwark.replicas helper.
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: {{ .Values.storage.amount }}
{{- if .Values.storage.storageClass }}
storageClassName: {{ .Values.storage.storageClass }}
{{- end }}