GitLab cross-site replication Phase 1a: Postgres network plumbing

Per the approved plan (jiggly-snacking-iverson.md, 'GitLab True
Cross-Site Replication' section) - replacing the git-mirror CronJob
with real CNPG streaming replication for pg-gitlab and pg-praefect,
reusing the exact pattern already proven for pg-authentik.

This commit is network plumbing only, no DB replication yet:
- Repoint both CNPG clusters' barmanObjectStore backup target from
  in-cluster gitlab-minio-svc to VPS MinIO (also becomes the initial
  seed source for the VPS's replicas in Phase 1c).
- New ha-gitlab-postgres/ha-praefect-postgres NodePort Services
  (bypass CNPG's own -rw Services) on both home and VPS.
- New PeerAuthentication with portLevelMtls PERMISSIVE on the replication
  ports - ambient mesh STRICT default would otherwise reset the
  VPS/witness's connection before the Postgres TLS handshake starts.
- Extended allow-gitlab-access AuthorizationPolicy with a port-scoped
  rule for the same traffic (no source.namespaces rule can match
  external, non-mesh peers).
- CoreDNS rewrites for pg-gitlab.ha.huskypup.net / pg-praefect.ha.huskypup.net
  so home's own pods reach the floating hostname locally instead of
  round-tripping through the WAN forward (no NAT hairpin support).

Still needed before Phase 1b/1c: UniFi WAN port-forwards for external
ports 61442/61443 -> talos-cp-01:32442/32443, source-restricted to the
VPS + witness public IPs (manual, same as the existing 61432 rule).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Scooby Husky
2026-08-22 12:47:03 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent a104008111
commit 04fa80ece3
7 changed files with 236 additions and 5 deletions
@@ -58,6 +58,15 @@ data:
# specifically so this rewrite target actually has that port.
rewrite name pg-authentik.ha.huskypup.net ha-authentik-postgres.authentik.svc.cluster.local
# GitLab cross-site replication (see
# /home/scooby/.claude/plans/jiggly-snacking-iverson.md) - same
# reasoning as pg-authentik.ha.huskypup.net above: home's own pods
# go straight to the local NodePort Service instead of round-
# tripping out through the UniFi WAN forward and back in (no NAT
# hairpin support, confirmed live for the authentik precedent).
rewrite name pg-gitlab.ha.huskypup.net ha-gitlab-postgres.gitlab.svc.cluster.local
rewrite name pg-praefect.ha.huskypup.net ha-praefect-postgres.gitlab.svc.cluster.local
kubernetes cluster.local in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa {
pods insecure
fallthrough in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa
@@ -83,6 +83,23 @@ spec:
- source:
ipBlocks:
- "10.244.0.0/16"
# GitLab cross-site replication (see
# /home/scooby/.claude/plans/jiggly-snacking-iverson.md): CNPG
# streaming replication from the VPS/witness, arriving via the
# ha-gitlab-postgres/ha-praefect-postgres NodePorts - no mesh
# identity at all, so no source.namespaces rule above can match them.
# Scoped by destination port instead, matching the port-scoped
# PERMISSIVE PeerAuthentication in ha-peerauth.yaml (same root cause,
# same fix, one layer up - mTLS being allowed through isn't enough by
# itself, this ALLOW policy independently denies anything not
# matching one of the rules above). Same pattern already proven for
# Authentik in infrastructure/istio/manifests/mesh/authorization-policies.yaml.
- to:
- operation:
ports:
- "5432"
- "61442" # pg-gitlab floating-hostname port, see ha-postgres-nodeport.yaml
- "61443" # pg-praefect floating-hostname port, see ha-postgres-nodeport.yaml
---
# --- n8n: Allow ingress + Prometheus + intra-namespace ---
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
---
# Exposes the VPS's pg-gitlab/pg-praefect primaries (replicas today) back
# to home over the Netbird mesh, for GitLab cross-site replication (see
# /home/scooby/.claude/plans/jiggly-snacking-iverson.md) - needed for
# failback (home rejoining as a replica once it's back). Same pattern as
# infrastructure/vps-standby/authentik/manifests/ha-postgres-nodeport.yaml.
#
# No UniFi port-forward or Kyverno PolicyException needed here - the
# VPS's k3s has no NodePort restriction, and home reaching OUT to the VPS
# already works today via the netbird-egress DaemonSet's route (confirmed
# live all session for MinIO/CrowdSec/pg-authentik) - it's only the
# reverse direction (external peers reaching INTO home) that needs the
# UniFi workaround (see apps/gitlab/manifests/ha-postgres-nodeport.yaml).
#
# Different nodePort numbers than home's side (32442/32443) - not
# required since these are different machines, but matches the
# authentik precedent's convention of keeping each site's numbers
# distinct to avoid confusion.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: ha-gitlab-postgres
namespace: gitlab
spec:
type: NodePort
selector:
cnpg.io/cluster: pg-gitlab
cnpg.io/instanceRole: primary
ports:
- port: 5432
targetPort: 5432
nodePort: 32444
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: ha-praefect-postgres
namespace: gitlab
spec:
type: NodePort
selector:
cnpg.io/cluster: pg-praefect
cnpg.io/instanceRole: primary
ports:
- port: 5432
targetPort: 5432
nodePort: 32445