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jklein 81980279c4 NetworkPolicies in every chart (Gitea #5): the convention, the gate, and what it does not do
29 chart pages plus Chart-Style-Guide, CI-CD, Charts and Lessons-Learned.

Chart-Style-Guide gains section 15, and its core is the FOUR PORT CLASSES -
the part that is actually hard to get right. A port a network probe addresses
stays open until probeSources is set, because the kubelet probes from the
worker node's IP and no chart can know it. A NodePort-published port stays open
because the source is already masqueraded. Everything else can be and is
restricted by source, which is why the charts with a real inbound restriction
are exactly those whose probes use a different port. A replica-to-replica bus
gets a bare podSelector - and, since policyTypes lists Egress, its outbound
side needs a rule of its own or the cluster never forms while every node looks
healthy.

The exec-probe distinction is written down as load-bearing rather than
pedantic: it is the whole reason valkey and minecraft-server are the tightest
policies in the repository and every HTTP-probed web app is looser.

CI-CD gains the networkpolicy job as section 8 (the later two renumbered), and
it ends with the measurement rather than a claim. Two experiments ran on the PR
and were reverted: cyberchef's probe port restricted to an address no probe can
come from stayed GREEN at 1m9s, and outline with its DNS egress rule removed
went RED at 5m59s. Together those say k3s exempts the kubelet's probe traffic
while enforcing everything else - so the install-test's net is an EGRESS net,
and a wrong ingress port is caught by the render assertion or not at all.

Every chart page gets a networkPolicy values table and an operating note naming
that chart's own trap, not a boilerplate one:

- keycloak carries the blast radius: it is the cluster's identity provider, its
  http rule is the only source-restricted inbound rule in the repo, and nothing
  in CI can catch a wrong controller - so the page asks for a real login and a
  look at consumers' issuer URLs after the first upgrade.
- garage asks the reader to check their S3 consumers, because anything in
  another namespace is blocked until it is in allowedNamespaces.
- bulwark names the quietest failure in the sweep: its probes test its own port,
  so a jmapServerUrl on a blocked port yields a Ready pod serving an empty
  webmail.
- gotenberg explains what its DNS-only cap COSTS - HTML conversion silently
  loses remote assets - rather than only what it buys.
- satisfactory and homeassistant each argue their own Ingress-only policy;
  satisfactory's deciding half is that it is the one chart with no install-test
  at all, so an egress cap there would be the only one with no empirical check
  behind it.
- paperless-ngx names the two pods of its release that the object does NOT
  cover, including the consume CronJob whose pod template carries no labels.
- freesailarr explains why ten containers behind a VPN need only three egress
  rules, and that extraPorts cannot help with an alternative WireGuard port
  because it is TCP-only.

valkey and stalwart are corrected rather than extended. valkey's page now says
why having no probeSources is what makes it the tightest policy here and not an
incomplete one. stalwart's carries a dated correction: this page and the chart
both advised putting the ingress controller's namespace into allowedNamespaces
with ["ingress-nginx"] as the example, and both halves are wrong - ingress-nginx
is gone from the cluster entirely, and allowedNamespaces would have opened http
to every pod in that namespace anyway.

Charts drops the claim that valkey is "the first chart with a NetworkPolicy on
by default" and says instead that every chart has one, with the two shapes a
reader needs before opening any chart page.

Lessons-Learned gains four, all transferable:

- the net that existed for a different failure than the one it was built for,
  and why both experiments were needed before either could be read;
- a comment that could not describe its own syntax (a template comment must not
  spell out its own closing delimiter; the render then fails pointing at the
  template, not at the sentence);
- three values that reached no rule and would have read as controls - a
  convention about value NAMES is not a convention about which values exist;
- the subchart whose comments the parent could not fix, and the rule it
  produced: before making a check a gate, ask which failures the author of this
  diff can actually fix.
2026-10-14 14:57:00 +00:00
jklein 1b9dd9de5b rss-bridge, CI-CD, Lessons learned: #51 was closed, and the cause was never identified
PR #124 merged and the maintainer closed Gitea #51 one second later, on
the strength of that round's green install-test. Three wiki passages
written minutes earlier say the opposite - that the issue stays open, and
that the standing instruction is to close it only after checking the
cause.

Corrected, with the emphasis moved to the part that outlives the colour:
the chart was ruled out by a byte-identical render, the runner is the
implicated layer, and THE CAUSE WAS NEVER IDENTIFIED. The diagnostic
programme in #51's body - docker info for userns and the dind
configuration, the same image in a local k3d without remapping - was not
executed.

Which produces the sentence that now matters most and that a closed issue
cannot carry: if this chart's install-test goes red again, that is a fresh
finding and not a known quirk. It is recorded on the chart page and in the
repository's overlay comment, i.e. in the two places whoever sees the red
will be reading, rather than only in a tracker nobody reopens.

Also drops the pinned run count in favour of "every run of that branch
after the first" - a third green had arrived with the push after the
commit that said "two", so each commit recording the number invalidated
it.

Repo side: PR #127, a patch bump to 2.1.1+up2026.09.30, since a comment in
a chart directory is still a change to that chart.
2026-10-13 10:29:41 +00:00
jklein 3b9293706e rss-bridge, CI-CD, Lessons learned: the green install-test reproduced, so "twice" rather than "one run"
The previous wiki commit recorded rss-bridge's install-test going green
after months of failing on the Gitea runner, and hedged it with "it is one
run". A second run on a second commit of the same PR came back green too -
run 792 job 2623 and run 794 job 2638, both with the chart genuinely in
the matrix, a k3d cluster built and the pod Ready.

So the result is not a fluke, and the real caution is a different one:
nobody has identified what changed on the runner. A green test does not
explain itself, and the diagnostic programme in Gitea #51's body - docker
info on the runner for userns and the dind configuration, the same image
in a local k3d without remapping - remains unexecuted. That, and not the
run count, is why the issue stays open.

"Close an issue on a cause, not on a colour" is unaffected by the count.
2026-10-13 10:19:11 +00:00
jklein 3fd7e65d5e rss-bridge on the Gateway API, the production proof of the Gateway mode, and the red check that went green
Three rounds of knowledge in one commit, all of it measured rather than
relayed.

rss-bridge: the last chart of the Gateway-API sweep (Gitea #114). New
Routing row and prerequisites per mode, a Gateway-mode install example,
the httpRoute values table, and four operating-notes sections: the mode
guards, why httpRoute.hostnames is this chart's own mandatory value (the
third hostname shape in the repo - no ingress.domain to fall back to, and
ingress.hosts deliberately not reused because its tlsSecretName entries
address nothing once TLS sits on the listener), that rss-bridge.tlsGroups
is therefore inert in that mode, and that nothing is lost on the switch -
measured on the live Ingress, which carries no nginx annotation at all, so
this is the one chart of the sweep whose Gateway branch has no loss to
explain. Also records the ingress.enabled-derived-value screen coming back
CLEAN for this chart, because an unrecorded clean screen is
indistinguishable from one nobody ran.

The install-test section is new and was rewritten once while being
written: the chart's test had been red on the Gitea runner since the move
(#51) and went GREEN on 2026-10-13, pod Ready in 22s with 0 restarts. The
chart is ruled out as the cause by a diff, not an argument - the PR's
rendered defaults are byte-identical to origin/main, so the spec that
succeeded is the spec that had been failing. One run, no identified change
on the runner, so #51 stays open: close on a cause, not on a colour.

freesailarr: the Gateway mode is in production, which is the claim all
four PRs of the sweep refused to make. No freesailarr Ingress objects in
any namespace while the host answers; /radarr answers 302 from Kestrel
with returnUrl=%2Fradarr, so the freesailarr.published helper works in
production; /qbittorrent 301s to the slashed form from the chart's own
rule; and the query string survives the redirect. The query-string answer
is written as a measured data point and NOT as a promise - the
specification still has no query field, so a different implementation may
legitimately drop it. Three limits recorded with it: httproutes and
gatewayclasses are RBAC-forbidden so the implementation cannot be named,
there is no freesailarr namespace in the cluster at all, and every HTTP
measurement passed through a front proxy. The attribution of the 301 to
the chart's rule is inference from the snippet's carrier being gone plus
the changed response signature, and says so.

CI-CD: the httproute render test goes to 58 assertions over 22 charts, two
overlays now have to supply hostnames rather than one, and the all-charts
install-test note is corrected - rss-bridge's last green run is no longer
a GitHub one.

Lessons learned: three entries. The claim four PRs refused to make and
where the measurement that reached it actually stopped; a screen that
finds nothing is still a result worth writing down; and the red check that
was kept red so it could say something, and then said it - an excluded
test is not a quiet test but a blind one, because you also lose the moment
the fault stops existing.
2026-10-13 10:11:19 +00:00
jklein 311293e164 chart pages carry no version numbers any more
Both version rows leave every chart page's at-a-glance table; the image
repository stays, because it does not rot. A plain app-version bump obliges
no wiki edit — that rule is deliberate and stays — so any number written
here is stale within a Renovate round, as urlaubsverwaltung's already was.
Chart.yaml is where the pair is read, exactly as the chart index has said
from the start.

Home and Workflow no longer promise version snapshots. Forge and tooling
described remotes named github and JLab-Git; the checkout has exactly one,
origin, pointing at Gitea. Workflow gains the rule the wiki never had:
fetch and rebase before every push, never force-push.
2026-09-26 21:42:15 +00:00
jklein f62f2e5871 Fill the wiki as the repository's knowledge base
One page per chart - prerequisites, installation walkthrough, the required
1Password fields, the complete values reference and the chart's operating
traps - plus the long form of the workflow, the forge and its measured
differences, the pipelines, versioning, Renovate, the chart style guide, the
procedure for a new chart, local development, and the incidents each rule was
bought with.

Chart pages quote versions as snapshots; Chart.yaml stays authoritative,
because Renovate moves app versions continuously and never edits the wiki.
2026-09-18 08:48:01 +00:00